Congress Couldn’t Care Less About Unemployment

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Apr 25, 2013 Only four lawmakers were in attendance at a congressional hearing about the important issue Wednesday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Krugman: Our ‘Worst Fears’ About Long-Term Unemployment Damage Are Being Confirmed

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Apr 22, 2013 As lawmakers on both sides of the aisle spend copious amounts of time on their seemingly futile quest to reach an agreement about how to deal with the nation's burgeoning debt, there's an even bigger economic problem in the U.S.: unemployment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Financial Crisis Looms From Carbon, Experts Say

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 19, 2013 The next global economic shock could come from the carbon markets as an investment bubble in fossil fuels grows to the tune of trillions of dollars. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Big Economic Stall

Robert Reich / Truthdig Apr 7, 2013 Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of all this is that we’re in the fifth year of a supposed economic recovery from the second-worst economic downturn of the past century, and we’re still not nearly back on track. Instead, we’ve had the most anemic recovery in history. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster

By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch Apr 4, 2013 We think of the financial crisis as a man-made calamity, and Hurricane Sandy as the malignant innocence of nature. But neither the notion of a man-made nor natural disaster quite captures how the power of a few and the vulnerability of the many determine what is really going on at ground level. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Krugman: Political Elites, News Media Learned Nothing From Iraq War

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Mar 18, 2013 The New York Times columnist argues that the political elites and pundits who perpetuated the Bush administration's disinformation and calls for war seem to have learned nothing from that experience. Case in point: the deficit obsession. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Gas Price and Recovery

John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune Feb 25, 2013 Dig deeper

‘Left, Right & Center’: Our Best Year Ever?

Staff / Truthdig Dec 30, 2012 Was this the best year in human history? “Obviously not,” says Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer. He and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists debate the positives and negatives of 2012 both for Americans and humanity as a whole. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alan Greenspan, Mr. ‘Fix the Debt’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 29, 2012 The man who missed the $8 trillion housing bubble that was generating more than $1 trillion in wealth per year -- and the collapse of which led to the current demand crisis that is strangulating the economy -- was present at the formation of the corporate-backed Campaign to Fix the Debt. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bad Economy Christmas

Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City Dec 25, 2012 Dig deeper

French Actor’s Tax Move Sparks Debate About Patriotism and Greed

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 23, 2012 Gerard Depardieu’s blustery renunciation of his French citizenship for the purpose of avoiding a tax increase imposed to combat the fiscal crisis has exposed a bitter division in the French populace that includes some of its most famous citizens. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Fiscal Cliff? Let’s Call Their Bluff

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Dec 20, 2012 Taxpayers and governments that are pushed too far have been known to resort to radical policy measures, and there are some on the table that could fix the problem at its core. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )