Economy

Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World...We're Ranked 27th!

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

America is the richest country on Earth. We have the most millionaires, the most billionaires—and a increasingly poor "middle class."

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Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers! Billionaire-backed Campaign Fails to Cut Social Security and Medicare

By Dean Baker / Beat the Press

Why Are Techies Trying to Tar Snowden and the Reporters Who Went After the Story?

By Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

One in Three Americans is Poor — And Getting Little Relief

By Jeanette Wicks-Lim / Dollars and Sense

Why America & China's Future Plans Are Totally Nuts

By James Howard Kunstler / Kunstler.com

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Meet America’s Most Shameless Defender of the 1 Percent, Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw

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Economy

Meet America’s Most Shameless Defender of the 1 Percent, Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

NYU’s Gilded Age: Students Struggle With Debt While Vacation Homes Are Lavished on the University’s Elite

Pam Martens, Russ Martens / AlterNet

How Corporate Greed Is Starving Our Public School System

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Will Legalizing Pot Destroy Humboldt Or Transform It into the Napa Valley of Weed?

Emily Brady / AlterNet

Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

The Latest Outrageous Waste of Money for the Pentagon's Playthings

Medea Benjamin, James Marc Leas / AlterNet

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Plan For Student Debt is an Economic Breakthrough

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

How America's Bully Economy leads to a "Bully Society"

Jessie Klein / NYU Press

One in Eight People Go Hungry As World's Richest Countries Gather for G8 Meeting

Bill Nighy / Comment Is Free

The Shocking Amount of Wealth and Power Held by 0.001% of the World Population

Andrew Gavin Marshall / Occupy.com's Global Power Project

What's the Real Story on How Much Obamacare is Going to Cost?

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Since When Does Positive Economic Outlook Correlate with Anti-Worker, Anti-Union Policies?

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

Why Libertarians Are Basically Cult Members

Michael Lind / Salon

Obama Nominates America’s Biggest Walmart Cheerleader as His Chief Economic Adviser

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Investing in Education Creates More Than Twice as Many Jobs as Military Spending

Jaisal Noor / The Real News Network

Washington Has Been Stopped in Its Tracks by Republican Tea Party Types, and It's Destroying the Country

Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

Top 10 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana Now

Carmen Yarrusso / Truthout

Is the White House Open for Hedge Fund Business?

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Class of 2013: All Dressed Up and No Place to Work

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

5 Ways the Tech Companies Are Making Monster Profits by Stealing from Our Future

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

The Trash-Talking Blood Sport of Economics

Richard Eskow / The Smirking Chimp

Supermarkets Amass a Mountain of Data on You, and They Plan to Exploit It

Donna Ferguson / The Guardian

How Google and Silicon Valley Screw Their Non-Elite Workers

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

The Most Dishonest Words in American Politics: 'Right to Work'

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

Half Lives: Why the Part-time Economy Is Bad for Everyone

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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