Economy & Labor

What is missing, Rahman argues, is any actual consideration of the social value of finance in general and financial innovation in particular.

Thomas Friedman is loose in Silicon Valley, the economic hub best known for colluding to rip off its workers.

Workers at a Volkswagen Plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted against joining the United Auto Workers union, and more.

Hundreds of protesters picketed Twitter's offices because of an exceptionally generous tax break it receives from San Francisco.

John Weeks: A fundamental misconception of neoliberal economics is that governments need to balance their budgets like a household.

Updates on polls showing most Americans want less inequality; why Tea Party types fixate on government debt; why French right-wing and other far-right parties gain support; and more.

Republicans want to hold our economy hostage again, but they may not get the chance to do so, and more.

For the State Department to suggest that the Keystone XL pipeline will not have a negative impact on the environment is like Walter White telling Phillip Seymour Hoffman that …

Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …

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.