Economic Update: Honest Economics

Economic Update: Honest Economics

April 19, 2015 This edition of Economic Update include updates on: Bernanke's new big-bucks finance job, how GM is avoiding billions in victims' claims for faulty ignitions, how a Seattle capitalist raised all of his employees salaries to a $70k/yr, Americans' self-delusion on inequality, how private profit is trumping public policy and anti-student-debt activism. Responses to listeners in the second half of the show include: the impact on China if capitalism's relocation is stopped and major discussions on the economics of wages and prices, the narrowness of economics in education and basic global economic development issues.

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The Yellow Vests  Mass Movement in France

The Yellow Vests Mass Movement in France

This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the big union wins for 40,000 workers in the UC system, the ongoing strike of graduate student workers at Harvard, and basic statistics on t...

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Center for Popular Economics: Goals and Achievements

Center for Popular Economics: Goals and Achievements

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on why and how worker co-ops are a strategic direction for socialism, and Europe's deindustrialization. The second half features a...

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Economic Update: The Economics of Unemployment Today

Economic Update: The Economics of Unemployment Today

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff briefly discusses two current large strikes by workers fighting back: the British Columbia nurses in Canada and the commuter rail workers in New York (LIR...

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Economic Update: The Global "Birth Strike" Changes Everything

Economic Update: The Global "Birth Strike" Changes Everything

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the tentative agreement reached by the unionized portion (85%) of the staff at the Los Angeles Unified School District (400,000 studen...

20 Touko 35min

Causes & Consequences of the Iran War

Causes & Consequences of the Iran War

The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so.  You c...

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Marx's Relevance for Today

Marx's Relevance for Today

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28 Huhti 31min

Born Sick in the USA: Improving The Health of a Nation

Born Sick in the USA: Improving The Health of a Nation

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on the 3 major teachers' unions struggling with the LA Unified School District, rising electricity costs in the U.S., and co...

21 Huhti 32min

Economic Implications of the U.S. War on Iran

Economic Implications of the U.S. War on Iran

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the 3800 Colorado meatpackers on strike before diving into a presentation on how the war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have di...

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