Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. Beyond focusing a critical eye on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program also explores systemic solutions to our economy's problems including alternative ways to organize production and distribution of the goods and services we all depend on.

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Marxism's Ongoing Relevance

Marxism's Ongoing Relevance

After clearing away the Cold War debris that blocked discussion of Marxism's insights since 1945, we focus on Marxism's core contribution to (1) thinking about and (2) changing modern capitalist socie...

8 Apr 202128min

When Economic Systems Fail

When Economic Systems Fail

On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff talks about the structural failure of Biden's American Rescue Plan, Nigerian mass workers' movement, private electricity for the US rich, big vs small business stru...

1 Apr 202128min

Dems' Self-promotion versus Hard Economic Realities

Dems' Self-promotion versus Hard Economic Realities

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the US coal industry decline, Brazil's Covid disaster, economic surge after Covid, and Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax proposal. On the second half of the show...

25 Mars 202128min

Finally a Tiny Sales Tax on Stocks

Finally a Tiny Sales Tax on Stocks

On this week's show, Wolff talks about the taxing of CEO pay in the US, the immoral and self-defeating vaccine policy, and LeBron James speaking out on social issues. On the second half of the show, W...

18 Mars 202128min

People to People: Horizontal Social Change

People to People: Horizontal Social Change

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Texas energy catastrophe, the 'Robinhood/Reddit' Wall Street incident, college workers organizing, Hollywood's dependency on China, and how New...

11 Mars 202128min

Socialism and Puerto Rico

Socialism and Puerto Rico

On this week's EU, Prof. Wolff presents updates on worsening US inequality, universities borrowing more, billions earned by hedge funds in 2020, Bezos "charity" giving, Macron and French conservatives...

4 Mars 202128min

The System Implodes: Amazon, Evictions, Tax Abuses, and Minimum Wages

The System Implodes: Amazon, Evictions, Tax Abuses, and Minimum Wages

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Amazon's profits; New York state's eviction crisis and capitalism's reproduction of poverty and inequality; New York's stock transfer tax; raising the minimu...

25 Feb 202128min

Why Capitalism Reproduces Inequality and a Solution

Why Capitalism Reproduces Inequality and a Solution

The extreme economic inequalities of both global and US capitalism are not new or exceptional. Capitalism reproduces inequality and repeatedly blocks or reverses redistribution efforts.Inequality stem...

18 Feb 202128min

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