10:00 AM Pacific Time: Fridays
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores government policies, alternative ways to organize, and markets.
On today’s show: Dr. Wolff questions the effectiveness as well as the economics of U.S. sanctions (economic warfare); also, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) endorses the United Auto Workers (UAW) plan of setting all union contracts to expire on May 1, 2028, essentially laying the groundwork for a “General Strike.” Then, Dr. Wolff highlights … Continued
This week’s episode features updates on the U.K. and French elections showing dramatic shifts to the left, contradicting U.S. mass media; U.S. self-induced global economic isolation in pursuit of punishing countries doing business with China; and Trump and Biden equally unwilling to solve Social Security’s financial problems by taxing incomes of the rich as Congress … Continued
On this week’s Economic Update, Professor Wolff devotes the entire program to explaining clearly and accessibly what government deficits are, why they occur, and who benefits from them. He shows how deficits and debts reward corporations and the rich at the expense of the mass of employees. This show will equip our audience to see … Continued
On this week’s Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses a huge victory for Uber and Lyft drivers’ struggling for better wages in Massachusetts. Also, he considers six United States senators who criticized Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, for failing to curb fossil fuel investments as promised and discusses the unfortunate new law passed by … Continued
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee. The first hour can be found here.
This week’s program is devoted to how old socialism’s rapid growth and global spread in the 19th and 20th centuries entailed a focus on the state. Key issues were: (1) Would the socialist state limit itself to regulating capitalist enterprises and the market (as in many Western European nations) to enhance the well-being of the … Continued
In this weeks Economic Update: Professor Richard Wolff discusses the rise of the Chinese car industry, the struggle between employers and employees over in-person versus remote workplaces, and the U.S. military’s anti-vax program in the Philippines, as part of the U.S.-China Cold War that is already underway. In the second half of our program, we … Continued
In this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses the latest U.S. and EU tariffs against China’s electric vehicles, the vote by 27,000 Virginia teachers to unionize, and the strike by students and workers at all six University of California campuses against attempted repression of students peacefully advocating a Gaza ceasefire. In the second half … Continued
In this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff devotes the entire program to an analysis of tariffs. We discuss why tariffs are not a worker’s issue, why capitalism’s continuous swings between free trade and protectionist periods and phases make little impact on workers, and why competing capitalists seek to get workers to support their positions … Continued
In today’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses The Washington Post’s exposure of the corporate rich sponsoring police repression against student protests and how Boeing, while exhibiting the airlines’ worst safety record, rewards its CEOs. In addition, the UAW loses a union election, as German capitalists and southern governors join forces to intimidate workers with … Continued
