Economy

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.

The truth is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies actually helps economies and causes companies to hire more and more people, thus lowering unemployment.

The austerity push by politicians, political operatives, and pundits of the last 5 years is the height of economic, political, and social perversity and stupidity.

Not only do we pay more, but we pay in far more ways than any other country.

This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.

If the populist movement spreads, it wonu2019t be a Beltway phenomenon. As Occupy demonstrated, it will disrupt business as usual.