Economics

It’s Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style

It’s Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style It’s Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style

The nation’s largest banks are methodically harvesting the last possible pound of flesh from millions of homeowners. We should put a stop to it.

Oct 26, 2011 / Feature / William Greider

OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality

Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.  

Oct 26, 2011 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati

How to Be a 1 Percenter

How to Be a 1 Percenter How to Be a 1 Percenter

To secure their privilege, the richest Americans resort to a range of maneuvers beyond the evasion of taxes and financial regulation.

Oct 26, 2011 / Feature / George Zornick

The Costs of Wall Street Greed

The Costs of Wall Street Greed The Costs of Wall Street Greed

The 99 percent have been footing the bill for too long. It’s time for the financial industry to pick up its own tab.

Oct 26, 2011 / Feature / Sarah Anderson

Cornel West: Creating a Progressive America Cornel West: Creating a Progressive America

We are losing the war that has been waged by plutocrats against the poor over the past thirty years as wealth has been systematically flowing from the poor to the wealthy.

Oct 26, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions

Paul Ryan: Class Warrior for the Wealthy Paul Ryan: Class Warrior for the Wealthy

Paul Ryan's latest outlandish attack on President Obama proves he's a first-rate demagogue and phony deficit hawk. 

Oct 26, 2011 / Ari Berman

Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators

On the streets, at the Vatican, at the G-20, in Congress and in front of the US Treasury building: The call is rising for a financial transactions tax. It will get a lot louder in ...

Oct 26, 2011 / John Nichols

Thom Hartmann: Creating a Progressive America

Thom Hartmann: Creating a Progressive America Thom Hartmann: Creating a Progressive America

Average Americans are watching their country dissolve in front of them, and it will take grassroots mobilization on both the Left and Right to assess and address the systemic dysfu...

Oct 20, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions

OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity!

OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity! OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity!

As the Congressional budget supercommittee deliberates, fiscal hawks are calling for “tough choices.” The 99 percent are demanding economic justice.

Oct 19, 2011 / The Editors

How the Austerity Class Rules Washington

How the Austerity Class Rules Washington How the Austerity Class Rules Washington

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

Oct 19, 2011 / Feature / Ari Berman

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