Inflation

A government by and for plutocrats wants to define millions of people out of poverty using statistical sleight of hand.

Economics professor Gerald Epstein explains why Trump's economic policies will ultimately be extremely disruptive.

Self-managed job guarantee programs empower workers, raise wages and can free labor from Wall Street control.

Capitalist philanthropy is a way for capitalism to maintain itself while giving the impression that its the solution to its own inequities.

Venezuela can turn its economy around without a prolonged recession. The hardest adjustments have already happened.

I believe that Trump's candidacy offers the possibility for a new discourse of hope, of sustained criticism.

Critics may disapprove of the helicopter money option, but the market evidently approves.

Paul Craig Roberts, a former undersecretary of the US Treasury, discusses how indebted countries are forced to accept austerity.

Just in time for Halloween, the specter of a nation-paralyzing debt crisis threatens to rise once again from the crypt of bad ideas.

The Fed should require solid evidence that inflation poses a threat before it tries to slow the economy.