Inflation - How Markets Fail
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about Sri Lanka's economic crisis as a global example, and how US billionaires escape taxation at our expense. In the second half, Wolff discusses how and why th...
28 Apr 202229min
Progressive Politics Win
This week on Economic Update, an analysis of Ukraine propaganda war, US inflation worsens, the US college debt crisis and New York City eviction crisis looms. In the second half of the show, Wolff int...
21 Apr 202228min
Ukraine and an Empire's Decline
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses nurses' suicides as results of our profit-driven healthcare, sanctions and their effect on inflation, US states where 40% of workers earn under $15/...
14 Apr 202228min
Capitalism and Its Self-delusions
In the first half of this week's show, Wolff evaluates US capitalism as a system of production and distribution of goods and services. In the second half, he compares the evaluation with the very diff...
7 Apr 202228min
Amazon Workers Organize a Union
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about oil and gas inflation, its impacts, and politicians' phony solutions, the stagnant US gender pay gap and its significance, and why Americans are e...
31 Mars 202228min
Christian Socialism
This week on Economic Update, Prof Wolff presents updates on Amazon workers' strike, the impact of US inflation, and the underappreciated economic aspects of Russia-Ukraine war. In the second half of ...
24 Mars 202229min
Ukraine, Race and Class
This week's show on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about the emerging new world order, Ukraine and inflation, and the economics of sanctions. On the second half of the show, Wolff is joined by Pr...
17 Mars 202228min
What Marx & Marxism Offer us Today
This week's show features a discussion of what Marx offers in the way of a basic critique of capitalism and an alternative economic system that would be better for most people, and how this differs fr...
10 Mars 202228min
