Economy

TPP promotion could undercut President Obama's likely focus on inequality in State of the Union Address.

Wonder why drug prices are skyrocketing? A primer on how lobbying works best to make people really rich.

Paul Krugman: "One way to describe the American economy in 2013 is to say that it was, in effect, trying to begin a strong recovery, but was held back …

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders proposes restoring money in the budget for military pensions by using war funding, and giving us a true cost of war at the same time.

NAFTA has displaced jobs and people, weakened unions and ravaged US cities and rural Mexico. But worker solidarity may be its most important product.

The IMF's austerity plan hasn't worked. Greece's possible recovery is down to a construction program boosting the economy.

Updates on Memphis workers locked out; problems of on-line education; capitalism, wealth inequality, and Starbucks; and Gallup on Americans' dissatisfied with their economy, and more.

85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom …

Paul Krugman: “Almost all of the Bitcoin discussion has centered on positive economics - can this actually work? And I have to say that I'm still deeply unconvinced.”

Congress can't find the willpower to raise taxes on the rich, but that hasn't stopped them from chipping away at our retirement and slashing our social safety net, and …