Economy

Hundreds of thousands of out-of-work Americans are receiving their final unemployment checks sooner than they expected, even though Congress renewed extended benefits until the end of the year.

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Lars Osberg, Instability Implications of Increasing Inequality: What can be learned from North America? Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. May 2012. Economist Lars Osberg has been writing about income distribution since …

In every economic crisis there comes a moment of clarity.  In Europe soon, millions of people will wake up to realize that the euro-as-we-know-it is gone.  Economic chaos awaits …

Itu2019s time to put the taboo subject of public ownership back on the progressive agenda. It is the only way to solve some of the most serious problems facing …

President Obama probably didn’t change many votes with his announcement that he had completed his evolution on gay marriage, but it was the right thing to do. Coming a …

Immigrant rights groups in Los Angeles are reporting that LAPD officers used handheld devices to scan the fingerprints of day laborers on the street corners. The incident, they say, …

Driving through Ngong Hills, not far from Nairobi, Kenya, the corn on one side of the road is stunted and diseased. The farmer will not harvest a crop this …

At the end of the 1990s, after the total collapse of the mass-privatization experiment in Boris Yeltinu2019s Russia, some of the more earnest free-market proselytizers tried making sense of …

Scores of federal regulators are stationed inside JPMorgan Chaseu2019s Manhattan headquarters, but none of them were assigned to the powerful unit that recently disclosed a multibillion trading loss.