Author : EW News Desk Team

Could it be that banker bonuses and other pay for performance incentives are not just ineffectual, but could actually breed bad performance? In this fascinating video of Dan Pink's...

The nation's five largest banks - JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo - which dominate the derivatives business, have dispatched trade groups, paid lobbyists...

Ever since computerized trading became dominant in the nation’s stock markets in recent years, market experts have been warning that the lack of consistent rules among exchanges and the...

It seems things are continuing to move along nicely in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives, because we just...

As Congress prepares to hold hearings into the April 20 explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a billion-dollar question is bobbing on the oil-slicked waves: Whose fault...

Even as they struggle to understand the origins and particulars of Thursday’s chaos, regulators, traders and academics seem to agree the gist of the solution is that markets need...

Cable news anchors and financial Web sites struggled to keep up as the Dow fell nearly 1,000 points and then mostly rebounded in a matter of minutes Thursday afternoon...

In general, as several of you have noticed, we try to highlight in this In the News column, LESS noticed, but nevertheless crucial, items from the mainstream media /...

India’s cities are expanding on a larger scale and at a faster pace than ever before. To date, though, the country has avoided dealing with the hard questions about...

Seeking to bring its spiraling debt under control, Japan has undertaken an unlikely exercise: lawmakers are forcing bureaucrats to defend their budgets at public hearings and are slashing wanton...