Tags: Financial Regulation

The best-selling author of The Black Swan talks about his new book and why most public intellectuals aren't worth a damn.

In a press release strangely devoid of any mention of anyone being victimized or defrauded, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announces it is suing Intrade, the famous "prediction market" business, based in Ireland.

The pursuit of self-interest benefits everyone.

Payday lenders aren't the demonic entities they're made out to be.

Clinton sowed the seeds of the Great Recession by helping to inflate the housing bubble.

The most infuriating moment of the presidential debate hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.

In the end, financial regulation will best serve the insiders, the “money power.”

Under Democrats and Republicans, regulation grows.

Subsidies, stimulus, regulations, protectionism, trade restrictions, government-bank collusion, zoning, bailouts and more do not equal a "free" market.

Democratic Swissophobia is hurting patriotic, middle-class Americans.