Economy

Why Economic Criminals View Bangladesh as a Model for Workers Everywhere

By William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

Low wages and horrible conditions are just dandy in the neoclassical economic textbook.

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Theft is Legal for Big Banks- and Your Money Will Never Be Safe

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

How Two Secretive Global Trade Deals Will Further Enrich the American Elite

By Dean Baker / Al Jazeera English

Finally Austerity Is Being Broadly Exposed for Its Abject Failure

By Alex Gourevitch / Jacobin

6 Insidious Ways You’re Getting Ripped Off, and How to Fight Back

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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

Shocker: Republicans Fight Obama Plan to Privatize the Hugely Popular, Cheap Energy Source of the TVA

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

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Economy

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

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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

Kenneth Thomas / Middle Class Political Economist

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

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

Justin Doolittle / Daily Kos

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

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