By Elaine Kamarck and William A. Galston “This week, the Senate will conduct confirmation hearings on Jay Clayton, President Trump’s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  No doubt the news will be overshadowed by all the other big…

By Les Leopold “Bernie Sanders has the highest approval rating of any politician in the country with 61 percent approving, with only 32 percent disapproving, according to a March 15 Fox News poll. The Sanders 29-plus percent favorable/unfavorable gap is far…

Anonymous “Slovenia is a great place to live, but it is not an optimum location for doing business,” was one of the key messages of the FDI Summit Slovenia 2016, which was attended by 100 leading representatives from business and…

By Theo Vermaelen “Buyback lovers were relieved after the defeat of U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton who was a vocal critic of share buybacks. Her criticism boils down to the argument that buybacks are short-term price manipulation tools and come at…

By Antonio Lettieri “Maybe 2016 will be remembered as the year in which triumphed populism on both shores of the Atlantic, in the US with Donald Trump’s election and in Britain with Brexit. And 2017 could be the year in…

By Andy Green, Andrew Schwartz, and Gregg Gelzinis “The movie image is iconic: The Wall Street wrongdoer, whose fraud was uncovered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, is hauled off to face the music. Despite being only…

By Les Leopold “Donald J. Trump believes he can bully and bribe companies into keeping jobs in America. Shortly after his election, he “persuaded” Carrier, an Indianapolis division of United Technologies, to refrain from exporting 700 jobs to Mexico. Meanwhile, Rexnord,…

By Simon Caulkin “Like a bubble sluggishly rising through murky waters, corporate governance is climbing the political agenda. Everyone intuits that something is wrong – including Theresa May and Donald Trump – but neither of them has an inkling how…

By Harold Meyerson “What with the president’s war on immigrants, his travel ban, his Putinphilia, his threats to Obamacare, and his cabinet picks, congressional Democrats have spent most of the last month busily saying “No,” with the occasional “Maybe” thrown…

By Maria Gutzeit “It’s not only the Rust Belt that feels angst. There is a line in this country above which you may survive, and below which life will be incredibly hard. Not hard as in “pull yourself up by…