In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:

1. US Capitalism's Public Health Disaster: Where Blame Belongs
2. Trying to Shift Blame to Mandates: Desperate Libertarianism
3. Covid, Inflation,"Broken Supply Chains" = Systemic Crisis

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:

1. Major Chinese Economic Achievements and Problems
2. China-US Interdependence, Competition, and Cold War
3. Is China Socialist? What does "Chinese Socialism" Mean?

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:

1. Medical (Covid) and military (Afghanistan) defeats deepen social divisions
2. Exploding debt bubbles (gov't, corporate, and personal)
3. Threats of inflation
4. China's rise as a US competitor: its "surprise" strategy

In this month's lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:

1. China's Economic Growth since its Revolution (1949)
2. China's Economic "Model" and the Global Economy
3. China, Capitalism, and Socialism
4. China versus the US: Options versus Threats

In this month's lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:

1. Changes in Government Spending and Taxing
2. Joe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt: Differences and Similarities
3. Historic Decline of US Capitalism: Reality vs Denial

In connection with Prof. Wolff's discussion of the main topic above, he will also give short updates on: who lost what; who gained what; where is the US economy headed now; and lastly, political fallout: revisiting the January 6 DC assault

Professor Wolff will also give short updates on: the US military intervention in elections; a major political breakthrough in Argentina led by women; the economics of advertising; Trump's political crash and lastly, Biden's Economic "Team."

This is a special post-election Global Capitalism featuring comments from guests Lee Camp, Lee Carter, Laura Flanders, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Nomi Prins, and Yanis Varoufakis.

Prof. Wolff presents the following topics: the failures mount: failed preparation for COVID-19; failed containment of COVID-19; failed preparation for 2020 capitalist crash; failed containment of crash's social effects; failed scapegoating. The social problems explode: systemic racism; State and local budget collapse; unaffordable housing and eviction.

Topics: mass unemployment undercuts US capitalism; Trump vs Biden: neither are solutions, the choice is a symptom of system decline; what old socialist responses to today's crisis would be; what new socialist solutions to today's crisis could be. Wolff also covers: why US capitalism has needed racism, and and how it has used it; why US current protests against racism and police violence are so strong.