Economic Study Shows Why ‘Saving the Planet Is Not a Jobs Killer’
"It's not an impossible task to make sure workers in the fossil fuel industry are provided with the skills, training, and opportunities to find other jobs," the Center for Economic…
Report: ‘Giving Pledge’ Looks Philanthropic, Acts Plutocratic
Bill and Melinda Gates joined forces with Warren Buffett as the original pledge-funders a decade ago, and now some of the benefits for benefactors of the "Giving Pledge" are becoming…
How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
Lee Camp: How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred & Exploitation (in New & Fun Ways!)
Corporations like General Mills and ExxonMobil aren’t going to save us from white supremacist violence or climate annihilation with their piddly tweets.
Rethinking Employment in the Biden-Harris Era
In America, when you work, with rare exceptions, someone is always making money off you — often to your detriment, often to your bitter disappointment and pain.
Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Faced with the dire Covid-19 crisis, some lawmakers are starting to see publicly-owned banks as the key to ensuring an equitable economic recovery.
Lee Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution — Yes, I Mean It.
No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires.
The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots
Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back.
‘This Is for You, Dad’: Interview With an Anonymous GameStop Investor
Raised in a family devastated by bubble economics, one Reddit investor saw GameStop as a way to send a message to "cancerous rent-seekers."
Billionaires Gone Wild: Pandemic Profiteering By the Numbers
A running tally of how the pandemic has been increasing inequity at a fantastic rate.
Global Report: The Richest Have Already Recouped Pandemic Losses, While Poorest Billions Will Need a Decade to Do the Same
On the opening day of the World Economic Forum, new study shows the 1,000 wealthiest people recovered completely in just nine months while the world’s poorest are likely to take…
We’re Suffering the Economic Equivalent of an Invasion From Mars
It’s not hard these days to imagine the chaos people would feel if their lives or livelihoods were threatened by an external, uncontrollable force like the Martians in H.G. Wells’…
Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet
Ex-treasury secretary under Clinton offers important thoughts on the negative consequences of aid to the less fortunate.
So Trump Loses. What Happens Then?
Joe Biden’s arrival in the Oval Office won’t alter one mega-fact: Donald Trump will hand him a monstrous economic mess.