Economy

A major political realignment is the only way plutocratic control over our current elected officials in DC will change, according to Chuck Collins in his new book,

recession, growth, employment, military budget, militarization, clean energy, emissions, defense policy, industrial policy, Robert Pollin

While the Spanish banking rescue will be expensive u2014 as much as $125 billion u2014 it will be well within the means of a European emergency fund established for …

foreclosure, bailout, Occupy, evictions, eviction resistance, veterans, community organizing, underwater mortgages

Over the past forty years the American worker has gone from riches to rags, not the other way around.

Rick Wolff provides his weekly dose of economic updates.

Facebook went public a week ago, to great embarrassment. NASDAQ creaked under the strain and, more important, the price dropped from an offer price of $38 to as low …

Just as hybrid cars are using advanced engineering to cut gasoline bills, technology can cut the cost of heating, cooling and lighting America's buildings. A hybrid car's better mileage …

Reporting campaign finance can be difficult because much of the action is obscured. Journalists have to rely on fairly unreliable government disclosure websites, many of which only report certain …

Responding to increasingly urgent calls from across Europe and the United States, Spain on Saturday agreed to accept a bailout for its cash-starved banks as European finance ministers offered …