Economy

Paul Krugman: In recent years it has been a reliable rule that when important people reach a consensus about something, they're dead wrong.

Major discussions of a new book on China-US codependency and how and why our economic system works and breaks down.

Some of GenOpp's positions and statements may seem genuine, even logical, though a closer look reveals them to be desperately familiar to a more adult-like right wing playbook.

Religious and development groups urge reforms to protect the poor.

Growth and prosperity continue to go their separate ways.

For the movement to succeed, it must be led by the dispossessed - those for whom the mainstream economy has never worked.

What we actually need is a change in the form of growth - and that's exactly the kind of thing markets are good at, if you get the prices …

In Washington, DC, a bipartisan effort is underway to chip away at the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is supposed to prevent the type of economic meltdown that …

Capitalism is not rebalancing; the yearnings and desires of large portions of society are not being responded to.

When the overall unemployment rate goes up, the rate for the less-educated and minorities rises even more.