Economy

We are economists who think that the economy should serve people, the planet and the future.

In today's On the News segment: More than seven million Americans are without power, Mitt Romney campaign is trying to deceive voters in swing-state Wisconsin, The Spanish economy continues …

Plain and simple, the mechanisms by which we the people can control our democracy are being destroyed one-by-one.

You'd think Jamie Dimon's track record would inspire a little healthy skepticism among our nation's journalists. Apparently not.

Activists and an environmental group are waging separate but parallel battles to protect 200 acres of forest with some of the last old-growth features in the surrounding area.

Paul Krugman: The true plan is to provide an economic stimulus in the form of Mr. Romneyu2019s awesome awesomeness; the cover story is his pretense of having an actual …

Economic updates include: The real-wage decline 2010-2012, more on Walmart, Greece's bailout benefits only banks. Major discussions of small versus big business in US and of role of …

In the absence of the downturn, there is no short-term deficit problem. There would be nothing for the deficit crisis industry to do.

Let's start by aggressively framing the status quo as the outrage that it is.

The activists hope the action will have the potential of growing into a powerful European-like movement capable of changing social policy on a national level.