Economy

We don't need the private banks to create our money. We must bring finance under democratic, public control.

How times change. Stephen Harper said on December 9, 2005, that his government will preserve Old Age Security for pensions.

The Parliamentary Budget Office just issued a report saying that, contrary to Conservative claims, the OAS and other elderly benefits are sustainable, long-term.

Aaron Leonard interviews literary critic and Marxist political theorist, Fredric Jameson on Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One, that revisits Karl Marx's most important work, Capital.

Demonstrators in Greece are in the streets protesting wage and pension cuts, higher taxes and a reduction in labour rights.

The unionbot frame works because it preys upon our deepest fears and, also, because the frame is dehumanizing.

Has US Homeland Security achieved its Manifest Destiny? The implications of the new border agreement between the U.S. and Canada go far beyond just trade efficiency.

When Stephen Harper was in Davos, Switzerland, last week to address the World Economic Forum, he did not talk about the subject of the conference. Instead he presented his austerity plan for Canada.

The Prime Minister's speech at Davos was, I would bet, written by Stephen Harper himself. It bore the stamp of his long-standing contempt for the European welfare state.

Harper's speech in Davos covers two areas: job creation and economic stability, and managing immigration. Read on for an analysis of the speech, its policy implications and some ideas to stop Harper.

Since the mid-1980s, the guiding principle of neo-liberalism seems to have been, "Ask not what your economy can do for you, ask what you can do for your economy."

Harper touted low taxes, balanced budgets and austerity in Davos, and promised cuts to pensions. Economists gathered back home see hard times returning for the Canadian economy.

Two obvious but generally unstated details about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline are climate change and that oil and gas companies stand to make mega-profits.

The triumphalism of the federal government throughout the global crisis has become increasingly far-fetched, but the Harper government shows no shame in continuing to milk it for all it's worth.