Economic Policy

For a Social Bailout For a Social Bailout

Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.

Mar 27, 2008 / Robin Blackburn

Extreme Inequality Extreme Inequality

A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.

Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook

The Only Fitting Tribute The Only Fitting Tribute

For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.

Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Frances Moore Lappé

The Gentlemen’s Bailout The Gentlemen’s Bailout

The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.

Mar 20, 2008 / The Editors

The Math on Government Spending The Math on Government Spending

Proving once and for all that progressive economic projects are worth more than tax cuts.

Mar 11, 2008 / Daniel Carol

How to Swim Against the Current How to Swim Against the Current

People are wriggling free of the fetters of corporate culture.

Mar 6, 2008 / Feature / Jim Hightower and Susan DeMarco

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck

Feeling squeezed? It's official: if you're not in management, the value of your paycheck is dropping at an alarming rate.

Feb 21, 2008 / Feature / Nancy Cleeland

Half-a-Loaf Stimulus Half-a-Loaf Stimulus

Good news in the stimulus package: low and middle income Americans receive cash to rev a slowing economy. Bad news: tax breaks for businesses won't help much at all.

Feb 13, 2008 / Feature / Nancy Cleeland

The Ron Paul Economy The Ron Paul Economy

OK, three-quarters of what he says is wacky. But his view of the Fed's contribution to rampant inflation is right on the money.

Jan 31, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Disowned by the Ownership Society Disowned by the Ownership Society

Bush turns out to be the undertaker of the free market's false promises to ordinary Americans.

Jan 31, 2008 / Column / Naomi Klein

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