Economic Update

The Economics of U.S. Labor Struggles and Gaza

In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the economic repercussions of Western sanctions and the retaliations they provoke. He then turns to the latest labor strikes and the wage and benefit gains achieved by unions at Boeing and East Coast dock workers. He highlights China’s dominance of the global energy markets, and U.S. spending on military and police.

Finally, he closes with an economic analysis of Israel’s ongoing violence in Gaza.