Economy

Dean Baker: Almost all the people in either political party who are taken seriously in the current budget debate can put into either the denier or terrorist camp.

Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika - the EU, ECB and IMF.

Promoters of this hyper-capitalism, who dominate the U.S. media debate, simply blame the poor for poverty.

My seven-year-old daughter’s new favorite song is, no joke, “Banks of Marble,” sung by Pete Seeger.

The world of organized sports is a microcosm of corporations vs. workers and community. This meme can also be exploited to our benefit.

The bankruptcy declaration of Mondragu00f3n Corporation's major subsidiary, Fagor Electrodomu00e9sticos Group, illustrates the need for large-scale cooperatives to go beyond competition in the existing economic system and begin to …

Paul Krugman shares his thoughts on Janet Yellen for the Federal Reserve and the recipients of the 2013 Nobel Prize for economics.

Republicans would rather pad the wallets of the wealthy elite than put food on the tables of America's most needy and vulnerable.

Updates on Goldman Sachs charity/PR, bank scandals, housing ‘recovery’ exposed, suicides rise in Kansas and a Benedictine Nun leading a new anti-austerity party in Catalonia.

The American people pay a similar amount for social services as citizens of European countries with supposedly lavish social safety nets.