Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

June 14, 2015 Today's updates include an analysis of unemployment numbers to show what they hide as well as reveal. Responses to listeners' questions expose the economics of lotteries and why the larg...

14 Jul 201552min

June 21, 2015 Today's show opens with Goldman Sachs' injustice and then we move on to the 'independent contractor' ploy just busted at FedEx and Uber followed with Wisconsin governor's attack on publi...

14 Jul 201553min

June 28, 2015 Today's updates begin with the victories of alumna, faculty and students over the autocratic board of Sweet Briar College in Virginia. We then discuss the uniquely awful US record on pai...

14 Jul 201554min

July 6, 2015 We are beginning a new 3-week experiment with a new format that includes two in-depth analyses, one in each half of the show. We begin this update by considering the different meanings of...

14 Jul 201554min

July 12, 2015 Continuing our new format experiment of two in-depth analyses, the first half of today's show we discuss how The New Deal was both a victory and a defeat. Both offer crucial lessons for ...

14 Jul 201553min

March 29, 2015 In this episode of Economic Update we take a look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership secrets, the Heinz-Kraft merger, the overly costly and underperforming US medical care system, the fin...

11 Mai 201556min

April 5, 2015 This episode of Economic Update features a look into the car parts industry, why and how German courts cut Uber, how Russia's economy is growing despite economic sanctions, why there's n...

11 Mai 201556min

April 12, 2015 In this edition of Economic Update, we take a look at inadequate unemployment insurance, where Ted Cruz's campaign money is coming from, a law that's giving domestic workers real benefi...

11 Mai 201556min