Economy

Sit-down strike at Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan, during the strike of 1937. (Photo: Sheldon Dick) On this day 25 years ago, in 1987, I became …

David Koch. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil …

(Photo: David Shankbone / Flickr) "Producers" and "parasites." Cruel language justifying extreme greed seems to be mainstream now. Even Presidential candidates feel free to disparage 99% of …

(Photo: Taber Andrew Bain / Flickr) Big announcements of breakthrough legislative deals during election campaigns should be taken with huge grains of salt. Generally more rhetoric than …

(Photo: Lars Kristian Flem; Edited: LP / Truthout) You know the wheels have come off the GOP wagon when the Republicans feel compelled to accuse Clint Eastwood …

(Photo: Brett Beanan / Flickr) The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy …

A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid for political establishment. Neither …

Economist Christina Romer had an op-ed in the NY Times this weekend, Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment? The question that keep coming back to me is why did she …

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to Congress on January 24 in Washington. (Photo: Brendan Hoffman / The New York Times) The criterion, …