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July 14, 2011—Given the steady and increasingly louder drumbeat of news about the debt ceiling -- this morning brings the news that President Obama might summon key members of Congress to Camp David, where such weighty issues as peace in the Middle ...

July 13, 2011—News flash: Major corporations capable of ringing up billions in sales and hundreds of millions in profits are about to be brought to their knees by a government mandate that they -- wait for it -- figure ...

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September 3, 2010—Six days ago, near the small town of Winnemucca, Nevada, a mine employee was carrying his lunchbox. Another employee maneuvered a large front-end loader around the mine's maintenance shop. Corporate filings don't normally include this kind of you-are-there detail. But these vignettes are now ...

July 15, 2010—The long-anticipated Wall Street reform bill just passed the U.S. Senate and is heading for President Obama's desk. It still has a number of the investor-protection and corporate-governance provisions we mentioned before, but we were recently reminded that even some of ...

May 21, 2010—Earlier this week, we looked at an unusual disclosure provision that was added to the Senate financial-regulation reform bill. But now that the Senate has passed the nearly 1,600-page legislation, with a 59-39 vote last night, ...

May 20, 2010—The 1990s and early 2000s saw a surge of concern over "blood diamonds" and other gemstones that had been mined and exported from war-torn regions of the world, often accompanied by horrific exploitation and cost in human life. A big part of ...

March 23, 2010—One of the big sticking points on the road to President Obama signing the Affordable Health Care for America Act earlier today was the debate over so-called Cadillac health care plans. The Senate bill wanted to impose a hefty tax on these luxe ...

January 11, 2010—While the rest of the country went back to work last week, Congress is just getting around to that task today and by most accounts healthcare is at the top of the agenda. But one company seems to have gotten an early start: ...