Economy

The Fed Won’t Help the Working Class The Fed Won’t Help the Working Class

By pumping more money into the economy to bail out hedge funds and subprime lenders, the Federal Reserve will only worsen inflation's bite into average Americans' paychecks.

Aug 31, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Travails of the Super-Rich Travails of the Super-Rich

Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.

Aug 31, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats

America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.

Aug 28, 2007 / Feature / Matthew Blake

Big Brother Democracy Big Brother Democracy

Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.

Aug 23, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein

The Economy Debates The Economy Debates

Want to know the real differences between the candidates? Listen to what they say about the economy.

Aug 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped

A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.

Aug 22, 2007 / Feature / David Bacon

Smashing Capitalism Smashing Capitalism

The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.

Aug 20, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

The NAFTA Superhighway The NAFTA Superhighway

The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse governmen...

Aug 9, 2007 / Feature / Chris Hayes

Inflation’s Undertow Inflation’s Undertow

Stop the rejoicing about the rise in the minimum wage. Thanks to inflation, the prosperity of the working poor and the middle class is at real and rising risk.

Aug 3, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

The New Bipartisan Capitalism The New Bipartisan Capitalism

A new study addressing the plight the American worker in a global economy tries to solve economic inequity through tax policy rather than systemic change. A much broader vision is ...

Jul 31, 2007 / Daniel Morris

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