Economic Update: Capitalism Invites Deepening Criticism
Updates on new approach to Labor Day, DNC accepts fossil fuel donations, Turkey's crisis as typical capitalist instability, collapse of Genoa toll bridge, exploding gap between CEO and average worker ...
30 Aug 201828min
Economic Update: Capitalism's Problems Provoke Oppositions
Updates on Missouri vote for union position, the irrationality of student debt, economic sanction of Iran isolates and costs US for Trump political gains, Monsanto puts profits over cancer risks, Loui...
23 Aug 201828min
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...
16 Aug 201828min
Economic Update: Capitalism: One Big Push Against Capitalism
Updates on social costs of criminalizing marijuana, US food outlets taken over by foreign conglomerates, capital labor conflict in India, Trump's Signature Bank swamp, New Zealand makes 10-days paid d...
9 Aug 201828min
Economic Update: Hiding Capitalism's Failures
Updates on Europe's higher labor force participation; Cuomo campaign fakes "small donations"; US restaurants decline as pinched incomes switch to food delivery; "market" housing system causes homeless...
1 Aug 201828min
EU Extra: Moumita Ahmed
Prof. Wolff continues his interview with Moumita Ahmed, co-founder of Millennials for Revolution (formerly Millennials for Bernie Sanders) and Digital campaign strategist from Queens NY.
27 Juli 201814min
Economic Update: Doing Better Than Capitalism
Updates on New Zealand firm succeeds with 4 day workweek; Vienna's public housing successes; Fordham adjuncts' union wins big; Burberry destroys $ millions in new clothes; precarious US jobs worsen al...
26 Juli 201828min
Economic Update: Millennials for Revolution
Updates on Trump's tariffs cost Americans jobs, shifting capitalist alliances don't change the system, Irish parliament stops investing in fossil fuels, Washington state forced fast food employers to ...
19 Juli 201828min
