It is long past time to dramatically downsize, consolidate, or even abolish some federal financial regulatory agencies.

It’s true that the U.S. has too many regulators — including the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. — in ...

News that President-elect Donald Trump's team wants to hack away at the forbidding tangle of U.S. bank regulation is welcome in the abstract. In practice, though, much will depend on the details. One ...