The Globalist

Accountability has to be the key underpinning of modern capitalism.

Is capital itself the only practical force capable of restraining capitalism’s own excesses?

Wall Street lost its bid to unseat President Obama. Now it should get onboard with sensible regulation and oversight.

How did the U.S. election of 1980 and the British election a century prior lay the groundwork for each country’s decline?

What will it take to wind down the era of Too Big to Fail banks and financial institutions?

Why is it taking so long to write and implement new U.S. financial reform regulations?

How did mathematicians and traders, working hand in hand, find ways to take larger risks than banks officially contemplated?

Has increasing financial concentration improved the economic function of finance — the effective allocation of credit?

What is it about U.S. and UK financial and foreign policy elites that has them engage so willingly in excessive risk-taking?

What were the motivations for Facebook’s owners and investment bank advisors taking the company public?