Wall Street lost its bid to unseat President Obama. Now it should get onboard with sensible regulation and oversight.

Would American democracy be better served by shorter and less costly elections?

How did the U.S. election of 1980 and the British election a century prior lay the groundwork for each country’s decline?

Why are Americans hesitant to elect their president by a direct popular vote?

How have the ideas of Ayn Rand shaped contemporary Republican thinking on economic and political issues?

If Reagan is the father of modern U.S. conservatism, Ayn Rand is certainly its mother.

Is UBS’s exit from fixed-income trading a harbinger that other self-correcting measures will take hold in the financial industry?

Many U.S. and UK analysts think Germany is destroying the euro. The Germans think they are saving it. Who’s right?

The global balance of economic power is changing — and the IMF is changing right along with it.

Do the world’s poorest 1.3 billion people earn more income than the richest 1% of Americans?