Economy

Updates on G8 and Bernanke

Updates on pay gaps, Alabama bankruptcy, Minnesota lockout, Greek lockout. Discussions of capitalism and democracy,

As the Big Finance capitalism and fossil fuel systems fail and resources become ever scarcer, we will be forced to change our way of life. People are already designing …

ObamaCare uses a complex and intricate Rube Goldberg-esque system of eligibility rules.

Thom Hartmann: Just when we thought the big banks couldnu2019t hit a new low, they do.

Could Warren's bill represent the sort of game-changing thinking sorely needed to turn the economy around?

The vast majority of our fellow citizens demand a deep change while the majority of their political ‘representatives’ are apparently dead set on pursuing the same course: the self-defeating …

It seems as if the same battle is being fought in every aspect of American society ... Sadly, the classrooms of this country haven't been spared.

Austerity can inflict long-term damage on people's pockets, psyches, livelihoods and lives.

Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession.