Economy

The Big Threat to the Economy Is Private Debt and Interest Owed on It, Not Government Debt

By Michael Hudson / New Economic Perspectives

We should focus on how paying off private debt is eating into personal incomes.

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Walker's Anti-Union Law Should Remain Blocked, Court Says

By Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

How Much of Your Income Goes Toward Rent? For 11 Million, Shelter Comes at a High Price

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Ryan v. the Congressional Progressive Caucus

By Robert Borosage / Huffington Post

Watch: Robert Reich Proves Raising the Minimum Wage is a Win-Win

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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

5 Big Reasons Why Americans Don’t Save Their Money

Pacific Standard Staff / Pacific Standard

Portland Becomes 4th U.S. City With Paid Sick Leave Law

Jane Farrell / ThinkProgress

'Lean In' All You Want -- But If You Want a Better Job, Unionize! (What the CEOS of Facebook and Yahoo! Won't Tell You)

Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

10 Worst People on Forbes 2013 Billionaires List

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

New Study Finds the Wealthy Are Different

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

New Research: Deficit Hawks Reflect the Views of the Wealthy, Not the Majority

Benjamin I. Page / Scholars Strategy Network

Swiss Lead the Way Towards Economic Equality as Voters Cap Bonuses For Banker Fat Cats

Roberto Savio / Inter Press Service

Welcome to Ayn Rand Planet: Why the Rich Prosper from the Stock Market While We Get Screwed

Les Leopold / AlterNet

AlterNet Comics: Matt Bors on the Dow's Big Week

Matt Bors / AlterNet

5 Ways Privatization Is Poisoning America

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Elizabeth Warren Confronts the Atrocity of Drug Money Laundering by Big Banks

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Can We Trust Treasury Secretary Jack Lew?

Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

Why People React Differently to Panhandlers (Hard Times USA)

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Why America Doesn't Want "Bipartisan" Budget Agreements

Marshall Auerback / New Economic Perspectives

Bombshell Confession by Eric Holder: Big Banks are Above the Law

Mike Lux / Huffington Post

Minimum-Wage Opponents Demand Their Freedom to Exploit

Julie Gutman Dickinson / AlterNet

Chomsky: Corporations and the Richest Americans Viscerally Oppose Common Good

Noam Chomsky / AlterNet

The Economy Sucks Because Banks Are Still Sticking It To Overextended Home Loan Borrowers

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

In Italy, A Bold New Populist Plan Led By a Comedian Fires Up a Country

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

No More Excuses: Soaring Market Latest Evidence of Need to Tax Wall Street

Deborah Burger / AlterNet

Teachers Make Handy Scapegoats, But Spiraling Inequality Is Really What Ails Our Education System

Joshua Holland, Linda Darling-Hammond / AlterNet

Outrage: Some Banks Are Too Big to Prosecute

Robert Borosage / Blog for Our Future

5 Things That Piss Me Off About People Who've Never Known What It's Like to be Poor

Tracy Moore / Jezebel

Why Sending Your Child to a Charter School Hurts Other Children

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / AlterNet

'Guest Workers' Spring Surprise Strike on McDonald's

Josh Eidelson / The Nation

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