Economy

Updates on public power in Nebraska; Earth Day; Coca Cola's misleading advertisement; closing hospitals; and more.

It's no secret by now that the recent spike in American inequality is driven in large part by “financialization,” the growing scale of the financial sector relative to the …

Study: Those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death.

At long last, we have irrefutable proof that the one indispensable nation has been subsumed by a bona fide oligarchy.

There's now a full-court press of the usual suspects claiming that the recovery in Britain proves that fiscal austerity isn't contractionary after all, that the International Monetary Fund had …

Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.

Leo Panitch on the left Coalition: Syriza and the struggle against austerity.

Earlier this month, Senate Republicans unanimously blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act and upheld a boss's right to punish workers for talking about unfair pay practices, and more.

Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …

Our system of intellectual property rights is patently ridiculous.