Economy

Why Are Stores Charging Customers to Browse?

By Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Two very different retailers take heat for -- really -- asking customers to pay to shop.

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Walmart's Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA)

By Stacy Mitchell / AlterNet

Senate Unanimously Votes Against Cuts to Social Security, Media Don't Notice

By Dean Baker / Beat the Press

9 Disturbing Facts About the Crazy Economics of Spring Break

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality in America -- The Contrasts Will Drop Your Chin to the Floor

By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

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Economy

Bill Moyers: Are the Monster Banks on the Verge of Unleashing Fresh Economic Disaster?

Bill Moyers / Moyers & Company

Cyprus Fallout: Is Your Money Safer in a Mattress?

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table

Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

6 Ways the 7th Richest Man in America Has Screwed the Poor

Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

Outrageous: David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Bye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Spin Alert! Slate's Matthew Yglesias Gets It All Wrong on Cyprus

William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

One Reason GOP Loves the Sequester: It Punishes Union Workers

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Cyprus: Could it Happen Here?

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

How the True Parasites from the Private Sector Suck the System Dry

Michael Lind / Salon

How Student Loans Are Keeping You Out Of The Middle Class

Zach Duffy / Campus Progress

Can the GOP Rebrand Itself as a Responsible Center-Right Party?

Dan Berger / AlterNet

Hidden Victim of Austerity: State Universities That Educate Our Children

Peter Temin / AlterNet

David Brooks vs. Progressives: Genteel Ignorance as Economic Warfare

Richard (RJ) Eskow / Campaign for America's Future

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Jamie Dimon, Wall Street’s Golden Boy

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Atlanta Housing Activists Retake House For Senior Evicted After Needless Foreclosure

Shabnam Bashiri / AlterNet

Rich CEOs Trying to Pay Even LESS in Taxes

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

What Recovery? Across America, People in Distressed Cities and Small Towns Face Economic Catastrophe

Louis Ferleger, Jacob M. Magid / AlterNet

The 21st-Century Version of Slavery Is Widespread In America

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Republicans: There's No Debt Crisis, We Just Want to Screw the Poor

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

7 Things You Need to Know About the Shocking Cyprus Bailout Crisis That Has Everyone Freaked Out

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

10 Crazy Things Heard at CPAC, the Giant Right-Wing Confab

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Hell Breaks Loose in Europe as Banking Crisis Unfolds: Depositors' Money May Be Seized

Edward Harrison / Credit Writedowns

Sen. Ted Cruz: 'Count Me as a Proud Wacko Bird'

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Bombshell: Senator Sherrod Brown Questions Obama Nominee on Too-Big-to-Jail Banks

Pam Martens / Wall Street on Parade

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