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.
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
This week’s Economic Update focuses on the merger of collapsed First Republic Bank and JP Morgan Chase bank, making a “too big to fail” bank even bigger, and the cost of FDIC bank bailouts and mergers. We also present the timeline of policies leading to bank crises and give a brief history of government failures … Continued
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.
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.
Yanis Varoufakis, elected member Greek parliament, joins Prof. Wolff on this week’s show and offers his original, critical perspectives on (1) the banking crisis, (2) the decline of the US empire and US capitalism, (3) the mass uprisings of the French and Greek working classes in Europe, (4) the collapse of Europe’s efforts to shape … Continued
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.
