Goldman's Profits Come from Our Pockets: Why We Need a Tobin Tax
While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.
While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
If Democrats have deeply-held convictions on how to act to bolster the economy and stem the downward trend in unemployment, they ought to act on them and put some real leadership behind the effort.
Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Recession ending? Don't bet on it.
New York Times | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
The consensus among economists is that the recession is over, and, technically, the herd is probably right. Corporate profitability has been boosted b...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Rather than do what is right, Republicans did what was politically convenient, twice blocking the unemployment extension last week in an effort to derail other economic recovery programs.
Diane Francis | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Dr. Bhagwati fleshes out his prescriptions for the world economy and also provides his take on what he calls the "Wall Street Treasury Complex," the cause of the latest economic catastrophe.
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...
Paul A. London | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
History-blind conservatives scare the country by saying that creating more money is a slippery slope to runaway inflation. This is not so. The real danger is the opposite.
Yahoo! News | Sven Egenter | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
GENEVA (Reuters) �" Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world's most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking ...
Dean Baker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Members of Congress would be foolish to ignore the projections provided by the CBO, however they would be irresponsible if they treated this analysis as the final word.
New York Times | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York
Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing proje...
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
To the extent that the Clunkers program gave Americans a reason to believe that things can return to normal and to that the government has a handle on recovery, it was a pretty good investment.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion – more than the sum of all pre...
Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
If enough Boomers left the job market, it would flip the current dynamic of too-many-people-chasing-too-few-jobs upside down, and create a tight labor markets.
AP | KEN THOMAS and DAN STRUMPF | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood assured car dealers Wednesday that they will be reimbursed for sales made under the Cash for Cl...
Michael Markarian | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
By encouraging affordable pet care, the bill not only promotes animal health and well-being, as well as our well-being, but could also help to stimulate the economy.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
Full implementation of AB 32 will dramatically expand the promising figures already displayed by the growth in green jobs and venture capital in the clean energy economy.
Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
How can we carry out important national missions such as health care reform and energy reform when nearly 30 million workers are effectively unemployed?
Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Fundamental problems are not being resolved, but rather papered over: the excess debt of low quality, excess speculation in the financial markets and mushrooming debt and deficits.
Chris Gunn | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business
When small businesses thrive, our economy grows. Yet today, millions of these businesses are being threatened by the very plan that was supposedly intended to help them.
Reuters | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of jobs created or saved by infrastructure projects funded by the U.S. economic stimulus plan more than doubled in J...
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
It takes time for labor unemployment to go down, but there is now a lot of slack capacity and eventually that slack capacity will be priced appropriately and then, finally, consumers will spend.
Michael Likosky | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
If the TARP banks are to be a main investment vehicle for the next stage of recovery -- as they should be, it is after all our money not theirs -- it is heartening to have Obama at the helm.
Jodie Allen | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
The consensus of economic wisdom now informs us that we are facing a jobless recovery. That might not be so bad if it hadn't been preceded by a long period of poorly paid prosperity.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
California's economy is in free fall. This appears to be of little concern to Governor Schwarzenegger, who instead prefers to focus his energy, attention and political capital on the ballooning state budget.
Ellen Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business