Economy

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimonu2019s hearings before Congress last month were strikingly similar u2014 in circumstances if hardly in results u2014 to the 1930s Senate Banking Committee hearings known …

I urge that you sit back and say, am I up to that or am I just doing politics, or am I really up to that. Now the that …

UN financial adviser and law professor Michael Greenberger says with Wall Street's embace of Romney, Obama has nothing to lose prosecuting the big banks for the Libor fraud.

The greatest concentration of wealth in more than a century u2014 courtesy u201ctrickle-downu201d economics, Reagan and Bush tax cuts, and the demise of organized labor. Combined with unlimited …

A public condemnation of San Bernardino's underwater mortgages could convincingly model the benefits of principal write-downs.

And now, for some happy talk u2014 by which I mean a non-corporate, “little-d” democratic, and altogether pleasurable economic development that's spreading across our country. In a word: beer.

Greece needs to embrace a new political thinking that de-fetishizes the rule of money.

Howard Zinn: As the economic situation of the universities becomes more precarious and faculties shrink, it becomes easier to get rid of undesirables, whether political dissidents or just troublesome …

This episode provides an update on the widening LIBOR scandal and the fine Wells Fargo received for overcharging African-American and Hispanic families on their mortgages. The segment ends with …

Americans across the political spectrum agree that corporations are not people and that the promise of government of, for, and by the people must be defended. We are at …