Economy

In today's On the News segment: The Libor rate-fixing scandal could grow, Rick Perry announces he will refuse to cover 1.2 million more low-income Texans, Democrats are fighting back …

The troika's attack on Greek sovereignty recalls the devastation of the Fourth Crusade, but there is an honorable way to resolve Greece's debt crisis.

Politicians in both London and Washington are questioning whether regulators allowed banks to report false rates in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis and afterward.

So why the sense that macroeconomics is a mess? Iu2019d say that itu2019s essentially political.

By now, weu2019ve all heard about the growing disparity between rich and poor u2014 and most of us have felt the effects. This chart, posted by Colin Gordon of …

The European Union summit in June was clearly an upside surprise: in effect, the Latin bloc forced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to bend, at least slightly. But was it …

One of the most talked about new ideas for raising revenue is the financial transactions tax (FTT).

The structural reform now being discussed in Europe would mean an even more neoliberal agenda.

Real GDP and job creation were both stronger when the top tax rate was higher.

President Barack Obama Monday urged Congress to extend for one year Bush-era tax cuts for anyone earning less than $250,000—a plan that reinforces already sharply-drawn battle lines between and …