Economic Update: Political Activism's Revival
Updates on International Women's Day, UC to make all research free, Cuomo begs and bribes Amazon again, US denounces UK protectionism, Spain = #1 healthiest country vs US at #35, how Trump/GOP raised ...
14 Mar 201928min
Economic Update: Renewing Labor's Movement
[S9 E10] Updates on striking Oakland school teachers, dangers of declining pensions, bank fined for helping clients evade taxes, in tariff war over black olives US vs EU, stagnant real wages in US e...
7 Mar 201928min
Economic Update: Fighting the System
Updates on the economics of immigration, France's yellow vests join union-called general strike, demonstrations against Sackler family's profiting from oxycontin, and New York City Council considers g...
28 Feb 201928min
Economic Update: Fantasy, Comedy, Tragedy: Delivering News Today
Updates on million-person Communist demonstration in India, subsidized "development" by Foxconn and Amazon, merger making big banks bigger, delusion of "bringing back manufacturing" US. Interview with...
21 Feb 201928min
Economic Update: Economics of Conflicted Mothers
Updates on the government shutdown's very important lessons, US teachers oppose a declining capitalism imposing its costs on the people, and firing the big banksters leaves our big bank problems unsol...
14 Feb 201928min
Economic Update: Police and Policing in the US
Prof. Wolff presents updates on (1) the US public education crisis (teacher strikes, declining quality, insufficient resources) and how it undermines the US's economic future, (2) the absurdity of the...
7 Feb 201928min
Economic Update: Socialism From Past to Future
On this episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff begins with socialism's history especially in the US: from being widely discussed up to 1945, then repressed in the Cold War, and now vigorously revived...
31 Jan 201928min
Economic Update: Yellow Vests and Tax Reform
Updates on "yellow vests" spread to UK, book Dying for a Paycheck, the bail-in scam, paying for airplane seat assignments, and postal banking. Major discussions of tax reforms needed and deserved and ...
24 Jan 201928min
