Economy

This episode looks at low Irish taxes on corporations, interns fighting back, and more.

Since CEOs are among the very top earners in the US economy, reductions in their pay will have a substantial impact on wage inequality.

Central banks that have pursued quantitative easing have done so despite political pressure, not because of it, and fiscal austerity has been imposed almost everywhere.

In today's On the News segment: There's a new price tag for buying control of the US Senate, and more.

This episode looks at election results, Ebola, mortgage rules, China limiting executives' pay, and more.

Albrecht Ritschl, professor of economic history, discusses Germany's unpaid war debts and reparations to Greece from World War II.

What we need to imagine, I think, is a new kind of “prosperity” - one that combines a carefully limited consumption of nature's regenerative resources with a robust consumption …

President Obama can rightly say that he inherited a mess from his predecessor, but at some point that does get old.

In today's On the News segment: Children remain “the most enduring victims” of the recession, and more.

This episode looks at how public higher education is being destroyed; workers not taking days off; labor actions and Vermont labeling GMO food.