Ben Carson's recently announcemed that the Housing and Urban Development department would be tripling the rent for Americans on housing assistance.

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 26, 2018

The stock market is panicking and Trump is trying to put the genie back into the bottle.

• By Justin Rosario
  Apr 4, 2018

He blamed Obama for the stock market crash today. Yes, seriously.

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 5, 2018

Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle invited 'Donald Trump for President' advisory board member Brad Thomas onto their MSNBC show today and gave the hapless business man one of the most savage dressing downs ever.

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 17, 2017

Are we on the brink of a completely new economic system? If you look at the surge in interest of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, we might well be.

• By Ben Cohen
  May 22, 2017

Just watch this.

• By Ben Cohen
  Sep 20, 2016

Despite the conservative insistence that the same economic policies responsible for wrecking the economy in 2008 are the only ones capable of fixing it, President Obama has now definitively shown otherwise.

• By Ben Cohen
  Sep 16, 2016

Hint: it's not good.

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 9, 2016

As virtually every media outlet has concluded, Trump's economic plans would be a disaster for the country in every conceivable way.

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 8, 2016

"It’s far from clear that he has expanded that fortune any more than he would have if he had simply parked the money in an index fund."

• By Ben Cohen
  May 27, 2016

In an extremely interesting interview with New York Times Magazine about his economic legacy, President Obama delivered a stinging assessment of current conservative economic ideology and trashed the economic platforms of the Republican candidates running for president.

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 28, 2016

This did not go well for Stuart Varney

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 26, 2016

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 30, 2016

This is somehow deemed "mainstream economics" in Republican fantasy land.

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 15, 2016

A single term of a Rubio presidency could send the country back into an economic death spiral, undoing the work Obama and his team of actual grownups have put in over the past 7 years -- a prospect no intelligent person should even begin to entertain.

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 23, 2016

This is not an endorsement, but a proclamation: Bernie Sanders is laying the foundation for a new Democrat that will change the party for the better.

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Feb 15, 2016

This is truly astonishing.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 18, 2016

This is how the game works: the rich win if their gambling pays off, and the rich win again when it doesn't.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 4, 2016

In the UK, the conservative party has implemented their vision of a free market society with such force that the United Nations is now launching an investigation into the violation of British citizen's human rights

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 21, 2015

While prime minister David Cameron appears to be an emotionally attuned, relatively human politician, he is in fact embarking on one of the most vicious programs of social cleansing in modern British history. Not only this, but the conservative government's radical welfare reform program appears to be literally killing people.

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 28, 2015

While tech billionaires and sycophantic journalists who report on them laud the hipster friendly 'Sharing Economy', the reality is, this is just a buzzword for a new economy that badly screws the poor.

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 25, 2015

Paul Krugman weighs in on the latest round of insane German/Euro demands on beleaguered Greece.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 13, 2015

Jeb Bush wants Americans to work harder than they are already because within the paradigm of neoliberal economics, there is no other way.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 9, 2015

Fascism in Greece is alive and well and would no doubt thrive should Greece's economic situation deteriorate further. Is this a risk Europe wants to take? If anyone should know better, it is Germany.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 8, 2015

Austerity extends the control and will of a select band of elite actors over a massive number of people in Europe. Austerity as a medicine has been known to be counterproductive since the early twentieth century. And yet, the global and European financial elites continue to impose it. Why?

• By Guest Contributor
  Jul 7, 2015

Here are 7 reasons why Greece's rejection of austerity was so important for the world that has been living under the dictates of a vicious capitalistic system.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 6, 2015

Want to live in New York City? Thanks to the rich, now you can't.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 3, 2015

A billionaire spills the beans on why right wing economic theory is complete nonsense.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 16, 2015

Welcome to a world built by billionaires, for billionaires.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 15, 2015

When you design an economy to be based on short term profit to the benefit of giant corporations, the results over the long term will be a country so hostile to human life that the unreasonable and unthinkable becomes an every day reality.

• By Ben Cohen
  May 13, 2015

Required reading for anyone who wants to understand what has happened to the US university system, and how pressing the need for reform is:

• By Ben Cohen
  May 11, 2015

Just as we created the robber barons on Wall St, we created the looters in Baltimore. Until we understand that 'they' are 'us' we can never hope to stop it.

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 28, 2015

Americans currently owe $1.6 trillion in student debt and that figure is expected to rise t0 $2 trillion in 2022. Study after study has shown that this debt is not only unsustainable, but a severe drag on the economy. People in severe debt don't spend money, don't start business and are always looking at ways to cut costs - in other words, the exact behavior that leads to recession. So what is the purpose of this insane system?

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 16, 2015

"I had friends from all walks of life and honestly don't remember them by way of ethnicity or social class. At that age, it was all about who could do Michael Jackson dancing the best, and who was the fastest runner. I'd go to my mates houses or flats after school for tea (biscuits and Ribena usually) and didn't really get any sense that I was different to anyone else. South London was a slightly dangerous, yet fun place to grow up where you genuinely felt like you were part of a community. Fast forward 25 years and my hometown of Clapham is a very, very different place." Read more... 

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 5, 2015

What do we make of political leaders in already deeply unequal countries explicitly giving out advice to the wealthy on how to game the tax system?

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 16, 2015

"I had a funny experience after going on the Thom Hartmann's show 'The Big Picture' last night, and one that made me cautiously optimistic for the future of America."

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 11, 2015

When the rich begin to worry that poor people are too poor and that they might be too rich, it is probably a fairly good indicator that society is on the brink of big change.

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 10, 2015

If Republicans want to channel the spirit of Martin Luther King, they should start by reading him.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 19, 2015

Welcome to the future of big cities. A future filled with gigantic assholes with lots and lots of money, all of whom want to let you know just how f*cking rich they are. God help us all.

• By Oliver Green
  Jan 5, 2015

America is a proud 'home ownership society'. The problem is, Americans don't really own their homes, someone else does and they will take it from you when you stop paying them.

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 7, 2014

"Every single bit of advice you gave would have lost people money, Rick"

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 15, 2014

There is a worrying trend amongst Obama supporters - the complete inability to fault the President for anything, even when it's obvious he screwed up. Case in point- Obama's complete failure to regulate Wall St.

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 17, 2014

Noam Chomsky lays out some basic economic facts about the suppression of the minimum wage

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 21, 2014

In a neat, 800-word column, Brooks divides the world into responsible rich people and irresponsible poor people, and postulates that inequality has nothing to do with the wealthy rigging the economy to maintain their wealth, but more to do with failed policies towards poor people, who just breed and won't work.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 21, 2014

As the World Economic Forum starts in Davos, a recent report from the charity Oxfam highlighted the astonishing global wealth divide that now exists between the super rich and super poor.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 20, 2014

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s Crossfire, former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich (a real economist) got into a lively debate with conservative host S.E. Cupp (not a real economist). Cupp, whose credentials in economics include having a degree in Art History and being a guest on Fox's Hannity, challenged Reich’s assertion that raising wages and supporting unions would boost the economy.

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 16, 2014

According to wealth guru Tom Corley, poor people need to stop going to McDonalds, get their asses to the gym, and listen to self help audio books on the way to their shitty jobs. That way they will become rich.

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 27, 2013

The governor of the Bank of England wants to increase the size of the UK financial sector. Can bankers be trusted to determine what's best for the economy? Would you trust a sex addict with fidelity?

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 11, 2013