Economy

What You Need to Know About Obama and the Social Security Sell-Out

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The Raiders of Your Lost Retirement are busy laying plans in Washington. Will Obama help them if re-elected?

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Right-Wingers Invent Hilarious Excuses For Why Unemployment Has Fallen Under 8 Percent

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Most of Us Will Not Have a Better Life Unless We Turn the Tables on the Super Rich

By Chuck Collins / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Revealed: Romney’s Bain Capital Invested in Grotesque Chinese Sweatshop, Detailed at Boca Raton Fundraiser

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why the New 'Golden Age of Oil' Has Been a Bust

By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch

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

Puppy Palace for the 1%, for Lapdogs of Luxury

Kim Velsey / New York Observer

Scarce Jobs, Slashed Salaries, and Schools Without Books: The Ugly Consequences of Austerity in Athens

Pepe Egger / openDemocracy.net

Sh*tstorm: Arizona's Bizarre New Use for Human Waste

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

David Brooks' Debate Advice for Mitt: Say Lots of Stuff That Isn't True

Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research

Why Is Cash-Strapped NYC Blowing Nearly $100 Million in Taxpayer Money to Help Donald Trump Build a Golf Course in the Bronx?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Schneiderman Files Suit Against JP Morgan Chase for "Multiple Fraudulent and Deceptive Acts"

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Does the 21st Century Mark the 'End of Men'? Not Quite -- But Women Are on the Rise

Heather Boushey / AlterNet

Why the Election Could Be Decided This Friday

Robert B. Reich / Robert Reich's Blog

Learn Everything You Need to Know About the Economy from a 'South Park' Episode

Anat Shenker-Osorio / Public Affairs Books

Meet the Bank Exec Fighting to Foreclose on a Wheelchair-Bound Cancer Patient

Peter Dreier / AlterNet

Housing Market Hype -- Are We Really Expected to Believe That Prices Will Rise with High Unemployment?

Mike Whitney / AlterNet

After the Election, What Happens to Workers Whose Jobs Were Outsourced By Bain?

Dave Johnson / Campaign for America's Future

Why I Risked My Body to Stop Arctic Drilling

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

No One At Home: How To Deal With Foreclosures In Your Community

Ann Brown / Madame Noire

5 Obscene Reasons Why Richest Americans grow Richer As Middle-Class Declines

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Why Mitt Romney Is Losing Ohio

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Phoenix Mayor Attempts to Live on a Food Stamp Budget: 'I'm Tired, and It's Hard To Focus'

Travis Waldron / Think Progress

Red States Outpace Blue States in Income Growth — Thanks to Food Stamps

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Wall St.'s Next Profit Scheme -- Buying Up Every Piece of Your Home Town

Michael Hudson / Michael Hudson's blog

Sudden Wealth Syndrome? Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mocks Complaints of Obscenely Wealthy

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Forbes 400 List Reveals Why the Greedy Rich Fully Deserve Your Contempt -- And Jesus’s

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Mitt Romney: Free Speech Is for Billionaires, Not School-Teachers

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

There's Been a Dictatorial Coup -- Koch Bros. Have a Bunch of Czars Running Cities Across Michigan

Jim Hightower / Hightower Lowdown

Romnesia: The Ability of the Very Rich to Forget the Context in Which They Made Their Money

George Monbiot / Monbiot.com

Why We Must Stop Fetishizing Economic Growth

Robert A. Johnson / Yahoo! Finance | The Exchange

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