Economy

Many in the financial industry couldn't care less about unemployment. They don't want to risk any inflation that could erode the value of their wealth.

“Smuggler Nation” takes on the notion that the United States has been strictly a law-abiding nation when it comes to imports.

Over 100 economists, including Nobel laureate Robert Solow, Branko Milanovic and Dani Rodrik called on Congress today to take action to mitigate the harmful fallout from the recent ruling …

Wage growth slowed slightly in the last quarter to 1.8 percent from 2.0 percent in the last year.

A key committee of the World Bank’s governing board Wednesday spurned appeals to revise a draft policy statement that, according to nearly 100 civil-society groups, risks rolling back …

The Government Accountability Office says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from drilling.

Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …

Maybe we are already on the eternal train of global capitalism that is taking us for a ride.

Updates on fast food workers, GDP data, Salt Lake City dailies and bathroom breaks. Wolff interviews mental health counselor Harriet Fraad. Replies on FDR vs. Obama and on how …

What does it say about our society when one hedge fund manager makes a bigger income than the whole population of Springfield, Ohio or Burbank, California?