Economy

Saving the US economy begins with increasing the minimum wage, says economist Jeffrey Sommers.

Blackstone Capital has bought up swathes of property for $35,000. Council appraisers valued them at $60,000, but the rents charged are akin to a $173,000 property. The MSM cheerleads …

Paul Krugman: The European Central Bank's interest rate cut is a repudiation of the nascent triumphalism of Europe's austerians.

House and Senate negotiators are close to a deal on “fast-tracking” the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and more.

For the central bank to satisfy its mandate to promote full employment and to become an institution that serves all the people, not just the 1 percent, the Fed …

Chris Hedges says that while people are disgusted with the centers of power, unless there is a constructive alternative, any eruption will be nihilistic and could be fascist.

Let's stop the insanity of states competing over how much of their taxpayers' money they're willing to give to giant corporations in an endless race to the bottom.

Noam Chomsky discusses Greece, one- and two-state solutions for Israel, really existing capitalism, debt, the social contract and more.

Don't cut programs for the people who need them, cut those people's need for the programs.

Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro today introduced the Sequester Delay and Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, a bill that would end sequestration and curb corporate use of …