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As global power dynamics shift and traditional alliances face unprecedented strain, what emerging geopolitical risks threaten to destabilize markets and reshape international business? Former CIA intelligence officer Melissa Mahle examines the transition from multilateral consensus to hard power politics, exploring how businesses must adapt their strategies amid fragmenting central bank policies, weakening transatlantic relationships, and the return of economic coercion to the geopolitical playbook.

Since the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was enacted in October 2008, the federal government has designed a number of programs to create a market for financial assets whose value has fallen so significantly that a functioning market no longer exists.

The House Appropriations Committee has approved the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by a vote of 35 to 22.

How will generative AI reshape professional services firms? An economist examines whether AI serves as a substitute for human effort or a complement to it, exploring how productivity gains create strategic opportunities rather than simply reducing headcount. The analysis draws parallels to past technological disruptions like spreadsheets to illuminate how firms can reinvest AI-generated capacity to expand markets and enhance human expertise.

The Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ("G20") reviewed efforts to respond to "key economic challenges, as well as the progress . . . made since the beginning of this year.

In the last week, after a year of escalating conflict, the Middle East tipped further into the all-out war that observers have feared since the onset of the conflict.

Did fair value accounting standards, issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and required to be applied for fiscal years ending subsequent to November 2007, hasten the onset of the current economic and financial crisis?

On October 31, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") published an Announcement describing two new features for the existing tribal economic development bond ("TEDB") program.

As our economy further deepens into the fourth industrial revolution, we stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has recently announced a series of significant Section 301 actions targeting a range of trade-related concerns, including intellectual property protection, forced labor, and alleged unfair trade practices

On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act") became law and eliminated the exemption from registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act") for private advisers with fewer than 15 clients effective July 21, 2011.

On December 3, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("ARRA") that became law on February 17, 2009, imposes new restrictions on compensation of certain executives at financial institutions.

As American industry moves toward building back better in the face of a continuing pandemic, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., have introduced the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021, ...

On October 14, 2008, under the authority of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the U.S. Treasury announced that it would make available $250 billion of capital to U.S. financial institutions.

On May 1, 2026, the CPFB published in the Federal Register the revised Small Business Data Collection Rule, or “1071 Rule” (the “2026 Final Rule”), which it had proposed revising in November 2025.

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, recently signed into law, will affect both the financial institutions and those regulatory agencies that oversee them.