Through decades of violence, derision, arrests, intimidation, our progressive ancestors never gave into despair and defeatism. We should take their example to heart.
Andrew Reinbach | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
Since the likelihood of more federal stimulus packages is low -- unless they're called something like a "jobs bill" -- this will mean more pain and an even slower economy.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver
Limiting immigration to the U.S. isn't going to solve the economic circumstances that surround it. Nor will containing immigration replenish or sustain the world's limited and vanishing resources.
Rob Warmowski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
For my entire adult life, I have watched free-market fundamentalists do their thing. They demonize government, run for government, capture government, then dismantle and privatize government.
J.C. Bradbury | Posted 11.13.2009 | Sports
While it is hard to sympathize with millionaire players, it is important to understand that what players don't get goes to the owners, who are a much wealthier cohort.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
In a political system like ours dominated by big money and the lobbyists that money hires, democracy requires eternal vigilance, even in years when Democrats control of Congress and the White House.
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books
There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books
Buffett had indeed learned through experience that "when in doubt keep holding"; he said, "I've made most of my money sitting on my ass."
Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
Jim Rogers is one of the most respected investors in the world. Here's my recent interview with him about the economy and some of his recent comments in the media.
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.
Scott de Marchi | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Talk and inaction are relatively cheap for US legislators, since their own health care plan will remain the same whether or not legislation passes. Political ideas need to have a cost.
Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Local
While many of us believe that more money is a motivator, it's actually a stressor that inhibits performance.
Wall Street Journal | MARY PILON | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home
Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign den...
Randall Amster | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.
Sony Kapoor | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
The ability to generate a large body of work on matters whose importance are shrouded in mystery is a key attribute of all world-class economists, and Nobel laureates Ostrom and Williamson are in the vanguard.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA, KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — One scholar studies how best to manage resources like forests, fisheries and oilfields. A fellow American looks at why some compani...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
White people will go out of their way to avoid looking like they're picking on black people. But when it comes to, say, Hispanics, all bets are off.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
A huge swath of the American public has either not personally benefited from the stimulus package or not heard of the Obama administration's signature...
businessinsider.com | John Carney|Oct. 5, 2009, 8:58 AM |13 | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
Despite what numerous experiments by behavioral economists seem to show, people do not magically over-value stuff they just happen to already own. Wh...
D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Solomon really nailed it on the head when he wrote "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." One of the "old" things under the sun, is health care costs.
Frankie Sturm | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
The fact that economies in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere have grown since 1945 is not a sign of American decline. It's a testament to US leadership.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
The fights for financial regulation is symbolized by a phrase that the President and his economic advisors repeat too often, indicative of a much deeper problem in their thinking.
Randall Amster | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
How many plans in existence today provide coverage for midwives, naturopaths, nutritionists, masseuses, or the like?
Mike Lux | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics