Insulin transforms a sick body. It also has the potential to reconstitute our political economic realities. By Edward Ongweso Jr., Athena Sofides

Activist short selling is certainly controversial. But it’s not necessarily illegal nor unethical.

Tesla wants to split its stock so it can pay a stock dividend to shareholders, according to a filing Monday. The Securities and Exchange Commission filing said the electric car maker will ask at its annual shareholders meeting “for an increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock ... in order to enable a stock split of the Company’s common stock in the form of a stock dividend.”

Apple just sold $14 billion of bonds, and plans to send part of the proceeds to its shareholders. Investors may wonder why now, given the company’s giant cash reserve and a stock near record highs. But a more appropriate question might be: Why not?

That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good.

Wall Street is moving some bets on COVID-19 vaccines to large pharmaceutical companies with robust manufacturing capabilities, signaling that a love affair with small biotech firms might be ending after the sector’s best quarter in almost 20 years.

With Joe Biden surging in the polls, Wall Street executives are preparing for a potential scenario where he becomes president—with some firms warning clients the stock market could take a hit.

U.S. stock markets fell the most since 1987 in early trading on Monday, having been suspended, limit down, almost immediately after trading started, as the shutdown of increasing swathes of public life in the U.S. brought home the scale of the coronavirus outbreak.

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A dubious project raises serious questions about the world’s most prestigious consulting firm and its work for corruption-plagued regimes. By Ian MacDougall, Anand Tumurtogoo.

Author Carmen Segarra sounds off on Goldman Sachs, deregulation and how our culture rewards bad behavior. By Robert Scheer.

Wall Street stocks has plunged with major indices losing more than three percent in a sell-off prompted by the sudden jump in US interest rates. At the closing bell in the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 3.1 percent or 830 points to finish at 25,613.35, in the biggest fall in eight months.

Ten years after the American economy nearly pitched itself into the abyss, financial elites are again banking on ignorance and incompetence. By Chris Lehmann.

White collar criminologist Bill Black analyzes the significance of Rep. Chris Collins arrest for insider trading along with his son and son’s fiance’s father on 13 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, and making false statements to the FBI. Collins was first Congressman to endorse Trump and is one of his closest confidants.

Do “financial services” include banking? Not according to the Trump administration… By David Sirota.

Ten years after Wall Street’s doomsday, how the financial meltdown broke the modern world and left us living in this one.

If people want to trade stocks every hundredth of a nanosecond, why not let them?

Eliminating the bill was a top priority for Trump. So why did any Dems vote for it? By Matt Taibbi.

Ten years after the meltdown, Congress moves to loosen rules again. What could go wrong? By Lee Fang.