Small investors to get bigger megaphone at SEC

By Jeremy Borden

For the average Main Street investor, the roots of the 2008 financial collapse remain murky. The impact, though, was not: houses foreclosed,

Bush's insider connections preceded huge profit on stock deal

By Knut Royce

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2000 — The year 1986 was very good for George W. Bush. ...

Billing clients interest fees on lawyer loans legal, but uncommon

In 2002, the New York state bar association said attorneys financing a lawsuit with borrowed money may pass the interest costs onto their cl
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Betting on Justice: Borrowing to sue

By Binyamin Appelbaum and Ben Hallman

Large banks, hedge funds and private investors hungry for new and lucrative opportunities are bankrolling other people’s lawsuits, pumping h

Madoff lesson: More investor protections needed

By Julie Vorman

Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme holds many painful lessons for regulators and investors. Among them: It’s time for the Securitie

Webcast tonight on protection for small investors

By Julie Vorman

If you’re a nervous investor with a shrunken retirement account, a congressionally-created investor protection entity is holding a special w
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Time to update SEC disclosure requirements, agency official says in defending budget

By Julie Vorman

Senior Securities and Exchange Commission officials today defended the agency’s request for a $264 million budget increase in fiscal 2012, s

ANALYSIS: Health insurance companies are on a stock buyback binge

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health insurance companies buying back billions of dollars of their own stock

Financial stability council warns Congress U.S. markets still fragile

By Shirley Gao

Financial Stability Oversight Council tells Congress markets are still vulnerable

Investor protections imperiled by Wall Street, GOP assault on financial reform

By John F. Wasik

Wall Street and GOP assault consumer protections in Dodd-Frank reforms