The New Gold Standard: Jobs The New Gold Standard: Jobs
Keeping labor costs down used to be the standard to measure productivity. Now, it's all about creating jobs--and we can't afford to wait for the private sector to provide them.
Feb 10, 2009 / Feature / Ken Miller
Angry America and the Bailout Angry America and the Bailout
As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...
Feb 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
No Oversight: Fed Gives Away Trillions No Oversight: Fed Gives Away Trillions
Since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has expanded by $1.2 trillion with little oversight.
Feb 9, 2009 / Video / American News Project
Rejecting Republican Know-Nothings Rejecting Republican Know-Nothings
After reviewing the arguments Senate Republicans are making for their intransigence on the stimulus bill, Maddow counters with the hard economic facts.
Feb 9, 2009 / Video / The Rachel Maddow Show
Save the Solis Nomination Save the Solis Nomination
Labor secretary-designee Hilda Solis is not a toxic asset in the Obama personnel portfolio. The GOP is wrong to equate her husband's tax dispute with the infractions of high roller...
Feb 9, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols
Paul Krugman: GOP Is Led by Limbaugh Paul Krugman: GOP Is Led by Limbaugh
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman defends Obama's stimulus package and paints Republicans as obstructionists.
Settling Scores With Wall Street Settling Scores With Wall Street
A lot of angry people in America are lusting to bring Wall Street geniuses who engineered the financial collapse to justice. And they just might succeed.
Feb 5, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Protest at UNLV Protest at UNLV
Thousands of students in Nevada are being radicalized due to draconian budget cuts in state education funding.
Feb 5, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation
Say No to Nukes in the Stimulus Package Say No to Nukes in the Stimulus Package
The nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion bomb into the Senate version of Obama's stimulus package for projects Wall Street wouldn't finance when it was flush.
Feb 5, 2009 / Feature / Harvey Wasserman
The Nation’s Chris Hayes on Gary Gensler The Nation’s Chris Hayes on Gary Gensler
Nation editor Chris Hayes examines the record of Obama's CFTC pick Gary Gensler and the rest of the president's economic team.