Economy

When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Wage theft is fast becoming a top trend of the 21st-century labor market.

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Austerity Brings Unemployment to New Highs in Spain and France - So Why Do Pols Keep Pushing It in the U.S.?

By Kenneth Thomas / Middle Class Political Economist

Europe's Harsh Austerity Policies Are Leaving Domestic Violence Victims Stranded

By Claudia Ciobanu / Inter Press Service

Matt Taibbi on Wall Street's Astronomical "Space-Age Stealing"

AlterNet

Neoliberal Self-Parody: Slate's Matt Yglesias Glibly Reacts to Bangladesh Factory Collapse

By Justin Doolittle / Daily Kos

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Cornel West Warns of Rising Authoritarianism: “You Can Get Killed Out Here Trying to Tell the Truth!”

WATCH: Stewart Ridicules Obama for Apparent Cluelessness on Administration's Latest Scandals

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Economy

Discredited Harvard Austerity-Pushers Reinhart and Rogoff Keep Lying to Protect Themselves

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

Pilots and Professors Barely Scraping By? 9 Surprising Jobs That Pay a Pittance

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Erskine Bowles Dismisses Facts on Deficits. Perhaps Because He Collects Millions for Deceiving the Public?

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

'A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility': Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution

Gar Alperovitz / Chelsea Green Publishing

Plummeting Gold Prices Won't Stop Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck's Sponsors from Trying To Sell You More

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Get Ready for Higher Prices and Less Energy Security: Our Natural Gas Reserves Are Being Plundered For Export

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

'Free Market' Ayn Rand Ideology Was a Root Cause of the Horrific Explosion in Texas

Jim White / Empty Wheel

Billions of Corporate Dollars Are Hijacking University Research to Help Make Profits

Joaquin Palomino / East Bay Express

Why the Austerity 'Spreadsheet Scandal' Should Kill Obama's Social Security Cut

Richard (RJ) Eskow / Blog for Our Future

Economic Slowdown Coming - Even for the Fatcats

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

How Capitalism Is Dismembering America

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Unbelievable! Bowles and Simpson Release New Deficit-Reduction Plan Based on Discredited Austerity Research

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Are the Banks Already Orchestrating Another Meltdown?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

America's New Math: 1 Wall Street Hour = 21 Years of Hard Work For the Rest of Us

Les Leopold / AlterNet

4 Recent Victories for the Common Good

David Morris / On the Commons

Why American CEOs Get Paid Way More Than CEOs Anywhere Else (Hint: It's Not Performance Based)

Dean Baker / Smirking Chimp

Meet the 28-year-old Student Who Exposed Two Harvard Professors Whose Shoddy Research Drove Global Austerity

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

American Right-Wingers Are No Longer Conservative — They're Extremists

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Bitcoin: Currency Revolution or Bubblicious Fad?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

How To Get Filthy Rich in Obamaworld

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Robert Reich is a Good Man But He Falls Into the Austerity Trap

William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

Kardashian Kapture: Where Can We Find Stories of Ordinary People Facing Real Problems?

Kelly Huddleston / AlterNet

Social Security Cuts Are Inexcusable

Jeff Madrick / Next New Deal

Nobel Prize-Winner Joe Stiglitz Blasts America's 1 Percent-Coddling Tax System

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

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