ECONOMIC UPDATE: Profits, Families and Sex
Updates on more VW sleaze, Irish bankers to jail, US public pension economics, Yale worker wins back job, Yale exposed. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on how post-1970s profit-driven US economy badl...
5 Aug 201658min
Economic Update: Economic Crisis, Fascism & History
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on India's inequality, Philly's poverty behind DNC front, new initiatives from unions, Starbuck's profiteering, gutting federal estate tax....
29 Jul 201658min
Economic Update: Convention Economics
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on platform contradictions, the VW scandal, CEOs pay explosion, Italian banks crisis, scary US auto loans. Major discussions: ec...
25 Jul 201658min
Economic Update: Deepening Crisis and African-Americans
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses "leaders" exposed by crises: Johnson in UK, Dimon in US. Stagnant incomes for most. Interview with Rob Robinson on conditions and prosp...
18 Jul 201658min
Economic Update: Psychology, Economics, and Orlando
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on minimum wage raises, economics of prisons, evidence that notions of "economic recovery" are myths for most of world. Intervie...
11 Jul 201658min
Economic Update: What Brexit Means
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on new Puerto Rico deal, French street battles, German leaders' need humility, fake Cleveland revitalization, selling out nation...
5 Jul 201658min
Economic Update: Small Victories, Big Lessons
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on victories (1) over US sugar industry and (2) in reducing Sweden's 40-hour workweek to 30 hours with no pay cut. Major analyse...
27 Jun 201658min
Economic Update: Economic Change: Why and How
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on CEO pay, new book on inequality, US estate and inheritance taxes. Interview with Alan Schulman, coordinator Democracy at Work New York C...
20 Jun 201658min
