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As the recession that began in late 2007 drags through its sixth year, people are finally starting to ask if maybe inequality is to blame. After all, slow growth throughout...

The world has been mired in recession since 2008 -- nowhere more so than in Europe. It might thus come as some surprise that sales of super-luxury cars are booming...

Contrary to popular wisdom, most people are basically descent.  Most people want to do good in their lives, to be useful, to make the world a better place.  All other...

For the past forty years American men's incomes have stagnated.  The US economy has doubled in real per capita terms since 1973, but the median male wage income has fallen...

The leader of one of America's feistiest unions is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate. He's proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes...

This election season is full of laments about how polarized American politics has become.  Extreme right-wing Republicans claim they can't see eye to eye with extreme left-wing Democrats.  Politicians are...

Ever since the sharp recessions of the early Reagan years, each new expansion has yielded fewer and fewer jobs.  A recession is bad enough for most people.  A jobless recovery...

Once upon a time, America was always getting better.  It was never perfect, but it was always improving itself.  The ideal -- and usually the reality too -- was progress....

The recession is over.  The US economy has been growing since July, 2009.  In the final quarter of 2011 it grew at a 3% annual pace. Personal spending is up. ...