economy

Stock market gets giddy over Massachusetts

January 21, 2010 By Scott Marshall

The stock market might not be a useful economic indicator, but at times it just might be an indicator of the class struggle.

The Obama challenge to the banks

January 20, 2010 By John Case

The president has taken a decidedly more combative, populist tone. It's time.

Obama demands banks give “every dime back” to taxpayers

January 18, 2010 By Joe Sims

With Wall Street executives raking in windfall profits while the rest of the country staggered through a banker-caused recession, President Obama pledged to impose a tax on major financial firms to recoup bailout money.

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! That’s what we need!

January 17, 2010 By Nell Ranta

Diehard conservatives - mostly Republicans - are willing to let the elderly, the disabled and the children die, while they themselves do nothing but scream, "No new taxes!"

Three schools of thought on financial reform

January 15, 2010 By John Case

There is going to be a real problem moving ordinary people into action on any financial reform that does not a) restore their lost pensions, or b) give them back their foreclosed home.