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The U.S. stock market is a rigged game where high-frequency traders with advanced computers make tens of billions of dollars by jumping in front of investors, according to author Michael Lewis, who spent the past year researching the topic for his new...

By Grant Williams WARNING: This week’s Things That Make You Go Hmmm... is going to run a little longer than usual, I’m afraid, so if you have some time to kill, strap yourself in for the ride. Yes. I have read it. For the last couple of...

Today’s compendium of economic, political, and environmental events is a doozy. Starting with a taper at home we cover the latest developments in Europe, the Greek meltdown, Ukrainian angst and Russian manuvers, Latin American politics, Indian...

by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New Yorker. On Oct. 29, 2013, Hillary Clinton joined Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, for a discussion at its Builders and Innovators Summit, at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain resort...

Perhaps one of the more historic public fights in “Wall Street” history might be coming to a conclusion. The impending Securities and Exchange Commission approval or disapproval of the “Flash Boys” stars and their IEX Exchange, founded by Brad Katsuyama...