What $700B won't buy: a quick fix for the economy

A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
Almost overnight, the talking heads went from perpetuating the euphoria of investors to rushing to pronounce the economy dead. Here is a visual guide...

Foreclosures are key element missing in plan
Hard as it is to believe, even a $700 billion bailout may not be enough to dig the economy and financial markets out of the hole they're in.

U.S. Payrolls Fall, Unemployment Rate Climbs to 5.5%
The U.S. lost jobs in May for a fifth month and the unemployment rate rose by the most in more than two decades, signaling that the world's largest...

Plenty of 'For Sale' signs but actual sales lagging
Like spring flowers, the "For Sale" signs are sprouting in front yards all over the country. But anxious sellers are facing the most brutal...

The Great Crash 1929
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their...

The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market...
The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government,...

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein...