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Yesterday I blogged about a Wiki I posted to improve the public comment process for federal regulation. I seeded the Wiki with a proposal to let the market solve the short selling controversy by letting issuers or shareholders set their own rules about what investors can do with shares…

In addition to improving asset-backed securities disclosure (using XBRL perhaps?), SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro called for substantive ABS regulation in a speech Tuesday to SIFMA, the parent organization…

This morning’s Bloomberg report makes it sound like the idea of transparency is gaining salience:

The philosophy behind both the public-private partnerships and the stress tests is that the more…

Here are pictures of Mt. Rose from the peak and the base. This is a wonderful hike at nice altitude. Where is Mt. Rose?

We taped this story at the intelligence facility responsible for passenger manifest information. Given the focus of attention on the use of intelligence about passengers in recent days, the choice of…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The XBRL Pacific Rim Technology Workshop and Summit kicked off Tuesday afternoon with experts agreeing about the quality of the first 42 mandatory U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings and…

These eight sentences from Peggy Noonan in her Wall Street Journal column this morning are the best I’ve read in a long time:

Dynamism has been leached from our system for now, but not from the human brain or heart. Just as our political regeneration will happen…