Economy & Labor

Trump's “Buy American, Hire American” executive order signals a return to his economic nationalist agenda.

As lobbyists swarm Congress, the government is facing a possible shutdown over the wall.

The decisions by the president and his daughter not to create truly blind trusts mean that concern over potential conflicts of interest will likely persist.

While Uber's impact on the taxi industry is clearly not a joke, the market valuation of the company may well be.

We also discuss the raid on Credit Suisse, and new data exposing the profit shifting shennanigans of the EU's biggest banks.

Professor Wolff talks about how politicians exploit the mechanism of money printing.

Orders signed Friday are nothing more than special favors for the same Wall Street banks that crashed our economy in 2008 and put millions of Americans out of work.

Student loan debt has grown to overwhelm all other categories of non-housing consumer debt in this nation.

Socialists and radicals must come up with a new version of a globalized economy, says C.J. Polychroniou.

The extraordinary lengths to which Los Angeles' largest charter school chain will go to defeat a union drive were revealed in a new California State Auditor report.