Economy

Dean Baker: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and a US-EU deal are not intended to boost the economy.

Like the totalitarianisms of old, the financialization of life is ultimately directed by and benefits a tiny minority.

Let’s say goodbye to the out-of-control big banks, and once again make banking a safe, boring, and useful business with local roots in our communities.

The US has a new, but only marginally improved, poverty measure.

As CitiBike has launched in parts of New York City, public attention has focused on certain manifestations of public backlash, usually in the form of NIMBY distaste for the …

Lawmaking lags far behind cultural shifts and continues to overlook problems like billions in unpaid child support.

The story of how Lawrence Davidson's vacation became a cruise into the mind of right wing Americans.

Former chief economist at McKinsey & Co., James Henry, says it's time for the Justice Department to bring down the hammer on tax evasion.

Among the world's major nations, documents the UN agency dedicated to labor matters, only one currently has a level of inequality both high and rising.

Updates on Disney's price hikes, Portugal's unions' general strike, Chinese buy US biggest pork processor, low-wage retail workers fighting in Seattle, General Petraeus goes corporate, and income/wealth inequality in …