dre cummings recently used the term " incredulous " to describe his reaction to optimistic accounts of the economy. As usual dre i...

Sitting in a Board meeting last week, I listened to a number of financial consultants and Mutual Fund presidents describe the economy as “re...

Just weeks after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, former President Bill Clinton led a special session on Haiti at the World Economic Forum Annu...

I posted the following commentary on a new Latino law professors blog earlier in the week. I thought I would share the story with the re...

Stocks have been a lousy investment in the US for a long time. The S&P 500 closed at 1108 today--the same level it was at 12 years ago (...

Earlier this past week, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it was “freezing executive pay and revamping bonus policy.” This choice came in res...

Despite last week’s post on lobbying and lobbyists I’m happy to report I was not kidnapped or harmed by lobbyists this past week for drawing...

Even though businesses owned by Americans of color have suffered more than white-owned businesses as a result of the recent economic downtur...

Approximately, two years ago, the U.S. began investigating offshore tax evasion schemes focusing on certain operations involving Swiss bank...

The Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference will celebrate its 20th anniversary on April 16-18, 2010 at Loyola University Ch...

For most people, 2009 marked a year in which many of us had to pull back and tighten the reins on our own personal budgets as a result of th...

In recent weeks, the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform has expanded its investigation into the bailout of AIG to require t...

The United Kingdom is the world's fifth largest economy and the economic slowdown currently occurring in the U.K., to some financial e...

Paul Krugman warned in 2002 that crony capitalism took root during the Bush Administration . Crony capitalism means that connections (parti...

President Obama’s recent announcement regarding new federal financial sector regulation, known now as the “Volcker Rule,” is slowly making i...