Is getting a college degree "worth it?" Yes, economically speaking, statistics show that getting a college degree is "worth it." But is it "worth it" by other, less materialist measures?

Subprime loans. Remember those? The high-interest loans to people with bad credit that successfully brought down the entire economy when banks started handing them out too freely during the housing boom. They're back! With a new class of recipients.

Good news, sporting enthusiasts: while "real" sports like football and baseball remain popular among the American public, there are indications that other, wacker sports seem to be falling out of favor.

It's widely recognized that the insanely high pay of corporate CEOs is connected to poorly run companies in which executives use shareholder money as their personal ATM. Did you know that public universities are exactly the same? It's true!

Yesterday, Walmart announced weak earnings in the past quarter. The company blamed the weather. It might do better to blame itself. Walmart's reputation is now so toxic that a major American city is purging itself of investments in the company.

As mainstream U.S. presidential candidates persist in pretending that global warming may not be real, at least one sector of society is already busy planning for the coming catastrophe: big corporations.

Hedge fund manager David Tepper warned yesterday that the stock market is "dangerous right now," and advised against betting on its rise. Today, the markets are down sharply. And that's how David Tepper made $3.5 billion last year.

The release of the latest White House report on climate change makes clear that the threat posed by global warming can now be declared to be conventional wisdom. Have we finally reached the point where the money people and the environmentalists unite?

As the twin phenomena of regulatory capture and decrepit political structures controlled by a small plutocracy enable a small class of rentiers to accumulate an ever larger share of the world's wealth, our patriarchal society spawns status-obsessed males seeking glory through gaudy displays of finery.

You might think that the U.S. government's small step towards a national health care system would somehow help bring the cost of prescription drugs down to reasonable levels. You could not be more wrong! You idiot!

Toyota is moving most of its U.S. operations from California to Texas. The state of Texas is paying the company $40 million to relocate. This represents an utterly stupid and useless case of corporate welfare detrimental to the public interest.

It is widely understood within the insurance industry that some forms of insurance are merely polite window dressing; if a $100 billion hurricane hits Florida, for example, homeowners are fucked. Now, investors are increasingly betting on no disasters happening. What could go wrong?

David Einhorn, one of America's most prominent hedge fund managers, is betting against hot tech stocks, saying "There is a clear consensus that we are witnessing our second tech bubble in 15 years."

"The average credit card interest rate for people with fair credit has hit a shocking 21 percent, up more than 2 percent from only a year ago."

It's great to be rich. It's extra double great to be super rich. And not just because you have all that extra money—because being super rich actually lets you pay lower taxes.

The prison telephone industry is right up there with... well, the private prison industry, when it comes to the most repugnant manifestations of capitalism. The good news is, the industry is currently getting screwed by government regulation. Government regulation works!

The combined worth of the cartoon villain-esque Koch brothers is now more than $100 billion. The combined worth of six members of the Walton family is now $145 billion. These are The Presidents of the United States of America.

"Affordable" housing is defined as housing that costs 30% or less of your total income. That is becoming an increasing rarity in America's cities. How do we fix that? It's more complicated than it sounds.

Here is something that may come as a surprise: the U.S. government can—and will!—confiscate your tax refund or Social Security money because of overpayments that it made to your parents decades ago.

Homelessness is slowly declining nationwide, but it's rising in urban areas with a high cost of living. How are some of these areas responding to the needs of their homeless citizens? By making it illegal for them to live in their cars.