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Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.

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10.26.2018

[caption id="attachment_299186" align="aligncenter" width="290"] Michelle Alexander 2011Source: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Updates on political economy of Trump/GOP attacks on China and their long term costs; parallel analysis of attacks on immigrants; Michelle Alexander on who today is “The Resistance;” and record funds ...

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10.26.2018 Virginia Elects a Socialist [caption id="attachment_299186" align="aligncenter" width="290"] Michelle Alexander 2011Source: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Updates on political economy of Trump/GOP attacks on China and their long term costs; parallel analysis of attacks on immigrants; Michelle Alexander on who today is “The Resistance;” and record funds ...
10.19.2018 A Deepening Crisis of Capitalism Updates on IMF prediction of slowing global growth, Bank of England warnings on accumulation of sub-prime debt, Nordhaus Nobel prize and market ideology, Dutch unions and others against corporate tax evasion, and signs of labor militancy in Marriott strike and ...
10.12.2018 The ‘Immigration Issue’ and Capitalism [caption id="attachment_298186" align="aligncenter" width="342"] Source: Flickr[/caption] Updates on UK's Liberal Democrats advocating serious reduction of wealth and income inequality, Sears CEO blames pensions for Sears' problems, JP Morgan predicts next financial collapse in 2020, failure to deal with opioid crisis, ...
09.21.2018 Launching a New University Updates on Tenth Anniversary of Lehman Brothers Bank collapse, assisting Ocasio-Cortez show how to finance socialist projects, Colin Kaepernick's ad for Nike and contradictions of capitalism. Interview with Michael Pelias on launching a new Left University in New York: rationale ...
09.14.2018 Keynesian Vs. Marxian and Neoclassical Economics This week's special edition of Economic Update deals with Keynesian economics as a theory that clashes with both the mainstream economics ("neoclassical") that celebrates private capitalism and with critical theories such as Marxian economics that are opposed to capitalism.
09.07.2018 Gov’t Take-over Not Always Socialism This special edition of Economic Update deals with how and why government take-over of private corporations need not be and often is not "socialism," and why it is often done to strengthen private capitalists. With Host Richard D. Wolff.
08.31.2018 Capitalism Invites Deepening Criticism Updates on new approach to Labor Day, DNC accepts fossil fuel donations, Turkey's crisis as typical capitalist instability, collapse of Genoa toll bridge, exploding gap between CEO and average worker pay, Gallup Poll on capitalism vs socialism in US.Interview with ...
08.24.2018 Capitalism’s Problems Provoke Oppositions Updates on Missouri vote for union position, the irrationality of student debt, economic sanction of Iran isolates and costs US for Trump political gains, Monsanto puts profits over cancer risks, Louisiana legislature punishes big banks for lending to assault rifle ...
08.17.2018 Capitalism: Changed by its Contradictions Updates on poverty in California, childhood obesity in US, economic fallout from (real meaning of) Trump steel tariff. Prof Wolff responds to questions by explaining how US politics has sustained US capitalism and what the politics of change will require. ...
08.10.2018 Capitalism: Problems and Pushback Updates on social costs of criminalizing marijuana, US food outlets taken over by foreign conglomerates, capital labor conflict in India, Trump's Signature Bank swamp, New Zealand makes 10-days paid domestic violence leave mandatory. Interview with Matt Christman and Will Menaker ...
08.03.2018 Hiding Capitalism’s Failures Updates on Europe's higher labor force participation; Cuomo campaign fakes "small donations"; US restaurants decline as pinched incomes switch to food delivery; "market" housing system causes homelessness; education fails to overcome black-white wealth gap. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on ...
07.27.2018 Doing Better Than Capitalism Updates on New Zealand firm succeeds with 4 day workweek; Vienna's public housing successes; Fordham adjuncts' union wins big; Burberry destroys $ millions in new clothes; precarious US jobs worsen alcoholism among young; US airlines raise profits by shrinking toilets. ...
07.20.2018 Millennials for Revolution Updates on Trump's tariffs cost Americans jobs, shifting capitalist alliances don't change the system, Irish parliament stops investing in fossil fuels, Washington state forced fast food employers to stop rigging labor market against employees, why Germany's "dependence" on Russia is ...
07.13.2018 Economic Update – July 13, 2018 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with ...
07.06.2018 Labor Versus Capitalism Updates on the Left victory in Mexico's election, SCOTUS's Janus decision, Foxconn fakery in Wisconsin, forced labor for Medicaid beneficiaries, and scapegoating of immigrants exposed. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on the personal, psychological effects of a dying US empire.
06.29.2018 Criticizing Capitalism Updates on Colorado’s laws favoring coops, capitalism and suicide, rent control on California ballot, foreign trade controls, French govt vs GE, Ford buys station it helped wreck. Interview with David Harvey on Marx’s contribution to understanding capitalism now. Hosted by ...
06.22.2018 Contradictions Coming Home Updates on the exploding suicide rate in the US, irrational home-building reflects and worsens inequality, VA nurses sue because of overwork required but not paid for, Uihlein family gives extreme right wing candidates (including Roy Moore), mocking claims that this ...
06.15.2018 Economic Update – June 15, 2018 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with ...
06.08.2018 Standing Up Updates on China's life expectancy, Ireland's vote, US unemployment, Amazon's quitting bonus, Johnson and Johnson put profits before public health, die-ins at Publix succeed, Macron gets union backlash, Poor People's Campaign exposes US poverty, Canada races to the bottom, super-rich ...
06.01.2018 Capitalism Makes Few Winners, Many Losers Updates on Armenia's Political Spring, banks big profits, Harley-Davidson fires hundreds, unjust criminal penalties, US households' financial distress, Germany bans diesels, US drug companies put profits above health again, and huge wealth increase among world's 2,754 billionaires. Interview with Roderick ...
05.25.2018 Economic Update – May 25, 2018 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
05.18.2018 Another ‘Gilded Age Updates on Theranos bankruptcy and workers' risks, our second "gilded age," mortgage lenders turn to rich borrowers, Trump on drug prices is just rhetoric, economic effects of breaking Iran treaty. Interview with Prof Miguel Robles-Duran on gentrification and crisis of ...
05.11.2018 Capitalism Provokes Workers Updates on Univ of California workers' strikes, privatizing fire departments, big money buys academia, fast-food workers unionize, the capitalism-loneliness-scapegoating links, Hillary Clinton pro-capitalist/anti-socialist, VW CEO is not the problem: system is. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on capitalism's destruction of ...
05.04.2018 Socialism: Past, Present, Future [1]Updates on critique of Uber and gig economy; WI Sen Johnson endorses inequality; Norway to pay male and female athletes same; corporations buy back their own shares; deaths of overworked Japanese; 10% NY school kids homeless; and majority of major ...
04.27.2018 Economic Update – April 27, 2018 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
04.20.2018 Why People Struggle With The System Updates on teachers' strikes, capitalism abuses Facebook, colleges reward privilege and reproduce it, Shell Oil knew about fossil fuels and global warming for last 50 years, UK housing size shrinks, Sinclair Broadcasting traps employees, US anti-depressant epidemic. Interview Rob Robinson: ...
04.13.2018 Distorting Economic Truths Updates on labor strikes at Disney, home sales and prices drop sharply, Nestle profits by privatizing water, hurting the post office profits UPS and FedEx, Larry Summers wrong on taxing soda, more costs of the VW emissions scandal, the economic ...
04.06.2018 Winds of System Change Updates on big French strikes protect workers' gains; rising sub-prime loans, students pay more as states do less for public tuition costs; West Virginia teachers strikes inspire same in Oklahoma, Arizona and Kentucky; US poverty worse than other nations, Prof. ...
03.30.2018 Resistance Economics Updates on NRA economics, anti-Chinese tariffs, BMW emissions cheating, Brexit's lesson, IBM dumps older workers, Tennessee teachers fight and win, CBO reports US income inequality deepening even counting welfare etc. Interview Prof. Ian Seda-Irizarry on "heterodox" economics at City University ...
03.23.2018 System Broken Updates on doctors prescribing fentanyl for pay, why deficits are not the issue, how tobacco companies dont solve the cigarette problem, big corps battle over net neutrality, German city denies food to non-German hungry, Trump vs Stormy Daniels, pay discrimination ...
03.16.2018 Economic Update – March 16, 2018 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
03.09.2018 Winds of Economic Change West Virginia teachers strike, Trump tariffs, Germany makes public transport free, UK living standards crash 2005-2015, US rich schools get richer, debtors prisons return in US. Interview Dr Harriet Fraad on breakdown of traditional family, causes and consequences.
03.02.2018 A System Rigged Against US [1]Updates on how Democrats helped destroy their party by backing campaigns against labor and the left after 1945, jobs created under Obama/Trump, lobbying in Trump's swamp, deregulation and risky bank lending, worker coops to reduce inequality. Interview with attorney Leonard ...
02.23.2018 Karl Marx (1818-1883) [caption id="attachment_282146" align="aligncenter" width="874"] [1] Source: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Updates on global capitalism's extreme inequality (Oxfam report), Victoria's Secret's billionaire owner, why immigration is a weapon of political distraction," how GOP tax cut helps the rich more than others, MSU sex ...
02.16.2018 Economic Update – February 16, 2018 Updates on capitalist fishing industry self-destructs, how malls mirror US capitalism, blaming government self -destructs in Oklahoma, renationalizing in UK, Mulvaney says interest rate spikes coming (how tax cuts hurt us). Interview with lifelong unionist Charles Fabian on decline and ...
02.09.2018 The System’s Unwanted Results Updates on economic data hype vs reality, big capitalists against health capitalists, profit-driven housing rip-offs, Saudi Arabia taxes its own super rich, London top male execs abuse women they hire, and US vs UK homelessness. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad ...
02.02.2018 Democratize the Enterprise Updates on corp tax savings not used for bonuses or wage increases, why tariffs fail to rescue jobs, UK and US universities react to economic change, Trump's solar panel tariffs are political theater, and Ursula LeGuin's critique of capitalism. Interview ...
01.26.2018 Marxism’s Contribution: Unique Social Analysis Updates on New York City's suit against big oil and dumping $5 billion in fossil fuel investments, fast-rising US consumer debt, further attacks on labor and living standards in Greece, collapse of Carillion Corp exposes failure of privatization in UK, ...
01.19.2018 Knowledge, Class and Economics Updates on problems and solutions for workplace discrimination, China's ascending economy, capitalism's drive to income and wealth inequalities, economics of immigration's winners and losers, US capitalism and African-Americans. Interview with co-author Prof. Richard McIntyre on new book: Knowledge, Class and ...
01.12.2018 Capitalism and Addiction: The Opioid Epidemic Updates on UN report on poverty in the US, oreos produced in Mexico, US households with zero or negative net worth, Germany's negative utility prices, Germany's bold labor strikes, Iceland law on equal pay for equal work, the myth of ...
01.05.2018 The Economy from 2017 to 2018 [caption id="attachment_278896" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] [1] Source: YouTube[/caption] Updates on net neutrality, workplace sexual harassment, bitcoin, worsening global inequality, Europe's recovery and instability, and using prison labor to fight fires. Major discussions of consumerism, gathering revolt against capitalism, and the economics ...
12.29.2017 Economic Update – December 29, 2017 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
12.22.2017 Economic Update – December 22, 2017 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
12.15.2017 Economic Update – December 15, 2017 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
12.08.2017 Economic Update – December 8, 2017 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
12.01.2017 Economic Update – December 1, 2017 After Uber got hacked, 57 million costumers and drivers' information has been compromised for a year; and Stephanie Kelton, former advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign, on the current state of the economy. Hosted by Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff.
11.24.2017 Economic Update – November 24, 2017 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
11.17.2017 Universal Health Care for the Disable and Elderly Maine' People's Alliance proposes a Universal Health Care for the Disable and Elderly. Hosted by Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff.
11.10.2017 Socialism of the Past, Present and Future [caption id="attachment_274723" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] [1] Source: Flickr[/caption] This week's episode discusses critiques of Uber and the gig economy; how Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson endorses inequality; Norway paying male and female athletes same; corporations buying back their own shares; the deaths ...
11.03.2017 Economic Update – November 3, 2017 Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.

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