Per the Guardian , James Henry, former chief economist at consultancy McKinsey and an expert on tax havens, has compiled the most detailed e...

From Nation of Change : While the [National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), an organization that often acts as a front for larg...

(Click on the image for a more legible version.) UPDATE: From the MetroWest Daily News , quoting but without linking to The Nation : Why do ...

How states that have expanded spending have done as compared to states that have cut back. More at The Atlantic .

" 1) Corporate profit margins just hit an all-time high. Companies are making more per dollar of sales than they ever have before. . ....

I have a 401(k) with a major investment company whose name starts with F, which I'll call "F Co." I just got an email from th...

Per the WSJ 's Market Watch , After adjusting for inflation, spending under Obama is falling at a 1.4% annual pace — the first decline i...

From Robert Reich at Nation of Change : The bets were “poorly executed” and “poorly monitored,” said [Jamie] Dimon [current CEO of JPMorgan ...

From the Washington Post : Occupy Wall Street has moved. Its new address: 60 Wall Street. There, inside a soaring public atrium, dreadlocked...

More info here . And just in time: if you missed the 99% non-violent action training , you can take it online here .

Back in the 70's, experts believed that the improvements possible through technology would increase worker productivity to the point tha...

Pulse may have decided, wisely, that the field's gotten too crowded; they've moved to May. Within four days (Mar. 3 - 11), viewers ...

Here's a good explanation of the European debt crisis that's also applicable in the US: A few points that might warrant further expl...

Remember my posts in May, 2009 ( here and here ) on "Derivatives for Dummies"? Well, they're still relevant, because we still...

Great article by Sara Robinson at Alternet , summarizing three important kinds of shift we may now face: Per Joseph Stiglitz , we should sto...

" Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – whi...

. . . is not about market "discipline," according to Dean Baker : The people who gave us the eurozone crisis are working around t...

From Raw Story : WASHINGTON — About 20 “Occupy DC” protesters took their anti-corporate demonstration to the corridors of the US Congress, t...