Wall Street

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

• By Jack Denton

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

• By Massoud Hayoun

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

• By Nick Hagar

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

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Cezary Podkul

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

• By Jared Keller

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

• By Jeff Gerth

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.

• By Bethany Moreton

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

• By Allan Sloan

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.

• By Cezary Podkul

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?

• By Kyle Chayka

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.”

• By Eric Horowitz

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.

• By Helaine Olen

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

• By Jake Bernstein

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.

• By David Dayen

Can a simple Google Trends algorithm beat Wall Street?

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

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

• By David Skeel