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Economy
Why Did Economy Shrink So Dramatically During the First Quarter of 2014?
Robert Pollin: Five years after the Great Recession, austerity as the dominant policy agenda is keeping the recovery weak.
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Will German Workers Declare Independence?
The goal of the union cooperative is 100 percent worker-ownership, with each worker purchasing and owning an equal share.
Economic Update: Analyzing Incarceration
Updates on health economics; Mississippi political lessons; and what's wrong with a Harvard economist.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IMF Calls Lawmakers to Raise the Minimum Wage, and More
Senate Republicans are simply repackaging old ideas and trying to pass them off as pro-worker, and more.
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Dean Baker | The Sharing Economy and the Mystery of the Mystery of Inequality
In a country where rules are enforced or not enforced to benefit the rich and screw the middle class, you will have increasing inequality and a middle class that …
Argentina Responds to Supreme Court with Debt Swap Plan
In reaction to an adverse Supreme Court ruling against Argentina, President Cristina Fernu00e1ndez de Kirchner announced that Argentina would offer new bonds to its creditors governed under Argentine law.
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Serious Voices Drown Out Sensible Ones in Europe
Paul Krugman: In recent years it has been a reliable rule that when important people reach a consensus about something, they're dead wrong.
Economic Update: Economic Codependency
Major discussions of a new book on China-US codependency and how and why our economic system works and breaks down.
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Why Koch-Funded “Generation Opportunity” Is a Big Zero for America’s Youth
Some of GenOpp's positions and statements may seem genuine, even logical, though a closer look reveals them to be desperately familiar to a more adult-like right wing playbook.
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Recovery Denied
Growth and prosperity continue to go their separate ways.