Economic Update: Capitalism's Shrinking Popularity
[S11 E27] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses French voters abstaining (66%), and rejecting party establishments in the face of social crisis; Seattle City Council helps tenants with law changes as conservatives seek to recall progressive Council leader Sawan...
Read moreEconomic Update: The Challenge of Progressive Unionism
[S11 E26] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Wall Street money corrupting US elections and the facts of a declining US capitalism (wage stagnation driving inequality, rising health and education costs, falling real social security benefits, unequal wealth of...
Read moreEconomic Update: Inflation and Labor Shortage
[S11 E25] New
On this week's show, Prof Wolff talks about the social effects of inflation and the lack of accountability on the part of employers. Capitalist employers set prices with the only motive of maximizing. Employees, the vast majority, must live with inflation but...
Read moreEconomic Update: How Capitalism Shapes our Food
[S11 E24] New
In this episode, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the economic aspects of the Covid pandemic: lockdowns vs vaccines, scientific debate vs corporate advertising, long-term vs short term costs, the billionaires made by...
Read moreEconomic Update: Insurgent Working Class and Organization
[S11 E23] New
In this week's show, Prof Wolff presents updates on the efforts to finally add dental, vision, and hearing coverage to Medicare, the effects of Trump's tariffs on China, and the contradictions between capitalist profiteering...
Read moreEconomic Update: The Center Cannot Hold
[S11 E22] New
This program begins by analyzing the political monopoly (aka "The Center") operated by the GOP and Dems in the US: its organization and dominance until the last few years. The monopoly deteriorates as both GOP and Democrat coalitions...
Read moreEconomic Update: A "Living Wage"
[S11 E21] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff comments on how and why "consumerism" matters and on why Biden's "progressive shift" is both like and unlike (far more limited so far) FDR's...
Read moreTen Years Ago: Unemployment [10th Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff]
Economic Update: Labor & Capitalism's Rise & Fall
[S11 E20] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Congress Bills H.R.51 giving statehood to Washington, DC, and H.R.1 countering GOP efforts to restrict voting; and Biden's...
Read moreEconomic Update: Valuing Work by Women of Color
[S11 E19] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Bernie Madoff's $ 82 billion swindles and capitalism's incentives for swindling, the economics of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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