Economy

USM Assistant Professor Meghan Brodie and USM student Meaghan LaSala discuss how this victory marks the beginning of a push to look to other efficient ways to fill the …

The bottom line here is that the elites are getting what they want, while the rest of us aren't, because money has taken over our political process.

Taxpayers are paying billions for a swindle pulled off by the world's biggest banks, and the FDIC is now suing over it.

Yves Smith: As income disparity has widened enormously and class mobility has eroded, Marx's idea of class warfare seems particularly apt.

The Obama administration has been criticized for not pressing Congress for ratification with sufficient urgency.

Lingering effects of the organized post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition helps explain continuing austerity and other anti-democratic policies pursued by US governments, says economist Richard Wolff

If we measure inequality with a yardstick that only wonks can decipher, weu2019ll end up with a society too confused to do anything meaningful about it.

Americans believe, correctly, that the system is rigged for the rich.

A humorous look at the auto industry.

Four simple tax changes could raise lots of money by taking away subsidies for rich people.