All Articles on Economy
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Views Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy: If It Can Happen in Appalachia, It Can Happen Anywhere Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia—having already extracted much of the region's natural wealth. Local people are figuring out how to build a new economy based on shared vision and community knowledge. If transition can happen here, it can change the debate everywhere. Read more |
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Views NAFTA Advocates Continue to Make Misleading Claims In an effort to defend NAFTA and promote similar agreements, the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) – Washington’s most influential think tank on international economic policy – had a full day of events Tuesday. The program highlighted one of their recent publications [pdf] ,... Read more |
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News Austerity Economics Is Walking US Prosperity Off a Cliff Study calls continued spending cuts a 'misguided attempt to solve a short-term debt crisis that simply does not exist' Read more |
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Views Why Big Business Loves Desperate Workers And how a strong social safety net can make us all more free Read more |
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Views The Curse of 'American Exceptionalism' Conservatives – and too often, what passes for liberals here in the USA – have been using the notion of 'American exceptionalism' to justify a wide range of criminal and near criminal activity. We’re exceptional, alright, but not in the way we think. Here’s 8 ways we’re exceptional – exceptionally... Read more |
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News New Models Rise to Meet Demand of Local Food Movement 'Food Hubs' expanding availability of farm-fresh goods Read more |
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Views Capitalism's Deeper Problem Recent press reports refer to troubling price increases for such assets as real estate, government bonds, companies targeted for acquisition and artwork. A New York Times front-page headline read “ The Everything Boom, or Maybe the Everything Bubble .” Western Europe, North America and Japan are... Read more |
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Views The Rising Global Movement That Calls for #noTTIP Campaigners and activists are working hard to expose this trade agreement for what it is––a massive transfer of power to transnational corporations. Read more |
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Views Brazil, Defeat and the High Cost of Hosting FIFA’s World Cup Rio de Janeiro. While smoking his tobacco pipe in front of his small cinder block home toward the top of his native Vidigal, a sprawling favela overlooking some of Rio de Janeiro’s most luxurious neighborhoods, Jamil Jorge offered his thoughts on Brazil hosting the World Cup in the midst of the... Read more |
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Views Citigroup: The Original Gangsta Barack Obama’s Justice Department on Monday announced that Citigroup would pay $7 billion in fines, a move that will avoid a humiliating trial dealing with the seamy financial products the bank had marketed to an unsuspecting public, causing vast damage to the economy. Citigroup is the too-big-to-... Read more |