Economy

In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.

The rich love to demonize the poor, but it turns out that the wealthy are the ones who need a little shaming, and more.

Every contract for managing pension fund money should be posted on the web and show in plain language the exact fee structure.

Costas Lapavitsas says that capitalists have learned how to make huge profits without producing anything useful.

Steeped now as we are in a plutarchic imaginary, poverty is a ping that if you hear, you do not want to pursue.

ProPublica's columnist Jesse Eisinger describes the tendency to focus on Tim Geithner, while ignoring the role of the president.

The rapid rise of open corruption and the power of the United States' new oligarchs has laid waste to what little was left of this country's good name.

In reality, here is the full list of countries for whom the argument that fiscal irresponsibility led to the euro crisis makes any sense at all: Greece.

Updates on evaluating privatization of public schools; engineers' class action against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe; and how in the US, home ownership gives way to renting.

Government intervention can be a big success, as Paul Krugman explains.