Economy

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.

Will Obama act? Time is running out for both the president and unions.

Gerald Eptsein: Bloomberg News calls for a cost benefit analysis of financial regulations, but the question is, cost benefit for whom?

The US has become a nation not of laws but of legal memos, not of legality but of legalisms.

The chauvinistic definition of exceptionalism has become common in the rhetoric of politicians.