Worker-owned and -managed businesses combine the romance of entrepreneurship with solid family values and commitment to community. What's not to like?...
Emily Goligoski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact
The International Museum of Women exhibit Economica manages to humanize the impact of policymakers' and institutional decisions by inviting women to tell their stories themselves.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
Americans still don't quite get it. There is no vote, quick resolution, or unitary policy that will "solve" China. That allows it to linger as a concern, but not to shape action.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
China is emerging as the new power in the global economic pantheon, and their embrace of Russia is a clear sign that they wish to become less engaged with the U.S. rather than more.
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Countries like Brazil are now in a position to compete successfully in the athletic events that comprise the Games, and also to provide the venue for the competition.
Barry D. Wood | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
Four broad messages emerged last week from the annual gathering in Istanbul of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, including that the worst of the financial crisis is behind us.
Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
Were he alive today, I have no doubt Gandhi would be utterly appalled at the direction the world and his own country India have taken.
Maria Eitel | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
For the first time in its five-year history, CGI included a cross-cutting focus called "Investing in Girls and Women." Now this isn't a total win. That said, this is an enormous step in the right direction.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
Though we should work together with other nations, per Obama's speech today, we need to be changing priorities right here at home too -- and that starts with tackling a half trillion dollar military budget.
Jake Colvin | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
President Obama and Congress must make sure that U.S. climate policy efforts encourage other countries to reduce their carbon emissions and spur global demand for U.S. clean energy technologies.
AP | By STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AP) -- A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Gol...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Just as in his health care speech tonight, Obama must soon address the fundamental threat to our security that can no longer be ignored.
The Guardian | Kathryn Hopkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Britain's employers are reporting improved recruitment plans for the first time in three years, offering a "glimmer of hope" to jobseekers in the run-...
Business Standard | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
Data from the US -- rising unemployment, falling household consumption, still declining industrial production, and a weak housing market -- suggest th...
Economist | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business
Asia's emerging economies are leading the way out of recession; now they must make their recovery last...
Maria Eitel | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
Studies have shown that up to 46 percent of women in developing countries have experienced at least one episode of sexual abuse in childhood.
Financial Times | Kate Mackenzie | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business
The world economy cannot sustain any further rise in the oil price, the International Energy Agency's chief economist warned as oil prices rose toward...
Michael Pento | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
It is increased production and decreased consumption that we need. We need to boost savings and pay down our debt.
Bloomberg | Rebecca Keenan | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business
The global economy is still in a recession that won't end until the end of the year, said Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who predi...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama put forward his top economic officials on Monday to try to reassure China that the U.S. will not let huge bu...
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
PARIS — French factory workers angry over layoffs and cost cuts locked up their bosses at a Michelin tire plant and a U.S.-owned cigarette-paper...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reached out to Gulf Arab leaders Tuesday, stressing to some of America's ...
Walden Bello | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Government must step in to remedy the failure of the market. This is, of course, the great lesson that Keynes imparted.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.
Christiana Wyly | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Greening all of the world's businesses and our consumer habits through the economic signals of the marketplace will not change the energy base of civilization from fossil fuel.
NANCY FOLBRE | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business