Economy

This is my first report for The Real News on my current trip to Greece. At the gates of the Athens Polytechnic, site of the November 1973 uprising against a U.S.-backed military junta, we ask [...]

On the Real News, I speak to Professor Patrick Bond about the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Professor Bond was in Hamburg throughout the summit and discusses the suppression of peaceful protest [...]

In explaining his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, Donald Trump cited highly dubious economic predictions from National Economic Research Associates (NERA), a [...]

Following the first meeting between Trump and Trudeau, I discuss with Canadian author and social activist Nora Loreto whether the economic integration of Canada and the United States is a [...]

This is the third and final part of Dimitri’s interview of Costas Lapavitsas, a Professor of Economics and former member of Greece’s Parliament who defected from the governing Syriza [...]

In Part 2 of Dimitri’s interview with Costas Lapavitsas, Costas explains why so many Greeks continue to cling to the Euro, and why Greece must exit the Eurozone in order to rehabilitate its [...]

Dr. Joe Romm is an author, blogger, physicist and climate expert. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2009, Rolling Stone magazine named Joe to its list [...]

In July 2015, Greece’s newly elected Syriza government, which had come to power six months earlier with an anti-austerity platform, held a referendum in which a large majority of Greeks [...]