Economy

If the negotiations prove fruitless, the next budget crisis looms this summer when Congress must again raise the government's statutory borrowing limit or risk defaulting on the federal debt.

The current economic battle on this tiny island has taken on global significance.

LIFT stands for ‘Let's Invest for Tomorrow,’ but it really ought to be called LIE, for ‘Let's Invest Elsewhere.’

Sarah Lazare reports from Cairo's City of the Dead, an ancient cemetery inhabited by people too poor to pay rent.

Walmart is illegally targeting employees that took part in the Black Friday protests.

Hopefully Cyprus will take a page out of the Icelandic playbook, and lock-up the banksters.

David Brooks jumped the shark in his March 18 New York Times column, when he attacked the only budget proposed in Congress this year that would rapidly improve the …

Neoliberalism created a disaster. Now, the Syriza party and the Greek left have much work to do to build a just economic and social order.

James K. Gailbraith and Leo Panitch discuss the 80th anniversary of the election of FDR and the significance of the New Deal.

What is needed is a social movement that will unite Labor and Civil Rights organizations and get Detroit's residents out into the streets in mass protest actions.