The Housing Bubble Pops The Housing Bubble Pops
To solve the subprime mortgage crisis, start with aid for vulnerable homeowners, smarter economic policies and a more competent Federal Reserve Board.
Sep 13, 2007 / Editorial / Dean Baker
Perishable Goods Perishable Goods
A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.
Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
The Fed Won’t Help the Working Class The Fed Won’t Help the Working Class
By pumping more money into the economy to bail out hedge funds and subprime lenders, the Federal Reserve will only worsen inflation's bite into average Americans' paychecks.
Aug 31, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Travails of the Super-Rich Travails of the Super-Rich
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
Aug 31, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Big Brother Democracy Big Brother Democracy
Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.
Aug 23, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein
Smashing Capitalism Smashing Capitalism
The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.
Aug 20, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
The NAFTA Superhighway The NAFTA Superhighway
The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse governmen...
Aug 9, 2007 / Feature / Chris Hayes
Inflation’s Undertow Inflation’s Undertow
Stop the rejoicing about the rise in the minimum wage. Thanks to inflation, the prosperity of the working poor and the middle class is at real and rising risk.
Aug 3, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
The New Bipartisan Capitalism The New Bipartisan Capitalism
A new study addressing the plight the American worker in a global economy tries to solve economic inequity through tax policy rather than systemic change. A much broader vision is ...
Jul 31, 2007 / Editorial / Daniel Morris
The Bloatocrats The Bloatocrats
The New York Times turns a spotlight on the super-rich who veil their affluence in assertions of the good that they do. It makes Gordon Gekko's naked greed look good.
Jul 27, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman