Economy

Updates on Cyprus's extreme austerity, equal justice and markets, falling job quality, and capitalism's impact on China.

Truthout contributors Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese appear on RNN to explain how the Obama-led Trans-Pacific Partnership aims to isolate China while strengthening corporate legal rights.

So the rich are different. What's it to you? Quite a lot, if you see some of the recent analysis of the growing wealth gap.

Angela Merkel's face usually displays a rather plain, friendly, almost benign expression, matching her simple, benign words. But in rare unguarded moments, some claim, they glimpse a very hard …

Americans are getting fed up with government. It's time to get them directly involved.

After the near collapse of the financial system and the great recession, unemployment has significantly increased worldwide.

This is one of the best animations about modern capitalism I've seen, says Gaius Publius.

It is no surprise that Bank of Cyprus is now going the way of Citibank. The surprise is that it took so long.

Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks was not the desperate idea of a few Eurozone officials.

Paul Krugman: Is the era of free capital movement just a bubble, fated to end soon?