Pages tagged "Economic Update"
Economic Update: Varoufakis' Critique of Capitalism Today
[S13 E18] New
Yanis Varoufakis, elected member Greek parliament, joins Prof. Wolff on this week's show and offers his original, critical perspectives on (1) the banking crisis, (2) the decline of the US empire and US capitalism, (3) the mass uprisings of the French and Greek working classes in Europe, (4) the collapse...
Read moreEconomic Update: The Emerging New World Economy: A New Empire, a Multipolar World, or a Post-Capitalist System
[S13 E17] New
Four key changes drive a new world economy emerging from the old. First is Capitalism's transition from neoliberal, globalizing to nationalistic capitalism. Second is the end of the stale, old debate between private and state capitalism in favor of private + state capitalism hybrids. Third is the post-peak decline of the US empire. Fourth is the urgent question of what comes next...
Read moreEconomic Update: Today's Medicare for All Battle with Dr. William Bronston
[S13 E16] New
In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff discusses US deaths from Covid, poverty in the US labor force, US and Canada cooperate against immigrants, US warfare vs China's peacemaking, Amazon profits from cutting back on "free" shipping. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr. William Bronston, advocate for single-payer...
Read moreEconomic Update: When We Put People First in US Politics
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Economic Update: The Marxist Tradition
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Economic Update: Why the US Constitution is an Obstacle to Change
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In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the US banking crisis, plant closing injustice, growing child labor in the US, Biden's budget's tax "proposals," and a new book that shows US homelessness is an economic problem. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Prof. Robert Ovetz...
Read moreEconomic Update: How Austerity Paves the Way for Fascism
[S13 E12] New
In this week’s Economic Update, Prof. Wolff interviews Prof. Clara Mattei on her new book "Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism"...
Read moreEconomic Update: Social Security, Ohio Derailment, Puerto Rican Poverty - US Capitalism Provokes
[S13 E11] New
In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff focuses on the struggle over Social Security- real versus false alternatives- and the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment tragedy. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Alexis Colon about the colonial status of Puerto Rico...
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Economic Update: Establishment Media & Russia with Aaron Maté
[S13 E10] New
In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on dying empires and climate crisis; mass shootings; fast-food mega-corps fund referendum to slow California plan to raise fast food workers wages and working conditions, and why the debt ceiling debate in Congress is a phony GOP-Dem political theater. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Aaron Maté...
Read moreEconomic Update: Are Mega-Corporations Ruining Our World?
[S13 E09] New
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of monopoly and oligopoly; past efforts and success in popular control over mega-corporations - in US and abroad; the fight back by mega-corporations to nullify reforms and regulations. Finally, some real solutions...
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