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The senator is targeting Recession-era private-equity practices.

In a new essay, the pope calls for intensified regulation of the "sophisticated technologies" of financial markets.

To skeptics of China's economic success, news of local governments' misreported figures come as no shock.

Two researchers allege we've been missing a serious exploit in how share values get determined.

Making the government a shareholder in for-profit companies could actually boost those companies' productivity.

As head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Keith Noreika now has the power to override state laws protecting consumers.

Sanders is applying the pressure to America's biggest political force.

As a United States senator during the crisis years, Clinton’s legislative proposals to reform banking and housing finance didn’t gain traction.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The stock market retreat highlights the risk for states that weighed borrowing to cover billions of dollars in pension obligations.

Bankers and new accounting rules are emboldening governments to borrow-and-bet their way out of pension problems, a strategy that’s backfired in the past.

A tiny fee charged to the biggest banks could generate hundreds of billions of dollars every year for social services, but what effect would it have on Wall Street?

And why you can expect more off-color and out-of-touch commentary like Tom Perkins’ op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that warned of a “Progressive Kristallnacht.”

Financial literacy promotion may sound perfectly sensible—who wouldn’t want to teach children and adults the secrets of managing money?—but in the face of recent research it looks increasingly like a faith-based initiative.

Lawyer Carmen Segarra said she was pressured to change her finding that the way Goldman Sachs managed conflicts of interest was flawed.

Rising rates will obviously send monthly payments higher, but they'll also affect the market in a more unusual way: They're going to hurt all-cash investor purchases of housing, which have been a boon to the most distressed markets.

Can a simple Google Trends algorithm beat Wall Street?

How a 1920s law meant to protect investors was manipulated to protect big banks and investment firms—until now.