The SEC Is Starting a Massive Database of Every Stock Trade
Brokers will have to report every trade and the trader’s personal information.
Brokers will have to report every trade and the trader’s personal information.
Election betting markets are often more reliable than pundits. Did the site steal user funds? No. Did they lie to people? No. Harm anyone? No.
If lawmakers keep spending like they are, and if the Fed backs down from taming inflation, then the government may create a perfect storm.
The idea that the Fed has the knowledge necessary to control the economy with perfectly calibrated policies was always an illusion.
A livestreamed debate between Binyamin Appelbaum and Gene Epstein
Plus: The editors wade into the conversation surrounding the modern dilemmas men face.
James Taylor croons while the stock market burns after another ugly report on inflation.
More airline workers and more flights—not bailouts and restrictions on mergers—is the better policy.
The economy is spinning, but we’ve proven there are viable ways to slow it down to more bearable levels.
Is crypto winter here?
Last week, the price of bitcoin fell to lows not seen since 2020 while a prominent stablecoin collapsed. Does this mean it was all a Ponzi scheme?
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But it will make the market worse.
Can’t work Zoom, will fix financial markets.
Some of them like the stock, but all of them think our financial system is broken.
The last thing this game-inspired, meme-powered finance fight needs is federal meddling.
The government is doing what it can to help out Big Money.
Even after government had imposed an almost unfathomable level of intervention on the economy, the markets are chugging along much better than expected.
It may be a statement about the decline of the dollar, but the best-case explanation of the resilient stock market is that it is sending us a positive message about a rapid recovery of both public health and corporate profits.
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Looking at better and worse projections.
The Sanders-Warren agenda of higher taxes, increased regulation, and more government control worries Wall Street
You need to be inoculated from some strange but popular notions about the economy.
If so, it could undercut one of Trump's best re-election selling points: the strong economy.
Dow Jones skyrockets on news that Steve Mnuchin is leading behind-the-scenes effort to reduce tariffs on China.
The Dow Jones has lost 500 points since President Donald Trump launched his trade war.
Nucor's stock price is down 16 percent since August. Executives say the fourth quarter will be even worse.
All we have to show for 9 years of economic expansion is record amounts of debt, and all long-term fiscal problems ignored.
The SEC wants to bar Musk from being an operator or director of any publicly held company for claiming he had a firm offer to take Tesla private at $420 a share.
The media empire's flagship paper has seen subscription rates boom with Trump in office. But can the good times last?
Markets respond to politics, but presidents shouldn't claim control.
Unions try to use good years to deflect attention from a growing problem.
In "All the President's Friends: Political Access and Firm Value," finance professors outline three ways government meetings may be valuable to companies.
The incoming president may not be good for the economy in the long run.
The DAO is an ambitious project that's already amassed an incredible amount of funding. A lot could go wrong, but it could be revolutionary if it goes right.
Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal review of A Crude Look at the Whole
Fed's turned stock market into a "hall of mirrors," Jim Grant says.
Stock market and debt troubles could mean bad news for this presidential election year, giving Trump and Sanders both more traction for their respective bad ideas.
Does the stock market know something that environmental activists don't?
Is that a good use of New York state taxpayer dollars?
The editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer on the recent turmoil.
Reminding pundits Tom Friedman, Robert Reich and others of what they said.
Markets are finally taking note of the fact that the GOP candidate atop the polls is someone whose policies are the opposite of the pro-growth approach.
Perhaps stock prices for past few years were to a large extent an inflationary bubble.