Economy

Michael Hudson: Fiscal cliff was manufactured to shift more of the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people.

Dean Baker: Suppose that we had someone focused on actual data involved in the budget debate instead of silly rhetoric?

In canceling the debt, the Strike Debt team is taking advantage of a fairly common banking practice.

Publisher of books on sustainability walks the walk, turns ownership over to its workers.

There is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market.

Eighty CEOs have ponied up $37 million to make sure the so-called fiscal cliff problem is resolved their way.

We need to drop the ‘fiscal cliff’ politicking and tell the truth about our poor economy and climate change.

Small Business Majority sees silver lining in letting tax cuts expire.

Although Obama has vowed to stay firm over taxing the rich (this time), his toughness is only skin deep, and comes with dangerous strings attached.

Bill Black: Banks try to start a run on the banks in Ecuador.