Economy

Paul Krugman: We've entered a looking-glass world in which virtue is vice and prudence is folly, and in which doing the responsible thing is a recipe for economic failure.

Michael Winship: When did we stop being citizens and become merely consumers?

Whatever their justification, the shocking fact is that the average CEO in 2012 earned 354 times more than the average worker.

Republicans say fixing our infrastructure is just u201cmore government spending.u201d

Paul Krugman: The problem with Ireland's gross national product accounting is bigger than realized.

Is it possible that the fight against Monsanto could be a tipping point in the battle against corporate greed?

The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. But it's actually much worse.

The Jamie Dimon story shows that something more fundamental needs repair u2013 in our economy, in our society, in us.

Having weak parts of the JP Morgan operation subject to tougher board oversight is a far cry from having an independent chairman, but it is still a clipping of …

Two charts show that beyond Apple there are plenty more American companies that continue to increase their offshore holdings.