Economy

Danny Schechter offers insight into how while South Africa changed in terms of who politically ruled it, the economic power remained concentrated in white and western economic hands.

The goals of faster and cheaper military housing may have been achieved through privatization, but problems including unreliable builders and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems including mold has …

Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update on Wisconsin's public employees, the GRAT tax evasion, the last 50 years of the ‘War on Poverty,’ and more.

Beyond the headlines of conflict and catastrophe, this year's top stories offered us some powerful proof that the world can still change - for the better.

Now, just a quarter of unemployed Americans will receive jobless benefits - the smallest proportion in half a century.

If there are any illusions, it's among the liberals who expect dramatic change from a de Blasio administration while they tell the left and workers to be quiet.

Chris Hedges: Today's speculators have created grotesque financial mechanisms, from usurious interest rates on loans to legalized accounting fraud, to plunge the masses into crippling forms of debt peonage.

climate scientists have suggested that intentional “de-growth” is the only hope to stop the rising emissions associated with economic development and growth.

Ikea's French unit has also been conducting surveillance of employees and even customers who complained about items that were not delivered.

Dean Baker: Policies promoted by people deemed as too left by New York Times editor Bill Keller are good candidates for increasing economic growth.