Economy

Manufacturing slumped in the first year of the Obama administration as the nation dealt with the effects of the recession, but since then, manufacturing has posted job gains in …

Thousands of people surrounded the Spanish Parliament in Madrid on Tuesday to protest austerity measures and the loss of public confidence in elected leaders.

While newspaper reporting had already been severely weakened by drastic cutbacks in newsrooms, but the latest decline comes from newsroom managers and staff who've chosen to compromise on a …

Markus Stanley: Derivative bets not a zero sum game, have far reaching real world consequences.

There is no dispute about the status of major Pentagon contractors, their utter dependency on government, and their outsized profiteering.

Bottom line: The odds of the fiscal cliff happening are greater than most people are currently willing to admit.

This means that Romney was not just insulting those who are too poor to pay a federal income tax.

Teachers in Chicago, Verizon workers, and students in Quebec recently proved that not only are strikes and general resistance and dissent essential to any democracy, they also work.

It seems likely that this election will be decided in the industrial Midwest, Ohio in particular - a region that has bounced back strongly economically.

Michael Hudson: Shoveling money to the banks not meant to create jobs; itu2019s a way to give banks even more speculative capital and prepare them for another meltdown