Economy

The World Bank is driving the inequality that is a defining problem of our times through its “Doing Business” rankings and criteria.

Sixteen of the world's largest banks have been caught colluding to rig global interest rates. Why are we doing business with a corrupt global banking cartel?

Rising inequality in the United States means the assumption by many American's that their country is the “best” is patently false.

I do think that the very real conflict between what's good for oligarchs and what's good for the economy is, indirectly, having a powerful effect in distorting the debate.

Updates on public power in Nebraska; Earth Day; Coca Cola's misleading advertisement; closing hospitals; and more.

Study: Those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death.

There's now a full-court press of the usual suspects claiming that the recovery in Britain proves that fiscal austerity isn't contractionary after all, that the International Monetary Fund had …

Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.

Earlier this month, Senate Republicans unanimously blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act and upheld a boss's right to punish workers for talking about unfair pay practices, and more.

Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …