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In the summer of 2009, economists reported that one-third of the capital equipment in the United States stood idle while some 17 percent of the workforce were either unemployed, forced into [...]

Every time I sit down with economist Richard Wolff, he demonstrates why the field of economics is so necessary in the cultural critique of our American empire. In my recent interview with him, we [...]

It is often said that the initial months of the 2008-09 crash set the US economy on a trajectory of collapse eerily similar to that of 1929-30. Job losses were occurring at a rate of 1 million a [...]

In a 168 page report, 10 Years After the Financial Crisis, issued this month, JP Morgan predicts another economic crisis and concludes warning, "The next crisis is also likely to result in social [...]

The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product [...]

We have entered a landmark moment: no president since Woodrow Wilson (during whose administration the Federal Reserve was established) will have appointed as many board members to the Fed as [...]

By Lee Camp for Redacted Tonight. In 2008 after our country's huge financial collapse, everyone was too busy watching the trainwreck that was our economy to notice how unnecessary the support for [...]

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. With the Trump administration floundering and the movement opposed to him expanding, we need to be prepared for a possible shock [...]

By Jerome Roos for Tele Sur - It has been a dismal start to the year for world markets. After trading on the Chinese stock market was suspended twice last week when a collapse in share prices [...]

By Graham Summers, Phoenix Capital Research for Zero Hedge. For six years, the world has operated under a complete delusion that Central Banks somehow fixed the 2008 Crisis. All of the [...]

Data released last week by the U.S. government showed the U.S. economy came to a near halt in the first three months of 2015, falling to nearly zero – i.e. a mere 0.2 percent annual growth rate [...]