After the financial crisis of 2008, rating agencies reassured the public that additional “internal safeguards” would prevent the sort of ov...

Even six years after the financial crisis of 2008, the limited scale  of  the E.U.’s capital markets relative to their American counterpart...

The U.S. Justice Department halted its adopted-forfeitures program in early 2015 out of a sense that state and local law-enforcement agenci...

What does it mean to understand something? Put another way, what counts as understanding? The film, The Imitation Game (2014), touches on t...

The U.S. Government’s fiscal deficit of $483 billion for fiscal-year 2014 is the lowest since 2007. [1] At a preliminary 3% of GDP, that d...

As the World Bank came out with its revised prediction of 1.1 percent economic growth for the E.U. (“eurozone”) in 2015, down from the earl...

Between June 2014 and January 14, 2015, crude oil prices fell by 57 percent. Between November 1985 and March 1986, the prices had fallen by...

In his doctoral dissertation, Steven Hawkins demonstrates that the universe could have begun spontaneously. That is to say, the big bang co...

Religion and power make awkward bed-fellows. Speaking in January 2015 on religious fundamentalism, Pope Francis suggested that violence bel...

In a speech in January 2015, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged a continued central role for the federal government in education po...

With West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the U.S. benchmark oil price, at $46.07 on January 12, 2015, lawmakers in Alaska were getting nervous b...

In American corporate governance law, the business judgment rule gives management expertise the benefit of the doubt over stockholder propo...

“Dark trading” has a subterranean connotation, as if it were done by slithering snakes in the river Styx. In actuality, the term refers to ...

As gas prices were dropping during the fall of 2014 throughout the U.S., sales of SUVs were picking up. That such drivers might find themse...

Letting Amtrak expire in the U.S. in favor of encouraging other companies to pick up new high-speed routes is, I submit, in America’s inter...