America is suffering. She is, however, afflicted with an avoidable condition she brought on herself, like a hangover. Only this one's interminable and internationally contagious.

The market will discover it's bottom, no matter what the Fed or Treasury does. But this could have been prevented. And don't let a single damned politician say it couldn't have.

70 percent of the US economy has been dependent on consumer purchasing to sustain economic growth. The portion of workers in the US who do not have a college education is also 70 percent.

A moral economy recognizes that all people in this country are interconnected, because we are all part of the same social and political system.

The government and corporate world aren't the only ones in the US who need to clean up their acts and step up their games... so do millions of young people.

Jeffrey E. Garten, a professor at the Yale School of Management, had a piece in The Financial Times last week arguing for the need for a Global Moneta...

The question that keeps coming back to me is: why are no capitalist big-shots jumping out of windows?

In the rush to globalization, the United States has tossed aside a crucial principle that guided the economic prosperity of the twentieth century: co...

Fewer people are paying their credit card bills on time. And more are using high-interest credit card cash to pay at least part of their mortgages instead of the other way around.