Economy

Permalancers, Unite! Permalancers, Unite!

Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.

Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Anya Kamenetz

Subprime Politics Subprime Politics

Keep people in their homes and start re-regulating the banking industry to end the conflicts of interest that fueled the debacle.

Dec 13, 2007 / The Editors

Sovereign Wealth: Theirs, Not Ours Sovereign Wealth: Theirs, Not Ours

As the US economy sickens, foreign governments are on a shopping spree, scooping up bargains paid for by sovereign wealth funds.

Dec 7, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing

There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.

Dec 3, 2007 / Feature / Nevin Cohen

McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis

Homeowners in gated communities now facing foreclosure are learning there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

Dec 3, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Home Sweet Gone Home Sweet Gone

The subprime crisis was not just caused by lending run amok, but by unrestrained trading that made a precarious situation even worse.

Nov 30, 2007 / Nomi Prins

Stop the Subprime Tsunami Stop the Subprime Tsunami

Predatory lending is the biggest economic crisis since 1929, especially for the black and brown people caught in its grip.

Nov 30, 2007 / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson

Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken

If you're looking for a sure bet in the new growth market, sell solar and buy surveillance. Forget wind, buy weapons.

Nov 29, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein

The Dialectics of Revolution… Uh, Recycling The Dialectics of Revolution… Uh, Recycling

Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.

Nov 29, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Citi’s Mexican Cronies Citi’s Mexican Cronies

As megabanks seek a subprime bailout, take a lesson from Mexico. Taxpayers of the world, hold on to your wallets.

Nov 29, 2007 / Jeff Faux

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