Pages tagged "Economic Update"
Economic Update: Socialism & Worker Co-ops
[S9 E28] REPEAT
20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures into democratic worker cooperatives...
Read moreEconomic Update: Occupy Wall Street: Analysis and Legacy
[S11 E35] New
This program is devoted to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) on its 10th anniversary. Prof. Wolff discusses OWS as a historic turning point, as legacy for the US left, and his personal experience. Wolff presents OWS's 4 basic causes...
Read moreEconomic Update: The Rational and Irrational in Anti-Vaxxers
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On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the complexities of anti-vaccination movements, the long decline of religion in US capitalism, Disneys’s shift to serve the richest, lessons from AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka's leadership, and failures of GOP, Dem leaders to stop last 75 years ...
Read moreEconomic Update: 20 Years after 9/11, the U.S. is still a "Stuck Nation"
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On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Alabama miners' strike, how China's focus on reducing inequality affects competition with the US, and the economics of the "right to repair" consumers' movement in the US...
Read moreEconomic Update: Extremes of Rich & Poor in U.S. Capitalism
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This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses the new US program for monthly child benefits; why Covid strengthens some and divides other nations; the myth of "labor shortage;" the real cost of ultra-luxury cruises; Uber and sexual assaults; and lastly, the outsized US costs of healthcare...
Read moreEconomic Update: Liberating Technology from Capitalism
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Economic Update: Chile's Feminist Social Revolution
[S11 E30] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the election of a socialist, African-American woman as new mayor in Buffalo, NY; US unemployment insurance's meager support for jobless; Teamsters target Amazon workers...
Read moreEconomic Update: A US Left Rises to Remake the World
[S11 E29] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on "The Friends" reunion and what it teaches, how China outmaneuvers US tariffs, etc., and how Yellow Vests plus French unions defeated...
Read moreEconomic Update: Best Years of US Lie in its Past
[S11 E28] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about Chipotle Mexican Grill blaming its price increases on its workers, economist Arthur Laffer's claims that many poor, minority workers are "not worth $15/hour" and false claims that lower taxes help economic growth while...
Read moreEconomic Update: Capitalism's Shrinking Popularity
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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...
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