Economy

As Iu2019ve gotten older, Iu2019ve become more and more convinced that we get where we are because of luck as much as anything else, in the business world as …

Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update and responds to listeners in this segment.

President Obama raised the pressure on Congressional Republicans, and asked business groups to help avoid another economic crisis.

The idea that wealthy business owners are the sole source of jobs in our economy is just one big lie.

Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system.

One way the top 1 percent is trying to ease concerns about inequality is pretending that our safety net is too generous to the bottom 1 percent.

Let's analyze our current economic situation vis-u00e0-vis a simple example that cuts through all the arguments and charts and statistics and gets to the heart of the matter.

This is big money using money to influence the government to give them even more money.

In almost every part of the country, entire neighborhoods are drowning in debt, victims of Wall Streetu2019s reckless and predatory lending practices.

Inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez reveal the biggest gap between rich and poor ever recorded by economists