Samuelson: Finance Reform Makes for Unfree Speech
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One of America's greatest achievements, the First Amendment, is being undermined by campaign finance 'reform.'
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Like cicadas, debates about corporate governance pop up periodically with a great deal of whir and buzz. In 1992, for example, the business community protested Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Richard C. Breeden&#39;s push for ...
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Jay Evensen, in one of his typically lucid, thoughtful columns (Sept. 3), pointed out that free speech means nothing if no one listens. Last week in Salt Lake City we had a virtual "free speech festival" that never drew the attention of those whom they most hoped to influence.
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A legal row over comments left on a football chat site have re-started debate about free speech.
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Business & money: Sovereign funds deny political motivations, as US deputy treasury chief calls for vigilance
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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DailyKos, an influential political Web site that serves as a virtual bulletin board for liberals, qualifies as a media entity exempt from federal campaign finance regulations
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The United States is facing the possibility of a severe economic correction. Yet most of the causes of such a correction are, for the most part, being completely ignored in preference to partisan bickering. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room - except it is not just one, but several elephants that everyone is doing their best to ignore. While the likelihood that any of these issues could result in disaster is low, these are issues worth taking the time to discuss.
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Taking fiscal cues from a cartoon dinosaur? Never a good idea.
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Wall Street's right, but for the wrong reason.
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Charges of vote trading and unethical fundraising against DeLay may curb his ability to raise money. By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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As president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Thomas J. Donohue has long been obliged to talk tough against federal regulation, especially by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But now, it's personal.
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Olafur Eliasson makes big statements, but he is ambivalent about the attention they generate.
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Text of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's opening remarks before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, as provided by the Treasury Department:
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: Ministers are afraid to assert the principles that underpin the wider contract between efficiency and fairness
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It may be the late-summer doldrums, but the debate over taxes and private equity is hardly on vacation. It has just gone to the Hamptons &#8212; like much of the rest of Wall Street. A group of protesters, some with costumes and snarky stage names, gathered Wednesday on the swank Main Street of Southampton, N.Y., not [...].
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The looming political battle over  how to reform the tangled U.S. income tax code could get ugly.  But one option, a tax aimed at boosting savings, holds promise.