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New York City's appalling "poor door" fiasco
New buildings are creating separate entrances for low-income residents. A perfect metaphor for our times?
08/03/2014 17:00 UTC
4 ways Amazon's ruthless practices are crushing local economies
Jeff Bezos has forged an empire by exploiting low-wage workers and extracting billions in government subsidies
09/27/2014 18:00 UTC
Jamie Dimon loses money, keeps job
JPMorgan announces a rare quarterly loss, thanks entirely to all that law-breaking stuff
10/14/2013 22:31 UTC
A major leap backwards: Australia repeals tax on biggest carbon pollutors
The first country to put a price on carbon is now the first to take it back
07/17/2014 18:01 UTC
Our massive new monopolies: Amazon, Google and Facebook have the power to move entire economies
Tech companies have amassed frightening economic power -- and we handed over our data to make it possible
06/07/2015 22:00 UTC
Salon interviews the late Adam Smith
The 18th century's patron saint of free markets shares his surprising views about Barack Obama and the U.S. economy
10/06/2009 11:06 UTC
Cap-and-trade: A Salon debate
Day 2: Energy markets are broken, David Roberts says, so there should be common ground for the left and right
06/22/2010 19:21 UTC
"Morons," "dumb," "idiots": Martin Shkreli and Donald Trump deserve each other
Separated at birth -- the price-gouging CEO and the leader of the GOP clown car
09/23/2015 22:10 UTC
Coke made us all obese: McDonald's, high-fructose corn-syrup and the sick, super-sized strategy to make you fat
When soda makers switched to high-fructose corn syrup, it cost pennies to super-size drinks -- and our waistlines
01/04/2015 21:30 UTC
How John Boehner destroyed a nation's confidence
As the economy stalled, House Republican debt ceiling hostage-taking pushed us in the wrong direction
08/03/2011 22:16 UTC
Our "black Monday" for oil
The record high price of crude that was hit this month reflects the new reality of global energy consumption -- and may presage dark times for America.
03/17/2008 14:46 UTC
It’s time to bust the ‘calories in, calories out’ weight-loss myth
"Another reason the simple . . . formula is not so simple is our bodies don't consume every calorie the same way"
06/06/2023 19:30 UTC
There will be no end to fiscal chaos without better budget rules
Responsible fiscal policy will only come from following stable policy, not the short-term impulses of politicians
03/19/2019 22:00 UTC
The AHCA may be dead, but big insurance adored it — and they like Obamacare, too
Make no mistake: Health insurance lobbyists also helped shape the Affordable Care Act
03/26/2017 20:59 UTC
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