Nation Topics - Economic Policy | The Nation

The Federal Reserve can grow employment tremendously, without the need for any legislation. 

In his Senate testimony, the JPMorgan CEO ludicrously defined any new trade to protect against “bad outcomes” as a hedge.

Two decades of economic growth in the US has been wiped out, but all is going swimmingly for the Fed's in-crowd.

Why are moral and political thinkers failing to engage with the true, dispiriting scale of market sovereignty?

The real problem with JPMorgan’s risky bets is that the bank is gambling with our money.

Hey, look it over—public ownership is the most effective way to fix America’s economy.

Ari Berman on Mitt Romney’s bogus job numbers.

The financial crunch has broken the illusion of stability, exposing a deeper crisis of representation.

As politicians dither, the threat of default spreads from Greece to Spain and Italy.

Spending the same money on education, or clean energy, would bring many more jobs—among other benefits.