This issue of Business History Review, guest-edited by Per H. Hansen, includes five articles on diverse aspects of financial crisis, business failure, and scandal. In Scylla or Charybdis? Historical Reflections on Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance, Naomi R. Lamoreaux discusses the difficulty of navigating between too little government intervention and too much. Thomas Max Safley, in Business Failure and Civil Scandal in Early Modern Europe, examines the failure of one of the most prominent German merchant-banking houses of the early sixteenth century. In Rogue Finance: The Life and Fire Insurance Company and the Panic of 1826, Eric Hilt describes a gigantic Ponzi scheme that was carried out by company insiders who pushed the limits of acceptable business conduct until they veered into illegal, even criminal, behavior. Richard Sylla, Robert E. Wright, and David J. Cowen discuss the U.S. Treasury secretary's innovative management of the financial crisis of 1792, in Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker: Crisis Management during the U.S. Financial Panic of 1792. Finally, in Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895-1932, Edward J. Balleisen documents the antifraud campaign conducted by the National Association of Credit Men and the Better Business Bureaus.