Global Capitalism

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

1. US mid-term elections
2. US Capitalism: Crises at home
3. US capitalism: Crises abroad

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

1. Compare economic performances (GDP growth, inflation, real wages)
2. Ukraine War/Taiwan Provocations as both China-US conflicts
3. US edges closer to civil war and foreign wars at same time: implications

1. Global economic splits: US/UK/Japan/Australia vs BRICS+
2. US political splits: inflation, interest rates, recession, stock market crash, deepening inequality, Democratic Party self destruction
3. Cultural splits: abortion, Miranda, church-state

1. Rising US labor militancy: Amazon to Grinnell College
2. Housing and stock market: bubbles and bursts
3. French left unity: a model for the world?
4. McConnell, GOP serve lenders, crush students with debt

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

1. Impact of Ukraine events
2. What the FED can and cannot do about it
3. Solutions for inflation, past and present

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