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The United States used to pride itself on having the world's largest middle class. Following World War II inequality declined and the ...

Dean Baker, an economist who in 2002 warned that a dangerous housing bubble was developing, writes: As Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin put ...

For more than three decades free market fundamentalists have criticised labor market regulations as an impediment to global competition and ...

In last night's debate, John McCain called for more regulation and oversight of Wall Street, despite the fact that he led the effort to...

John McCain can't help himself. Not only did he say that the economy was fundamentally sound just as Wall Street was unraveling, But he ...

Now that the Fed has bailed out one of the nation's most aggressive and reckless investment firms, Bear Stearns, President Bush and his ...

Paul Krugman explains in layman's terms the causes of the nation's financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, and sugge...

Paul Krugman's newest column argues that the libertarian (free market) economic policies of Alan Greenspan and the Bush administration i...

Are Wisconsin Republicans rethinking their commitment to private property rights and deregulation? That’s what you might conclude from the J...