Economy

Veteran activist and organizer Marshall Ganz joins Bill to discuss the power of social movements to effect meaningful change.

Just as Wall Street is now largely about ripping off suckers, the high tech world of Silicon Valley seems to have evolved into the West Coast version.

Corporations that manufacture offshore and import their own goods duty-free distort the supply chain.

Stephanie Kelton revisits the writings of Marriner Eccles, who was tapped by FDR to head the Federal Reserve, a position he held until 1948.

One of the biggest myths about the United States is that it's a mostly ‘middle class’ society, with poverty confined to a minority of the population; the reality is …

The three-month limit on SNAP benefits for unemployed childless is already harsh; imposing it even in areas where unemployment is high would be punitive.

Jack Rasmus: A closer look of the US economy over the past year (July 2012 to July 2013) reveals a longer-term trend of the US economy weakening, not growing.

An organized effort in the 1970s by what then was the extreme right wing has succeeded in making hatred of all things government, including government workers, a mainstream view.

Nona Willis Aronowitz explores the people and policies shaping the economic future of a San Jose that many cities in the Bay Area could look to as a model …

Paul Krugman: The prospect that Janet Yellen might become the next head of the Fed has driven the right into a frenzy.