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Robert Reich is the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor and a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

He has served as labor secretary in the Clinton administration, as an assistant to the solicitor general in the Ford administration and as head of the Federal Trade Commission's policy planning staff during the Carter administration.

He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet, and his most recent book, Supercapitalism. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reich is co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. His weekly commentaries on public radio’s "Marketplace" are heard by nearly five million people.

In 2003, Mr. Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclev Havel Foundation Prize, by the former Czech president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2005, his play, Public Exposure, broke box office records at its world premiere on Cape Cod.

Mr. Reich has been a member of the faculties of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and of Brandeis University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

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A Question of Timing: What America Can Learn from the Revolt in Europe

May 14, 2012| 

Who’s an economy for? Voters in France and Greece have made it clear it’s not for the bond traders. Referring to his own electoral woes, Prime Minister David... Read »

We Don’t Need Socialism, We Need a Capitalism that Works

May 8, 2012| 

Francois Hollande’s victory doesn’t and shouldn’t mean a movement toward socialism in Europe or elsewhere. Socialism isn’t the answer to the basic problem... Read »

Economy is Heading for a Stall

May 4, 2012| 

We’ll know more tomorrow when the jobs report is announced, but today’s report on America’s massive service sector – which make up about 90 percent of the... Read »

The Stall Has Arrived

May 4, 2012| 

As I feared, the economy has stalled. Friday’s jobs report for April was even more disappointing than March. Employers added only 115,000 new jobs, down from March’s... Read »

The World Belongs to Those Collecting Capital Gains

May 1, 2012| 

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 13,338 Tuesday, it’s highest since December, 2007. The S&P 500 added 16 points. Wall Street will remember May 1 as a great... Read »

How Europe’s Double Dip Could Become America’s

Apr 27, 2012| 

Europe is in recession. Britain’s Office for National Statistics confirmed on Wednesday that in the first quarter of this year Britain’s economy shrank .2 percent,... Read »

“We’re on the Right Track” Isn’t Enough

Apr 20, 2012| 

President Obama’s electoral strategy can best be summed up as: “We’re on the right track, my economic policies are working, we still have a long way to go... Read »

Citigroup’s (C) Shareholder Revolt

Apr 18, 2012| 

The shareholders of Wall Street giant Citigroup (C) are out to prove that corporate democracy isn’t an oxymoron. They’ve said no to the exorbitant $15 million... Read »

Thoughts on Tax Day 2012

Apr 17, 2012| 

As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote in 1904, “taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” But the wealthiest Americans, who haven’t raked... Read »

A Fair Economy is Not Incompatible with Growth but Essential to It

Apr 16, 2012| 

One of the most pernicious falsehoods you’ll hear during the next seven months of political campaigning is there’s a necessary tradeoff between fairness and... Read »

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