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Financial Reform Cuts Off Regulators?
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Nov 3, 2011
David Brancaccio speaks with Jeremy Hobson about whether budgets for the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators will be cut just...
Wall Street watchdogs face budget cuts in Congress
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Nov 3, 2011
At a time of dramatically increased responsibilities for two key financial regulatory bodies, there are strong calls to cut back on funding for the...
Klaus Rules
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Nov 3, 2011
Along with 19,000 other people, Klaus Neukert of Munich entered a stock trading contest sponsored by the German Stock Exchange. A virtual, online...
Dodd-Frank Update: Six months in, but not halfway there
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Mar 28, 2012
An optimist might see in financial regulatory reform a glass half full, a pessimist a glass half empty. But either way, the system seems to have ...
Halting The Dictator Retirement Package
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Nov 3, 2011
Ousted dictators often stash away money while in office and then retire to live off their ill-gotten gains. Now, there are moves to stop that....
MID-DAY UPDATE: January job numbers, German stock market, and banana wars
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Feb 4, 2011
Big news from the U.S. Labor Department today. The unemployment rate is down to 9 percent -- the lowest it's been in almost two years. At the same...
German Encouragement: Citizen Stock Trading
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Nov 3, 2011
In the 90s, German citizens were crazy for telecom and dot-com stocks, driving the prices up as much as 700 percent. But after the bubble burst,...
In Frankfurt: A Quiet Trading Floor?
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Nov 3, 2011
Reporting from Germany, David Brancaccio reveals major changes are in the future of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. What to expect: more electricity,...
Davos and The Missing Link
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Nov 3, 2011
Like any decent meal, Econ 4.0 this time around presents an appetizer followed by a main course....
Robin Hood Gets a Davos Invitation
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Nov 3, 2011
Guess who French President Nicolas Sarkozy invited to dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos? The take-from-the-rich, give-to-the-poor hero ...
