Robert L. Borosage, Campaign for America's Future. November 21, 2008. Congress might adjourn without acting on the deepening economic crisis, leaving Obama to inherit the catastrophe.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 20, 2008. I don't want to alarm anyone, but the job market appears to be in pretty horrendous shape.
Mark Brenner, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. November 19, 2008. With U.S. car makers billions of dollars in the red, jobs vanishing and factories closing, the industry's problems may be insurmountable.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 19, 2008. Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.
Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. November 18, 2008. A President Obama might not be able to take on immigration reform as a top-level priority during an economic downturn.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. November 17, 2008. Lawmakers still haven't recognized danger of concentrated wealth to the economy.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2008. "Three-point eight trillion dollars. That's $3,800,000.000.000. More than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation."
Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Huffington Post. November 17, 2008. We must restructure our economy from a foundation built on consumption to regeneration and maintenance.
Robert Kuttner, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 7, 2008. A new book shows how Obama needs to address the economic emergency, starting with practical help for families and individuals.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. November 3, 2008. Our economy didn't melt down, it was taken down the unbridled greed of economic elites, enabled by their political courtesans in Washington.
bmaz, Firedoglake AlterNet: Election 2008. October 30, 2008. The guy who wrote "The End of History" has figured out that Obama is history in the making.
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. October 30, 2008. Softening up, going down, losing firmness -- it seems sex and the economy have more in common than language.
