Residents say Walmart closings have left their small communities "broken."

There is an economic mystery I’ve been struggling to understand for quite some time, and I’m not the only one who’s confused: Among financial experts, it is often referred to as a conundrum, a paradox, a puzzle. The mystery is as follows: Collectively, American businesses currently have $1.9 trillion in cash, just sitting around. Not only is this state of affairs unparalleled in economic history, but we don’t even have much data to compare it with...

For a while Comcast tried to pretend that its slowly-expanding usage cap "trials" were about managing network congestion. At least until leaked Comcast documents, the company's top engineer, and the cable industry's top lobbyist all confirmed that justification was bullshit (caps don't really help manage congestion anyway). Since then, Comcast has veered away from any hard technical explanation for the glorified price hike, instead focusing on the ambiguous claim...

This research brief details some of the prominent ways that individuals, companies, and organizations secure financial gain and generate profit by controlling and running charter schools.

While evidence of abuse of the disabled has piled up for decades, one for-profit company has used its deep pockets and influence to bully weak regulators and evade accountability

Enron Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the largest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

The latest batch of cases was lodged November 25. The cases name AT&T, Costco, Expedia, GoPro, Groupon, Netflix, Pinterest, Shutterfly, Starwood Hotels, Target, and Yahoo, among others. All the lawsuits include virtually identical language. "Defendant has committed direct infringement by its actions that comprise using one or more websites that utilize Elliptic Curve Cryptography (“ECC”) Cipher Suites for the Transport Layer Security...

As Walmart workers gear up for protests at stores across the country on Black Friday, many will continue fasting for higher wages to feed themselves and their families. Some workers have fasted for as many as 15 days, and will stop after Thanksgiving, to call attention to the retail giant's low wages, and to the fact that workers sometimes cannot afford to put food on the table—especially around the holidays.

The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared. “The TPP, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], is the most brazen corporate power grab in American history,” Ralph Nader told me when I reached him by...

When people talk about money in politics, they invariably focus on elections — on the insidious role played by outside groups to push into office those with hidden political agendas.

The first 170 days: Republicans passed zero jobs bills but raised the deficit by $610.7 billion dollars by passing more permanent tax cuts for the rich/corporations while voting to raise taxes on middle class families with children.

President Obama said Tuesday that liberal critics including Sen. Elizabeth Warren are “wrong” about the negative impact of his massive proposed free-trade deal with Pacific-rim nations, and he called on Congress to give him the power to negotiate the agreement swiftly.

Altogether, its members are worth billions. Not bad for one of the least productive Congresses in U.S. history

One purpose of a so-called shell company is that the money put in it can't be traced to its owner. Say, for example, you're a dictator who wants to finance terrorism, take a bribe, or pilfer your nation's treasury. A shell company is a bogus entity that allows you to hold and move cash under a corporate name without international law enforcement or tax authorities knowing it's yours. Once the money is disguised as the assets of this enterprise—which would typically be set...

Kevin Zeese: Obama administration's Fast Track authority plan derailed by bipartisan outrage.