Economic Update: How US Capitalism Uses Nationalism
[S11 E17] New
From 1945 to 1990 we were told a great struggle pitted capitalism against socialism/communism (chiefly the USSR and China). Yet still today, US leaders demonize Russia and China...
Read moreTen Years Ago: Defense Spending [10th Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff]
Economic Update: Workers Successfully Take Over their Workplaces
[S11 E15] New
Economic Update: Marxism's Ongoing Relevance
[S11 E14] New
After clearing away the Cold War debris that blocked discussion of Marxism's insights since 1945, we focus on Marxism's core contribution to (1) thinking about and (2) changing modern...
Read moreEconomic Update: When Economic Systems Fail
[S11 E13] New
On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff talks about the structural failure of Biden's American Rescue Plan, Nigerian mass workers' movement, private electricity for the US rich, big vs small business...
Read moreEconomic Update: Dems' Self-promotion versus Hard Economic Realities
[S11 E12] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the US coal industry decline, Brazil's Covid disaster, economic surge after Covid, and Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax...
Read moreEconomic Update: Finally A Tiny Sales Tax on Stocks
[S11 E11] New
On this week's show, Wolff talks about the taxing of CEO pay in the US, the immoral and self-defeating vaccine policy, and LeBron James speaking out on...
Read moreEconomic Update: People to People: Horizontal Social Change
[S11 E10] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Texas energy catastrophe, the 'Robinhood/Reddit' Wall Street incident, college workers organizing, Hollywood's dependency on China, and how New Zealand...
Read moreEconomic Update: Socialism and Puerto Rico
[S11 E09] New
On this week's EU, Prof. Wolff presents updates on worsening US inequality, universities borrowing more, billions earned by hedge funds in 2020, Bezos...
Read moreEconomic Update: The System Implodes: Amazon, Evictions, Tax Abuses, and Minimum Wages
[S11 E08] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Amazon's profits; New York state's eviction crisis and capitalism's reproduction of poverty and inequality; New York's stock...
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