Economy

Will the Democrats Continue Their Rightward Turn or Start Working for the 99%?

By Michael Hudson / Michael Hudson's blog

If Elizabeth Warren doesn't make it onto the Senate Banking Committee, that's a pretty clear sign.

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Shameless Disaster Capitalism: How Companies Are Already Planning to Get Rich Off Superstorm Sandy

By Naomi Klein / The Nation

If We Call Obama "Progressive," Are We Ignoring His Record?

By Amy Goodman, Tavis Smiley, Cornel West / Democracy Now

How America Is Turning into a 3rd World Nation in 4 Easy Steps

By Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks / Thomhartmann.com

Occupy to Buy Up and Relieve People's Debt?

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

8 Reasons Wall Street Greed Is the Cause, and the Solution, To Phony Fiscal Cliff Crisis

Cornel West to Economists: 'Wake Up From Your Mechanistic, Cartesian Dream!'

9 Greedy CEOs Trying to Shred the Safety Net While Pigging Out on Corporate Welfare

Economy

Bill Moyers: What Election 2012 Reveals About America and Its Shifting Racial Faultlines

Bill Moyers, Bob Herbert, Reihan Salam / BillMoyers.com

Obama Throws Down Gauntlet to GOP on Fiscal Cliff: 'Extend Middle-Class Tax Cuts Now'

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

How The Media's Recent Defense of Using "Illegal Immigrant" Misses an Entire History

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Wall Street's Plan to Push Obama to Betray Those Who Elected Him

William K. Black / Benzinga

It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic's Journey to Mindfulness

Rachel Neumann / AlterNet

Populist Revolution? How a Bold New Voter Coalition Can Reshape the Nation

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

Obama Sends Up Trial Balloon on Social Security Cuts Through Lying Citigroup Bankster

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

The People Who Elected Obama Don't Want Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Is Our Future Going to Be Keeping Rich People Happy in a Servant Economy?

Sam Pizzigati / AlterNet

Myth Romney's Big Propaganda About Taxes

Larry Beinhart / AlterNet

Did Mitt Romney Profit From Corruption, Fraud and Racketeering at Bain Capital?

Rmuse / PoliticusUSA

5 Disturbing Signs Romney Would Steer Us to Towards a Capitalist Dictatorship

Juan Cole / Informed Comment

What if Liberals and Progressives Could Learn to Talk to White Southern Men?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

California Voters: What You Need to Know About Important State Ballot Initiatives

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Surprise! Evangelicals Were Once Radical Economic Populists Who Planted the Seeds of Our Own Struggles Against the 1%

William Hogeland / University of Texas Press

Let's Call the "Grand Bargain" What It Is: The Grand Betrayal of the American People

Bill Black / Huffington Post

No Conspiracy Theory -- A Small Group of Companies Have Enormous Power Over the World

Andrew Gavin Marshall / Andrewgavinmarshall.com

Marijuana Prohibition Is Hanging on by Its Final Thread -- There's a Bright Future on the Horizon

Doug Fine / AlterNet

Liberal Berkeley May Fine Homeless $75 for Sitting Down

Christopher D. Cook / AlterNet

No Shame: Understanding Romney's Latest Lie About Jeep and His History of Outrageous Lies

Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

The Significance of Jerry Tucker

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Fernando E. Gapasin / AlterNet

6 Top Economists Explain Which President Is More Likely to Speed the Next Financial Crisis

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Where Did Paul Ryan Find Inspiration for 'Reforming' Social Security? A Brutal Military Dictatorship, Naturally

Bruce Wilson / AlterNet

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Both Believe Crazy Idea That Government Doesn't Create Jobs

Les Leopold / AlterNet

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