If we want to make certain that the world doesn’t further suffer as a result of bad economic advice, we have to radically change the IMF.read more

"Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror: fear," says the Nobel-winning economist.read more

In Michigan, an unpaid water bill can also lead to the loss of a home.read more

More and more families have long ago spent down their savings, and more and more people are struggling to afford basic needs such as food, housing, transportation and medical care.read more

Call this Wisconsin mining company to oppose its lawsuit against El Salvador.read more

A society is not healthy when a few people are chugging along economically and everyone else is barely making it on fumes.read more

In his curious farewell address, he sounded like John Maynard Keynes himself, or at least John Kenneth Galbraith, and he noted that the tax compromise is not enough.read more

They have the money and the power, and there is only one way to beat them: with an unprecedented grassroots movement.read more

It will dampen demand, and it is a huge concession to Republicanism.read more

Cities most impacted have higher concentrations of black and Latino residents, and the Obama Administration’s plan to assist people facing foreclosure is not working.read more

Unemployment is a mental health issue, and we must address it.read more

Obama is still running interference for the banks. And right now, he seems more concerned with helping the vultures who want to come in and scoop up the foreclosed homes at bargain basement prices than with helping the victims of unscrupulous lenders.read more

Now Obama has a chance to put a progressive economist in. How about Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz?read more

Obama’s economic policies have been not nearly ambitious enough in the face of the crisis he inherited. So he should discard the people who designed them.read more

With an inhospitable job market awaiting them, it seems clearer every day that this cohort of young adults has little chance of doing better than we did.read more