Economy

Save the Solis Nomination Save the Solis Nomination

Labor secretary-designee Hilda Solis is not a toxic asset in the Obama personnel portfolio. The GOP is wrong to equate her husband's tax dispute with the infractions of high roller...

Feb 9, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols

Paul Krugman: GOP Is Led by Limbaugh Paul Krugman: GOP Is Led by Limbaugh

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman defends Obama's stimulus package and paints Republicans as obstructionists.

Feb 6, 2009 / MSNBC

Settling Scores With Wall Street Settling Scores With Wall Street

A lot of angry people in America are lusting to bring Wall Street geniuses who engineered the financial collapse to justice. And they just might succeed.

Feb 5, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Protest at UNLV Protest at UNLV

Thousands of students in Nevada are being radicalized due to draconian budget cuts in state education funding.

Feb 5, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation

Say No to Nukes in the Stimulus Package Say No to Nukes in the Stimulus Package

The nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion bomb into the Senate version of Obama's stimulus package for projects Wall Street wouldn't finance when it was flush.

Feb 5, 2009 / Feature / Harvey Wasserman

The Nation’s Chris Hayes on Gary Gensler The Nation’s Chris Hayes on Gary Gensler

Nation editor Chris Hayes examines the record of Obama's CFTC pick Gary Gensler and the rest of the president's economic team.

Feb 5, 2009 / Countdown

France in the Streets France in the Streets

In cities and towns across France, people are calling for an in-depth economic revamping that favors the working class.

Feb 4, 2009 / Marc Perelman

Biden v. Summers Biden v. Summers

As Larry Summers takes a dominant role in crafting economic policy, it's up to Joe Biden to protect the interests of the middle class.

Feb 4, 2009 / Chris Hayes

All of Them Must Go All of Them Must Go

As cities around the world are rocked with protests, it's clear governments that respond to economic crisis with the discredited free-market agenda will not survive.

Feb 4, 2009 / Column / Naomi Klein

The Kindness of Strangers The Kindness of Strangers

The global economic crisis is showing how wishful was the notion that philanthropy could save the world.

Feb 4, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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