Milton Cohen, 93, a Lawyer Who Inspired Market Reform
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Milton H. Cohen, a securities lawyer whose insights into the stock market became the basis for innumerable regulatory proposals over the last 40 years, died Oct. 30 at his home in Haverford, Pa.
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Money can buy the best legal counsel, but fame also draws public scrutiny.
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Dani Rodrik, a Harvard trade economist, has built a reputation for favoring eclectic solutions that mix government and the private sector in pragmatic ways.
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In 1978, Peter Ferrara decided to write his third-year paper at Harvard Law School on the subject of Social Security. A self-professed conservative libertarian, Ferrara argued that the system would eventually run into financial trouble and that the best way to fix it was to let people put money into personal accounts that could be invested in stocks and bonds.
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International Monetary Fund policymakers are expected Sunday to back a sweeping reform movement at the 61-year-old institution, giving emerging market nations a stronger voice and expanding the scope of its operations.
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The subprime mess is turning out to be a boon for class-action lawyers. Through Dec. 15, filings were up 58 percent from 2006, according to a new study.
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Toby Moffett used to be good friends with independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, back when Nader was best known as a consumer advocate.
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Sometimes Alan Greenspan is behind the curtain, moving the market.
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BOCA RATON Ã - A year ago, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson promised brokerage executives that his agency would cut wrongdoers from the industry the way a surgeon cuts disease from a patient.
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Gordon S. Macklin helped usher in the era of electronic trading of securities when he oversaw the development of the Nasdaq.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Svend Robinson, the longtime NDP politician whose theft of a diamond ring brought an end to a 25-year career, is taking the first steps towards trying to resume a law career.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming  - In rare public criticism of Alan Greenspan, former U.S. Undersecretary for International Affairs John Taylor said on Saturday that ultra-low Federal Reserve interest rates had stoked the U.S. housing boom and subsequent bust.
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When Alan Greenspan speaks, the markets listen. The 78-year-old chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has had dealers hanging on his every utterance for 17 years, ever since he took the job during the closing months of Ronald Reaganâs presidency.
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The Yankees came calling on Eric Milton, willing to peel some bills out of their bulging money clip. The big-budget Red Sox and Dodgers also were interested in adding the left-hander to their playoff-caliber clubs.
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He sought out the best and brightest to be his mentors, including former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; modeled his investment plans after those of sage Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire
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They sounded awfully convincing, those Big Tobacco lawyers, when they told a federal judge this week their clients had reformed, indeed, had transformed their very corporate souls.
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Alan Greenspan proved that a retired maestro can still seem to conduct the worldâs financial orchestra.