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Germans protest TiSA

New Trade Deal Could Undermine Migrant Labor Rights New Trade Deal Could Undermine Migrant Labor Rights

And it could deregulate “white collar” jobs.

Jul 29, 2015 / Michelle Chen

For Many Americans, the Great Recession Never Ended. Is the Fed About to Make It Worse?

For Many Americans, the Great Recession Never Ended. Is the Fed About to Make It Worse? For Many Americans, the Great Recession Never Ended. Is the Fed About to Make It Worse?

Why it’s a mistake for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year.

Jul 28, 2015 / Connie M. Razza

Uber Taxi

Uber Wins a Battle With New York, Now It’s War Uber Wins a Battle With New York, Now It’s War

The fight over NYC’s Uber cap is just the beginning of a deeper struggle over the future of transportation and the gig economy.

Jul 24, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Lloyd Blankfein

Is Goldman Sachs Partly to Blame for Greece’s Debt Crisis? Is Goldman Sachs Partly to Blame for Greece’s Debt Crisis?

The bank should be held morally accountable for its risky deal-making, says Reich. Nonsense, says Cohan—that's “populist demagoguery.”

Jul 23, 2015 / OpinionNation / William D. Cohan and Robert B. Reich

Dodd-Frank Signing

Five Years After Dodd-Frank, ‘It’s Still a Financial System That Needs Reform’ Five Years After Dodd-Frank, ‘It’s Still a Financial System That Needs Reform’

A conversation with a former lawmaker who championed many of the law’s most significant provisions.

Jul 23, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Scott Walker speaks at an inauguration ceremony at the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin.

Scott Walker Is Trolling Us Scott Walker Is Trolling Us

Sports as political money laundering is nothing new. But it's difficult to think of an example as brazen as Scott Walker's stadium deal for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Jul 22, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Capitol One Bank

Dodd-Frank Needs 3 Big Things to Be Finished Dodd-Frank Needs 3 Big Things to Be Finished

The financial reforms of 2010 did some real good, but the law hasn’t been fully implemented yet.

Jul 21, 2015 / George Zornick

Homeless children in New York City

How to Revive Progressive-Era Economics for the New Gilded Age How to Revive Progressive-Era Economics for the New Gilded Age

How do we fight concentrations of private corporate power? By studying how they did it last time.

Jul 21, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / K. Sabeel Rahman

Puerto Rico debt crisis

How Hedge and Vulture Funds Have Exploited Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis How Hedge and Vulture Funds Have Exploited Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis

For this island teetering on bankruptcy, debt renegotiation is imminent—but on whose terms?

Jul 21, 2015 / Ed Morales

Grexit

How Can Greece Break Out of the Austerity Trap? How Can Greece Break Out of the Austerity Trap?

Whether it leaves or stays under the yoke of the German-led technocracy, Athens will need to find an alternative path to recovery.

Jul 20, 2015 / Michelle Chen

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