Nation Topics - Economics | The Nation

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would grant enormous new powers to corporations, is a massive assault on democracy.

Bain Capital is part of a system that enriches Wall Street while impoverishing millions.

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?

How did we became a nation that fails to help its most needy citizens, and what can be done?

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

Is the current financial crisis a problem of liquidity or one of solvency?

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

How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks.