Truthout
Economy

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More Than 100 Legal Scholars Warn About TPP Dangers
While TPP is still secret, leaks and precedent indicate that it will contain provisions allowing giant, multinational corporations to bypass our country's legal system.

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World at a Crossroads: Fast Track and a Future of Global Corporate Rule
Fast track would drive us down a dangerous path.

Economic Update: Housing, Cities and Suburbs
This episode provides updates on pizza politics, changing currency values and more.

Pacifica Stands in for All Public Media
Pacifica, the embattled progressive radio network, has been the recipient of bad press and suggestions that it should simply be allowed to go into bankruptcy.

New York Hedge Funds Pour Millions of Dollars Into Cuomo-Led Bid to Expand Charter Schools
Millions of dollars in hedge fund donations are behind the push for charters.

Wall Street Bonuses Double Full-Time Minimum Wage Worker Earnings
Wall Street bonuses totaled $28.5 billion in 2014 u2014double the annual earnings of more than 1 million American full-time minimum wage workers.

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Combating the Inflation Cult
Academic economics, which still has pretenses of being an arena of open intellectual inquiry, appears to be deeply infected with politicization.

Raising Interest Rates Could Have an Adverse Effect on Federal and State Budgets
Last week, the BLS announced that unemployment had fallen to 5.5 percent.

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Lessons From Norway in Getting Women Onto Corporate Boards
Norway has one of the best records with women holding 35.5% of the seats on Norwegian stock index companies.

Economist Roger Bootle: “Grexit” Is the Only Solution for Greece
Bootle shares his views as to how Greece should exit the eurozone without being forced out of the European Union.