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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.
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.
In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff critiques the DOGE practice of firing federal civilian employees, analyzes the Trump tariff program, and shows how both are presented as ways to solve deep economic problems in the U.S. but are actually an assault on the working class. The second part of the show features … Continued
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff explores the last 150 years of largely uncritical celebrations of “the market” as if it were a perfect institution that must be protected from the intrusion of other institutions such as the government, labor unions, and popular organizations. We compare a historical example and the present to criticize … Continued
In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses certain minimum wages by the Trump administration, the costs of Germany’s rearmament, and how Trump’s tariffs and deportations have hit central America with economic catastrophe. The second half features a detailed discussion of the historical blaming of foreigners for the internal problems of capitalism … Continued
In this week’s episode, Professor Richard Wolff discusses how Marx’s class analysis presents a solution to today’s inequality and the challenges to overcoming it we have faced throughout history. In short, since the early existence of human society, people lived in tribes, clans, and villages that exhibited equality of wealth, income, and political power among … Continued
In this weeks episode, Professor Wolff discusses the economic causes and effects of the global demographics decline, the Trump administration’s colonial plans for Greenland, and examples of resistance and fighting back, as the Trump/Musk firing of federal workers gets underway. In the show’s second half, Professor Wolff interviews the activist, organizer, and people’s lawyer who … Continued
This week, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the firing of government workers by Trump/Musk, with an economic analysis showing it to be an attack on the U.S. working class, followed by a discussion of Trump’s foreign policy of turning against Europe as merely an adjustment to an “American Capitalism First” project that is as old … Continued
