Economy

It's been almost two years, and the GOP still refuses to approve a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director without a significant overhaul of the agency.

Don't talk about jobs, growth, budgeting from percentages, health care, or Europe. After all, we wouldn't want to learn from experience.

The primary drivers of historical economic growth are no longer available, spelling the end of global growth.

Galloping crony capitalism that ensures a corporate stranglehold on Washington has increased exponentially since the Supreme Court essentially offered unfettered access to and influence over Capitol insiders by their …

The middle class in America - and through most of the developed world - is at risk of going extinct. u00a0

Robert Pollin: Last quarter of 2012 had zero growth, wages were lower, unemployment higher as stock market hit record highs.

Republicans and Democrats concur on austerity and differ only on its secondary details.

Welcome to the “economic recovery,” where the big banks and corporations that created the global economic crisis are doing better than ever before.

Whether the power of finance can be brought under more control becomes one of the significant issues, together with other structural and political causes of unemployment under capitalism, when …

Imagine the impact on the economy of 55 million seniors receiving an additional $1,200 each month.