Economy

In today's On the News segment: Super PAC sugar daddies, Congress debates student loans, the federal campaign against marijuana dispensaries, and more. Thom Hartmann here – on the news... You need …

Neoliberal Dragons, Eurasian Wet Dreams, and Robocop Fantasies Goldman Sachs — via economist Jim O’Neill — invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, …

“The first thing is to connect the dots, to see how one frustrating or outrageous thing is connected to all the other frustrating and outrageous things. If we’re going …

Europe is in recession. Britain’s Office for National Statistics confirmed today (Wednesday) that in the first quarter of this year Britain’s economy shrank .2 percent, after having contracted .3 …

In this 2012 Moyers Moment from Moyers & Company, Heather McGhee, director of the Washington office of the research and advocacy organization Demos, talks about the crushing burden of student debt. She …

(Photos by David Bacon)On Tuesday, April 24 in San Francisco, thousands of angry homeowners, immigrants, union members, Occupiers and community groups converged on the annual shareholders meeting of Wells …

(Image: Joel Pett, Carto­onArt­s Inter­natio­nal / The New York Times­ Synd­icate)In general, I'm a numbers and concepts guy, not a feelings guy. When I go after someone like Paul …

Washington - It may not be the economy, stupid. Then again, JamesCarville's famous maxim about the 1992 presidential campaign might wellbe valid in 2012. But it's quite possible that on …

On April 17, 2012, as millions of Americans were filing their income tax returns, the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released its latest study of world military …

Occupy San Francisco protest, November 16, 2011. (Photo: ericwagner) The collective weight of American student debt is a drag not just on those paying the debt, but on our …