Fábio Piperno: Fux e Pacheco conversam para tentar esfriar temperatura política

It seems every time we turn around it is the middle class which takes in the shorts. The middle-class is the group of folks that pay the most in taxes, and also provide the productivity for this great nation. Without them we wouldn’t have greatness, as they are the ones that provide the fuel to keep our economy going. It is interesting to hear the politicians talk about the middle class, and then go right on doing what they’ve always done – giving them the shaft.

Why hasn’t the economy recovered? Will it? If so, when? Many political pundits, and politicians have weighed in, and so have many economists. But maybe, just maybe, they are all missing something.

An introduction to the fiscal cliff. What is it, and will America fall off it?

While the IMF warns that the risk of the world dropping back into a global recession “are alarmingly high”, and U.S. corporations and institutional investment managers are positioned on the same worry, U.S. public investors and consumers have no such worries according to the latest sentiment reports.

Growth for the sake of growth is a bankrupt idea and yet the drive for economic growth is an ideology that is so ingrained in us from an early age that most people think it’s a fact. The actual fact is that relentless economic growth doesn’t add meaning or happiness to peoples’ lives. Studies have shown that once countries reach a certain level of economic productivity general happiness does not increase.