Economy

The Breakdown: How Would Healthcare Reform Affect the Economy? The Breakdown: How Would Healthcare Reform Affect the Economy?

How will healthcare reform affect the economy? This week on The Breakdown, Christopher Hayes talks to Ezra Klein to correct the misperceptions.

Mar 5, 2010 / Chris Hayes

Dodd to Defang Financial Reform? Dodd to Defang Financial Reform?

If Dodd proceeds with a gutted version of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, every aspect of the Wall Street overhaul will have been entirely undermined.

Mar 4, 2010 / Zach Carter

The Contractor Scofflaws The Contractor Scofflaws

Obama is on the brink of bringing significant reforms for workers to government contractors.

Mar 4, 2010 / William Greider

In Defense of Deficits In Defense of Deficits

A big deficit-reduction program would destroy the economy two years into the Great Crisis.

Mar 4, 2010 / Feature / James K. Galbraith

Calling Ron Paul! Calling Ron Paul! Fed Alert! Fed Alert! Calling Ron Paul! Calling Ron Paul! Fed Alert! Fed Alert!

Chris Dodd is way wrong to think that consumers could be protected by the Fed. It's as crazy as thinking chickens could be protected by foxes.

Mar 2, 2010 / John Nichols

Friedmanism at the Fed Friedmanism at the Fed

How former New York Fed chair Stephen Friedman made a bundle on the AIG bailout.

Feb 25, 2010 / Feature / Greg Kaufmann

Big Tobacco and the Historians Big Tobacco and the Historians

A tale of seduction and intimidation.

Feb 25, 2010 / Feature / Jon Wiener

No Banker Left Behind No Banker Left Behind

Banks do have a license to steal. There is no other way to read Tuesday's report from the New York state comptroller that bonuses for Wall Street financiers rose 17 percent to $20....

Feb 24, 2010 / Robert Scheer

Better Uses for Bankers’ Billions Better Uses for Bankers’ Billions

 What could we do with $20 billion? We've got some suggestions.

Feb 24, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Looking Closer at Joseph Stack Looking Closer at Joseph Stack

Joseph Stack -- remember him? He's the guy who crashed his plane into an Internal Revenue Service building in Austin last week.

Feb 23, 2010 / Laura Flanders

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