Economy

Lakoff: Why Extreme Conservatives Like the Sequester

By George Lakoff / AlterNet

The far right sees maximal elimination of the public sphere as the right direction for America.

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God’s Racket: Why It’s High Time to Shut Down the Vatican Bank

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Conservatives Drink Bud, Liberals Drink Heineken?

By Chris Mooney / AlterNet

Natural Gas Glut: Wall Street Is Driving the Shale Gas Boom Like it Did the Housing Mortgage Scandal

By Andrew Nikiforuk / The Tyee

GOP Plan to Torpedo Economy With Sequester Could Backfire in 2014

By Benjamin I. Page / AlterNet

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

WATCH: Stewart Ridicules Obama for Apparent Cluelessness on Administration's Latest Scandals

These Monthly Job Reports Aren't Stopping America's Middle Class from Burning to the Ground

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Economy

After Ruining America, the Era of Giant Chain Stores Is Over

James Howard Kunstler / Kunstler.com

New Study Shows Capital Gains Tax Cuts Biggest Contributor to Income Inequality

Mijin Cha / Demos.org

Moyers: Rampant Capitalism Has Created a Social Disaster -- How Do We Right the Ship?

Bill Moyers, Richard D. Wolff / BillMoyers.com

The Dirty Secret of Downton Abbey

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Just What Do Hedge Fund Honchos Do For a Million Bucks an Hour?

Joshua Holland, Les Leopold / AlterNet

How Student Loan Debt is Treated Differently Than Other Debt

Zach Duffy / Campus Progress

5 Reasons the Keystone Pipeline Is Bad for the Economy

Brendan Smith / AlterNet

AlterNet Comics: Matt Davies on the Sequestration Standoff

Matt Davies / AlterNet

Walmart's Off to a Terrible 2013: Is Ravage-Capitalism Reaching a Point of Diminishing Returns?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why California Politics Is Different from the Rest of the Country

Don Hazen, Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Coming Sequester Cuts Will Make Most of Americans' Lives Worse -– And People Are Mobilizing

Dave Johnson / Blog for Our Future

Excuse Me, Mr. President -- A $9 Minimum Wage Is Still Going to Leave a Lot of People at the Poverty Level

Jim Hightower / AlterNet

Bank of America v. The American Homeowner

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

How EPA Climate Protection Can Be America's Greatest Jobs Producer

Jeremy Brecher / AlterNet

Barbara and John Ehrenreich: The Real Story Behind the Crash and Burn of America's Managerial Class

Barbara Ehrenreich, John Ehrenreich / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - New York Office

5 Signs Extreme Wealth Deadens the "Empathy" and "Honesty" Parts of the Brain

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Minimum Wage: Who Decided That Hard-Working Americans Should Fall Behind?

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

9 Economic Facts That Will Make Your Head Spin

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why Capitalist Predators Think 2013 Will Be the Best Year Ever

Slavoj Zizek / Comment Is Free

USA! USA! America Now Has Less Class Mobility Than Most of Europe

Alex Kane / AlterNet

The American Housing Market is Set to Screw People Far into the Future

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

Former Republican: How the GOP Turned Into a Racket Ripping Off Vulnerable Americans

Mike Lofgren / Huffington Post

ALEC's Plan to Kill Union Jobs Everywhere -- Even Outside the U.S.

Dave Saldana / AlterNet

How Conservatives Who Block Minimum Wage Hikes are Destroying the Economy

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

Could You Live on $2.13 Per Hour -- Even With Tips? That's the Minimum Wage for Waiters

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

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