Economy

The media routinely fail in their responsibility to report budget numbers in ways that are understandable.

High frequency trading utilizes new technologies to create an economy of speed that employs mathematics and physics to generate global markets that are neither transparent nor able to be …

If American corporations are, as the Supreme Court ruled in 2010, citizens entitled to free speech and other rights from the nation, it is unclear what corresponding obligations to …

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 …