Ted Kaufman: “We have developed a cooperation program at the SEC where we can now offer reduced sanctions in exchange for insiders who…”

It's only fitting that, at a crisis past, a government should set aside its crisis authorities.

A paper tiger that will fall apart the minute it is tested in a real life financial crisis

Widespread cheating and fraud of the sort that drove the speculative housing and derivatives securities bubbles are anathema to public confidence in the markets.

The panic of 2008 has subsided, but it has been replaced by the gnawing pain of countless men and women who can't find work, who can't keep their homes, and who don't know whether their economic story will ever end in recovery.