Economic Update

The US Housing Crisis Today

On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the history of highly successful government-built and-operated housing launched in 1918, the gains won by UAW workers in the first contract at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, TN, and the story of the three-year strike by the Newspaper Guild against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which was … Continued


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How the U.S. Tax System Worsens Inequality

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.K. PM Starmer’s trade visit to China, the new head of the Federal Reserve, and the escalation of a general strike in Minneapolis and its spread across the U.S. as people gear up against government assaults on cities. In the second half, Professor Wolff interviews … Continued


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Venezuela – Looking Deeper

  On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on how 73% of U.S. credit card debt is needed for everyday purchases, the issues with Venezuelan oil, and MAGA splits as Trump panders to the voting masses at the expense of a few giant corporations. The second half features an interview with … Continued


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The Political Bias of Conventional Economics

On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Pentagon’s investments into private companies, the end of electric vehicle subsidies in conjunction with the arrival of Chinese EVs in the U.S., the growing trade and produce exchange between Canada and China, and the nurses’ strike of NYC private hospitals grows to … Continued


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Nine Key Events in 2025

 This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff analyzes topics from Israel and Gaza to Epstein scandals to U.S. neocolonialism to Europe’s failure to seize Russian wealth held in European banks, with a focus on the historical importance of key developments shaping the global crisis emerging today. Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the … Continued


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Gentrification, Boston, and Racism

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff devotes the first half to New York’s new Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He discusses how and why he defeated so many efforts to block him, and what he needs to do to succeed, deliver on his campaign promises, and create a lasting legacy of his time in office. The … Continued


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The U.S. as a ‘Traumatised’ Society

 On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Black Friday strikes against Amazon in Germany and against Zara in Spain, the rapid decline of New School University as an example of a deepening crisis in U.S. higher education, and a new U.S. national security paper that throws Europe under the … Continued