Economy

An engineer analyzes the US economy in several aspects, including consumer and national debt; free trade versus fair trade; and economic reforms, proposing recommendations for the failing economy.

Richard Eskow: We're demanding sacrifice from the middle class - pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn't too big to fail.

Obama is expected to sign a directive ordering to start putting spending cuts into effect.

Paul Krugman: I guess I'm such a big guy that I'm an orthodoxy all by myself.

A new investigation reveals how billionaire investors, such as Peter Peterson, have helped reshape the national debate on the economy, the debt and social spending.

Corporations are taking a much bigger slice of total income, and are showing little inclination to invest it.

Indian physicist and philosopher, activist and ecofeminist pioneer Vandana Shiva talks with Truthout in Hawaii about GMO, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation and the primacy of …

In today's On the News segment: BP trial begins, Republicans have yet another anti-worker tactic up their sleeve, and more.

To those who would argue that the notion of a perpetual motion machine is impossible, we give you the revolving door - that ever-spinning entrance and exit between public …

James Heintz: President Obama and GOP focus on budget cutting instead of creating more employment.