Economy

Barbados Faces Debt Crisis as an Offshore Tax Haven James Henry: Canadian companies use Barbados as a tax haven to reduce their taxes from 24 percent to 2.5 percent, leaving Barbados with revenue shortage  December 8, 13	How the Working Class Can Fight Corporate Giants pt2 Leo Panitch: In light of increasing low-wage worker protests, organized labor needs to shift its focus to class unionism, which encourages worker solidarity across industries  December 5, 13
How the Defeat of Trade Unionism Gave Rise to Low-Wage Jobs Leo Panitch: Giant corporations like Wal-Mart actively suppress unionization among workers  December 4, 13	Pope Denounces 'A New Tyranny' of Markets, But Will Trade Ministers at Bali? C. Raghavan on why 99% of people in both developing & advanced economies including the US & EU, need trade ministers of developing countries to rebut the US-EU led agenda at the 9th WTO Ministerial  December 3, 13
Economist: Record High Stock Prices Driven by Squeezing Workers' Wages Gerald Epstein: The media celebrates Dow 16,000, but the vast majority of stocks are owned by the top 1%  December 5, 13	Hot Money & Cross Border Finance: The Example of Iceland, Part 2. Post Crash to Present Dilemma Treacherous future still ahead? A look into why the Icelandic government imposed controls over movement of international funds across its borders & its current negotiations to lift those capital controls  November 28, 13
Documents in JPMorgan settlement reveal how every large bank in U.S. has committed mortgage fraud Bill Black: Justice Dept.'s failure to understand pervasive schemes of fraud in financial industry obstructs meaningful prosecution of banks  November 29, 13	How Can Fed Policy Help Main Street? Bob Pollin: Expected new Fed chair Janet Yellen will continue Bernanke's policies of shoring up Wall Street banks with trillions, but the Fed could help Main Street with different policies.  November 21, 13
Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests Kevin Zeese: Obama administration's Fast Track authority plan derailed by bipartisan outrage.  November 15, 13	Three Million More in Poverty than Previously Estimated Census reveals new poverty figures near 50 million.  November 17, 13
Fossil Fuel Industry Receives $500 Billion in Subsidies by Governments Worldwide Taxpayers in richest countries pay $112 to subsidize oil, gas, and coal companies.  November 13, 13	First Wall Street Criminal Confession in a Generation...Still No One in Jail Bill Black: SAC Capital Advisors pleads guilty to insider trading, but owner Steven Cohen has yet to face criminal prosecution.  November 5, 13
House Passes Deregulation Bill Written by Citigroup Bill Black: Both parties support Wall Street's effort to deregulate derivatives  November 1, 13	Support for Robin Hood Tax Growing, but Majority of Democrats Not On Board Robin Hood tax supporters National Nurses United, economist Jeffrey Sachs, and European Parliament VP tell Congress to support "no brainer" tax on Wall Street  November 1, 13
Fmr. Goldman Sachs Trader Supports Robin Hood Tax As A Way to Move Away from Financialized Economy Wally Turbeville: Robin Hood tax will mitigate problems of Wall Street's trading behavior and move us towards creating jobs through manufacturing, innovation, and infrastructure  October 27, 13	Adjunct Professors Join National Fight for Better Pay and Benefits Adjunct professors represent 75% of college instructors. This week, they are organizing events in 25 states.  October 28, 13
Justice Department Misrepresents JP Morgan Settlement The DOJ gives up the ability to prosecute JP Morgan  October 23, 13	German Exporters Benefit from European Austerity Austerity reduces the value of the Euro which helps German exporters  October 24, 13
NY Federal Reserve Examiner Fired After Submitting Critical Report of Goldman Sachs - Extended Superiors told Carmen Segarra to change her report. When she refused, they fired her.  October 21, 13	Federal Reserve in Uncharted Territory Global Economist, Yilmaz Akyuz, on the Crisis of Financial Crisis Management.  October 21, 13
NY Federal Reserve Examiner Fired After Submitting Critical Report of Goldman Sachs Superiors told Carmen Segarra to change her report. When she refused, they fired her.  October 21, 13	Economist: There is no debt crisis The debt crisis is contrived.  October 18, 13
Who is Behind TISA? Pt. 2 Deborah James: Transnational financial services interests are lobbying hard for the passage of this agreement and ways to push back on government regulation domestically  October 15, 13	Economist: "There's Absolutely Nothing Resembling A Debt Crisis In The US" Interests payments on US debt are at an historic low.  October 2, 13
Trade in Services Agreement Moves Forward, But How Will It Affect Consumers? Pt.1 Deborah James: The proposed trade agreement TISA would prohibit governments from being able to regulate the service industry  October 18, 13	Wall Street's Latest Scheme Will Cost You More at the Gas Pump The EPA allows banks to speculate on ethanol credits which drives up prices 20-fold  September 24, 13
Pt. 2 What Needs To Be Done To Fix The Global Economy Patrick Bond: For a recovery to occur, national governments must assert economy sovereignty  September 23, 13	Pt. 1 BRICS Countries Beset By Economic Problems Patrick Bond: Slow growth and inflation are taking a toll in developing countries  September 23, 13
Why didn't OWS transform into a political movement? Two years later, author & journalist Nathan Schneider takes a look at concrete victories and missteps of the Occupy movement  September 18, 13	Five Years After Lehman Brothers Fall, Big Banks Even Larger In contrast to workers and homeowners, banks fully recover from the financial crisis.  September 15, 13
Wall Street Banks Obtain Market Data Ten Minutes Before Everyone Else A news scandal shows the markets are rigged  September 13, 13	Five Years After Lehman Brothers Fall, Big Banks Even Larger Pt. 2 In contrast to workers and homeowners, banks fully recover from the financial crisis.  September 15, 13
Unprecedented Inequality: The Top 1 Percent Captured 95% of the Income Gains Since 2009 Salvatore Babones: The economy is growing, but most workers are left behind  September 12, 13	The Next Federal Reserve Chair will Decide the Fate of Dodd-Frank Gerald Epstein: Larry Summers is the chief architect of the financial crisis and should not be chief regulator of the financial system  September 10, 13
Why Larry Summers Track Record of Failure Actually Helps His Fed Nomination Bill Black: Larry Summers theory of finance: banks are too brilliant to fail and regulators are idiots.  September 9, 13	G-20 Offers Weak Proposals To Stop Corporate Tax Dodging James Henry: More action needed to stop corporations from skirting $200-300 billion per year in taxes.  September 6, 13
Wall Street Journal Considers Zero Prosecutions of Banks Excessive The department of Justice claims they are cracking down on bank fraud but they are mostly imposing fines and targeting small fish  September 1, 13	Trade & Investment Rules Facilitating What, for Whom? Vijay Prashad: People who own things have disproportionate economic power in society. We've made it impossible to create economic power for workers.  September 1, 13
Trade & Investment Rules Facilitating What, For Whom? Vijay Prashad: Allowing big firms to enter your country to modernize agriculture is very dangerous because essentially you are losing sovereignty over your food. Part 3 of 4  August 29, 13	Wall Street Eager to See Larry Summers Nominated Fed Chair Summers likely to be next Fed chair not despite failures but because of them  September 2, 13
Revealed: Potential Fed Chair Summers At Heart of Global Economic Crisis Greg Palast: Secret memo reveals Larry Summers involved in deal that helped setup the global economic crisis  September 2, 13	North South Trade Negotiations: The relationship between trade rules and the operations of multinational corporations Vijay Prashad: Trade rules should be about closing the gap between current wants and the ability of the planet to sustain or fulfill those wants not about increasing volumes of new wants. This is an ecological nightmare. Part 2 of 4  August 28, 13
How is Privatization Failing America? Paul Bucheitt: From healthcare to education, research shows an increase in privatization leaves the public with the losses and corporations with the gains  August 26, 13	FBI Partners with Banks and Blames Mortgage Fraud on Poor Borrowers Instead of prosecuting banks for mortgage fraud, the Department of Justice is working with them.  August 22, 13
The Government is Finally Arresting Wall Street Bankers...For Losing Wall Street's Money The Dept. of Justice will let JP Morgan's London Whale off the hook while prosecuting low-level traders.  August 17, 13	The US Has Lowest Minimum Wage and Most Young People Without Jobs Among Wealthiest Countries Over 100 economists sign petition to raise the minimum wage  August 14, 13
Instead of Recovery British Economy Shows Signs of Stagnation John Weeks: "British Press tries to vindicate austerity and budget cuts as "signs of economic recovery."  August 13, 13	Australia Has $16 Minimum Wage and is the Only Rich Country to Dodge the Global Recession Australia has twice the minimum wage as the US and Big Macs cost roughly the same.  August 9, 13
Bank of America Escapes Criminal Charges for Securities Fraud Bill Black: Bank of America facing civil charges but BOA and other major financial fraudsters off the hook from criminal charges  August 9, 13	Company Responsible for Deadly Oil Train Crash Says It Won't Pay, TransCanada Pushes Pipeline Deal Yves Engler: Tragedy in Canadian town turns into an opportunity for some to argue that pipeline transport is safer, when the real argument should be against an oil-driven economy  August 2, 13
Michigan Leads Nation in Massive Corporate Tax Breaks (The Untold Story of Detroit's Decline) A new study of state subsidies for corporations over a 30-year period reveals cost of $456,000 per job  August 2, 13	Why the Right Should Support the Return of Glass-Steagall Bill Black: Glass-Steagall prevented a classic conflict of interest that any side of the aisle can blatantly see  August 4, 13
Revealed: Banks Rewarded and Blacklisted Appraisers to Artificially Inflate Real Estate Prices Thousands of appraisers warned Washington regulators of fraud during the seven years leading up to the housing crash  July 15, 13	Low-Income New Yorkers Pay Higher Rent - Billionaires Receive Massive Tax Break for Luxury Condos Two decisions by the NY State Legislature and Rent Guidelines Board will deepen gentrification in NYC  July 15, 13
Mismeasuring Our Economy: Why the GDP is Not Useful The GDP is the most commonly cited economic metric but it doesn't tell us what we need to know  July 23, 13	Caught On Tape: Irish Bankers Laugh About Never Repaying Bailout Bill Black: Tapes reveal Anglo Irish Bank executives laughed as they manipulated Irish Government into 16 billion dollar bailout the knew they would never repay  July 5, 13
GAO Finds US Companies Only Pay One-Third of Corporate Tax Rate CEOs claim the US has the world's highest corporate tax rate, but they actually pay less than most workers  July 3, 13	Former Top Regulators Tell Congress to Rein in Big Banks Three former financial regulators testify to the House Financial Services Committee in support of reinstating Glass-Steagall legislation and addressing Too Big to Fail Banks.  June 29, 13
The Paradox of the Creditor Debtor Relationship - Germany the Debtor Nation Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: The debtor has to come back to a situation where they are able to earn money  July 1, 13	The Paradox of the Creditor Debtor Relationship - Germany the Creditor Nation Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Germany is asking debtor countries to repay their debts but at the same time preventing them from doing it  June 30, 2013
Fewer Adults Are Working Than Anytime Since 2001 Unemployment is falling, but the fastest growing job markets offer low pay  July 4, 13	Ex-Employees Say Bank of America Rewarded Fraudulent Foreclosures Bill Black: Bank of America and other financial giants undeterred by Obama Admins weak oversight and enforcement of industry  June 24, 13
Wall Street Getting Rich At Expense of Farmers and the Poor More protections needed to safeguard the health of the global food and farming system  June 19, 13	Obama Fails to Reappoint Serious Regulator to CFTC Bob Pollin: If President Obama was serious about regulation and closing the income gap, he would have reappointed Gary Gensler.  June 19, 13
Bank Profits Soar, Wages Suffer Sharpest Decline in 60 Years Bill Black: The economy is recovering - unless you work for a paycheck.  June 9, 13	Investing in Schools Creates More Than Twice as Many Jobs as Military Spending Bob Pollin: Education spending is the best job creator - so why are local and state governments firing teachers and closing schools?  June 9, 13
Why Aren't the 50% Living in Poverty Protesting in the Streets? Paul Buchheit PT2: Poor Americans are angry but so far don't think there is much they can do about their situation except find some individual solution  June 4, 13	50% of Americans Live in Poverty Paul Buchheit: Based on assets and income, number of people in poverty closer to 50% rather than official stat of 15%  June 4, 13
$6 Billion Money Laundering On-line Business Operated with Impunity Bill Black: Operation involving drug money carried on for almost a decade before being charged; much bigger crimes on Wall St. go unpunished  May 29, 13	Actual US Poverty Twice Official Figure Jeannette Wicks-Lim: According to official figures 15 percent of Americans live in poverty, real numbers are over 33 percent of Americans cannot meet basic needs  May 31, 13
Deficit is Dropping but is there a Real Recovery? Bill Black: With surge in stock market, the wealthier are paying more taxes but working class wages are not rising and unemployment remains high, so this does not mean a sustained recovery of the real economy is underway  June 4, 13	Apple Achieves Holy Grail of Tax Avoidance Bill Black: Senate questions CEO Tim Cook how company earned $30 billion in 'international' profits while paying zero taxes  May 23, 13
Does Austerity Increase Inflation? Stephanie Seguino: By weakening the social safety net austerity policies actually increases the cost of production  June 3, 13	JP Morgan/Chase Shareholders Meeting to Vote on Demoting Chairman Jamie Dimon Jennifer Taub: Fight over resolution making CEO Dimon give up board chairman's job shows what an oxymoron "shareholder democracy" is; concentration of power is extreme in the worlds biggest bank  May 21, 13
Banks Win Big as Regulators Refuse to Rein in $700 Trillion Derivatives Market Bill Black: Weakness of financial regulators shows you can not "tame the scorpion"  May 21, 13	Obama says Economy Poised for Progress - Is It? Bill Black: Pres. Obama cannot expect growth in the economy when he continues the policies of austerity  May 12, 13
Taxing Corporate Profits will Force Investment Heiner Flassbeck: Corporations are sitting on mountains of cash and are unwilling to invest in the real economy - only high taxes on profit will make them do so  May 22, 13	Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable  May 21, 13
Apres Moi, Le Deluge - Make Money Now To Hell With Tomorrow Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: We're in worse shape now than in 2008 because at least then there was hope governments would face up to the situation  May 16, 13	Pollin Responds to Reinhart and Rogoff; Cuts Deepen and Stock Market Soars Bob Pollin: NYT Op-ed defending study repeats errors; theoretical basis for austerity has been exposed yet massive cuts in public spending continue  May 8, 13
Guantanamo Hunger Strike Forces Debate About Detention Michael Ratner: Just when it seemed the illegal detention of prisoners at Guantanamo was off the radar, hunger strikers took control of their own destiny  May 5, 13	The War on Wages and The Road to Bangladesh Bill Black: In the name of competitiveness, the criminal conditions that led to the deaths and injuries of thousands of workers in Bangladesh, are being created around the world in a race to lower wages and working conditions  May 2, 13
US Lets Swiss Banks, Accused of Aiding Tax Fraud, Avoid Prosecution with Fines James Henry: Swiss banks are negotiating fines to avoid prosecution, while billions of dollars continue to be hidden away from taxes  April 26, 13	Recession and Austerity Good for the Rich James Henry: The top 7 percent of households, about 8 million people, have seen their net worth increase to a mean of about $3.2 million in the last three years  April 28, 13
Does Public Debt Restrict Growth? Joseph Minarik and Bob Pollin debate recent PERI report that debunked economic theory that supported austerity policies  April 28, 13	Study Debunking Austerity Research Sparks Wide Reaction Bob Pollin (Co-Author of Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff): Deficit Hawks still defend conclusions of a study that contained spreadsheet errors and weighted selected countries in an inappropriate way; led to incorrect theory about public debt and growth  April 23, 13
Senate Immigration Bill: More Militarization of the Border, No Real Path to Citizenship Isabel Garcia: New legislation will increase deportations, beef up police while worker status will help provide cheap labor for businesses but make citizenship almost impossible to attain  April 19, 13	People of the South to the North: Will You Face Up to Climate Catastrophe? Martin Khor (Executive Director of the South Centre): Advanced countries of the North must cut emmisions in ratio to the amount they have polluted and facilitate transfer of green technology to the South or humanity will face calamity  April 25, 13
28-year old PhD student debunks the most influential austerity study New study refutes Reinhart and Rogoff analysis that underpins austerity policy around the world; shows no relation between debt and lack of growth  April 23, 13	Video Game and Tax Day Actions Target Corporate "Tax Evaders" Nicole Tichon and Gan Golan: By projecting a Tax Evader video game on the side of banks and big corporate buildings, actions aim to focus public attention on banks and big companies that pay low to no taxes  April 23, 13
Big Commodity Traders Pocketed $250 Billion Profit Gerald Epstein: New FT investigation says big commodity traders earned more profit than banks or auto  April 23, 13	The Real News Debate: Social Security on the Table Joseph Minarik (former chief economist of the Office of Management and Budget for eight years during the Clinton Administration) and economist Richard Wolff take on President Obama's proposed changes to Social Security  April 14, 2013
Obama Social Security Reform Ignores Data on Actual Living Standards of Seniors Teressa Ghilarducci: The "chained" CPI ignores research that shows senior's costs are going up as they get older and women are most affected  April 13, 13	401(k) and the Financialization of Retirement Teresa Ghilarducci: The whole 401K structure has a fatal flaw and older workers are going into retirement with not enough money to maintain their living standards  April 15, 13
52% of Americans Favor Legalization of Marijuana Neill Franklin: While 45 percent of Americans oppose legal marijuana, 70 percent think enforcing federal drug laws is a waste of money  April 28, 2013	Obama's "Cat Food" Social Security Reform Michael Hudson: Obama's "bargain" on social security reform will push more retirees into poverty in exchange for a minor increase in high end income tax - a class that receives most revenue from capital gains  April 22, 13
Obama Budget Plans on Replacing USDA Poultry Inspectors with Industry Self Regulation Tony Corbo: Plan will put our food supply at risk in a move that will increase profits of poultry producers and save only 90 million dollars over three years  April 11, 13	Obama Sends Lew to Europe Preaching Growth While Practicing Austerity at Home Bill Black: Treasury Secretary Lew tells Europe to ease up on austerity while Obama makes major cuts at home  April 11, 13
Under Thatcher, the Poor Became Poorer John Weeks: Thatcher and Reagan set out to crush the union movement and assert the power of capital  April 10, 13	The Grand Betrayal has Arrived Bill Black: President Obama's bargain with Republicans opens the door to Wall St.'s dream - the privatization of Social Security  April 10, 13
Thatcher Gave More Power to Finance Michael Hudson: Thatcher deregulated banking and made London the center of speculation and financialization  April 10, 13	Full Transparency Needed to Close Down Tax Havens and Massive Fraud James Henry: Global tax revenue lost to tax havens is between USD $190 billion and $255 billion per year, assuming a 3% capital gains rate and a 30% capital gains tax rate  April 14, 2013
Obama Fully Embraces Austerity with Cuts to Social Security and Medicare Bob Pollin: Costs of Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with rise in fiscal deficit  April 18, 13	Investigation Reveals Trillions Hidden in Tax Havens Bill Black: An international collaboration of investigative journalists has released the names of wealthy individuals stashing as much as three times the American GDP in tax havens  April 10, 13
High Unemployment Due to Lack of Demand, Not Lack of Skills or Education Jesse Rothstein: Low wages and lack of purchasing power the real structural problem, skills training and more education is not the critical solution  April 30, 13	Sen. Warren and End of the Minimum Wage Debate Jeannette Wicks-Lim: Research shows that a rise in the minimum wage does not cause job loss; Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions food industry reps who claim it does  April 9, 13
Recession Good for Profits Gerald Epstein: Low wages and interest rates create rocketing profits and stock markets  April 9, 13	Everyone but China TPP Trade Deal Threatens Sovereignty and Public Ownership Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese: Obama led trade initiative Trans Pacific Partnership aims to isolate China while strengthening corporate legal rights  April 9, 13
Gender Wage Gap is Shrinking - Male Wages are Going Down Bill Black: Male workers wages are going down which makes gap appear smaller; in higher incomes levels gap is getting wider  April 10, 13	New SEC Head Once Acted for Wall St Wonder Boy Dimon Dimitri Lascaris: New director of SEC was a Wall St. defense attorney who will now regulate former clients  April 10, 13
Youth Will Pay the Price of Austerity Pt2. Stephanie Seguino: Elites profit from "smaller" government while youth unemployment soars  April 10, 13	Stagnant Wages and Speculation Triggered the Crisis Pt1. Stephanie Seguino: Blacks, Hispanics, and single mothers have much greater loss of income since crisis, triggered by income inequality in the first place  April 10, 13
No Doomsday but Ontario Takes Out the Knives Jim Stanford: Ontario slashes with austerity regime even though predicted massive deficit has not developed  April 10, 13	Canadian Budget "Austerity on Autopilot" Jim Stanford: In spite of data showing the Canadian economy is slowing down, the new Federal Budget pushes cuts and a balanced budget which will make recession worse - true under-utilization of labor is 12 percent  April 10, 13
Cyprus Crisis Reveals Shadowy World of Tax and Money Laundering Haven James Henry: Bailout deal includes capital controls and punishing big Russian depositors to pay off European banks -- leaves Cyprus looking for a "new way to make a living"  April 10, 13	Galbraith and Panitch: What Would Real Economic Reform Look Like? In Pt.3 James K. Galbraith and Leo Panitch imagine what a genuinely reform minded US government might do about the economy  April 10, 13
Putting Water Back in Public Hands Nick Buxton: Paris and other cities have remunicipalised water that had been privatized saving users money and introducing more democracy and transparency  April 25, 13	Privatizing Europe Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism  April 24, 13
From London to New York to Cyprus, Fraud and Financial "Insanity" Bill Black: Standard Chartered admits to fraud, no one fired or prosecuted; Cypriot people force government to give up on taxing smaller depositors  April 10, 13	Cyprus Should Let the Banks Go Bankrupt Costas Lapavitsas: Cyprus should let the private banks fail and create a public bank that focuses on strengthening the real economy  March 21, 2013
Gailbraith and Panitch: Is a New "New Deal' Possible? Pt.2 James K. Gailbraith and Leo Panitch discuss the 80th anniversary of the election of FDR and the significance of the New Deal  April 10, 13	Cyprus: "You Don't Trigger a Bank Run to Fix a Financial Crisis" Gerald Epstein: EU tries to force Cyprus to tax bank deposits to pay for bailout  September 4, 13
Mutual Interest Hidden Beneath Apple and Samsung Legal Struggle Both companies benefit from turning patents into a bulwark against innovation, the general public pays the price when two corporations divide the market between them  April 10, 13	Forbes Billionaires List Growing James Henry: US still leads as many new billionaires emerging in China and Russia; corporate profits at record levels - as austerity hits and unemployment remains high  April 10, 13
Will a Grand Bargain or Betrayal be Obama's Legacy Bill Black: Slate magazine says that President Obama wants a Grand Bargain on budget cuts he can call his legacy - but it will be a Grand Betrayal that makes the recession worse  April 10, 13	"Everyone But China" Agreement Prevents Regulation of Hot Money and Speculation Kevin Gallagher: Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens national sovereignty, extends corporate rights, and targets China  March 18, 2013
Solution to Student Debt is to Get the Banks Out of the Education Business Michael Hudson: Crippling student debt, which is also a drag on the whole ecnonomy, developed as governments pushed the burden of higher education costs onto students and pushed them into the arms of the banks  April 9, 13	Public Banking Needed to Stop "Cannibalization" of the Economy Michael Hudson: As long as finance is left in private hands, you're going to have austerity and America ending up looking like Greece and Ireland  April 10, 13
Government Debt and Deficits Are Not the Problem - Private Debt Is Michael Hudson: Why do they call for governments to balance the budget by pushing the economy at large deeper into debt, while trying to save the banks from taking a loss?  April 10, 13	Undoing the New Deal PT2 On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt's election and the introduction of the New Deal, Jennifer Taub and John Weeks discuss the post-war period and how successive administrations dismantled it  April 10, 13
Who Benefits from Austerity? Bob Pollin fields the question: are the very rich hunkering down for a long recession and to protect their assets, are more concerned about debt than high unemployment  April 10, 13	Sequestration - Fourth Austerity Shoe Drops Bill Black: Both parties have conspired to bring us a disaster; Obama's sequestration plan gives cuts without blame  April 10, 13
Higher Wages Will End Recession Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Targeting low inflation will deepen crisis; government must pass laws and intervene to facilitate a general rise in wages  March 3, 2013	Obama and GOP Shared Austerity Vision Will Deepen Recession Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: The massive sequester cuts to government spending are a disaster - what's needed is a wage led recovery  March 1, 2013
Sequestration Budget Cuts Will Deepen Recession - Both Parties Reject Stimulus James Heintz: President Obama and GOP focus on budget cutting instead of creating more employment  April 5, 13	Clinton"s Policy of Not Prosecuting Bank Fraud Continues Bill Black: Clinton admin. thought that prosecuting big bank fraud wasn't worth the governments time and could destabilize banking system - Obama continues the policy today  February 24, 13
Will a Higher Minimum Wage Cost Jobs? Bob Pollin on the theory that a higher minimum wage will reduce jobs available to young people entering the work force and won't reduce poverty  February 21, 13	Obama Supports Clean and Dirty Energy Bob Pollin: President Obama can’t possibly meet carbon emission targets he set and still support increased oil, natural gas and coal production  February 19, 13
More Criticism in Internal IMF Report Ilene Grabel: Internal report critiques IMF methods and analysis as IMF relationship with developing world changes  February 28, 13	IMF Accused of Double Standard on China's Currency Moves Ilene Grabel: An IMF internal report says it's been unfairly critiquing China and other Asian countries currency manipulations while ignoring similar practices by Western countries  February 25, 2013
More Geithner Without Geithner Bill Black: Jacob Lew confirmation hearing for Secretary of the Treasuery shows he was picked as a signal that the Geithner policies would survive Geithner, and that they're actually the president's policies  February 18, 13	How Stanley Fischer Advanced Neo-Liberalism in Israel Shir Hever: Fischer steps down as head of Israel's central bank, known for pushing economic "reforms" that led to greater inequality; before this working for IMF, he helped develop privatization in Russia  February 20, 2013
SOTU: Obama Opens Door to Grand Betrayal Bill Black: President Obama offered up "reform" of medicare and social security, that is cuts at a time of deep recession  February 13, 13	LIBOR Scandal More Than Fraud - Whole Game is Rigged Costas Lapavitsas: From multimillion dollar losses by cities like Baltimore to pension fund losses and much more, the LIBOR interest rate scandal shows that such mechanisms must be taken out of the hands of banks and be run in public interest  February 15, 13
Judge Rules Against a Bank - Precedent Could Cost Bank of America Billions Bill Black: Judge rules that Flagstar, a big mortgage lender that gave "liars loans", is liable to insurance company - same issues at stake in Bank of America case  February 11, 2013	International Trade Panel Undermines National Systems of the Rule of Law Chakravarthi Raghavan: The International Convention on Settlement on Investment Disputes has become a mechanism that reinforces multinational corporate property rights over a countries ability to create public policy in its people interest  February 7, 2013
US Economy "Stuck in the Mud" Robert Pollin: Last quarter of 2012 had zero growth, wages were lower, unemployment higher as stock market hit record highs  January 6, 2013	Creative Finance: Leaving Felons in Charge of the Banks Bill Black: Obama Administration following logic that to not investigate and prosecute banking fraud builds trust in the institutions  February 3, 13
US Economy Contracts - More Cuts Will Mean Even Less Growth John Weeks: The idea that smaller government leads to more private sector investment is a fairy tale  February 10, 13	The Financialization of Food Sasha Breger Bush: In the name of democratizing finance, derivative exchanges are achieving the opposite  February 21, 13
Financial Regulation and Cost Benefit Analysis for Whom? Gerald Eptsein: Bloomberg News calls for a cost benefit analysis of financial regulations, but the question is, cost benefit for whom?  January 5, 2013	Lack of Criminal Prosecutions Linked to Obama and Holder's Wall St. Connections Dimitri Lascaris: Department of Justice under George Bush secured convictions of major figures from the business community in complex financial frauds and Obama and Holder have not done so following the worst epidemic of financial fraud in the modern era  January 30, 2013
Obama Admin. Fails to Prosecute Banking Fraud to 'Save the System' James S. Henry commenting on PBS documentary "The Untouchables": If one of these institutions was indicted and made an example of, it would have a profound affect on the whole industry - but Obama raises money on Wall St.  January 29, 2013	Davos Still Pushes Failed Global Vision Bill Black reports from Davos that the Global Competitiveness Report pushes countries towards even more deregulation - policies that helped trigger the crisis  January 25, 2013
The Bottom Line: Regulation Econ4: Rules are as important in an economy as they are in sports  January 23, 2013	The Privatization of Chile's Sea Many small-scale fishermen say new fishing law could spell the end of their livelihood  January 18, 2013
Stewart vs Krugman and the Religion of Austerity Bill Black: Obama has options, including the trillion dollar coin, to refuse to negotiate under the gun but he's taken them off the table; both sides subscribe to the dogma of austerity  January 18, 2013	What are the German Bankers Thinking? Michael Ash: German bankers can be ruthless bill collectors, wild speculators, social planners and austerity hawks but they seem to ignore the damage they are doing to Europe  January 18, 2013
Is Effective Financial Regulation Possible? Gerald Epstein: Powerful lobbying by finance sector keeps turning regulations into Swiss cheese; there is an alternative if people fight for it  January 16, 2013	Krugman and Obama’s Dangerous Austerity Myths Bill Black: Obama nominates a Wall St. loyalist to help negotiate the "Grand Betrayal"  January 13, 2013
Massive Cuts to Postal Service a Step Towards Privatization? Plan to restructure post office a big real estate play and boon to private courier companies  January 9, 2013	Banks' $8.5 Billion Mortgage Settlement a Mild Slap on the Wrist James Heintz: Settlement is a drop in the bucket compared to $6.9 trillion of lost household wealth  January 8, 2013
American Dynasties Perpetuated by "Cliff" Estate Tax Deal James S. Henry: Obama's deal with GOP on estate tax ensures very rich families will continue to amass historic levels of wealth and power  January 4, 2013	Rich Should Be Happy with Cliff Deal Gerald Epstein: President Obama did not have to make this deal, it's a debacle being called a win  January 3, 2013
Cliff Deal a "Moderate" Betrayal Bill Black: Compromise on tax hikes on rich and allowing payroll taxes to rise sets the ground for a "grand betrayal" yet to come  January 3, 2013	Fiscal Cliff: Going Nuclear and the Grand Betrayal Bill Black: GOP threatens to use debt ceiling as leverage, creates conditions for more austerity measures by Obama  December 29, 12
Will Obama Offer Massive Corporate Tax Cuts to Make "Fiscal Cliff" Deal? James S. Henry: Territorial tax being considered that would make offshore revenue tax free  December 31, 2012	Wal-Mart Targeted Over Corruption and Labor Practices Global investigations, protests and strikes highlight need for change at world's biggest private employer  December 24, 2012
Neoliberalizing Nature and Privatizing the Air Patrick Bond: In 2013 bankers will increase their efforts to make money out of the climate crisis and put a dollar value on everything  January 7, 2013	Black: Too Big to Prosecute and It's Obama's Fiscal Cliff Bill Black: Criminal money laundering goes unpunished and Fiscal Cliff was created by Obama  December 23, 2012
Economic Outlook for 2013 Bob Pollin: With austerity policies in Europe and the USA and slow down in China and India, 2013 needs innovative policies or more recession is likely  January 2, 2013	A Grimmer State of the States Bob Pollin: New study shows states are paying more for medicaid as workers lose jobs with insurance; no help in sight from federal government  March 15, 13
The Fed Targets Unemployment With More Money for Banks Robert Pollin: The Fed breaks ground with unemployment target but pushing more money into banks without requiring more lending won't solve the problem  December 28, 2012	Fiscal Cliff "Crisis" Manufactured to Prey on the Weak Rob Johnson: Real crisis is the cost of health care which has nothing to do with Medicare or Medicaid  December 13, 2012
Austerity Italian Style Bill Black: Youth unemployment in Italy reaches 40% as European big banks insist on more austerity  December 10, 2012	State Subsidies to Attract Corporate Investment Should be Banned Gerald Epstein: The money thrown at corporations by states to invite investment is a boondoggle that should be ended by federal law  December 9, 2012
Why Can Corporate Interests Trump Sovereign Rights? Chakravarthi Raghavan Pt2: International trade agreements have given corporations the rights colonial powers used to wield  April 25, 13	Congress Go Home - The "Fiscal Cliff" is a Scam Pt.4 James Galbraith: There is no emergency, the best thing for Congress to do is go home and let the new Congress deal with issues next year  December 4, 2012
Will Taxing the Rich Deepen the Recession? - The "Fiscal Cliff" is a Scam James Galbraith: Long term higher taxes on rich will have little affect on economy; higher taxes for ordinary people could deepen recession over time but there is no emergency  December 3, 12	A Looming Crisis in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid? The "Fiscal Cliff" is a Scam Pt2 James Galbraith: It's been known since the 1950's that there would be more demands on social security; If there was political will health care costs could be controlled, it's not a problem of Medicare  December 2, 2012
Why the Fiscal Cliff is a Scam James K. Galbraith: Is there a looming crisis of debt or deficits such that sacrifices in general are necessary?  November 30, 2012	Wilkerson: Senate Pushes Obama Towards War and Susan Rice a Bad Choice Larry Wilkerson: The Senate passed a good amendment to NDAA but a terrible resolution on Iran; Susan Rice should be opposed on policy issues, not GOP rhetoric  December 6, 2012
Who's Getting Pushed Off the "Fiscal Cliff"? Progressive Democrats lobby against a "Grand Bargain" that will further unravel the social safety net  November 28, 2012	Canada and Israel - The Ugly Canadian Yves Engler: PM Harper has moved Canada to become the closest ally of the Israeli hard right  December 3, 12
Fiscal Cliff Debate: Austerity One Way or Austerity Another Way Bill Black's Financial and Fraud Report on the current choices offered by President Obama and Congress  November 29, 2012	Most New Jobs Don't Require College Education Jeannette Wicks-Lim: The possibility of educating one's way out of poverty is getting dim as most new jobs only require a high school education  November 29, 2012
Africa Lost 1.6 Trillion in Capital Flight and Odious Debt Over Forty Years Léonce Ndikumana: $619 billion of embezzled capital flight from North Africa with connivance of big banks according to new research  November 25, 2012	Incomes Earned on Assets Rising while Labor Income is Falling Yilmaz Akyuz: The crisis is not big enough for a fundamental change in economies like the United States; if we don't do the right things, we're bound to have bigger crises  December 17, 2012
Is the Global Economy on the Verge of Another Meltdown? YILMAZ AKYÜZ: From the US to Europe, from China to Brazil, the indications are that if current policies don't change, another major recession is likely  December 16, 12	Chinese Market Won't Save Global Capitalism Yilmaz Akyüz Pt2: China's export model not sustainable; domestic consumer demand too weak to make serious difference to lack of demand in developed economies  December 13, 2012
Bubble in Developing World Won't Substitute for Domestic Demand Yilmaz Akyüz: There needs to be a write-off of household debt to spur a real recovery  December 12, 2012	Black Report: Craziness on Three Continents Bill Black: Banks try to start a run on the banks in Ecuador  February 12, 13
Fiscal Cliff An Artificial Crisis Michael Hudson: Fiscal cliff was manufactured to shift more of the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people  November 25, 2012	Is the "Fiscal Cliff" a Fiction? John Weeks: The fiscal cliff has simply been created by Congress in order to push austerity which is no solution during a recession  November 14, 2012
Drums Beating to Privatize Social Security Bill Black: A group of Democrats called "The Third Way" are working with President Obama towards the "grand betrayal" on social security  November 11, 2012	The Bottom Line - Housing How out-of-control finance led to the housing crisis (and what to do about it).  December 7, 2012
Austerity and Low Wages will Lead to Years of Recession Engelbert Stockhammer: Europe has shown that cuts in public spending and lowering wages leads to deep stagnation  November 6, 2012	Does jobs growth come from higher profits or wages? Özlem Onaran: Research shows that a decrease in wages leads to lower demand and a decrease in economic growth, while higher profits lead to very little increased investment if demand is low  November 11, 12
Greek Parliament Approves Contentious Law to Expand Privatization Dimitri Lascaris: New budget makes it clear Greece will never pay off its debts, real aim of austerity is to break unions and privatize public assets  November 2, 12	Econ4 Discusses Jobs and Job Creation The Bottom Line series promotes economics that is both more empirical and more oriented towards sustainability and fairness  October 30, 2012
Black Financial and Fraud Report Bill Black: Government Sues Bank of America but No Criminal Prosecutions  October 26, 2012	New Robin Hood Tax Introduced In Congress A half-percent tax on all financial transactions makes it to Congress  October 23, 12
Black Financial and Fraud Report Bill Black: Romney's Secret Plan; the 1% Now Have More Wealth than the bottom 90%  October 19, 2012	Fueling the Food Crisis Tim A. Wise: Bio-fuels are driving up the price of food everywhere and costing developing countries billions  October 10, 12
Black Financial and Fraud Report Bill Black: Obama susceptible to attack by Romney because he failed to deal with systemic risk to financial system - even though Romney would be worse  October 10, 12	Court Strikes Down CFTC Regulation to Limit Excessive Speculation Michael Greenberger: Legal and lobbying assault by finance sector blocks regulation of excessive speculation, will lead to higher prices for food and other commodities  October 16, 2012
Are Big Banks Too Big to Regulate? Pt 2, Michael Greenberger: If somebody understood the economic issues and explained them to the American people, you could easily be elected president by saying you're going to put an end to the Wall Street hijinks  October 18, 12	UNCTAD: High Frequency Trading and Speculation Leads to Higher Prices Nicolas Maystre: Study shows relationship between food price volatility and high frequency trading  November 1, 2012
Black Financial and Fraud Report London and Wall St. in a dangerous competition to create a more unregulated environment for finance  September 28, 2012	Shadow Banking and Conventional Banking Depend on Government Support Jennifer Taub - Part 2: I think we need to look at the banking system and say: if our government is providing support, either through the FDIC or through the Fed, which when it engages in printing money obviously affects the economy and the value of goods and services, if a bank has that, they obviously are—this is a government banking system.  October 2, 12
Shadow Banking Still an Unregulated Threat Jennifer Taub: Before the crisis, the top five financial institutions had assets equivalent to 50 percent of GDP. Now let's fast-forward to 2011, three years after the crisis, if you look at the top five institutions that survived, and their assets are equal to 58 percent of GDP  October 1, 12	Financialization and the World Economy Gerry Epstein: Financialization of the economy has been developing since the late 19th century and is now at historic Levels  October 3, 12
Will the Russian Left Respond to Deepening Economic Crisis? Aleksandr Buzgalin: The Russian left shows signs of growth in spite of being shut out of mass media  October 3, 2012	The labor market is not self-regulating; governments must support worker's fight for higher wages Pt 2. Heiner Flassbeck [Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]: Governments must  intervene with policy that pushes wages up in line with productivity or global recession will deepen  October 15, 12
Low wages and high unemployment are paralyzing the global economy Heiner Flassbeck [Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]: The drive to be more "competitive" is pushing the world economy into deep recession; the best that quantitative easing can do is create another bubble  October 14, 2012	The Black Financial and Fraud Report Bill Black: Top Justice official tells Wall St. how to avoid prosecution  September 21, 12
QE3 Another Fed Give Away to the Banks Michael Hudson: Shoveling money to the banks not meant to create jobs, it’s a way to give banks even more speculative capital and prepare them for another meltdown  September 23, 2012	Anti-Austerity Protests Sweep West Bank Palestinians take to the streets of the West Bank against neoliberalism and economic dependency agreements with Israel  September 16, 12
Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Market 20 Times Global GDP Markus Stanley: Derivative bets not a zero sum game, have far reaching real world consequences  September 25, 12	PT2 The Fed and the Crisis Second part of Jane D’Arista commentary on the role of the US Federal Reserve in managing the crisis of global capitalism  September 14, 12
The Crisis and Who Has Power Leo Panitch and Sam GIndin PT2: Major structural change or effective short term reforms requires addressing democratic decision making starting with making banks a public utility  September 25, 12	Obama's Policies Won't Create Jobs, but Romney Will be a Disaster Bob Pollin: The export-led recovery does not take into account a deepening world recession  September 10, 12
Does Obama Economic Policy "Just Need More Time"? Jerry Epstein: The basic policies must change or recession and high unemployment will continue  September 13, 12	Race to the Regulatory Bottom Bill Black: Wall St. wants to compete with London for lack of financial regulation  September 6, 12
The Fed and the Crisis A commentary by Jane D’Arista assessing the actions of the Federal Reserve in managing the economic crisis  September 13, 12	The Real Hunger Games - Big Commodity Traders Control World Grain Market Sophia Murphy: Four big traders have anywhere from 75 to 90 percent of the global trade in grains around the world  September 4, 12
Black Report: Majority of Wall St. Money Now Goes to Romney Bill Black: Even though many on Wall St. understand need for regulation, most want a free-for-all and damn the consequences  September 2, 2012	Romney and the European Authoritarian Right John Weeks: European right-wing governments prefer Obama for pragmatic reasons, but are closer to Romney in ideology  August 30, 2012
The Fraud-lympics and Kansas GOP Moves Way Right This week's Bill Black Financial and Fraud Report  August 13, 12	Wall St. “Cheetahs” and the Financial Transaction Tax The recent stock market volatility could have been restricted by a tax on transactions that would make the small quick score less attractive  August 14, 12
Netanyahu Bows to Popular Pressure on Austerity Self-immolations in Israel due to poverty and upcoming austerity measures plummet PM to record low in polls  August 9, 12	LIBOR Rate-Fixing Scandal Sets Off Investigations, Lawsuits Against Big Banks Cities around the country, from Baltimore to Oakland, are taking legal action against the banks responsible for suppressing the London interbank offered rate, Libor. And some 75% of major cities involved in libor-tied interest-rate swaps stand to reclaim taxpayer losses in addition to libor-backed mortgage holders who lost money on the rate's manipulation.  August 10, 12
The Media and Politics of Offshore Tax Havens James Henry PT 3: Politicians demand debt reduction but the media rarely connects billions of unpaid taxes on offshore accounts to the issue  August 12, 2012	Part 2 What a Single Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like Gerald Friedman: A single-payer plan in Maryland would cover everyone, improve outcomes and make business more competitive  August 2, 12
How to Pay for Single Payer Health Insurance Gerald Friedman Pt 3 of "What a Single Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like"  August 9, 12	The Drought and the Coming Food Price Bubble TIm A. Wise: US food reserves at an historic low as biofuels, climate change and speculation exacerbate food crisis.  August 13, 12
A Green Full Employment Economy Requires Mass Mobilization Bob Pollin Pt6: The first steps towards full employment is to create a green engine of jobs growth  August 23, 2012	Did Obama Stimulus Work? Bob Pollin Pt5: The stimulus plan saved many jobs and helped prevent a deeper crash, but was far short of spurring a recovery  August 22, 2012
Is Full Employment Possible in the Era of Globalization? Bob Pollin Pt4: The global "army of the unemployed" weakened American labor, but tariffs are not a solution - a mass mobilization is needed  August 19, 2012	Full Employment and the Swedish Model Bob Pollin Pt3: In the quest for a short term solution to the crisis, there is a lot to learn from Swedish social-democracy  August 17, 2012
Is Full Employment Possible in Capitalism? Bob Pollin Pt2: There have been periods of unemployment less than 4%, those conditions could be created if there was intent to do so  August 16, 2012	The Full Employment Debate Bob Pollin, author of Back to Full Employment, begins a series examining whether full employment is possible and how to get there  August 15, 2012
Trillion Dollar Tax Havens, Inequality and Recession James Henry Pt2: Vast amounts of money avoid taxes and productive investment  August 8, 2012	Major Banks Help Clients Hide Trillions in Offshore Tax Havens James Henry: US media and politicians mostly ignore massive untaxed wealth that big banks help rich move to tax havens  August 3, 2012
Africa and the War Against Offshore Finance Léonce Ndikumana: To reduce poverty, Africa needs to demand financial transparency as big banks collude with local corruption  July 26, 2012	Bill Black Reports: LIBOR and HSBC Bill Black, author of "The Best Way To Rob a Bank is to Own One" begins a regular TRNN feature reporting on financial news  July 25, 2012
Interest Rate-Fixing Scandal Swindles Baltimore, Other Municipalities out of Millions of Dollars Amidst the financial crisis of 2008 and resultant recession, cities and states around the country lost millions of dollars on investments tied to the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).  July 20, 12	LIBOR - Insider Trading on a Massive Scale Stephany Griffith-Jones: Major banks fixed interest rates to make short term profits and look stronger than they were  July 29, 12
Report on the Greek Left Leo Panitch: Recently returned from Greece, a report on Syriza, the left party that could win the next election  July 17, 12	Will Obama Admin. Prosecute the Big Banks for LIBOR Manipulation? Michael Greenberger: With Wall St.'s embace of Romney, Obama has nothing to lose prosecuting the big banks for the LIBOR fraud  July 16, 12
Baltimore, Big Banks and a Criminal Conspiracy Bill Black: The LIBOR fraud stole millions upon millions from American cities and people around the world  July 16, 12	Restructuring Europe - For Whom? The structural reform now being discussed in Europe would mean an even more neoliberal agenda  July 9, 2012
Greek Pro-Bailout Party Wins Most Seats as Majority Reject the Deal Dimitri Lascaris: New Democracy win a hollow victory as majority of Greeks reject austerity and underlying problems remain unsolved  June 18, 12	Pt2 Is Public Ownership the Solution? Gar Alperovitz: There is nothing new about public ownership of major enterprises in the USA  July 15, 12
Pt3 - CO2, the Sun, and Warming in the Middle Ages - Viewer Questions on Climate Science TRNN viewers ask questions and challenge two prominent climate scientists about the relationship between increased carbon emissions and global warming  June 24, 12	Greeks Face a Momentous Decision Costas Lapavitsas: If Syriza wins coming elections and does not fulfill its promises, face up to leaving the Euro, it will open a path for far right  June 14, 2012
Euro-Crisis Used to Destroy Social Contract Rob Johnson: European adjustments are not the product of a mistake, but a design to break down some of the leftover architecture of the Cold War, which might be called the insurance premium that was paid against conversion to communism.  June 15, 12	What I'd Ask JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Robert Johnson: We are unlikely to hear tough questions from Senate Banking Committee as JP Morgan is their biggest campaign contributor  June 14, 12
Is Public Ownership the Solution? Gar Alperovitz: When it comes to banking and other critical sectors, public ownership is the only solution  July 13, 12	Should Fed Intervene in Spanish Bond Market? ECB is using crisis to unravel the European welfare state, but this could push the US economy into deeper recession  June 8, 12
What Would a Green Industrial Strategy Look Like? Robert Pollin: Shifting spending from the military-industrial complex to a green economy would create more jobs and build a sustainable industrial base  June 13, 12	Will Military Budget Cuts Weaken Defence and Lose Jobs? Bob Pollin: Cuts triggered by the Congressional sequestration process are not as big as Pentagon spin and military spending is an inefficient "job creator"  June 12, 12
America has an Industrial Policy - It's Run by the Pentagon Bob Pollin: We need an industrial policy aimed at jobs and a green economy, not massive public spending on the military  November 11, 13	America has an Industrial Policy - It's Run by the Pentagon TRNN Replay: Bob Pollin: We need an industrial policy aimed at jobs and a green economy, not massive public spending on the military  November 11, 13
Jobs Numbers Show Recession Far From Over Bob Pollin: There is no engine driving job creation so no real recovery is possible  June 7, 12	Bill Black on “Career Limiting Gestures” Bill Black on being “disinvited” to brief Congress because he might “bash the banks”  June 1, 12
The Minimum Wage and Making Work Pay Jeannette Wicks-Lim: The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is no substitute for a higher minimum wage  June 7, 12	Argentinian Central Bank Targets Growth, Not Lower Inflation John Weeks: The Central Bank of Argentina breaks ranks with neo-liberal banking policy and targets jobs over lower inflation  June 28, 12
Italian PM - Austerity Not Leading to Growth Pt.2 Fareed Zakaria's defence of neo-liberalism runs into trouble when Italian PM says "fiscal discipline" destroying domestic demand  May 30, 12	Fareed Zakaria's Neo-Liberal Defense of Germany Pt1 John Weeks Pt1: Zakaria's (of CNN and Time Magazine) analysis of the Greek crisis is nonsense that misses the entire context of the problem  May 29, 12
Is Ecuador's Economic Policy a Non Neo-Liberal Alternative? Rebecca Ray: Ecuador's economy continues to grow in spite of recession as they pursue policies that target poverty alleviation  June 7, 12	J.P. Morgan Funds Senate Finance Chair, Even Bigger Problem in the Wings Tom Ferguson: Euro crisis may have more devasting effect on US banks than previously thought  May 22, 12
BP Coverup, Coverup Greg Palast: US corporate media ignoring evidence of BP foreknowledge of problems that led to Gulf disaster  October 28, 12	JP Morgan Debacle Shows Deep Systemic Risk Unchanged Bill Black: Billions of derivative bets cannot be called a hedge but might be allowed under weakend Volker rule  May 15, 12
Two Billion Dollar Tip of Banking Iceberg Gerald Epstein: J.P. Morgan debacle shows systemic risk unchanged; breaking up big banks, reform Fed and public banking urgently required  May 15, 12	Did Social Over Spending Cause the Euro-Crisis? Carlo Panico: Most media pays no attention to scientific economic literature  June 10, 12
What Americans can Learn from Eurocrisis Michael Hudson: From the Democratic Party to European "Socialists", they manage crisis in the interests of finance  May 10, 12	Corporate Media and the Austerity Campaign Bill Black: Most media treats austerity as a necessary solution, not a means to enforce the interests of finance  May 14, 12
Will New French President Challenge Germany? Mark Kesselman: The big question is whether Mr. Hollande will be a lion or the mouse that roared  May 7, 2012	People of Greece Shake Europe Costas Lapavitsas: The growing strength of the left shows the Greek people are getting ready to leave the Eurozone  May 7, 2012
The Struggle Over UNCTAD (and Why It Matters) Vijay Prashad: Southern countries defend mandate as the "North" pushes a "global supply chain" that could obliterate smaller countries  May 15, 12	A Wall St. Tax and an Independent Workers Movement Rose Ann DeMoro and Robert Pollin: There is little will in Washington for a financial transaction tax because Wall St. has "occupied the White House"  May 1, 12
Bankers Assault on Financial Reform Gerald Epstein: New financial regulations contained in the Dodd-Frank law are being gutted or delayed by regulators and Congress  April 30, 2012	Reining in Finance and the Struggle Over UN Agency's Mandate Vijay Prashad: Developed countries fight to stop UNCTAD linking financial speculation to food insecurity  April 26, 2012
The French Election and the Eurocrisis Gérard Duménil: Most voters want to save social programs and reject austerity  April 22, 2012	Can Jim Yong Kim Make a Difference at the World Bank? Mark Weisbrot, Patrick Bond and Elaine Zuckerman discuss and debate Obama's "surprising" nomination, now head of the World Bank  April 17, 2012
Global North VS South Over Financialization of Food Vijay Prashad: US and West fighting BRIC and other southern countries that want limits on speculation on food  April 13, 2012	Our Name is Resistance Dimitri Lascaris: Greece buries Dimitris Christoulas as many pledge to carry on the fight against austerity  April 10, 2012
Inequality and Instability - Part 4 James K. Galbraith on his study of the world economy just before the great crisis  April 22, 2012	Inequality and Instability - Part 3 James K. Galbraith on link between inequality and instability: Societies that are more egalitarian are more stable  April 20, 2012
Inequality and Instability - Part 2 James K. Galbraith: The Bush years - Growth demanded new markets among debtors who previously had not qualified for mortgages  April 19, 2012	Inequality and Instability James K. Galbraith presents his study of the world economy just before the great crisis  April 18, 2012
Jobs Act 2012 a Recipe for Fraud Bill Black: The "Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act" will create a race to the regulatory bottom  April 5, 2012	Ed Herman on "Humanitarian Imperialism" Edward Herman Pt2: The development of humanitarian intervention as a concept is essentially an overthrow of international law  July 2, 2012
Ed Herman, Co-Author of “Manufacturing Consent” Pt 1 Ed Herman, who wrote the famous book with Noam Chomsky, looks back at his life and what formed his thinking about the world  July 1, 2012	Will Pumping More American Oil Lower Gas Price? Robert Pollin: Speculation and manipulation key factors in price spike  April 3, 2012
Israeli Economy and the "Washington Consensus" Bank of Israel submitted 2011 report, arguing economy is strong, despite gross inequalities and unsustainable neoliberal reforms.  April 8, 2012	Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodities Prices Michael Greenberger: Weak regulations on speculators swamping markets and lack of enforcement of existing laws on criminal intent, are driving up prices  April 13, 2012
Germany and Europe's Path to the 19th Century Francisco Louçã: European elite wants to undo the "social contract"; Germany wants more control  March 31, 12	Why are Workers Striking Across Spain and Portugal? Francisco Louçã: A deliberate policy of using the crisis to break the social contract is causing mass unemployment  March 28, 2012
High Oil Prices Must be Subject of Criminal Investigation Michael Greenberger: Big banks and traders involved in a criminal conspiracy to raise oil prices  March 28, 2012	A Quick Boost for the Economy -- a $12 Minimum Wage James K. Galbraith: Raising the minimum wage would boost demand and give millions a better wage  April 4, 12
Banking "Technocrats" Undermine Democracy Gerry Epstein: In Europe and the US, bankers take control of the political process  March 26, 2012	Russia’s “Jurassic Capitalism”: A Caricature of the West? Aleksandr Buzgalin: A strata of bureaucrats and oligarchs rule a caricature of Western capitalism, amassing fabulous wealth  May 6, 2012
Russia’s “Jurassic Capitalism” Pt.2 Part 2 of Aleksandr Buzgalin's presentation on the Russian economy  May 7, 2012	Russia’s “Jurassic Capitalism” Part 1 of Aleksandr Buzgalin's presentation on Russian Economy  May 6, 2012
Austerity and the GOP in Power James Crotty: Republican state governments show what a GOP President might do  March 12, 12	Is Obama Still on the Austerity Train? James Crotty: Obama's budget is a "less savage" attack on social programs, but still assumes we are "living above our means"  March 4, 2012
Greeks Look to the Left for Solutions Costas Lapavitsas: The left is gaining in popular support but have so far failed to present a coherent program  February 24, 2012	The Eurozone Crisis and the USA Costas Lapavitsas: European and US elites are asserting naked class interest, but in Europe now there's a more extreme neo-liberalism  February 29, 2012
Greece Has a Choice - Get Out the Euro Costas Lapavitsas: Breaking with neo-liberal economics imposed by German and European elite is the only real choice  February 21, 2012	On the Brink: Fiscal Austerity Threatens a Global Recession Dr. Heiner Flassbeck, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD: European austerity policies past the point of no return, driving global economy towards deep and lengthy recession  February 23, 2012
Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society Dimitri Lascaris: Heart wrenching personal stories show that Greece should reject austerity deal and pull out of Eurozone  February 16, 2012	A Planned Economy for the 1% Michael Hudson: All economies have a certain amount of planning, the question is, for whom  February 26, 2012
What to do about Apple and Fraud Friendly Manufacturing in China? Bill Black: We need to ban imports produced while breaking laws of China  February 13, 2012	Is Obama Getting Serious About Bank Fraud? Bill Black: Are Pres. Obama's new measures effective or window dressing?  February 19, 12
Taxes Do Not Mean Rich Will Leave Jeff Thompson pt.3: Study shows that if States raise taxes the rich will not relocate  March 9, 2012	Will Affluent Go On Strike? Jeff Thompson pt.2: Study shows that while States need revenue, most tax wealthy at lower rates  March 9, 2012
Raising Taxes on Rich does not Slow Jobs Growth Jeff Thompson: Study shows that while States need revenue, most tax wealthy at lower rates  March 9, 2012	Will Government Bank Mortgage Deal Help or Hinder Prosecutions? Yves Smith: How can Obama Admin. settle before they have fully investigated the fraud  February 9, 2012
Ecuador Creating Alternative to Neo-Liberal Model Jayati Ghosh: Ecuador raising taxes on wealthy, higher royalties on oil companies and making large social investments  February 2, 2012	Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Crisis New report calls for sweeping agricultural reform  January 18, 2012
Movement to Occupy Vacant Houses Spreads Bronx activists supported by Occupy Wall Street enter second month of occupation  January 10, 12	Where is Obama's Climate Change Agenda? James Boyce and Joe Romm discuss the Obama administration climate change policy or lack thereof  January 5, 2012
Why a Financial Transaction Tax? Sarah Anderson: 0.25% tax on financial transactions could raise $150 billion a year in the US alone  December 4, 2011	Is the Euro Crisis Over? William K. Black, Paolo Manasse, and John Weeks discuss the Euro and the danger of global recession  January 2, 2012
Military Spending: Bang for the Buck? Bob Pollin: Military vs Education spending, how many jobs does one billion dollars create  December 30, 2011	America Beyond Capitalism Gar Alperovitz describes a model that challenges private monopoly ownership without a powerful bureaucratic state  December 27, 2011
Banks Holding 1.4 Trillion, Could Create 19 Million Jobs Bob Pollin: Study looks at impact of 1.4 trillion in excess liquid asset holdings if put in productive investments  December 21, 2011	Food Security Off the Table Timothy A. Wise: G20 and WTO do nothing to prevent food price bubbles; trade policies weakening developing countries' production  December 16, 2011
A Deeper Crisis is Coming, We Must Control the Banks Pt3 John Weeks: Obama gave the banks time to rally opposition to severe regulations; another banking collapse is on the way  December 14, 11	The G20 and Global Policy Paralysis Ilene Grabel: There's neither the political will nor the courage to take on the austerity and privatization policies pushed by finance  December 14, 11
Eurocrisis: "Democracy is Not a Given" Dr. Heiner Flassbeck (Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD): German policy of low wages and beggar thy neighbor is root of euro crisis  December 11, 2011	The War on Wages Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: If wages don't rise and the "pathological" power of finance is not pushed back, we will face a deep depression  December 20, 2011
Class War: Low Wages and Beggar Thy Neighbor Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: The words "class war" maybe unfashionable, but it is still a battle between labor and capital  December 11, 2011	Eurocrisis Solutions for Whom? Matias Vernengo: Proposed new rules for the Eurozone based on interests of bankers, large companies and the European elite  December 9, 2011
US Fed Buys Europe Some Time Rob Johnson: Move by Fed papers over structural issues; austerity policies meant to weaken social safety net and lower workers wages  December 1, 2011	Global Recession Looms as Euro Crisis Deepens Costas Lapavitsas: Crisis deepens as Germany fails to sell-out 10 year bonds; the public must take over the financial system  November 24, 2011
Should Greece Pull Out of the Euro? TRNN Replay - Costas Lapavitsas: The Greek people face a decade of depression in the Eurozone, it's better to leave and make major reforms.  February 20, 12	Democratic Governance is Becoming Discredited Tom Ferguson: The two major parties have next to no relationship to the population, it is a deeply corrupt discussion  November 28, 2011
Does Smaller Government Create More Jobs? Bob Pollin: There is no evidence that austerity and cuts to social programs creates jobs  November 25, 2011	Thanksgiving and Undocumented Farm Workers Frank Bardacke: Millions of undocumented farm workers produce much of America's food  November 25, 11
What Happened To Farm Workers Unionization In California Frank Bardacke: Farm workers unions became dependent on Democratic Party politics  December 11, 11	What Happened to Regulating the Banks? Gerry Epstein: Regulations are full of exemptions and overly complicated; stronger reforms and public banking needed  January 6, 2012
The Super Committee and the Attack on Labor Michael Hudson: Austerity and recession used to lower wages  November 21, 2011	Is a Universal Social Net Good Macro Economics? J. Ghosh: A safety net helps to raise wages and create real demand  November 28, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Declares Goldman Sachs Guilty General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity  November 14, 11	Spanish polls prompt fresh indignados protest EuroNews: With jobless rates continuing to top 20 per cent, the Spanish opposition Popular Party has a clear lead over the Socialists  November 14, 2011
Speculation and Watered Down Regulation Kevin Hall: From coffee to oil little has been done about out-of-control commodities speculation  November 11, 2011	Greek Anti-Austerity Movement Lacks Electoral Strategy Costos Panayotakis: Movement united in the streets but divided on how to take power  November 12, 2011
Papademos Named as New Head of Greek Coalition Euronews: Former deputy head of the European Central Bank Lucas Papademos has been appointed to form a new coalition government  November 10, 2011	Anti-capitalist protesters descend on Cannes EuroNews: The Greek debt crisis may steal the show at the G20 summit but anti-capitalist protest voices are getting louder on the sidelines  November 4, 2011
Papandreou punt turns drama into crisis EuroNews: The Greek economic drama has once again turned into a political horror show  November 3, 2011	Protests start ahead of G20 summit in Cannes EuroNews: Politicians are facing pressure from the streets ahead of this week's G20 summit  November 2, 2011
G20 Ignores Food Security Jennifer Clapp and Tim Wise: G20 gives up on agenda to control speculation on food  November 2, 2011	High stakes at euro summit EuroNews: As the latest euro rescue summit loomed, there remained major differences on confronting the currency bloc's worsening sovereign debt crisis  October 26, 2011
"Occupy Movement" Could Focus on Speculation and Food Prices Bob Pollin: New regulations very weak, needs a major public push  October 28, 2011	Occupy Movement and Demands Bob Pollin: When the movement is ready for specific demands, here are some suggestions  November 1, 2011
Deutsche Bank Vegas Exposure Equals Eurozone Leo Panitch: Deutsche Bank owns Vegas investments that equal its exposure in Greece, Spain and Portugal  October 28, 2011	Will G20 Control Hot Money? Southern countries pitted against US and France over capital controls  October 31, 2011
Bank of America's Death Rattle Bill Black: BAC, has directed troubled financial derivatives from its Merrill Lynch subsidiary to federally insured bank Bank of America making private risk public  October 29, 11	Bill Black: Jobs Now, Stop the Foreclosures, Jail the Banksters Bill Black: Here are three things the "Occupy Movement" could focus on  November 3, 2011
Bill Black: What I'd Demand of the Fed Bill Black: If I marched with Occupy Wall St. to the New York Fed, this is what I would demand  October 25, 2011	The Road to Political Dictatorship Pt2 John Weeks: The economic power of Wall St., if not restrained, will lead to political dictatorship  December 5, 2011
It's About Wall St. but it's Not All About Speculation Pt1 John Weeks: We are not far from the day when government will be smaller than the financial sector  December 1, 2011	The Legal Basis to Reject Odious Debt Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce: International law supports Africa rejecting debts that did not benefit the people  October 26, 2011
The Human Cost of Africa's Odious Debt Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce: The cost of servicing external odious debt leads to tragic underspending on health care and education  December 7, 11	Should Banks be a Public Utility? Leo Panitch: The Occupy movement should adopt the demand for banking in the public interest which challenges the system  December 7, 11
Should Africa Repay its 'Odious' Debts? Boyce and Ndikumana, authors of 'Africa's Odious Debts', argue that under international law, debts incurred by dictators should not be enforceable  October 24, 2011	Regulations on Speculation Weak, But Better Than Nothing William K. Black: Regulations passed by CFTC gutted by industry pressure, but some progress given DC politics  October 23, 2011
Occupy Wall St. Turns Global NYC Occupy movement enters second month and gains momentum  October 18, 2011	Worldwide protests denounce economic injustice EuroNews: New York was where the movement started, and yesterday demonstrators occupied Times Square instead of Wall Street as the protest against corporate greed and economic injustice went globa  October 17, 2011
Critique of Natural Gas Company Propaganda Skewer - Ironic News: Natural Gas Company Propaganda is BULL S*!T! The Ironic News Report Calls Them Out!  October 17, 11	Children in Need Losing Out on Frontline Services Channel 4: Thousands of vulnerable children and families are being left without access to vital services because of the government cuts  October 14, 2011
A Real Challenge to Corporate Power Arthur MacEwan: Opposing bail out of bankers and fighting for Universal Health Plan challenges corporate power  October 16, 2011	Poverty to Rise and Income to Fall in UK Channel4: Middle incomes will fall by 7 per cent and a quarter of Britain's children will be living in poverty by 2013  October 13, 2011
Occupy DC Protest on Capitol Hill Six protesters arrested as people "occupying" DC march into Congress  October 14, 11	Greek transport workers strike again over cuts EuroNews: Greek transport workers on Monday staged their sixth strike in a fortnight in protest at government spending cuts  October 11, 2011
Occupy DC Targets Wars and Economy Occupy DC campaign begins with demands to end militarism and for economic justice  October 8, 2011	Independent Movement Must Pressure Ontario Minority Government Jim Stanford: Unions and grassroots organizations shouldn't rely on political parties to effect change in new Ontario government  October 8, 2011
Icelandic People Said No Michael Hudson: Peoples of countries indebted without their consent should refuse to repay odious debts  October 26, 2011	California Nurses and Farmworkers Demand Justice Norman Solomon: Farm workers bill of rights is vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown; Nurses strike against cuts and for health care for all  October 13, 2011
Is The Current Economic Crisis The Next Great Depression? John A. Miller: Government spending is necessary to spark economic growth, increase jobs and wages  October 17, 2011	Occupy protests spread to DC Al Jazeera: The "Occupy Wall Street" protests against economic inequality are spreading beyond New York  October 7, 2011
Occupy Wall St. to a Bank in the Public Interest Michael Hudson: A public option in banking will be a structural answer to the power of finance  October 7, 2011	Greek Worker: "Patriotism is to Fight Austerity with Actions" EuroNews: In the centre of Athens youths broke up marble paving slabs and hurled them at police on Wednesday  October 6, 2011
Greek Plan to cut Budget Angers Public Al Jazeera: Analysts say a Greek default is increasingly likely; and that means more pain for world markets  October 4, 2011	Anti-Wall Street Protesters 'Get Organized' EuroNews: The anti-Wall Street protest in New York has now produced copycat movements across the US  October 4, 2011
Greeks protest as EU, IMF begin fiscal audit AFP: Greek civil servants opposing a new barrage of austerity cuts occupied a host of ministries  October 1, 2011	80 People Arrested at "Occupy Wall St." Protesters vow to continue occupying Wall St. until demands are met  September 27, 2011
An Adult Conversation About Taxes Hugh Mackenzie: Politicians are childish saying they can cut costs without losing services  October 5, 2011	Rich Getting Richer in Ontario Hugh Mackenzie: From 1992 to 2007, 90% of the income gain in Canada went to the top 1% while their effective tax rate went down  September 28, 2011
Real World MIA in Elections Rhetoric Linda McQuaig: In the US and Canada, the deliberate policies that created great wealth for the top 1% and suffering for the rest is not talked about  October 4, 2011	The Trouble with Billionaires Linda McQuaig: Concentration of wealth in North America growing and dragging down economy  October 1, 2011
Ontario Elections - Is Small Business Really the Answer? Leo Panitch: All parties are pledging to help small business, but that's where workers have the least rights  October 3, 2011	The Dollar, the Euro and the Deepening Crisis Leo Panitch: US consumes five times China and India combined - Asian markets are not the way out of the crisis  September 25, 2011
"Days of Rage" Occupy Wall St. Five thousand people demand Wall St. pay for the crisis  September 20, 2011	Obama's Tax on Wealthy too Little too Late? Tom Ferguson: Tax proposal shows conservative economics have been a disaster  September 20, 2011
Bikes a Path to Jobs Heidi Garrett-Peltier: Roads built with bike paths create more jobs and promote green economy  September 21, 2011	Nurses Hold Actions Across Country Demanding Wall Street Transaction Tax Nurses link increasing poverty to health problems, demand Wall St. tax as way of funding solutions  September 17, 2011
UK Cuts to Public Sector Not Leading to Private Sector Growth Ch4: Government austerity in UK leading to higher unemployment not growth  September 15, 2011	US Poverty Level Reaches Record High EuroNews: Nearly one in six Americans are living in poverty. That is the result of the US Census Bureau's annual report.  September 15, 2011
Obama Pushes NAFTA-Style Trade Policy Despite 2008 Promise Timothy A. Wise: US pushing Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement without key reforms  September 15, 2011	Obama Plan Will End Up Pushing GOP Agenda Rob Johnson: Obama infrastructure plan a good start but it is undermined by cuts to social programs  September 10, 2011
Obama Jobs Plan Tax Cuts Threaten Social Security Robert Pollin: Infrastructure investments positive if passed, cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security more likely  September 9, 2011	Obama Labor Day Speech Praises Union Concessions Frank Hammer: Obama and UAW leadership restructured auto industry in a race to the bottom, not a stronger "middle class"  September 6, 2011
Speculation Drives Up Coffee Prices Kevin G. Hall: The same big financial investors that drove up the price of gas are pushing up the price of your cup of joe  August 30, 2011	Without Short-Term Stimulus Global Economy Will go Over the Precipice Michael Greenberger: Lack of capital for productive investment starving global economy  August 31, 2011
Secret Exemptions Allowed Speculators to Distort Futures Markets Michael Greenberger (former Chief of Staff to Brooksley Born): Secret deals with CFTC staff led to futures markets with 80% speculation  August 29, 2011	Saving the Dollar, Destroying Jobs and the Financial System Gerry Epstein: In '71 Nixon closed the gold window and contributed to rise of the domination of finance and weakening of the real economy  October 6, 2011
Is Capitalism Doomed? Gerry Epstein comments on Nouriel Roubini's blog that "Marx was right"  August 19, 2011	Activists Plan Oct 6 Occupation in DC David Swanson: Occupation of Freedom Plaza in DC modeled after Tahrir Square and Mass European Protests  August 28, 2011
How Dangerous is This Moment? Jeff Madrick, author of the Age of Greed, says with wages flat austerity measures and the domination of finance we face a very dangerous situation  August 31, 11	Fault Lines: The Top 1% Al Jazeera: The richest 1% of US Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country's income and control an astonishing 40% of its wealth  August 15, 2011
Shares plunge on euro zone debt crisis and recession fears EuroNews: Fear stalked the world's financial markets on Wednesday slashing share prices.  August 11, 2011	10 Lobbyists per Member of Congress Fighting Effective Finance Regulations Bart Chilton Pt4: I get around 100 visits from finance reps for every one from community advocates  August 19, 2011
Will CFTC Limit Excessive Speculation? Bart Chilton Pt.3: For regulations to be effective, there has to be political will and proper resources  August 18, 2011	Food, Speculation and Parasitical Trading Bart Chilton Pt.2: Massive spikes in price of food, oil, natural gas and silver cannot be the result of supply and demand  August 16, 2011
Securities Transaction Tax Debate First of Ralph Nader’s Debating Taboos. Robert Pollin vs. Jim Angel on the Securities Transaction Tax  August 10, 11	Making Money out of Market Crash Bill Black: Technical traders love volatility; Obama raising big money on Wall St.  August 22, 2011
European Central Bank and the "Sovereign Raiders" Bill Black: ECB facilitates speculators taking a run at one European country after another  August 11, 2011	Making Money from Volatility Yves Smith: Big traders use automatic algorithmic trading and make money from volatile markets  August 10, 2011
Massive Jobs Program Only Way Out Tom Ferguson: Only a 1930s New Deal style jobs program can deal with the crisis  August 20, 11	Crisis in Europe Driving Crash James K. Galbraith: Unraveling of the Euro-Zone is panicking global markets, nothing to do with S&P  August 8, 2011
Why Austerity and Not Stimulus? Bob Pollin Pt5: Main objective of austerity is to demolish the welfare state and public ownership  August 7, 2011	Debt Ceiling Deal All Cuts No Taxes Tom Ferguson: The debt ceiling deal is essentially a Republican policy  August 1, 2011
Address Unemployment, Then Debt Bob Pollin Pt.4: Unemployment has evaporated in Washington policy discussions  August 5, 2011	The Real Danger is Deeper Recession Bob Pollin Pt.3: None of the fundamentals that led to the crash in '08 have been corrected  August 2, 2011
No Emergency, But Long-Term Debt is a Threat Bob Pollin Pt.2: There is no debt crisis, but debt is a long-term danger to the economy  July 31, 2011	Research Shows Rich Getting Richer Makes Poor Poorer Jeff Thompson: New research shows that as wealth increases at the top, it does not lead to either greater equality or better living standards for the middle class  August 31, 2011
Picking the Bones of US Public Economy Rob Johnson: Financial institutions planning to use crisis to privatize and monopolize  August 17, 2011	Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces  August 3, 2011
Easier to Attack the Weak than the Wealthy TRNN Replay: Rob Johnson: For GOP and Dems easier to make people pay for crisis than confront big campaign funders  July 26, 2011	Should Banks be a Public Utility? Yves Smith: Finance sector controls the regulatory process - there needs to be a publicly controlled alternative to the private banking system  August 23, 2011
Debt Ceiling Extortion TRNN replay Yves Smith: The finance sector used extortion against the American people in 2007-09 and are doing it again now  July 25, 2011	Obama and the "Gang of Six" James K. Galbraith: "Gang of Six" Plan is all about cuts not increased taxes; Obama represents Wall Street faction of Democratic Party  July 21, 2011
Speculation Drove Wheat Prices up While Supply Expanded Jayati Ghosh: Speculation, concentration of ownership and hoarding creates food price bubbles, with more to come  July 20, 2011	Moody's Says Problem is Not the Debt, it's the Debt Ceiling Mark Weisbrot: The debt ceiling debate is a manufactured crisis  July 19, 2011
Debt Ceiling Debate "Fraud" David Swanson: Polling shows majority of Americans want to tax the rich and cut the military before making social program cuts  July 17, 2011	Puerto Rico: The Fiscal Experiment Al Jazeera: Fault Lines travels to Puerto Rico to investigate America's legacy as the Island's ruler  July 15, 2011
Contagion fever raises temperature in euro debt crisis EuroNews: Fears that the euro-zone debt crisis is spreading have put the brakes on any stock market recovery.  July 14, 2011	Banks Refusing a "Haircut" Spur EU Financial Crisis Tom Ferguson: Governments demand austerity so banks get paid, even though it deepens crisis  July 14, 2011
Obama Sells Politics of Austerity Tom Ferguson: 69% of Americans aren't wrong opposing more debt, there are other choices  July 11, 2011	Debt Ceiling Charade a Move to the Right Michael Hudson: Panic about debt ceiling used to attack social programs; no real need for more borrowing  August 6, 11
Greece--a Dress Rehearsal for United States TRNN Replay: Michael Hudson: Cuts to Social Security and Medicare and privatization at the state level mirror strategy imposed on Greece  July 11, 2011	Britons Strike Over Austerity proposals Al Jazeera: Tens of thousands of public sector workers in London protested against the government's austerity proposals  July 1, 2011
How Wall St Speculation Drives Up Gas Prices Robert Pollin: From the price of food to gas at the pump, research shows how speculation raises price  July 11, 11	How Wall St Speculation Drives Up Gas Prices TRNN Replay - Robert Pollin: From the price of food to gas at the pump, research shows how speculation raises price  August 15, 11
Real Estate Saves Capitalism Then Bursts - China Next? David Harvey: Chinese urbanization, construction and real estate speculation is saving global capitalism - will it burst as in the US?  July 5, 2011	Real Estate Saves Capitalism Then Bursts - China Next? David Harvey: Chinese urbanization, construction and real estate speculation is saving global capitalism - will it burst as in the US?  January 9, 2012
Greece Should Default David Harvey: Greece should call Europe's bluff  November 2, 11	Violent Clashes After Greek Austerity Vote EuroNews: Violent clashes between police and Greek protesters continue, with attempts to set fire to the headquarters of the finance ministry  June 30, 2011
Violent Clashes After Greek Austerity Vote EuroNews: Violent clashes between police and Greek protesters continue, with attempts to set fire to the headquarters of the finance ministry  June 30, 2011	Violent Clashes After Greek Austerity Vote EuroNews: Violent clashes between police and Greek protesters continue, with attempts to set fire to the headquarters of the finance ministry  June 30, 2011
Age of Greed: People Should Get Organized Jeff Madrick: The power of finance continues to assert itself over Obama and Congress  July 6, 2011	Age of Greed: The '90s and "Finance is Always Good" Jeff Madrick Pt.3: The Clinton-Bush years and the origins of the derivatives crisis and further deregulation  July 4, 2011
Age of Greed: Finance and Take Overs Overwhelm Reforming Manufacturing Jeff Madrick Pt.2: During the 70's and 80's the parasitical finance sector gains more power  July 2, 2011	Age of Greed Jeff Madrick author of Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to Present, discusses the roots of the current crisis  June 30, 2011
Bigotry and Blockbusting in Baltimore Pt.2 of Antero Pietila author of "Not in My Neighborhood": Blockbusting techniques made developers rich in Baltimore  July 19, 2011	Living Wage Debate in NY Jeannette Wicks-Lim: Research shows that living wage legislation will not significantly reduce the number of jobs  August 21, 13
Strikes put Greece on the Brink EuroNews: Modern-day Greeks have exercised their democratic right and have practically closed the whole country down  June 15, 2011	Austerity in Greece Meant to Break Workers' Resistance TRNN Replay: Leo Panitch: Greece will default on its debt, banks want to make Greek people pay a heavy price  June 15, 2011
Health Care is at Heart of Long-Term Debt Problem Bob Pollin: GOP Medicare plan no solution, but Obama allowing debate to be about cuts not jobs  June 16, 2011	Canadian Gov. Plans Austerity and North American Security Perimeter Canadian government throne speech plans to eliminate deficit by 2014 and move closer to US rules and regulations  June 5, 2011
Anti-Riot Police Clear Cataluna Square EuroNews: Spanish police in anti-riot gear fired rubber bullets and swung truncheons to disperse peaceful protesters in Barcelona  May 28, 2011	US Demands may Kill WTO Agreement Tim Wise: After 10 years WTO Doha round negotiations supposed to be dedicated to the developing countries have reached an impasse  May 27, 2011
WikiLeaks: Saudis Often Warned US About Oil Speculators Kevin Hall: The Saudis have been saying for years something should be done to curb the influence of banks that are speculating on the price of oil  May 26, 2011	Baltimore Protest Calls for Economic Justice Full Employment Baltimore campaign takes their demands to City Council  May 26, 11
Family Farmers Worse Off Despite High Prices Tim A. Wise: Family farmers caught in the middle between corporate monopolies  May 25, 2011	Mass rally in Lisbon over bailout and austerity cuts EuroNews: A lack of jobs and the bite of austerity measures prompted thousands of people to take to the streets of Lisbon on Thursday  May 20, 2011
Oil Price Hikes Trigger India Protests Al Jazeera: But rising oil prices have sparked massive protests across India  May 19, 2011	Anti-Austerity Rallies in Spain EuroNews: Police in Madrid made several arrests after a peaceful protest against government austerity measures ended in violent clashes  May 17, 2011
WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil TRNN Replay - Kevin Hall: US wanted to block Italian Eni from acting as "stalking horse" for Gazprom  September 26, 11	S&P Warns of Potential Finance Meltdown Gerald Epstein: Real message of S&P downgrade of US debt outlook is threat of another meltdown of finance sector  May 9, 11
High Deficits were the Objective of Right Economics James Crotty: High deficits deliberately created to justify return to 1920's capitalism.  May 6, 11	Austerity Hawks Want a Return to 1920's Capitalism James Crotty: Objective of austerity campaign is a return to unregulated capitalism and weak unions  May 5, 2011
Bailout means tough times for people of Portugal EuroNews: The situation at the Federacao food bank in Lisbon is just one example of the tough economic situation in Portugal  May 5, 2011	Polls Show Canadian Election Surprise Leo Gerard: Social Democrat NDP surge defying predictions  April 30, 2011
What I Would Ask Bernanke James K. Galbraith: A few questions I would ask at the Head of the Fed's rare press conference Wednesday  April 28, 11	Financial 'monsters' threaten democracy Something corrupt at the core of the EU model  April 26, 11
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Pt.8 Ha-Joon Chang: Financial markets need to become less--not more--efficient  April 25, 11	GOP Budget Ends Medicare Dean Baker: Media is failing to report how radical Republican budget is  April 24, 11
Debt and a Broken System Hudson and Wolff: Massive public debt incurred to bail out a broken private system  May 9, 11	Hudson/Wolff on Debt and Recession Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the theatrics of the debt debate in Washington and why debt does matter  April 25, 11
"The People's Budget" TRNN Replay - Robert Pollin: A Wall St. tax would help fund infrastructure and health care investment  April 22, 2011	"The People's Budget" Robert Pollin discusses the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget proposal  April 22, 2011
Why Did S&P Issue Warning on US Bond Rating? Kevin Hall and Mark Weisbrot discuss reasons for Standard and Poor's warning US could lose AAA rating  April 19, 2011	Special Report: Honduran Teachers Get Shock Treatment Post-coup regime in Honduras carrying out unprecedented assault on the most organized sector of the resistance, the teachers  April 28, 11
Crisis is not Behind us Randall Wray: Banks are bigger than in '07; are cooking their books to show profits -- need regulation and increase in purchasing power and jobs program to avoid bigger crash  May 30, 2011	Roundtable on Sustainable Development A sustainable natural environment requires new forms of distribution and ownership  May 21, 2011
Will Millionaires Migrate? Report on research into migration patterns of the rich in states that have "millionaire's tax"  April 16, 2011	Obama Accepts Debt a Bigger Threat than Recession Bob Pollin: Obama debt speech avoids recession and need for massive jobs growth  April 16, 2011
Obama Delivers Republican Arguments Bill Black: Obama detaches the debt problem from the real economy  April 14, 2011	Corporate Stock Repurchases Manipulate Stock Prices William Lazonick: SEC allows corporate executives to make fortunes exercising stock options after large buybacks boost prices  April 28, 11
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Pt.7 Ha-Joon Chang: Despite the fall of communism, we are in fact living in planned economies  April 23, 2011	23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Pt.6 Ha-Joon Chang: Making the rich richer doesn't make the rest of us richer  April 22, 2011
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Pt.5 Ha-Joon Chang: US does Not have the highest living standard  April 18, 2011	Food and the Domination of Finance Jomo (UN Chief Economist): Speculation and lack of global cooperation are factors in creating global food crisis  April 19, 2011
Kucinich: Obama Admin Transferring Wealth to the Few Dennis Kucinich: Obama administration presiding over transfer of wealth from the mass to the upper few  April 13, 2011	"The Chinese Model" Capitalism, Chinese Style Pt.2 - Orville Schell  May 14, 2011