Professor Bainbridge explains the current law on insider trading here , and argues that the staffers could be found in violation of insider
Robert Moffat has apparently asked to begin his six-month prison term for insider trading on November 5 rather than on next June 30...
March 2002 -- The sudden bankruptcy of Enron Corporation is a scandal that has rocked support for the free market. Living in a division-of..
A large billboard in a local Metro station cautions passersby to “Cover your cough” and “Wash your hands frequently” when you have a cold...
Why should we acquiesce when governments take our money? We would be upset if thugs stole our wallets at gunpoint or thieves broke into our
It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...
I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from
It seems that Stanley Kurtz has an interesting book coming out this fall: Radical-in-Chief . Even before publication, it is provoking some
When economic crises hit, politicians of both parties are demanding more regulation of the economy. Failures in banking and finance...
Front, my side (call us the “Alliance for Choice”) was recently crushed by the Egalitarian Axis in the Battle of the Universal Pre-K Lottery
The Gulf Spill Once again, journalists are speculating about the possibility of bringing criminal charges against BP CEO Tony Hayward...
You asked “Are we any safer?” I have to ask you, safer from what? If we are talking about a repeat of the 9/11 incident, I think we are.....
It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After
You walk into a bar and see the same drunk who’s there every night lying on the floor in a pool of his reeking fluids. He raises his head...
This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into..
In its efforts to supervise Nebraska cattle producers' obedience to the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is literally...
Enron will prove to be one of the most important episodes in the history of American business, and its story, from beginning to end, is
April 24, 2009 -- As Congress returns from spring recess and gets to work hammering out a health care reform bill, that dreaded statistic
June 19, 2009 -- When I first saw the “Boycott UPS!” group on Facebook, I must admit that I was ready to believe the worst. After being
Most Americans know peaceful and prosperous Switzerland—America’s “sister republic”—for its beautiful mountains, tangy cheese, decentralized
