DealBook Briefing: Wall Street bonuses widen gender and race pay gaps

New data about Wall Street compensation shows that the financial sector’s huge pay has widened the national disparity between white men and women and people of color, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank. … Read...

The Case for Capital Controls

“In a letter to the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Ron Kirk, the United States trade representative, 257 economists from around the world, including Joseph Stiglitz and Ricardo Huasmann, argue against...