Economy

“Things are boiling, we know the system doesn't work, we know that it is unfair, and eventually, something tips it off,” says Dr. Margaret Flowers in this interview with …

Ellen Brown: The ‘bail in’ of depositor funds is now being made official European Union policy.

A Bush-era economist recently likened progressive taxation to forceful kidney removal. Dean Baker puts his claim in context.

Austerity has been intellectually discredited in recent months. But conservative spending cuts still dominate policy.

Before there was Citizens United, a modern Tea Party movement, or national momentum to ban corporate personhood, Thom Hartmann shows that resistance to corporate power is just as patriotic …

If we want to rekindle that spirit of 1776, not just daydream about it, our course stands clear. We need to create a more equal America.

A new wave of cooperatives is emerging in the US, and a big part of the inspiration is coming from what might seem an unlikely source: the United Steelworkers …

CEOs claim the US has the world's highest corporate tax rate, but they actually pay less than most workers

Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar.

Tough austerity measures imposed by the EU without any consideration for the damage such policies inflict on human lives and the social fabric of societies in general have generated …