Economy

Nestle is proposing to gain access to the spring via a water exchange with Cascade Locks.

Paul Krugman: How is it possible that European austerians are unaware of the argument of their critics?

Under fiscal stress and the influence of a powerful business lobby, airports are being sold off to private investors.

Updates in this segment include Europeans limiting CEO pay, Chileans demonstrating for free education and the many countries with higher tax rates for the rich than in US.

In today's On the News segment: Today is the last day for public comment to the State Department on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and more.

Some Western countries have been trying to curb or even eventually eliminate the Asian model of state-owned or state-aided capitalism.

Most minimum-wage workers are adults, the majority of them are women, and many are parents who are trying to raise their children on poverty wages.

Nearly 300,00 people have signed the Move To Amend petition that states: We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling …

New study refutes Reinhart and Rogoff analysis that underpins austerity policy around the world; shows no relation between debt and lack of growth.

Debates in countries over laws to curb tax evasion miss the point, according to Richard D. Wolff.