Economy

Comment: Andrea Hektor

Facing a fake clinic escort in NYC

Anti-choice bigots are pretending to be escorts in front of women's clinics, and they can't be allowed to spread their lies. April 12, 2017
Analysis: Lance Selfa

Has Trump made the economy great again?

The stock market has been on a tear since the election, but that doesn't mean the economy is poised for takeoff, with plenty of jobs, as Trump promised. March 27, 2017
Analysis: Neil Loehlein

The rise of the bad jobs economy

Work with irregular hours, variable earnings and temporary status is becoming more common than ever--and it's fueling working-class discontent. February 27, 2017
Analysis: Vincent DeCesare

Looking out for number 1 Percent

Donald Trump won votes by promising to create jobs, but his economic agenda will ultimately make him even more unpopular. January 26, 2017
Analysis: Brian Parkin

What happened after the oil price crash?

Two years after the oil price crash, some certainties remain: a world of environmental chaos and oil-fuelled imperialist conflict. January 4, 2017
Analysis: Sharon Smith

Still caught in the can't-catch-up economy

The media seized on a Census Bureau report to declare that "America got a raise" in 2015--but a closer look at the numbers tells another story. September 26, 2016
Review: Leela Yellesetty

The canyon between the rich and the rest of us

A new book by Michael Yates that takes stock of the human cost of inequality concludes that as bad as we think it is, the reality is worse. August 23, 2016
Comment: Joe Sabatini

How the ruling class rules

The Panama Papers offer a glimpse into the methods used by the rich to maintain their wealth and power over the rest of us. April 14, 2016
Comment: Eric Ruder

Capital crimes from Panama to Delaware

The shadowy world of tax shelters and shell corporations stretches to the U.S.--and most of it is perfectly legal, despite the deadly consequences. April 11, 2016
Review: Jason Farbman

A casino where the rest of us lose

The success of the movie The Big Short has focused attention on Michael Lewis' book and its explanation of Wall Street's crimes. March 9, 2016
Comment: Leela Yellesetty

The ugly secret hidden behind Seattle's boom

Growing prosperity for some in Seattle has come at the expense of desperation for others, including a state of emergency around homelessness. February 24, 2016
Analysis: Lee Sustar

Can the U.S. escape the slump?

Unemployment is at its lowest level since the Great Recession struck, but that doesn't mean the U.S. is immune to the global slowdown. February 11, 2016
Comment: Tom Bramble

The economic crisis and political polarization

Almost a decade after the Great Recession, the world economy remains in a weakened state, and that has fed political instability. February 8, 2016
Analysis: Eric Ruder

What you need to know about the oil price war

The impact of falling demand and increasing supply is driving the price of oil down far and fast--with devastating and unlooked-for consequences. February 1, 2016
Comment: Tom Bramble

The rise of the 0.0001 percent

Forget about the 1 Percent for a minute--let’s look at the filthiest of the filthy rich and see how they get their wealth. November 4, 2015
Analysis: Eric Toussaint

The reign of the Bankocracy goes on

While workers pay the price for the last crisis caused by the 1 Percent, governments are doing nothing to stop the next one. October 14, 2015
Analysis: Lance Selfa

The feel-lousy economy

The government's official statistics show that the U.S. economy is performing decently. So why does it feel like it's all bad news to workers? October 6, 2015
Comment: Tyler Zimmer

VW chose profit over the planet

Volkswagen got caught--but it's not the first and won't be the last corporation to pursue profit with a sociopathic intensity. October 1, 2015
Analysis: Lee Sustar

From a weak recovery to a new recession?

Working people were already left behind in the U.S. economic recovery--but conditions may be headed from bad to worse. September 30, 2015
Analysis: Lee Sustar

What's driving the world toward a new slump?

From Europe to China to the U.S., the problems in the world economy today are rooted in the capitalist system itself. September 29, 2015
Analysis: Lee Sustar

Are we headed for another crash?

The turmoil on international stock markets is a warning sign that the world economy is headed for trouble--and the U.S. economy isn't immune. September 28, 2015
Comment: Allen Myers

Capitalism is a waste

The celebrated pursuit of economic "efficiency" may make sense for capitalists--but it's entirely irrational for the rest of us. August 18, 2015
Comment: Lee Sustar

When Greece-style austerity spreads West

From Puerto Rico to Illinois and beyond, looming debt crises are being exploited as a justification to shred an already threadbare welfare state. August 12, 2015
Analysis: Danny Katch

The barely-getting-by economy

Six years into a supposed economic recovery, almost half of the people in the world's richest country couldn't handle a $400 emergency expense. June 30, 2015
Analysis: David Judd and Zakiya Khabir

Class, capitalism and the tech industry

The tech industry has constructed a series of myths that obscure the realities of class power, exploitation and oppression. June 24, 2015

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