Economy

Wall Street’s Latest Magic Trick: Imaginary Prices for Non-Existent Products

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Rampant financial trickery distorts markets and potentially threatens the entire economy.

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GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Is Bankrolling Opposition to Pot Legalization in Colorado

By Lee Fang / The Nation

Are You Ready for the Post-Masculine World?

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Beware! 5 Depressing Stories About Food in the News This Past Week

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

10 Great Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a 4 Year College Degree

By Nola Ogunro / Madame Noire

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

Romney Releases 2011 Tax Returns and By His Own Words They 'Disqualify' Him From the Presidency

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why the Fed's "QE3" Plan Won't Jumpstart the Economy - And What Would

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

Joseph Stiglitz Calls to Abolish the Capitalist Church of Self-Interest

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Revealed: World's Most Predatory Company is Poisoning You

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Can Black Women Lead on Rethinking Marriage?

Dani McClain / On The Issues Magazine

Booze Protecting its Turf Against Pot in Colorado

David Sirota / AlterNet

The Weird Things Money Does to People

Tom Jacobs / Pacific Standard

Colorado Legalization Initiative Heads for the Home Stretch

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

The Big, Fat Lie Behind Romney's Absurd 47% Argument

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

"Pink Slime" Company Brings Defamation Suit Against Media, Scientists and Whistleblowers

William K. Black / Benzinga

Why Sneering at Public Servants Comes So Naturally to Many of America's Richest Citizens

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

Bill Clinton Was Right That Dems Create More Jobs Than GOPers -- and Here's the Scoreboard for Good Jobs Making Real Things

Colin Gordon, Stephen Herzenberg / AlterNet

The Federal Reserve, a Privately Owned Banking Cartel, Has Been Given Police Powers, with Glock 22s and Patrol Cars

Pam Martens / AlterNet

It's Alive! Occupy Actions Across the Country Show the Movement's Impact

Sarah Jaffe, Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

5 Curses of Privatization That Will Be Haunting Us For a Long Time

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

The Looming Threat That Could Initiate the Next Economic Collapse

Alexander Arapoglou , Jerri-Lynn Scofield / AlterNet

Economists Agree, Cutting Spending Now is Bad for Recovery; Why is Fox Still Lying?

Solange Uwimana / Media Matters for America

Why an Unstable Middle East Could Mean an Environmental and Economic Catastrophe

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

Why Do Americans Have to Crush Others to Get Ahead?

Frank Joyce / AlterNet

A Totally Different Way to Think About Economics — with Visionary Charles Eisenstein

Adam Parsons / Share the World's Resources

Why Major League Sports Are Freaking Out About a New Attempt to Legalize Betting on Their Games

Brian Tuohy / AlterNet

The New Real Estate Train Wreck Coming Your Way: Securitized Rentals

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

How Gambling Can Kill You Faster Than Drug Abuse or Alcoholism

Chris Wright / The Fix

More Than 46 Million Americans Still in Poverty

Salvatore Babones / Truthout

Roseanne Barr: The War on Drugs Is Just Plain Crazy

Roseanne Barr / Huffington Post

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