Nation Topics - Economic Policy | The Nation

The threatened government shutdown was averted, but Democrats agreed to $38 billion in budget cuts. Here's what we'll see in the next negotiations.

The argument that tax cuts to wealthy will create jobs doesn't make sense.

Despite all the talk of shared sacrifice, the drastic slashes to public sector jobs and social programs will hurt women the most.

How can the pro-worker movement born in the streets of Madison be nurtured into a national force?

Deficit mania is built on a series of destructive neoliberal myths.

David Cameron’s coalition is prescribing the economic policy equivalent of leeches.

The government is making life immeasurably harder for some of the country’s poorest people.

Second-lien debt could be a greater threat to bank solvency than the subprime disaster of 2008.

In Wisconsin and elsewhere, attacks on unions aren’t about budget savings. They're about dismantling the final barrier to the domination of American politics by the power of money.

For the condo-buying, sushi-eating Beltway elite, the recession is over. For the rest of America—not so much.