Economic Update: Standing Up
Updates on China's life expectancy, Ireland's vote, US unemployment, Amazon's quitting bonus, Johnson and Johnson put profits before public health, die-ins at Publix succeed, Macron gets union backlas...
7 Jun 201856min
Economic Update: Capitalism Makes Few Winners, Many Losers
Updates on Armenia's Political Spring, banks big profits, Harley-Davidson fires hundreds, unjust criminal penalties, US households' financial distress, Germany bans diesels, US drug companies put prof...
31 Mai 201855min
Economic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx
Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
26 Mai 20181h 6min
Economic Update: An Unsustainable System
Updates on decline of cities/private cities, freelancers' economy, why legalize sports betting now, Fiat-Chrysler-Porsche added to emissions cheating scandal, new federal jobs guarantee, Catholic Univ...
24 Mai 201854min
Economic Update: Another "Gilded Age"
Updates on Theranos bankruptcy and workers' risks, our second "gilded age," mortgage lenders turn to rich borrowers, Trump on drug prices is just rhetoric, economic effects of breaking Iran treaty. In...
17 Mai 201856min
Economic Update: Capitalism Provokes Workers
Updates on University of California workers' strikes, privatizing fire departments, big money buys academia, fast-food workers unionize, the capitalism-loneliness-scapegoating links, Hillary Clinton p...
10 Mai 201856min
Economic Update: Socialism: Past, Present, Future
Updates on critique of Uber and gig economy; WI Sen Johnson endorses inequality; Norway to pay male and female athletes same; corporations buy back their own shares; deaths of overworked Japanese; 10%...
3 Mai 201857min
Economic Update: Employees vs Employers, Endless Tensions
Updates on German workers who elect almost half of corporate boards of directors, major US corporations with negative tax rates, Kentucky governor maneuvers against black-lung victims, involuntary par...
26 Apr 201856min
