Economy

The New Gold Standard: Jobs The New Gold Standard: Jobs

Keeping labor costs down used to be the standard to measure productivity. Now, it's all about creating jobs--and we can't afford to wait for the private sector to provide them.

Feb 10, 2009 / Feature / Ken Miller

Angry America and the Bailout Angry America and the Bailout

As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...

Feb 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser

No Oversight: Fed Gives Away Trillions No Oversight: Fed Gives Away Trillions

Since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has expanded by $1.2 trillion with little oversight.

Feb 9, 2009 / American News Project

Rejecting Republican Know-Nothings Rejecting Republican Know-Nothings

After reviewing the arguments Senate Republicans are making for their intransigence on the stimulus bill, Maddow counters with the hard economic facts.

Feb 9, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show

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

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