Economic articles

Budget/Tax, Business & Economic articles:

12.12.31 The Bright Side of Falling Off the Fiscal Cliff
12.12.31 In 2012, America's Greatest Economic Weakness Was Its Government
12.12.29 Bending to Military Contractors
12.12.29 A Double Shot of Misunderstanding
12.12.26 Fiscal Chicken
12.12.26 Fueled by Deficit Hysteria, Obama and the Republicans Are Choosing the Path of “Economicide”
12.12.25 Kill the “Fiscal Cliff” Instead of the Economy
12.12.24 Rigging of the Oil and Gasoline Markets like Manipulating Libor Rates - What Will Obama do?
12.12.23 A Web of Convenient Fictions: Democrats, Social Security and the Fiscal Cliff
12.12.22 LET'S ELIMINATE SPORTS WELFARE
12.12.21 Fiscal Cliff: Time to Call Their Bluff
12.12.20 The Unequal State of America: The economics paper that rattled Washington
12.12.20 Breaking the hold of corporate welfare on America's incarceration industry
12.12.20 Why are Cash-Rich Companies Being Subsidized by Tax-Poor Governments? [charts]
12.12.20 The economic return of Iceland has proved that the joke was on us
12.12.19 Making the Innocent Pay for the Crimes of the Elites
12.12.19 A Revolt Against Corporate Welfare Programs For Multinationals In France
12.12.19 Quelle Surprise! The Geithner Doctrine Not Only Puts Banks Above the Law, It Also Serves to Excuse Their Bad Behavior
12.12.18 IRA Sweet Spot Could Lift America
12.12.18 The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico
12.12.17 Assimilated by the Peterson Borg
12.12.15 We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business In America
12.12.15 How an Astounding New Right-Wing Lie About the Economy Is Born
12.12.15 Defying Gravity
12.12.14 The Morning Plum: Destructive anti-tax fanaticism
12.12.14 McDonald's Server Would Have To Work 550 Years To Earn CEO's Pay
12.12.14 Arizona funnels business to CCA through its school-to-prison pipeline
12.12.13 Google boss: I'm very proud of our tax avoidance scheme
12.12.11 The 6 Economic Facts of Life in America That Allow the Rich to Run off with Our Wealth
12.12.10 Europe clings to scorched-earth ideology as depression deepens
12.12.08 Exploring the Public Bank Option for Scotland
12.12.08 Welfare Spending: Medicare vs Corporate/Business Subsidies (or does the GOP really support WalMart's behavior in Bangladesh?)
12.12.08 Fiscal cliff: Obama and Boehner holding direct negotiations
12.12.07 The Latest Trend In Yachts Is A 'Support Yacht' To Carry All Your Toys
12.12.06 Liz Fowler Is the Embodiment of Washington’s Revolving Door Problem
12.12.06 Khuzami Deathwatch: SEC Ignores Tips About $12 Billion of Hidden Losses at Deutsche Bank
12.12.06 Econ4 Video on the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis (With Your Humble Blogger in a Supporting Role)
12.12.06 Wonder Why States Are Broke? One Reason is Companies Play Them Off Against Each Other
12.12.05 AND THE SCROOGE AWARD GOES TO... Corporate America! [Graphs]
12.12.05 Zombie Apocalypse Singled Out In Tom Coburn Report On Homeland Security Waste
12.12.05 The Obscenely Rich Men Bent on Shredding the Safety Net
12.12.04 THE AUSTERITY DICTIONARY
12.12.03 Greece Is Staging A Huge Rally, As Angela Merkel Hints At A Gamechanger
12.12.02 Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Heading Into An Economic Depression
12.12.02 The Permanent Dependency Class
12.12.02 No, the Social Security Trust Fund Isn't a Fiction
12.12.02 Here comes another Chicago privatization deal forged behind closed doors
12.11.30 Lloyd Blankfein is the Face of Class Warfare [6:50 video]
12.11.30 Today in Our Completely Captured Financial Regulatory Apparatus
12.11.30 White House Makes Aggressive Opening Bid in Fiscal Slope Negotiations
12.11.29 What the CEOs in Washington Today Are Really After
12.11.29 10 Ways to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff
12.11.29 Obama Calls on Citizens to Ask Congress to Slit Their Throats
12.11.29 Why Robert Khuzami Would Be a Terrible Choice to Head the SEC
12.11.28 80 Years of Financial (De) Regulation in the U.S. [ginormous graphic]
12.11.28 9 Greedy CEOs Trying to Shred the Safety Net While Pigging Out on Corporate Welfare
12.11.28 The fiscal cliff is a lie
12.11.28 BBC Documentary | The Money Trap | How Banks Control the World Through Debt [39:29 video]
12.11.27 Fiscal cliff failure would hurt Christmas spending, White House warns
12.11.27 Banking union: Ireland vs Nevada, an illustration of the importance of an integrated banking system
12.11.27 The 0.1% Circles the Wagons: Buffett Pumps for Dimon as Treasury Secretary
12.11.27 Skills Don’t Pay the Bills
12.11.26 OECD: Telcos Overcharging By Five Orders Of Magnitude
12.11.26 Bargaining Among Thieves, Thugs, Cheats, Liars and Naïfs
12.11.26 Fighting Fiscal Phantoms
12.11.26 Offshore secrets revealed: the shadowy side of a booming industry
12.11.26 Marshall Auerback: Even a Deal on the Budget is Bad for the American Economy
12.11.26 Shareholder Value [cartoon]
12.11.24 Economists, Obama administration at odds over role of mortgage debt in recovery
12.11.24 Surprise! Report says income inequality still getting worse in most states
12.11.24 Report: White House considering corporate donors for inauguration
12.11.22 Mortgage Settlement Monitor “Progress” Report Gooses Numbers to Hide Lack of Real Relief to Homeowners
12.11.22 Wall Street Kept Winning on Mortgages Upending Homeowners
12.11.21 Choosing your own capitalism in a globalised world?
12.11.20 Private Equity and Hostess Stumbling Together
12.11.20 Big Banks vs. Elizabeth Warren: It's On (Again!)
12.11.20 GDP Accelerating to 2.9% Helping U.S. Overcome Sandy Woes
12.11.19 The Twinkie Manifesto
12.11.19 Blackstone Sees Two-Year Window to Buy Houses: Mortgages
12.11.19 Shadow Banking Grows to $67 Trillion Industry, Regulators Say
12.11.17 Whose Sacrifice Is It Anyway? The So-Called ‘Grand Bargain’ Would Fleece the Middle Class
12.11.16 From the Suppression of Voters to the Suppression of Economic Analysis: Republicans are at War With Democracy in Defense of Oligarchy
12.11.16 Is it game over for Grover Norquist?
12.11.16 The Long Story of U.S. Debt, From 1790 to 2011, in 1 Little Chart
12.11.14 The Austerity Bomb
12.11.14 The CBO’s Latest Con Job: Disappearing Data to Deter Analysis of its Deficit Scaremongering
12.11.13 Eurozone crisis live: Greece gets more time as IMF and EU clash
12.11.13 Will the Democrats Continue Their Rightward Turn or Start Working for the 99%?
12.11.13 Rep. Alan Grayson calls the ‘grand bargain’ an artificial crisis to steal from the middle class [2:58 video]
12.11.12 Another Lame Duck Session Horrorshow, the “First, Let’s Kill All The Regulators” Bill
12.11.11 Drums Beating to Privatize Social Security [9:14 video]
12.11.10 Exec Who Allegedly Enabled Fraud Runs Chase’s Effort to Compensate Foreclosure Victims
12.11.10 How to Rob Africa: A Look into How the West Facilitates Moving Dirty Money [25:00 video]
12.11.09 The Importance of Elizabeth Warren
12.11.09 It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
12.11.08 It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
12.11.08 Romney Avoids Taxes via Loophole Cutting Mormon Donations
12.11.07 Debt crisis: German economic data is a 'catastrophe', say economists
12.11.07 Bush 3 vs Bush 4
12.11.05 Pete Peterson and the Deficit Hawks Teach Lawmakers Deep Fiscal Irresponsibility
12.11.03 Tom Ferguson: Massive Surge of Republican Money in Last Ditch Effort to Sink Obama
12.11.03 America’s bank bailouts did not have to be so unfair
12.11.01 World Bank’s Anti-Labor Analysis Is a Dirty Business
12.11.01 The euro is heading for a permanent state of depression
12.10.31 Who Loses When Fed Keeps Interest Rates Low?
12.10.31 Yes, Virginia, Sound Regulation and Oversight Pay for Themselves
12.10.30 Sensata outsourcing rattles Illinois community: 'Jobs need to stay here'
12.10.30 Bill Black: The Great Betrayal – and the Cynicism of Calling it a Grand Bargain
12.10.30 Sheila Bair: 5 Steps Obama or Romney Must Take to Fix Wall Street
12.10.30 Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors? [Interactive graphic]
12.10.29 Koch Brothers and the Road to "Citizens United" [10:27 video]
12.10.29 Why Does the SEC Protect Banks’ Dirty Secrets?
12.10.29 Mr. Market Says the Military Industrial Complex Will Be Largely Spared in Upcoming Grand Bargain
12.10.29 Thomas Edison’s Quixotic Plan for a New Monetary Policy
12.10.28 Ten filthy rich, tax-dodging hypocrites
12.10.27 Pete Peterson Has Won
12.10.27 Neil Barofsky Discusses “Incestuous Orgy” Between Washington and Wall Street on Bill Moyers [24:00 video]
12.10.26 Rentier CEOs Advocate Austerity for America
12.10.26 Frankenstein Economics is killing capitalism
12.10.25 Social Security a Far Better Deal for Workers Than Modern Retirement Plans
12.10.25 Let’s Jump off the Fiscal Cliff!
12.10.24 6 Everyday Food Items That Have Soared In Price
12.10.23 The Billionaires' Pity Party: Richest People in History Can't Stop Whining About Oppression
12.10.23 The US Economy Will Need A Miracle To Get Back To Normal
12.10.23 Federal Employees Paid Well Below Private Sector Counterparts
12.10.23 Corporations are People. Evil People [Graphics, good comments]
12.10.22 Suddenly, Everyone On Wall Street Is Taking The 'Red Pill' Of Economics
12.10.21 Effective Tax Rates Around the World [graph]
12.10.20 Meet Romney's Economic Hitman
12.10.18 It’s Time for a Tax to Kill High Frequency Trading
12.10.17 Ryan and Romney’s Secret Plan to Cut the Deficit – and why Romney opposes it
12.10.16 SUPER-RICH IRONY
12.10.16 IBM: "The Cost Difference Is Too Great for the Business Not to Look for" H-1B Workers
12.10.16 Iberian Pain Only Getting Worse as Spanish Population Falls, Portugal Goes All in For More Failed Austerity
12.10.16 Discuss: Average Tax Rates for the Highest-Income Taxpayers, 1945-2009 [graph]
12.10.15 Sweden: The new model
12.10.15 IMF jumps ship on Europe
12.10.15 Why is a Price-Fixing/Collusion Lawsuit Against the Biggest Names in Private Equity Getting Only Cursory Notice?
12.10.15 Questions From a Bailout Eyewitness
12.10.14 The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism [56m video]
12.10.12 Top German Economists Say Greece Is Lost
12.10.11 Do falling trade costs benefit all countries equally?
12.10.11 More JP Morgan Whitewash
12.10.11 IMF Suddenly Decides It Might be OK to Loosen Austerity Tourniquets Now that Gangrene is Setting In
12.10.11 The Romney Men: 6 Filthy Rich Moguls Who Will Do Anything to Elect Mitt
12.10.10 Report: While American Families Lost a Ton of Wealth in the Crash, Members of Congress Did Just Fine
12.10.10 Government sues Wells Fargo for reckless lending practices
12.10.10 Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week
12.10.09 Mirable Dictu! The Media Notices the Sucking Sound of Growth (What Little There Was) Leaving the Economy and Underplays IMF Malpractice
12.10.09 IMF Sees ‘Alarmingly High’ Risk of Deeper Global Slump
12.10.09 Goldman Turns Tables on Obama Campaign
12.10.08 Wall St.'s Next Profit Scheme -- Buying Up Every Piece of Your Home Town
12.10.07 “What if the Global Financial Crisis is Permanent?”
12.10.05 Monetary Mystification
12.10.04 U.S., Europe Nowhere Close to Ending Crisis, Krugman Says
12.10.04 QE Infinity: What Is It Really About?
12.10.03 Moderate Debates and Debate Moderators
12.10.03 GOP Consultant: Koch Brothers Bought Ryan’s Nomination With $100 Million Promise
12.10.03 Top 1% Got 93% of Income Growth as Rich-Poor Gap Widened [video, graphic]
12.10.01 SUPER-RICH IRONY
12.10.01 5 Obscene Reasons Why Richest Americans grow Richer As Middle-Class Declines
12.10.01 Low Income Households Have Expenses More Than Twice Their Income
12.10.01 The changing face of American manufacturing
12.09.28 Analysis: Housing regulators loosen rules, but at what cost?
12.09.28 Europe’s Austerity Madness
12.09.27 Romney’s 'Tax Fairness' Rubbish
12.09.27 Beyond Wall St., Curbs on High-Speed Trades Proceed
12.09.26 Sheila Bair, in new book, faults Obama and Bush advisers during financial crisis
12.09.24 Decades of federal dollars helped fuel gas boom
12.09.24 America’s Discouraging Income Story
12.09.24 What Business is Wall Street In ?
12.09.23 Shell companies: Launderers Anonymous
12.09.23 China in closed door negotiations to purchase Mexican crude oil without using US Dollar
12.09.23 A Close Look At Your Bills' 'Fine Print'
12.09.22 Why QE3 Won’t Jumpstart the Economy—and What Would
12.09.21 Corporate Tax Loopholes = Corporate Socialism: Pulitzer Prize Winner David Cay Johnston [video]
12.09.21 Joseph Stiglitz Calls to Abolish the Capitalist Church of Self-Interest
12.09.21 Sheila Bair and the bailout bank titans
12.09.20 The Looming Threat That Could Initiate the Next Economic Collapse
12.09.20 Mirabile Dictu! Bloomberg Finally Notices Deposit Flight, a Major Threat to the Eurozone
12.09.19 A Rare Look at Why The Government Won't Fight Wall Street
12.09.19 Mirable Dictu! Has Someone Noticed the IRS isn’t Enforcing Tax Laws in the Mortgage-Industrial Complex?
12.09.18 Face It: 2013 Is Gonna Be a Bummer
12.09.17 US to launch WTO action against China
12.09.17 NYSE fined after some clients got early look at data
12.09.16 Scandal Poses a Riddle: Will India Ever Be Able to Tackle Corruption?
12.09.16 The Lonely Redemption of Sandy Lewis, Wall Street Provocateur
12.09.15 What Krugman & Stiglitz Can Tell Us
12.09.14 Middle Class Shrinks to ALL-TIME LOW
12.09.13 Rich-Poor Gap Widens to Most Since 1967 as Income Falls
12.09.12 Quelle Surprise! Regulatory Measures to Reduce Systemic Risk Are Proving to Be Ineffective, Possibly Counterproductive
12.09.11 The Real Reason For The Afghan War?
12.09.11 US watchdog: Records for $475M in Afghanistan fuel purchases vanish
12.09.11 Carthaginian terms for Italy and Spain threaten Draghi bond plan
12.09.11 THE POWER ELITE: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE U.S. [Venn diagrams]
12.09.10 The Virtues of “Système Débrouiller” [video]
12.09.10 Sheila Bair Visits Occupy Wall Street
12.09.10 World debt comparison: The global debt clock
12.09.09 The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve It
12.09.09 Bankruptcy for Billionaires
12.09.08 Jobs Data Show U.S. Factories Bearing Brunt of Slowdown
12.09.08 Mitt Romney's tax avoidance weakens bonds of American society
12.09.08 The Hidden Progressive History of Income Tax
12.09.06 The Capital Gains Escapades of Rep. Paul Ryan
12.09.06 The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World’s Largest “Debtor” Is Now the World’s Largest Creditor
12.09.05 THE TRACK-STAR ECONOMY
12.09.05 Banker Plan Would Fund Super-PACs To Sway Senate Races
12.09.05 The Banks Are Bluffing – They Aren’t Moving Anywhere
12.09.03 Scandal of Mubarak regime millions in UK
12.09.03 Robert Johnson: Audacious Oligarchy - Unmasking Wall Street and the Decline of Confidence [2 videos]
12.09.03 Paper Criticizes Federal Reserve Approach, Suggests Radical Overhaul of Monetary Policy in the Crisis
12.09.03 At Jackson Hole, a growing fear for Fed independence
12.09.03 Majority of Wall St. Money Now Goes to Romney [video]
12.08.31 Wall Street’s War Against the Cities: Why Bondholders Can’t – and Shouldn’t – be Paid
12.08.31 Wall Street’s War Against the Cities: Why Bondholders Can’t – and Shouldn’t – be Paid
12.08.30 US Presidential Elections - For sale to highest bidder [graphics]
12.08.29 Deposit flight from Spanish banks smashes record in July
12.08.29 Where the Mob Keeps Its Money
12.08.29 Principal reduction: A lifeline for underwater homeowners
12.08.29 The Jobs Crisis
12.08.28 New state laws make undercover probes of farm operations risky
12.08.28 The Promise and Circumscribed Potential of Worker-Owned Businesses
12.08.28 Gold: The Republican Death Wish
12.08.28 The work of John Maynard Keynes shows us that counter-cyclical fiscal policy and an easing of austerity may offer a way out of Eurozone crisis
12.08.18 Paul Ryan’s plan for America is not credible
12.08.18 Pyramid Insurance
12.08.18 Quelle Surprise! SEC Plans to Make the World Safer for Fraudsters, Push Through JOBS Act Con-Artist-Friendly Solicitation Rules
12.08.17 80-year study: Democrats better at economics
12.08.17 5 Ways Privatization Is Ruining America
12.08.16 The Accounting Trick Behind Thirty Years of Scandal
12.08.16 Lynn Parramore: Revealed – Romney Campaign’s Attempts to Deny Paul Ryan’s Insider Trading Don’t Add Up
12.08.16 Spain Out of Options
12.08.16 “Shadow” & “Ghost” Inventory / Negative & “Effective” Negative Equity...The Real Challenges for US Housing [graphics]
12.08.15 Wall St. “Cheetahs” and the Financial Transaction Tax [video]
12.08.15 Capital levies for debt redemption
12.08.14 Paul Ryan’s Fairy-Tale Budget Plan
12.08.14 What the Habsburg Empire can tell us about breaking up the euro zone
12.08.13 Steel mill polluted town as Romney firm profited
12.08.13 'I'm sick to my stomach': anger grows in Illinois at Bain's latest outsourcing plan
12.08.13 Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consider Bringing Back Banking Services
12.08.10 Eduardo Porter’s “Folly”—Why We Must End the “Race to the Bottom”
12.08.10 Americans need to face the harsh truth and pay more tax
12.08.10 Lessons from Sweden in Assembling a Recovery
12.08.09 Bonds for $105 Million to Cost School Over $1 Billion
12.08.09 Time to REBEL! 5 Ways We Can Break the Big Banks' Death Grip on the Economy
12.08.09 Chase CEO: Placing blame hurts economy
12.08.09 Median Wages Have PLUMMETED Since 1969 [graphics]
12.08.09 Economic growth in eurozone impossible without break-up - Wolfson Prize winner [video]
12.08.07 How Legalizing Drugs Would Strengthen Democracy From Afghanistan to Mexico
12.08.07 Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading
12.08.07 Leeson: Rogue trader culture is more rife than ever
12.08.07 Standard Chartered bank accused of scheming with Iran to hide transactions
12.08.07 Spain Proves that Austerity can never “Ensure” a Balanced Budget
12.08.07 Germany and Italy near blows over euro
12.08.07 Why is Verizon in bed with Time Warner and Comcast?
12.08.06 Chart of the Day: Algobot Wars Now Rule Wall Street
12.08.06 Will we have to wait for a 21st century peasants’ revolt before seeing any real change?
12.08.06 Dubious Study Defends SEC Revolving Door
12.08.06 Repeal of Glass-Steagall: Not a cause, but a multiplier
12.08.06 Bankers Gone Wild
12.08.05 Top 10 Most Profitable Companies Paid ~9% Tax Rate
12.08.01 Asian Millionaires Firing Banks Take Charge Of Own Wealth
12.08.01 6 Things You Should Know About the $21 Trillion the World's Richest People Are Hiding In Tax Shelters
12.08.01 Michael Hudson on Fictitious Capital [video]
12.07.31 The Main Driver of GDP Growth: A Strong Rule of Law
12.07.30 Germans Getting Even More Opposed to Being in the Eurozone
12.07.30 Crash of the Bumblebee
12.07.30 Banks Are The “Achilles’ Heel of Capitalism”
12.07.29 How to Break NRA’s Grip on Politics
12.07.29 Africa and the War Against Offshore Finance [video & transcript]
12.07.28 The Right’s Schadenfreude as Their Austerity Policies Devastate Europe
12.07.27 Insight: Banks bristle at breakup call from Sandy Weill
12.07.27 Banking Titans Call for Break Up of “Too Big to Fail”
12.07.26 MPs tell Barclays to stop fundraising for Mitt Romney
12.07.25 Global economy’s cure is worse than the disease
12.07.25 5 Reasons the Super-Rich Need Government More Than the Rest of Us
12.07.25 Exposing the Barclays LIBOR Rigging Scandal (Infographic)
12.07.25 Bridgewater Sees ‘Dangerous Dynamic’ As Largest Economies Slow
12.07.25 Europe is sleepwalking towards imminent disaster, warn top economists
12.07.24 Study Finds About 20% of US Public Companies Cheat On Earnings Reports
12.07.24 Lobbying Works! Big Spenders Reap Big Stock Gains Says Trennert [video]
12.07.24 Dark side of a Bain success
12.07.23 EuroCrisis Intensifies as Spain Spirals Downward, Greek Impasse Nigh
12.07.22 Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of Quarterly Profits [w/video]
12.07.22 Democrats Drop Estate Tax Changes on Tax Bill
12.07.22 Prepare for Spanish Implosion
12.07.22 £13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
12.07.22 Europe to jail interest rate riggers
12.07.20 Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg: Will Lawsuits Sink the Ship?
12.07.20 Matt Taibbi: Libor Rate-Fixing Scandal "Biggest Insider Trading You Could Ever Imagine" [w/video]
12.07.20 The Elites Are Unanimous: Lower Everyone's Wages and Standard of Living -- Except They Don't Say it Out Loud
12.07.20 Geithner Lets the Cat Out of the Bag
12.07.20 Libor: The Crime of the Century
12.07.19 Fine and punishment
12.07.19 US food aid programme criticised as 'corporate welfare' for grain giants
12.07.19 Wall Street's Biggest Heist Yet? How the High Wizards of Finance Gutted Our Schools and Cities
12.07.18 Hendry – ‘Bad things are going to happen’
12.07.18 Ben Bernanke headed toward a cliff as US politics and markets collide
12.07.18 How London became the money-laundering capital of the world
12.07.17 The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
12.07.17 Pentagon Should Pay Fair Share of Cuts
12.07.17 Some sideways thinking about cyberwarfare
12.07.17 The Power of Anonymity
12.07.13 China's economic success sets an example the world should follow
12.07.12 Is Spain Going the Way of Greece?
12.07.11 Living Cells Show How to Fix the Financial System
12.07.11 San Bernardino, California, Weighs Chapter 9 Bankruptcy
12.07.11 Revealed: The £93m City lobby machine
12.07.10 America’s Broken Jobs Engine
12.07.08 Roubini Says 2013 `Storm' May Surpass 2008 Crisis [video]
12.07.06 How Wall Street Scams Counties Into Bankruptcy
12.07.04 JPMorgan in US power market probe
12.07.04 Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal?
12.07.03 Climate Disasters’ Toll Worsened by Sustained Attacks on Public Sector, Science and Regulation [video]
12.07.03 Joseph Stiglitz: Man who ran World Bank calls for bankers to face the music
12.07.03 Bankers and the neuroscience of greed
12.07.03 Governments On Both Sides of the Atlantic Try to Put Lipstick on a Pig
12.07.02 Government by the Banks, for the Banks: The ESM Coup D’Etat in Europe
12.07.01 Banking scandal: how document trail reveals global scam
12.07.01 Let's end this rotten culture that only rewards rogues
12.07.01 “Super Brussels” Saves The World, Again, Maybe!
12.06.30 Banks Conspire to Fleece the Public
12.06.29 A Way to Break Out of Europe's 'Doom Loop'
12.06.28 An Interactive Map of the Dark-Money Universe
12.06.28 Brownian Motion and the Defense Budget
12.06.27 How Can We Stop the Mexican Drug Insanity When Banks and Much of the Establishment Profit Big Time from Illegal Drugs?
12.06.27 European Union Prods Germany With Fiscal Plan
12.06.27 Look beyond summits for euro salvation
12.06.27 Insight: As Congress looks away, U.S. tiptoes toward exporting a gas bounty
12.06.26 Merkel Hardens Resistance To Euro-Area Debt Sharing
12.06.26 Special Report: Chesapeake and rival plotted to suppress land prices
12.06.25 Exclusive Interview: Joseph Stiglitz Sees Terrifying Future for America If We Don't Reverse Inequality
12.06.25 US Government Backstops Most Derivatives
12.06.25 Bank chiefs enjoy double-digit pay rises
12.06.24 Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way
12.06.24 The 5 myths of the great financial meltdown
12.06.24 Members of Congress trade in companies while making laws that affect those same firms
12.06.24 Austerity At Work [graphics]
12.06.23 Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith discuss mafia behavior by financial services companies on Bill Moyers [video]
12.06.23 Romney’s Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas
12.06.22 System Failure: We Are Approaching the End of Society As We Know It -- And That May Be a Good Thing
12.06.22 Prisons, Privatization, Patronage
12.06.22 The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
12.06.22 Dimon in the Rough: How Wall Street Aims to Keep U.S. Regulators Out of Its Global Betting Parlor
12.06.22 Bank of America Settlement on Customer Overbilling Proves Bank Crime Pays
12.06.22 “The Eurozone’s Strategy is a Disaster”
12.06.21 The Ponzi Arithmetic of Profit
12.06.18 The Federal Government, Throwing Families Into The Street To Make Billionaires Out of Millionaires
12.06.18 What happens if Angela Merkel does get her way
12.06.17 Finance and the Mafia State
12.06.16 Austerity Kills: How the EuroCrisis is Being Used to Break the Social Contract
12.06.15 We Don’t Need No Education
12.06.15 The End of the World as We Know It
12.06.14 Exclusive: Adelson's Pro-Romney Donations Will Be 'Limitless,' Could Top $100M
12.06.14 Sanders Releases Explosive Bailout List
12.06.13 Cenk Uygur: Iceland Shows Bailing out Middle Class Works, Not Bailing Out Banks [video]
12.06.13 Why Conservatives Wrongly Blame Single Moms for the Disastrous Failures of the Right-Wing Economic Model
12.06.12 IMF chief Christine Lagarde warns world risks triple crisis
12.06.12 Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality
12.06.12 How the Fed is Killing S&Ls, and Why You Should Care
12.06.11 Germany, Not Greece, Should Exit the Euro
12.06.10 Is Globalization Good for America's Middle Class? Part 1
12.06.06 Greece and the Euro: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
12.06.06 Europe unveils bank-bailout plan
12.06.06 Austerity has never worked
12.06.05 From dreams to drones: who is the real Barack Obama?
12.06.04 Paul Krugman on Newsnight, 30 May 2012 [video]
12.06.04 Bilderberg 2012: detailed member bios, UK Guardian’s video report
12.06.03 How the FDIC can curb banks’ reckless speculation
12.06.03 Tea Party and Occupy activists rub shoulders at Bilderberg protest
12.06.03 Pity the Poor Billionaires: Ultra-Rich Whine About Having Their Massive Campaign Donations Exposed
12.06.01 The Austerity Agenda
12.06.01 Will Brewing Corruption Scandals in Ohio Have an Impact on November's Election?
12.05.31 Top US companies shelling out to block action on climate change
12.05.30 Charles Ferguson's 'Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America'
12.05.29 Political Dividends
12.05.28 Bank Wegelin shirks second NY court hearing
12.05.28 New Zealand, Fresh From Its Service to Mexican Drug Lords, Helps Out the Russian Mafia
12.05.28 Lunch with the FT: Paul Krugman
12.05.24 Don’t take the Bain bait
12.05.24 [Exclusive] Kasich allows oil & gas industry to write portions of fracking legislation
12.05.24 Cooperative Banking in the Aquarian Age
12.05.23 Obama's Big Lie
12.05.23 5 Reasons Why Obama's Attack on Bain Is Good For America
12.05.22 Today Germany Is the Big Loser, Not Greece
12.05.22 Europe is driving full-tilt, foot on the pedal, into a brick wall
12.05.21 Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in the financial crisis
12.05.21 MANIPULATIONS: FACEBOOK is a fiat stock, its valuation is no different than fiat money...
12.05.21 Obama pledges tough enforcement of Wall Street reforms
12.05.18 Barack Obama tells EU: boost growth now or face a global crisis
12.05.18 Bank runs intensifying in the Euro zone
12.05.18 The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan
12.05.17 Inside Job, Narrated by Matt Damon (Full Length HD Documentary)
12.05.17 Nurses vs. High-Speed Traders
12.05.17 Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders
12.05.16 “What Scares Me Isn’t $2 Billion Loss JP Morgan Made, What Scares Me is the Record $19 Billion in Profits” [video]
12.05.16 Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
12.05.16 Republican Party suckles at the breast of Big Business
12.05.16 Weisbrot and Krugman are Wrong: Greece cannot pull off an Argentina
12.05.15 Greek deadlock heightens fears of full European economic crisis
12.05.14 Why We Regulate
12.05.11 Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts
12.05.11 Breaking Up Four Big Banks
12.05.11 Wall Street’s immunity
12.05.11 How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform
12.05.11 Michael Hudson: From the Democratic Party to European "Socialists", they manage crisis in the interests of finance [video]
12.05.10 Real Estate 4 Ransom -- locking up the Great American Dream
12.05.10 Quelle Surprise! Fed Defends Incompetent Bank Management Against Investors
12.05.10 Europe’s Problems Multiply
12.05.10 Michael Hastings & Glenn Greenwald on how media hype about ‘melodramatic’ terrorist plots helps sustain the [profitable] U.S. ‘War on Terror’ [video]
12.05.09 Ryan Shrugs: Overlooked GOP Budget Provision Would Fuel Offshoring With New Tax Incentives
12.05.09 Top 1% Fills Gov. Scott Walker’s Recall War Chest With $25 Million
12.05.09 ALEC Affiliated Corporations
12.05.09 Teachers’ Board Becomes Fifteenth Group To Drop ALEC
12.05.09 ALEC’s Top Five Anti-Environment ‘Model’ Laws
12.05.09 Special Rights for ALEC: Three States Exempt Stealth Corporate Lobbying Group From Lobbying Rules
12.05.09 A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy
12.05.03 How Wall Street Drives Up Gas Prices -- Ripping Us Off and Killing Jobs
12.05.03 Paul Krugman on How to Fix the Economy - and Why It's Easier Than You Think
12.05.02 There is an alternative to austerity
12.05.01 Under Catholic pressure Paul Ryan backs away from Rand, Objectivism
12.05.01 Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!
12.05.01 Tea Party Congressmen Accept Cash From Bailed-Out Bankers
12.05.01 Paul Krugman and Ron Paul discuss economics – as it happened
12.05.01 No alternative to austerity
12.04.30 Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs?
12.04.29 Does Quantitative Easing Benefit the 99% or the 1%?
12.04.27 Outsourced: American Corporations Create More Jobs Overseas Than At Home
12.04.27 Exclusive: Washington Post’s Kaplan and Other For-Profit Colleges Joined ALEC, Controversial Special Interest Lobby
12.04.26 Watch out! Is the Fed pushing us into another bubble?
12.04.26 People Are Finally Figuring Out: Austerity is Stupid
12.04.25 China’s Rise, America’s Fall
12.04.25 Call for Growth to Counter German Push for Austerity
12.04.24 The Koch Brothers – Exposed!
12.04.20 Getting Paid 93 Cents a Day in America? Corporations Bring Back the 19th Century
12.04.20 Shocking Conflict of Interest: Private Water Companies Partner With Fracking Lobby
12.04.19 The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe
12.04.18 But Nobody Pays That
12.04.18 Romney Celebrates with Trump as Working New Yorkers Rally Against Rich Tax Dodgers
12.04.18 Murder, Suicide and Financial Ruin: How the Class War Is Destroying Americans' Lives
12.04.18 Lobby more, pay less in taxes
12.04.18 NAFTA and Free Trade Do Not Belong in the Same Sentence
12.04.17 50 Percent Pay Cuts at GE's Plants: Is This the Future of American Jobs?
12.04.17 6 Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes
12.04.17 Filing Taxes Is Easy When Your Government Isn’t Bought By Intuit
12.04.17 Wells Fargo Now A Major Shareholder In For-Profit Prisons
12.04.16 Yanis Varoufakis on Ringfencing Europe w/ video
12.04.15 More Help for the Wealthy
12.04.14 Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone!
12.04.14 Vermont Senate Resolves to Abolish “Corporate Personhood”
12.04.13 Corruption Is Responsible for 80% of Your Cell Phone Bill
12.04.12 Wealth Defense Industry: The Real Reason America's Oligarchs Can Squeeze the Rest of Us
12.04.11 An economic recovery that leaves workers further behind
12.04.11 Consumer bureau plans overhaul of mortgage industry
12.04.11 The U.S. Has a Low Corporate Tax
12.04.11 ‘Koch Brothers Exposed’ Part 2: Stopping a campaign to re-segregate North Carolina public schools - video
12.04.10 ‘Koch Brothers Exposed’ Part 1: Think tanks attacking Social Security - video
12.04.07 Corporations Flee Koch Brothers' ALEC: Yet Another Win for Progressives
12.04.07 Repressionomics - can 'financial repression' solve debt crisis?
12.04.05 Hunger games: How banks gamble on food prices – and the poor lose out
12.04.05 Capitalism's Dirty Secret: Corporations Don't Create Jobs, They Destroy Them
12.04.04 Self-Reporting Drives $385 Billion ‘Tax Gap’
12.04.02 Who’s Behind the New Anti-Obama Ad Blitz?
12.04.02 6 Reasons the Koch Brothers Had a Very Bad Week
12.04.02 How American Corporations Transformed from Producers to Predators
12.04.02 Privatisation is a catastrophe, warns godfather of forensics
12.04.02 Oh Canada! Imposing Austerity on the World’s Most Resource-rich Country
12.04.01 THE MORE THE MERRIER
12.03.31 Jack Abramoff on oil subsidies vote and how Congress is broken, lobbyists just taking advantage - video
12.03.30 Contractors: How Much Are They Costing the Government? - video
12.03.28 Thomas Frank: How Americans Have Gotten Played -- Over and Over and Over Again
12.03.28 Why some nations become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty - video
12.03.28 UK Education system could be completely privatised by 2015, union predicts
12.03.28 Sheila Bair Told Administration Its Housing Programs Would Bomb, Was Rebuffed on Better Solutions
12.03.28 When privatisation doesn't work
12.03.26 Lobbyists, Guns and Money
12.03.24 Analysis: More US drilling didn't drop gas price
12.03.23 The hypocrisy of Wall Street “capitalism”
12.03.23 Paul Ryan’s 'GOP balanced budget plan' is a disaster that would create $4.3 trillion debt in 10 years - video
12.03.22 Wall Street Confidence Trick: The Interest Rate Swaps that Are Bankrupting Local Governments
12.03.20 US factory, service job exodus not over - studies
12.03.20 Making 9 Million Jobless "Vanish": How The Government Manipulates Unemployment Statistics
12.03.20 The States Get a Poor Report Card
12.03.20 Political intelligence: Wall Street pays handsomely for Washington inside dope
12.03.18 AARP Back in Bed With Effort to Cut Social Security and Medicare
12.03.18 Explaining America's macro puzzles: The worst of all worlds
12.03.15 Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
12.03.15 Bernie Sanders blames Wall Street speculators for rising gas prices - video
12.03.13 The end of cheap China
12.03.11 WARNING: Grand Bargain To Sell You Out - video
12.03.09 GAO: Almost Half of Bailed Banks Repaid the Government With Money “From Other Federal Programs”
12.03.08 Why Jeffrey Sachs would make a better World Bank president
12.03.08 Public Sector Banks: From Black Sheep to Global Leaders
12.03.08 Schools Without Toilet Paper? The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain Folks
12.03.08 Hot global real estate: 416 land-grab deals
12.03.07 The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia
12.03.05 The Ghost of Enron Past Explains Oil Market Manipulation
12.03.02 Obama's Wall Street - video
12.03.02 Filmmaker calls Koch brothers ‘profoundly troubling to democracy’ - video
12.03.01 Greater Welfare for the Non-Poor is Invisible by Design
12.03.01 Wall Street bonuses drop 14 percent, so bankers cry about losing Aspen vacation homes - video
12.02.29 Grantham wonders if Marx was right after all
12.02.29 Towards a Creditor State – One in Seven Americans Pursued by Debt Collectors - Graph
12.02.29 Corporate tax rate was 12.1 percent in 2011 — a 40-year low - video
12.02.27 U.S. job quality is in trouble
12.02.27 New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housing Crises
12.02.27 Warren Buffett Says “Hormones” Will Fix the Housing Crisis
12.02.27 Foreclosure settlement a failure of law, a triumph for bank attorneys
12.02.25 Romney focuses on Keystone instead of oil speculators, because he’s ‘wholly-owned’ by the Koch brothers - video
12.02.24 Rating tax plans: Robert Reich compares the strategies put forth by Obama and GOP challengers - video [Ref. New report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget]
12.02.21 Europe Agrees on New Bailout to Help Greece Avoid Default
12.02.21 How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street
12.02.20 Foreclosure process is ‘utterly broken’Pain Without Gain
12.02.20 Foreclosure process is ‘utterly broken’
12.02.20 Germany drawing up plans for Greece to leave the euro
12.02.17 Bill Gates pressures Obama over new mining and energy anti-corruption laws
12.02.17 Athens faces tough bail-out terms
12.02.16 Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society - video
12.02.16 Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons
12.02.15 American decline in perspective, part 1: 'Losing' the world
12.02.15 American decline in perspective, part 2: The imperial way
12.02.15 Occupy’s amazing Volcker Rule letter
12.02.14 The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement
12.02.14 An American budget for the rich and powerful
12.02.13 STOCK Act Passes: House Votes For Weakened Insider Trading Bill
12.02.13 EDITORIAL: The Big Money Behind State Laws
12.02.10 This is no bailout for Main Street America
12.02.10 Why the Foreclosure Deal May Not Be So Hot After All
12.02.10 Matt Taibbi assesses the $26 billion settlement designed to aid victims of foreclosure fraud - video
12.02.10 Foreclosure Deal to Spur U.S. Home Seizures
12.02.09 S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks
12.02.08 Banks Paying Homeowners to Avoid Foreclosures
12.02.07 App Stores Create 500,000 U.S. Jobs
12.02.07 The Payroll Tax Fight
12.02.07 Obama super PAC decision: President blesses fundraising for Priorities USA Action
12.Ref. We’re More Unequal Than You Think – Graphic: Unequal rise in income
12.02.06 How Privatizing Government Shovels Cash to Parasitic Corporations and Undermines Democracy
12.02.05 We’re More Unequal Than You Think – Graphic: Unequal rise in income
12.02.03 PRIVATE INEQUITY
12.02.02 The New American Divide
12.02.02 American Airlines proposes to end all four pension plans
12.02.01 Economics 101
12.01.30 New Strategy, Old Pentagon Budget
12.01.30 Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
12.01.29 The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing
12.01.29 Made in the World
12.01.28 Matt Taibbi ponders whether Obama’s embrace of populist rhetoric is already impacting Wall Street - video
12.01.28 Sugar daddy Adelson could save $500 million in taxes if his boy Gingrich wins - video
12.01.28 How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’
12.01.27 Unemployment in Spain Rises to 22.9%
12.01.27 Chinese Company Continues Plan To Replace Workforce With 500,000 Robots
12.01.27 Details Emerge of New Financial Fraud Unit
12.01.27 Not all jobs are equal
12.01.27 The Shift from Manufacturing to Service Economy - Graphic
12.01.25 Billionaires Occupy Davos as 0.01% Bemoan Inequality
12.01.24 Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted
12.01.23 State Capitalism: The visible hand
12.01.22 How Big Money Bought Our Democracy, Corrupted Both Parties, and Set Us Up for Another Financial Crisis - video
12.01.22 How U.S. lost out on Apple's iPhone work
12.01.20 Lagarde Warns on Fiscal Cuts Before Davos
12.01.19 Saving Social Security, the Great American Safety Net
12.01.19 Measuring the Top 1% by Wealth, Not Income
12.01.18 Jon Stewart's Devastating, Dark Segment on Factories Where iPhones Are Made - video
12.01.15 Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain
12.01.13 Too Good to be True: Private Prisons in America
12.01.12 How France’s Free will reinvent mobile
12.01.11 They're back, but not quite with a vengeance
12.01.11 Profound and Pervasive Misconduct in Mortgage Servicing
12.01.11 A “New Deal” for Military Contractors?
12.01.11 Where Do Our Income Tax Dollars Go? - Graphic &' Summary
12.01.10 Thomas Frank on the evolution of the Republican party line in the face of continued economic turmoil - video
12.01.10 OECD (2011), Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising
12.01.09 On Eve of $41 Billion MF Global Bankruptcy Filing, Jon Corzine Was Château Shopping in France
12.01.09 Angela Merkel has the whip hand in an orgy of austerity
12.01.09 LIVING BY DEFAULT
12.01.07 Fraud and folly: The untold story of General Electric’s subprime debacle
12.01.03 Cohan: Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street?
12.01.02 Help fight fare rises and push for railway renationalisation
12.01.02 SUBSIDY TRACKER: Find Where Corporations Get Taxpayer Handouts Across the United States
12.01.02 In a first, gas and other fuels are top US export