Economy

A North Carolina company was sold to its 320 workers; India enables cheap substitutes for overpriced drugs; updates on US union membership in 2013; the myth of returning manufacturing …

Art Wilmarth thinks it's important to understand exactly what went wrong at what was, relatively recently, Americau2019s largest bank.

Paul Krugman: “France, like much of Europe, seems to be flirting with deflation and very much at risk of falling into a scenario similar to that of Japan.”

A paradigm shift is taking place. It is coming from the awareness that all of our crises are connected to an economy rigged for the wealthiest.

Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that if you concentrate wealth at the top, there's not enough purchasing power to make the rest of the system work.

Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee announced a new initiative that he says is the key to the state's economic future and a safe bet: funding the arts.

The Forum has focused on income inequality, the impacts of low economic growth and climate change.

Paul Krugman: “If progress against poverty has been disappointing over the past half century, the reason is not the decline of the family, but the rise of extreme inequality.”

Paul Krugman: "One way to describe the American economy in 2013 is to say that it was, in effect, trying to begin a strong recovery, but was held back …

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders proposes restoring money in the budget for military pensions by using war funding, and giving us a true cost of war at the same time.