Pages tagged "Economic Update"
Economic Update: Inflation - How Markets Fail
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In this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about Sri Lanka’s economic crisis as a global example, and how US billionaires escape taxation at our expense. In the second half, Wolff discusses...
Read moreEconomic Update: Progressive Politics Win
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This week on Economic Update, an analysis of Ukraine propaganda war, US inflation worsens, the US college debt crisis and New York City eviction crisis...
Read moreEconomic Update: Ukraine & An Empire’s Decline
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This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses nurses’ suicides as results of our profit-driven healthcare, sanctions and their effect on inflation, US states where 40% of workers earn under $15/hr, and US corporate...
Read moreEconomic Update: Capitalism and Its Self-Delusions
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In the first half of this week's show, Wolff evaluates US capitalism as a system of production and distribution of goods and services. In the second half, he compares...
Read moreEconomic Update: Amazon Workers Organize a Union
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This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about oil and gas inflation, its impacts, and politicians' phony solutions, the stagnant US gender pay gap and its significance, and why Americans are experiencing economic crisis, while Biden...
Read moreEconomic Update: Christian Socialism
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This week on Economic Update, Prof Wolff presents updates on Amazon workers' strike, the impact of US inflation, and the underappreciated economic aspects of Russia-Ukraine war...
Read moreEconomic Update: Ukraine, Race and Class
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This week's show on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about the emerging new world order, Ukraine and inflation, and the economics of sanctions. On the second half of the show...
Read moreEconomic Update: What Marx & Marxism Offer us Today
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This week's show features a discussion of what Marx offers in the way of a basic critique of capitalism and an alternative economic system that would be better for most people, and how this...
Read moreEconomic Update: Green Party vs 2-Party Monopoly
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On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about the UK selling visa to the rich, why "non-profit" is really "un-taxed," Apple's CEO's 2021 pay of $99 million, AOC and NYPD arrests for stealing...
Read moreEconomic Update: Unaffordable Housing
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