Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

On March 13, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit,” directing federal ...

America’s community banks are disappearing and forming more infrequently. These local lenders once dotted every city and small town, offering small business loans, farm credit, and personal banking ...

If the United States economy is headed off a cliff, better that we receive no warning in advance. That may not be the stated goal of the Trump administration, but, to borrow a term from the late MIT ...

Representative French Hill, a Republican from Arkansas and vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON — House Republicans began their ...

I read with interest Rep. Scott Tipton’s guest column in the Post Independent on the ill effects and unintended consequences on community banks of the Dodd-Frank Act (or as some of my attorney friends ...

The 2010 Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill may be tied with Obamacare as the most destructive piece of legislation passed ...

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Promontory Financial Group Chief Executive Officer Eugene Ludwig, left, and Martin Baily, senior fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institute are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept ...