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.
Updates on Biden’s inadequate student debt relief, Bastille Day and French Revolution, and alternatives to Artificial Intelligence being installed to increase profits and joblessness. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on the crisis of the US family, causes and consequences.
This week’s updates focus on Artificial Intelligence abused by employers as Profiteering Tool; racism in US universities, US-China economic competition, the progressivism of Tony Bennett. Interview with Ben Cohen, co-founder/former CEO of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream on a capitalist’s criticism of US capitalism.
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.
On this week’s episode, Prof. Wolff talks about the Chinese economy. China is run by a Communist Party but describes itself as socialist, while the employer/employee structure of its enterprises is capitalist. We examine what this means for (a) its place in the world economy, (b) its place in the transition from capitalism to socialism/communism, … Continued
This week’s updates focus on US small/medium businesses converting to worker coops, the strikes at the US west coast ports and UPS, an employer uses a fake priest to get workers’ confessions for employers’ use, and the state of Delaware allows businesses to vote in local elections (alongside individuals). In the second half we interview … Continued
This week’s updates focus on the ridiculously low ranking of the U.S. among OECD nations, why & how mega-corps get richer faster than we do, the palpable solidarity between the Labor Unions and the writers’ strike in the U.S, the UPS teamsters 97% vote to strike beginning on Aug 1, and how Pfizer fails to … Continued
This week’s show includes updates on the US west coast ILWU strike, unemployment compensation for strikers, 1700 CT caregivers strike against austerity, as well as discussing Mexico’s fight with the US over Mexico’s ban against GMO white corn imports from the US. The major topics of discussion focus on (1) ignorance about socialism among its … Continued
This week’s show brings updates on the real US unemployment problem, discusses how the US Congress betrays students on the student debt crisis. It also details how huge majorities polled support US teachers with increased teachers pay, teachers’ freedoms to teach about race, and teachers’ power vs boards of education and state governors, as well … Continued
This week’s updates focus on the German recession, deadly drug wholesalers, and immigrants in the US labor force, as well as oil and gas profiteers. In the latter half of the show the economic facts on China’s economic reality will be discussed and the origin and source of profits in Marxian economic theory will be … Continued
