(Here is a "Snapshot" on the economy from the Economic Policy Institute for April 29, 2009, from Josh Bevins. It's a grim remi...

These days, whenever I meet someone for the first time and the find out that I’m an economist on the side, the next thing they always say is...

This month, instead of giving the brief video of Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee of the Troubled Asset Reco...

You have probably read something (or more than something) already about the ongoing dispute between the US and Mexico over our broken promis...

After you have read about Obama backing away from his campaign pledge to revisit and re-vision NAFTA, click here and go to an earlier post ...

The Federal Reserve right now has a huge balance sheet. It has just given or loaned out or allowed cheap credit for, trillions of trillions ...

Elizabeth Warren is the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel and since January has been issuing monthly reports on how the Fed and the...

Nassim Taleb (author of the best seller, The Black Swan ), on how the bailout/recovery plan is insufficient: Nouriel Roubini, of RGE Monitor...

EQUAL EXCHANGE WINS THREE AWARDS FOR ITS SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES  WEST BRIDGEWATER, Massachusetts – March 26, 2009 - In the sp...

MSMBC's Kieth Olbermann on the effect of lobbying and deregulation on the rapid rise and disastrous fall of the national (and global) ec...