Many analysts have commended Southwest Airlines Co. for hedging its fuel prices years in advance, thus allowing it to remain profitable while the rest of the airline industry fell into or barely avoided bankruptcy.
The Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission met last week to hash out a way to fill the regulatory gaps revealed by the mortgage bubble and its consequences.
Despite criticism by some in the financial services industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposals for reforming the credit rating agencies deserve a grade of B+.
More and more financial advisers are likely to be confronted with client demands for the divestiture from their portfolios of the stocks of companies that fail some moral screen.
Fix the dollar, and a lot of other problems will disappear — or at least be eased.
What a time to be tightening the Securities and Exchange Commission's budget.
Has anyone noticed that the financial advisory industry is shrinking?
What this country needs is a presidential candidate who understands and cares about economics.
