The Nation Indicators

• Why Not Tax Wall Street?

  Corporate Responsibility & Accountability

  William Greider: In Washington, big ideas for financial reform are suddenly gaining momentum.

• Green Jobs for Recovery

  U.S. Economy

  Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Clean-energy sectors, which hold the promise of being major engines of job growth, are creating opportunities for those communities hit hardest by the recession: low-income communities and communities of color.

• Charitable Capitalism

  U.S. Economy

  William Greider: Goldman and the other big dogs of Wall Street are afflicted with the stink of greed, having harvested swollen fortunes from the calamity they caused for the rest of the country.

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• A Post-Capitalist Future is Possible

  U.S. Economy

  Doug Henwood: The current economic crisis probably won't be the magic intervention to usher in a new era, but there are opportunities to advance the socialist cause.

• Crisis of a Gilded Age

  U.S. Economy

  Doug Henwood: Without an energized populace, expect nothing more humane than the rescue of a failing financial system.

• Our Gilded Age

  Ethical Economics

  Doug Henwood: Today's elite spend on a grand scale while pretending to be "just folks."