Economic Update: Politicians Faking it
Updates on Luxembourg making all public transport free, Europe evading US sanctions on Iran, Saudi Arabia sleaze deals with Trump, Deutsche Bank corruption massive, Pompeo's anti-China strategy contra...
17 Jan 201928min
Economic Update: Ecosocialism
Updates on New York City council votes minimum wage for ride-hailing drivers (Uber, Lyft, etc.), Trump store is 85% goods made abroad, charter school teachers strike in Chicago, contradictions in US-C...
10 Jan 201928min
Economic Update: Capitalism - Slow-motion Implosion?
Canada cuts corp tax cuts in race to bottom, Macron pleases business but outrages French people, Italy's new gov't budget provides for its people, Hillary Clinton joins right in scapegoating immigrant...
3 Jan 201928min
Economic Update: Capitalism - Changed by its Contradictions
Updates on poverty in California, childhood obesity in US, economic fallout from (real meaning of) Trump steel tariff. Prof Wolff responds to questions by explaining how US politics has sustained US c...
27 Dec 201828min
Economic Update: What Elections Hide
Updates on LA vote on public bank; contradictions of Trump's "nationalism;" big business criticism of tariffs; corporations like 7-Eleven use immigration crisis for profits. Major discussion: the urge...
20 Dec 201828min
EU Extra: Kali Akuno
Prof. Wolff continues his interview with the co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, Kali Akuno, on the Mississippi development project focused on worker co-op.
20 Dec 201814min
Economic Update: Cooperation Jackson: A Closer Look
This week's updates include: massive international study of profit-driven food production, the huge costs of contemporary loneliness, police raid Deutsche Bank, Falling house prices, Belgium follows F...
13 Dec 201828min
EU Extra: The Great American Purge
Professor Wolff continues his discussion of the economics behind the great U.S. anti-leftist purge ("McCarthyism") after 1945.
12 Dec 20187min
