Robert Reich

With the stock market sinking and no end to our current economic woes in sight, aren’t we glad we didn’t privatize Social Security?

Our tax dollars are being used to protect Wall Street from the consequences of its own risky decisions. It’s time to stop giving them a free ride.

The Bush administration rejected the idea that homeowners caught in the sub-prime loan mess deserved government bailout — but it endorsed the Fed’s bailout of Wall Street. Trouble is, it’s the latter group that should have known better.

The world’s developing nations are no longer nearly as dependent as they used to be on consumers in the United States and other rich nations to keep them going by buying their exports.

Health care mandates are a sideshow, and fighting over them risks turning away voters from the main event.

Here’s some news for anti-immigration demagogues. If they think this country or this economy can succeed in coming decades without millions of additional immigrants, they’re not thinking straight.

It’s better to bail out families who didn’t know the risks they were taking on, than lenders who had every reason to know.

Most Americans are still not prospering in the global economy — addressing this means thinking bigger than tax cuts or spending increases.