Economy

In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.

The rich love to demonize the poor, but it turns out that the wealthy are the ones who need a little shaming, and more.

Every contract for managing pension fund money should be posted on the web and show in plain language the exact fee structure.

Costas Lapavitsas says that capitalists have learned how to make huge profits without producing anything useful.

The most “revolutionary” thing Professor Piketty calls for in his best-sellling tome is a wealth tax, but our rich are very sensitive.

The NSA has your data. Facebook has your data. Google has your data. By now these are familiar tropes in a familiar debate. Rarely in that debate, however, does …

Steeped now as we are in a plutarchic imaginary, poverty is a ping that if you hear, you do not want to pursue.

ProPublica's columnist Jesse Eisinger describes the tendency to focus on Tim Geithner, while ignoring the role of the president.

Pope Francis welcomed members of the global Jubilee movement to the Vatican on Wednesday.

The rapid rise of open corruption and the power of the United States' new oligarchs has laid waste to what little was left of this country's good name.