Economy

What we're really talking about here is the taxation of wealth, and the question is what would happen to that revenue versus what happens if the rich get to …

Updates on minimum wage in Europe vs. minimum wage in the US; the richest US families; and the economics of immigration.

Mortgage debt overhang from the housing bust has meant lack of middle-class spending power and consumer demand, preventing the economy from growing.

ROAR sits down with Michael Albert, author of ‘Realizing Hope’ and editor of Znet, to explore the idea of participatory economics.

The endless stream of mergers and acquisitions over the past 34 years has taken away most all of the competition and has concentrated power.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim: There's a growing trend among the world's major corporations to voluntarily increase their workers' wages.

Our nation's highest court strikes another blow to public unions, and more.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz took to the opinion pages of The New York Times to argue that there's no such thing as “natural” market forces.

The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.

Contemporary capitalism is characterized by a political economy which revolves around finance capital, is based on a savage form of free market fundamentalism.