Economy & Labor

A wave of historic protests struck the retail giant Walmart on Black Friday - the busiest shopping day of the year.

Michael Hudson: Fiscal cliff was manufactured to shift more of the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people.

Bill Black: Banks try to start a run on the banks in Ecuador.

Todayu2019s news about the demise of Twinkie and other Hostess snacks is a complicated story of big business versus labor.

Updates on politicians' big business incomes after their government jobs and the debate over social security.

To protect the planet, Klein says we need both market incentives and a government that will say no to the fossil fuel lobby.

Coal baron Robert Murray recently announced he's laying off 163 of his employees because, he says, President Obama was re-elected, something fishy is going on in Florida's 18th Congressional …

Can Americans ever really take charge of their common community life, given the realities of the modern political economy?

Spanish and Portuguese workers are coordinating their strike with work stoppages underway in Greece, Italy, France and Belgium.

As the White House begins a series of meetings today on the looming “fiscal cliff,” a coalition of the largest corporate firms and advocacy groups is lobbying for wide-ranging …