With criticism and concern mounting about foreign governments' large investments in U.S. companies and mutual funds, the Treasury Department has begun meeting with representatives of foreign wealth funds to create a set of voluntary transparency guidelines for these funds.  As Bob Davis of the Wall Street Journal reports, Treasury would ...

A federal advisory committee led by the Treasury Department has put the brakes on plans by Bain Capital of Boston and the Chinese company Huawei Technologies to purchase the U.S. manufacturer of Internet routing equipment 3Com, as Steven Weisman reports in the New York Times.  The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, is responsible for reviewing foreign investment projects that would enable foreign entities to own more than 10 percent of a U.S. company.

Jacques Leslie of Mother Jones magazine has written a rigorous, real-life look at China's environmental problems, problems that are already America's and the world's.  You may already know about Chinese dust storms leaving their mark from California to Maine, but did you know that the cashmere sweater you just bought ...

We've already noted (here) the political and economic backlash that could result from greater foreign involvement in American financial markets.  Now Joseph Treaster reports in the New York Times that the United Arab Emirates state of Dubai is preparing to purchase a 20-30% ownership share in NASDAQ (see ...

Major industries across the U.S. are calling for government to regulate them more, according to Eric Lipton and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times.  Consumer groups and industry both want more regulation due to market turmoil and fears about unsafe imports, but the Bush Administration has been slow to ...

Could America's superpower status be endangered by the country's thirst for ever greater profits from  complex investment products?  The strategic consequences of massive foreign investment in the U.S. economy are now emerging.