Economy

Is Japan the country of the future again?

Should we simply let the modern-day kings, the billionaires, run things?

Conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific.

Robert Pollin: President Obama needs clear goals in order to reduce unemployment and poverty in his second term.

Americau2019s political leaders took it upon themselves to start hacking away at the federal estate tax.

Updates on Gerard Depardieu's individual tax evasion, corporate tax evasion via profit repatriation, worst CEOs of 2012, and phony DC

We the people need to take back the power to issue our own money, and we can't do it with nickels and dimes.

House Republicans said Friday that they would agree to lift the federal governmentu2019s statutory borrowing limit for three months.

Paul Krugman: Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but they will also reduce the demand for people, including smart people.

Gerald Epstein: Powerful lobbying by finance sector keeps turning regulations into Swiss cheese; there is an alternative if people fight for it.