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• Do Democrats want to fix inequality? Or just complain about it?

  20 Oct 2014: Alexis Goldstein: If progressives think they’ve got any chance at midterm victory, it’s time to focus on dramatic solutions for young and minority voters – before it’s too late

• Low oil price means high anxiety for Opec as US flexes its muscles

  19 Oct 2014: Terry Macalister: Motorists, airlines and industry are enjoying low energy costs, the US is relishing its reduced reliance on the Middle East – and Opec is wondering how to reassert its authority

• Barack Obama avoids bitter midterm battle exposing growing US wealth divide

  18 Oct 2014: The race for governor between Dan Molloy and Tom Foley has been dominated by jibes about tax avoidance and corruption, writes Edward Helmore

• Struggling workers take wage protest to upscale doorstep of Walmart heiress Alice Walton

  17 Oct 2014: Demanding higher wages and better benefits, Walmart workers protest outside Alice Walton’s home resulting in 26 arrests
  

• Fed chair Janet Yellen says income inequality is un-American

  17 Oct 2014: Chair of the US Federal Reserve says increasing inequality runs contrary to American values and undermines mobility

• Markets are still terrified by the eurozone – and rightly so

  16 Oct 2014: Nils Pratley: Correction thesis likely correct in medium-term, but in short-term currency bloc is dark cloud over global economy refusing to shift

• What kind of ‘war games’ is George Osborne playing in Washington?

  13 Oct 2014: The UK chancellor is joining the US treasury’s Jack Lew and other finance bosses to take part in a simulated banking crisis, designed to test our preparedness for another crash. But can there be any winners in this game?

• US banks' reporting season: are Wall Street bonuses to fall at last?

  12 Oct 2014: Bond traders at JP Morgan and Citigroup look likely to share the fastest-shrinking bonus pools on Wall Street

• World stock markets slide as bad news mounts up

  10 Oct 2014: Fears of a global economic slowdown, tensions in the Middle East and the spread of the Ebola virus weighed on world shares

• The biggest sales job in the US: Obama and Ben Bernanke try to convince America the economy is good

  10 Oct 2014: ‘There is a lot of revisionism out there,’ the former Fed chair said Wednesday. But as he and others protect their legacy, are they trying to make the economy look better than it is?
  

• US designed bailout to 'punish' AIG over financial crisis, court hears

  8 Oct 2014: Former Treasury secretaries Tim Geithner and Hank Paulson testify during former AIG chief’s lawsuit against government

• Wall Street records lower profits and jobs numbers in the first half of 2014

  7 Oct 2014: Report cites legal costs and regulation as the primary constraints on the securities industry, even as bonuses look likely to rise

• IMF says economic growth may never return to pre-crisis levels

  7 Oct 2014: World economic outlook expects global growth to be 3.3% in 2014, down from its April forecasts as countries fail to recover strongly from recession

• Carmen Segarra, the whistleblower of Wall Street

  5 Oct 2014: Gary Younge: One Federal Reserve employee’s refusal to play along with a rigged financial game has made her a true modern dissident

• US adds nearly 250,000 jobs in September as jobless rate dips to 5.9%

  3 Oct 2014: Strong September leads to 5.9% unemployment rate but long-term jobs remain persistent issue for economy eking out growth

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