Economy

If writers at a major newspaper can't get deficit facts straight, how can you expect ordinary voters to get it?

A final deal has been reached between Senate and President Obama in regards to the fiscal cliff, and while it is victory in some ways, it is failure …

We have enough oil and gas to burn our way to climate catastrophe, but the age of cheap oil abundance is a myth.

A strategy for change at a time when 400 Americans own more wealth than the bottom 185 million combined.

Updates on Marvins' “shared unemployment,” $4 trillion profits hoarded by US corporations, and root issues of the “fiscal cliff.” Discussion of solutions for unemployment. Responses to listeners: on pluses …

Bill Black: GOP threatens to use debt ceiling as leverage, creates conditions for more austerity measures by Obama.

After the meeting, Obama and officials at the White House appeared visibly optimistic.

Robert Pollin: The Fed breaks ground with unemployment target but pushing more money into banks without requiring more lending won't solve the problem.

Are House Republicans about to succumb to public pressure and save the nation from the fiscal cliff? Don't bet on it.

Greenspan somehow didn't recognize that the collapse of the housing bubble would devastate the economy.