Economic Update

Opioid Complicity / Dangers and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

On this week’s episode, Professor Wolff discusses how major pharmaceutical companies (CVS, United Healthcare, Cigna) are complicit in the opioid crisis in the United States. Then,he highlights a successful food co-op in Minneapolis and explains the inauthenticity of mainstream discourse on the U.S. economy. Finally, Professor Wolff interviews Richard “RJ” Eskow, Bernie Sanders’ speechwriter, an expert on AI and the basic social issues its spread now raises.