Economy

Credit: De Angelis. One thing everyone always says is that while this Lesser Depression may be bad, it’s nothing like the Great Depression. But this is in …

(Image: Metropolitan Books) From the Introduction “Signs and Wonders” This book is a chronicle of a confused time, a period when Americans rose up against imaginary threats …

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The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich. For example, the rich can buy caviar and …

Lest any of us forget, some people have plenty of money to throw around. Take Valentine's Day. Here’s what one four-star hotel in Chicago was offering a few weeks …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Watching what’s happening to our democracy is like watching the cruise ship Costa Concordia founder and sink slowly into the sea off …

Saying the country can't “cut our way to growth,” the President has some serious infrastructure money in his budget, along with serious help for America's manufacturers. This will create …

Here's a case of good news oozing out of bad news, and vice versa. The bad news is that Hostess Brands has sunk into bankruptcy. It couldn't stay afloat …

Dina Bakst of the Work and Family Legal Center reminds us of an important fact that few people seem to realize - that getting pregnant can cause a woman …

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 …