Economy & Labor

Working in Freeport, Illinois protest the closing of a Sensata factory by the Bain Corporation and asking Mitt Romney to fulfill his promises to keep jobs in the US.

Amid anti-austerity protests throughout Spain, the government announced more than 50 billion dollars in cuts to public spending.

In today's On the News segment: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman u2013 who also chairs the President's mortgage fraud task force u2013 filed a civil suit against JP …

Updates on public pensions crisis and megabanks' massive failures. Interview: NYU Prof. Juan Flores on class warfare in the US. Responses to listeners on federal subsidies of big banks …

Thousands of people surrounded the Spanish Parliament in Madrid on Tuesday to protest austerity measures and the loss of public confidence in elected leaders.

Markus Stanley: Derivative bets not a zero sum game, have far reaching real world consequences.

Striking NFL referees watch their position strengthen as replacement refs make bad calls, and more.

Michael Hudson: Shoveling money to the banks not meant to create jobs; itu2019s a way to give banks even more speculative capital and prepare them for another meltdown

Updates on economic decline in rest of 2012 and 2013; European resistance to austerity politics; private banks' many costly misdeeds. Detailed discussions of Ireland's economic crisis and Romney's attack …

The obvious question is: why aren't large numbers of businesses organized on this principle?