Goldman Sachs Reports Surge in Profits

KEN SWEET / The Associated Press Apr 17, 2018 The investment bank says first-quarter profits rose by 26 percent, helped by a lower tax bill and market volatility. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Cowboys vs. Indians Redux Over the Dakota Access Pipeline

By Chip Ward / TomDispatch Sep 23, 2016 That classic American narrative is back big time, only the Indians are now the good guys and the cowboys are on a warpath, trying to grab 640 million acres of public lands that they can plunder as if it were yesteryear. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Revealed: How Wall Street and the Government Profit From Student Debt

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2016 In a riveting article by The Center for Investigative Reporting, authors James B. Steele and Lance Williams detail how indebted students suffer as others cash in. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Charles Koch’s Disturbing High School Economics Project Teaches ‘Sacrificing Lives for Profits’

By Alex Kotch / AlterNet Jun 2, 2016 "Corporations routinely sacrifice the lives of some of their customers to increase profits, and we are all better off because they do," according to a textbook that the billionaire industrialist is spending millions to push on public schools. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Untaxed Corporate Profits

Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Aug 9, 2015 Dig deeper

The Real Story Behind the Oil Price Collapse

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Mar 13, 2015 With demand stagnant and excess production the story of the moment, the very strategy that once generated record-breaking profits for the oil industry has suddenly become hopelessly dysfunctional. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Income Inequality

Milt Priggee, Cagle Cartoons, www.miltpriggee.com Jul 21, 2014 Dig deeper

Did Pharmaceutical Firms Exploit Pancreas Problems to Increase Profits?

BLANK May 8, 2014 A sharp reduction in availability and a $350 million per year spike in the cost of a particular class of drugs begs the question of whether prescription drug companies increased their profits by jacking up prices in a created scarcity. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Net Neutrality

John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune Feb 2, 2014 Dig deeper

The Monkey Wrench Pope

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Dec 2, 2013 Dig deeper

Detroit’s Pensions Under Attack

Staff / Truthdig Jul 22, 2013 The bankrupt city is looking to cut its already underfunded retirement benefits; given the current economic climate, perhaps it's time for the affordable housing options that were used in the last century to make a comeback; meanwhile, Pope Francis' new banker, hired to clean up the Vatican's messy accounts, comes with sex scandals of his own. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Independence From Terror

By Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers Jul 4, 2013 Do we write words of mourning? Or do we write words of resistance? Those two braids have joined and from now on will flow together -- in our age of the Anthropocene. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )