Economy

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

If the rich want to know why they bear such a large share of the nation's income tax burden to pay for so-called big government these days, they should …

A new study suggests the argument that C.E.O.'s will leave if they aren't compensated well, perhaps even lavishly, is bogus.

Rich politicians such as FDR who favored social welfare programs were called class traitors. Romney, however, is a sponsor of the wealthy class.

The economists who say the debt-to-GDP ratio is the holy grail of economic stability are the same ones who didn't see the housing crisis coming.

Updates on economic decline in rest of 2012 and 2013; European resistance to austerity politics; private banks' many costly misdeeds. Detailed discussions of Ireland's economic crisis and Romney's attack …

Of the 10 occupations expected to create the most jobs, eight of them require a high school degree or less. These numbers foretell an economy where even workers with …

John Pilger discusses how the murder of 34 miners by the South African police reveals the new worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both an historic and contemporary …

Paul Krugman: In a lot of ways George Osborne, the finance minister, is Britain's answer to Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for vice president.