Economy & Labor

Laura Flanders: Not long ago it was the Great Recession, today it's Obamacare that's serving as a convenient scapegoat for employers seeking to tighten the screws on their workers.

Despite no real economic recovery, the Fed is winding down quantitative easing, throwing developing countries' economies into chaos.

Obamacare is a job killer u2014 that was the message across the media this week after the release of a new Congressional Budget Office report about the Affordable Care …

Updates on economic democracy from Jackson, Mississippi to Marseilles, France; credit card scandals; phony labels for chicken; overcharging inmates for calls; and more.

An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.

In the wake of the NSA spying scandal, corporations like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook wanted to release details on internet surveillance, and more.

The entire NFL has been involved in systematic denial of the long-term effects of game-induced head traumas.

Economics professor Heiner Flassbeck says the “market” is good for making high profits from international exchange rates; the only rational solution for a healthy economy is take exchange rates …

The renowned playwright and actor Wallace “Wally” Shawn has just returned from Brazil, where he gave a special performance of his play, “The Designated Mourner,” to journalist Glenn Greenwald.

In this episode we put on our rubber gloves and dive into it.