Economy

As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. …

There is not a single federal agency that has tracked foreclosures comprehensively, a massive information gap that prevents the work of journalists, advocates and policymakers alike.

Black male unemployment is 14.8 percent, and the current trend is up.

If Julian Assange is granted asylum in Ecuador, he will become a resident of Latin America, where the trove of classified U.S. State Department cables he strategically disseminated through …

The $21 trillion alone is the amount of the US and Japanese economies combined.

Gov. Christie's move to secure solar's future was a pragmatic one. Don't expect him to campaign to promote renewables across the country, says advocate.

Itu2019s long been apparent that the problem is not the lack of viable courses of action, but lack of will to undermine the rule of our financial overlords.

Whatu2019s at stake for aging ethnic boomers and others on the economic edge?

It's simple: Raise the pay of working people, and as the workers buy more goods and services with their new earnings, the businesses that sell them will hire more …

Updates on Europe's ongoing crisis, real US tax history, bank tycoon admits