Jeffrey M. Lacker discusses "too big to fail" protection for financial institutions and credible alternatives to this policy.

Government regulators should take their cues from the statistics-obsessed sports geeks of Moneyball and use data and empirical evidence to evaluate rules, instead of relying heavily on intuition, anecdotes, dogmas, and impressions.

For the U.S. economy to reach its full potential, argues Edward Conard, Washington should decrease federal spending and ease government regulation. Fareed Zakaria demurs, contending that structural reform and government investment are what the U.S. economy needs most.

Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the lack of financial regulation creates market instability which results in inequality, and addresses ways to strengthen both the U.S. and international economy, to prevent further collapse.

Wolfgang Schäuble discusses the financial market regulation and current state of the European Union.

Wolfgang Schäuble discusses the financial market regulation and current state of the European Union.

Sebastian Mallaby argues that simplicity should trump complexity as finanical regulators seek new defenses against risk.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank"), signed into law in July 2010, is one of the most significant regulatory reform measures since the Great Depression.

Sebastian Mallaby argues that equity investors would prefer to have big banks broken up than forced to raise more capital.

Sebastian Mallaby argues that the only way to end the era of "too-big-to-fail" is to break up the banking behemoths.

Sebastian Mallaby explains why private equity represents a sound alternative to the beleaguered public equity model of corporate governance.

Benn Steil's Financial Times op-ed shows that whereas the impact of the "Buffett Rule" on Warren Buffett's tax liability is trivial, the political capital he has accrued appears to be leveraging his investments.

A broad-sweeping look at international efforts to regulate the global financial system. This is part of the Global Governance Monitor, an interactive feature tracking multilateral approaches to several global challenges.

In addressing capitalism's critics, Sebastian Mallaby champions hedge funds as appealing alternatives to too-big-to-fail institutions.

FT's Annette L. Nazareth and Gabriel D. Rosenberg offer predictions for regulatory reforms in 2012.

Stagnating wages and growing inequality will soon threaten the stability of contemporary liberal democracies and dethrone democratic ideology as it is now understood. What is needed is a new populist ideology that offers a realistic path to healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman released this financial reform plan on November 28, 2011.

Timothy F. Geithner, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, discusses economic growth, financial repair and reform, and the fiscal policies that challenge the U.S. economic recovery.This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on International Economics.

Timothy F. Geithner, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, discusses economic growth, financial repair and reform, and the fiscal policies that challenge the U.S. economic recovery.

Timothy F. Geithner, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, discusses economic growth, financial repair and reform, and the fiscal policies that challenge the U.S. economic recovery.

This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on International Economics.