Jamie Dimon (courtesy of Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia Commons) Profit maximization is often taught to law and business students as a primar...

University of Baltimore School of Law The Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference will hold its annual meeting on Janu...

courtesy of Marion S. Trikosko/Library of Congress In an AlterNet article appearing today, the day we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin...

Russel Funk and Daniel Hirschman, both PhD candidates at the University of Michigan, have just released an interesting paper entitled ...

Professor Ian Haney López has just released his latest important book Dog Whistle Politics:  How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Raci...

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As 2013 draws to a close, two important events have occurred in December that bear mentioning as the world prepares to usher in 2014.  In ...

The almost toothless Volcker Rule imposed earlier this month seems poised to be further defanged. Apparently some banks hold a certain ty...

So a few days after Dodd-Frank became law I posited that the so-called Volcker Rule would do little to solve excessive speculation by banks ...

As promised , below is the 2009 list of the top 25 subprime lenders that crushed the U.S. housing market in 2007-08.  As discussed earlier t...

Five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers which ushered in the crushing mortgage crisis of 2008, perpetuated primarily by subprime ...

I just ran across a thought provoking article on CNN-Money entitled the " Split Economy ."  The article reminds us that "[t]h...

Hedge fund giant SAC Capital pled this week to criminal insider trading charges leveled by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC...

The Tea Party's campaign to permanently disable the US government inflicted a massive toll on the US economy, according to a series of...

Yesterday, JP Morgan Chase agreed to settle claims that it sold toxic mortgages to government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie ...