On this week’s episode, Professor Richard Wolff addresses the numerous requests for financial planning or investment advice that he receives from many of you, touching on the truth about investing in the stock and/or bond markets. In addition, he offers a basic understanding of the economics of U.S. capitalism’s century-long, profit-driven failure to adequately provide housing to its people.
Then, Professor Wolff interviews Professors Eleni Schirmer and Sofya Aptekar about their new book Lend and Rule and their fight against the financialization of U.S. public universities and why this fight is so necessary.
Sofya Aptekar is an associate professor of urban studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of Green Card Soldier (2023) and a delegate of the Professional Staff Congress.
Eleni Schirmer is a writer living in Montréal. She currently holds a postdoc at Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre and organizes with the Debt Collective, the nation’s first union of debtors.