Economy

Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be counted as a vegetable in the school …

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), center, House Budget Committee chairman, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 29, 2012. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) …

Washington -  Almost four years after America’s financial near-collapse, regulators are now empowered to police financial markets as never before. Yet some of the most important rules to curb …

This book wasn’t yet published when the Occupy Wall Street protests got under way, but The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time provides a solid foundation for that movement’s critique of …

David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2012. (Photo: Moritz Hager / World …

Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally, in relation to the economic crisis. In this week's show, Wolff …

The economy has stalled. Friday’s jobs report for April was even more disappointing than March. Employers added only 115,000 new jobs, down from March’s number (the Bureau of Labor …

As of April, there are now more private sector jobs in the United States than there were in January 2009, when President Obama took office. You read that right. …

Nicolas Sarkozy. (Photo: Rodrigo SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ / Flickr)Athens, Greece - French and Greek leaders who backed the European Union’s severe austerity measures are likely to take a drubbing when …

Washington, D.C. - Many laws are proposed in this town, but only some are passed.  The same is true of regulations—except the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), …