Financial Markets

Sarbanes-Oxley, of course, was just a small step along the yellow brick road that will lead to total rule over private industry, especially in the realm of accounting and audit. Talk is heating up regarding the new Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession....

Via the IHT (Paulson saying he would consider allowing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to buy larger mortgages) and Bloomberg (...

The European Court of First Instance's decision to support the European Commission's Microsoft decision has produced some entertaining public discord between the European and U.S. antitrust authorities. On Monday, Justice Department antitrust chief Thomas Barnett...

Alan Greenspan is in the news a lot currently because of the release of his new book. I haven't read the book. Nor will I read it if it means that I have to buy it or if reading it means that Alan Greenspan in any other way will financially benefit from it. Enriching a hypocritical fraud like...