Plunging stocks have triggered rarely used ‘circuit breakers’ that temporarily halt trading. A finance scholar explains what they are and the costs of shutting down markets.
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The Fed slashed interest rates to near zero but, just as in 2008, it will require unprecedented action to calm panicky markets.
An economist explains how a virus like COVID-19 could disrupt the US economy – and why it’s too soon to freak out just yet.
Women occupy just 5% of the top jobs at companies in the S&P 500. Research shows the problem to be even worse.
A growing number of investors, policymakers and others say the US economy may be at risk of spiraling downward. A finance professor explains how to ride it out.
Thanks to new trading technology, sudden steep falls may become more common. A new program uses the principles of fluid dynamics to try to predict crashes before they happen.
The investigations into the financial dealings of Donald Trump and his associates join a growing body of evidence pointing to lax enforcement of certain high-level financial crime.
The index fund revolutionized investing for millions. Its founder died on Jan. 16.
Stock markets have plunged in recent months on concerns over Trump’s trade war and the possibility of a recession. An economist explains how stocks are like used cars – and lemons.
It’s when times are good that the seeds of the next financial crisis are sown.
Apple became the world’s ‘biggest’ company because of its sky-high valuation. But in the past, the largest companies were known for more meaningful metrics such as revenue and number of employes.
Insider trading, like what Rep. Chris Collins is accused of engaging in, is one of the sexier crimes in securities law.
New legal boilerplate in corporate merger agreements signals just how important #MeToo has become – not just as a social movement but as a business risk.
The president recently nominated a new permanent director to take over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. With the CFPB doing a fraction of the work it did under Obama, what kind of agency will she lead?
In giving Dodd-Frank the Botox treatment, Congress misses the point of what’s wrong with financial regulation: It’s an old mess.
Wealth addiction is as powerful as any other, but instead of urging addicts to get help, we often admire them. Yet they do much more damage to the world at large than your average coke fiend.
While many market observers blame the growing threat of inflation for the stock market crash, the real culprit may be concerns that the economy is about to slow.
An economist explains why the Dow Jones industrial average’s biggest-ever one-day drop shouldn’t bother you too much.
Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street turns 30 this month. Its infamous character’s mantra, “greed is good”, seems oddly prescient with greater inequality and an even more rampant culture of greed.
Public-facing feminism can often be a superficial distraction from systemic sexism.
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Professor of Law, West Virginia University
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Professor of Finance and Fred T. Tattersall Research Chair in Finance, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Public Administration, West Virginia University
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Assistant Department Chair and Professor of Finance, West Virginia University
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retired, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Economics, University of Aberdeen
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Robert Marks is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor emeritus, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Finance, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Bristol
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