Capitalism in Crisis: Why Do Recessions Happen?

The CEO of Walmart is acknowledging that AI will “change literally every job,” as AI threatens workers’ jobs and incomes everywhere and data centers tear up communities. The capitalists are currently ...

1 Okt 202533min

Brian talks with Eugene Puryear about how the Trump White House is criminalizing left and liberal organizations as part of Project 2025’s effort to impose a new right-wing political system in the Unit...

25 Sep 202552min

Is the next Great Depression coming? One hedge fund manager who makes his clients billions off of economic crashes thinks the current stock market looks a lot like the high before the crash in 1929. P...

24 Sep 202529min

Brian and Layan discuss how the assassination of Charlie Kirk is being used by the Trump White House to launch a new McCarthy-like effort to suppress Free Speech and dissent in the USA by criminalizin...

23 Sep 202517min

The U.S. economy is headed into a downward spiral, with millions unemployed, prices going up, and myriad other poor economic indicators. Professor Richard Wolff & Brian Becker discuss how this is bake...

17 Sep 202529min

A new poll shows that the majority of U.S. residents—75%—don’t believe in the so-called American Dream: that if you work hard in the United States, you can succeed at having an economically secure lif...

10 Sep 202528min

Millions of Venezuelans participated in military drills to help defend the country as U.S. warships and fighter aircraft are deployed by Trump. Brian is joined by Manolo De Los Santos, Executive Direc...

9 Sep 202512min

Brian and Layan discuss the mass ICE raids and arrests in the last days of hundreds of workers at an auto factory in Georgia and a food production facility in Syracuse, NY. They also discuss the massi...

6 Sep 202511min