The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which controls the supply of money in the United States, may be the country's most important agency. But there has been no effort to come to grips with its administrative law; this article seeks to redress that gap. The principal claim is that the FOMC's...

Financial reform has rebalanced the power of international engagement, reducing the role of the President and his diplomats, and increasing that of Congress and independent agencies. In so doing, the reforms have readjusted a balance that many believe was skewed by the government's response to...

Traditionalists believe that foreign policy is forged by conflict between the legislature and the executive, with the judiciary acting as referee. We reject that paradigm, and make the case that the country's independent agencies, exemplified by its central bank, have become significant and...