Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.

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• Gary Weiss:

  Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people

• Gary Weiss:

  I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

• Gary Weiss:

  Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves tha

• Gary Weiss:

  I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind o

• Gary Weiss:

  I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to kee

• Gary Weiss:

  When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress

• Gary Weiss:

  The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for

• Gary Weiss:

  For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sour

• Gary Weiss:

  The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that

• Gary Weiss:

  One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intel