Economy

Why Are Romney and Obama Tied?

By Robert Kuttner / Huffington Post

Americans need jobs, higher wages, and refinancing on their homes. And a president who can deliver.

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Romney Makes Closing Argument On The Economy At Firm That Benefited From Stimulus Funds

By Josh Dorner / Think Progress

How Billionaires Are Trying to Destroy Schools and Silence the Public in California

By Editorial Staff / AlterNet

10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America

By Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger / AlterNet

Why Big Bucks Donors Don't Want President Obama to Champion Social Security

By Dean Baker / Comment Is Free

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

10 Awful Things a President Mitt Romney Would Likely Do

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why the Protestant Work Ethic Is a Menace to Society

Robert S. Becker / AlterNet

Ryan's Prescription for the Poor: End Anti-Poverty Programs

Solange Uwimana / AlterNet

Krugman and Stiglitz: Crazy Austerity Policies Inflict Untold Damage on Economy

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The Man Who Quit Goldman Sachs and Wrote a Tell-All Book Gets Trashed by Corporate Media

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Unexpected Ways That Bicycling Is Proving a Boon for Business

Jay Walljasper / AlterNet

How Wall Street Won the Election Long Before The First Vote Was Cast

Nomi Prins / AlterNet

10 Craziest Drug Busts

Bryan Le / The Fix

How a Mitt-Style Increase in Military Spending Might Cost You Your Job

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Colorado Tax Enforcer Tells ’60 Minutes’: Weed Beat the Recession in Denver

Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

Why Are There So Few Female Plutocrats?

Chrystia Freeland / The Penguin Press

Why Iowa's Got a 1% Percent Problem

Andrew Leonard / Salon

Inside Bain's Chinese Sensata Factories, Where Workers Put in 12-Hour Days for $.99-$1.35 an Hour

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Bill Moyers: The Plutocracy Will Go to Extremes to Keep the 1% in Control

Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi, Chrystia Freeland / BillMoyers.com

Meet Romney's Economic Hitman

Robert Scheer / Truthdig

Lyin' Ryan Has No Plan to Cut the Deficit - and if He Did, Romney Would Oppose It

William K. Black / Benzinga

Greg Palast: "Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions from the Rescue of Detroit"

Amy Goodman, Greg Palast / Democracy Now

No, Mexico’s Not Winning the ‘Drug War’

Nyki Salinas-Duda / In These Times

A Scary New Form of Depression Is Emerging That Doctors Don't Know How to Treat ... And Its Causes Are Economic

Charles Hugh Smith / Of Two Minds

5 Ways Companies Are Already Ruining the Holidays

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

What Government Does for You

Simon Greer, Katherine McFate / AlterNet

2012 Campaign Marked By Blitz of Empty Populist Rhetoric Against Wall Street

Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

How Many Wrong Statements Can You Find in Tom Friedman's Latest Column?

Dean Baker / CEPR

Transit Justice: Providing Service and Shipping Out Greenhouse Gases

Rachel Morello-Frosch , Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

How Propagandists for the 1% Are Manipulating Christian Teachings to Rob the Middle Class

Michael Meurer / Truthout

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