This is the second of a three-part series exploring the building rivalry between cryptocurrencies and Wall Street. The first part is here. A parallel financial system is forming outside the incumbent ...

In the three decades after World War II, America became the first predominantly middle-class country in the world and our poverty rate was cut in half. Americans experienced what scholars describe as ...

A new word has emerged in the lexicon of the new economy - financialization- defined as the “growing scale and profitability of the finance sector at the expense of the rest of the economy and the ...

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Free-market capitalism says that the only purpose of business is to create shareholder value and that the unfettered market can regulate itself. In the last 30 years, that definition changed to, “the ...

The news seems to be full of praise for our strong economy. Columnists continuously cite the low 3.9% unemployment rate and GDP growth as the best in many years. Citizens know that there has been a ...

Twenty years ago, Science celebrated “a revolution that is fundamentally altering the way the haves of the world assist the have-nots”: Governments and philanthropies were donating tens of billions of ...

Jay-Ann Gilfoy is president and chief executive of Meridian, Ontario’s largest credit union. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about two hard, but related truths: the indisputable fact that a roof over ...

Financialization has become the go-to term for scholarship that studies the vastly expanded role of finance in contemporary politics, economy and society. The concept itself has equally expanded and ...