World economy analysis

Before his summit with Putin grabbed the headlines, Trump’s Europe visit laid bare growing U.S. conflicts with longstanding allies.

A book by a former British banking insider seeks to deepen the Marxist analysis of the financial system and modern imperialism.

A group of leading left-wing intellectuals and activists make the case for placing the banks at the service of people instead of profit.

The Panama Papers offer a glimpse into the methods used by the rich to maintain their wealth and power over the rest of us.

Almost a decade after the Great Recession, the world economy remains in a weakened state, and that has fed political instability.

Turbulencias financieras que reavivan el temor de otra recesión. Mientras, las familias obreras siguen sufriendo los efectos de la que ya pasó.

The financial turmoil already this year has revived fears of another recession--even though workers are still suffering the effects of the last one.

While workers pay the price for the last crisis caused by the 1 Percent, governments are doing nothing to stop the next one.

Working people were already left behind in the U.S. economic recovery--but conditions may be headed from bad to worse.

From Europe to China to the U.S., the problems in the world economy today are rooted in the capitalist system itself.

Las turbulencias en los mercados bursátiles del mundo expone la inestabilidad de la economía global, plagada de debilidades y contradicciones.

A drastic fall in oil prices is shaking up the national economies of petro-states and reshaping economic and political rivalries.

The proliferation of monster types in popular culture speaks to deep-seated anxieties about the ways capitalism degrades us.

Seven years of economic crisis has created a new normal: extreme social inequality coexisting with a stagnant global system.

Europe's economic disaster is producing new confrontations between governments and masses of working people.