ECONOMIC UPDATE: CO-OPS VS CAPITALISM
October 18, 2015 This week's edition of Economic Update features discussion on: saving capitalism, looming economic downturn, 250,000 against TTIP in Berlin, US plan to give Puerto Rican taxes to bank...
25 Okt 201558min
Higher Education in Crisis
June 14, 2015 Today's updates include an analysis of unemployment numbers to show what they hide as well as reveal. Responses to listeners' questions expose the economics of lotteries and why the larg...
14 Juli 201552min
Fighting Economic Justice
June 21, 2015 Today's show opens with Goldman Sachs' injustice and then we move on to the 'independent contractor' ploy just busted at FedEx and Uber followed with Wisconsin governor's attack on publi...
14 Juli 201553min
Pope Questions Capitalism
June 28, 2015 Today's updates begin with the victories of alumna, faculty and students over the autocratic board of Sweet Briar College in Virginia. We then discuss the uniquely awful US record on pai...
14 Juli 201554min
Class and Socialism
July 6, 2015 We are beginning a new 3-week experiment with a new format that includes two in-depth analyses, one in each half of the show. We begin this update by considering the different meanings of...
14 Juli 201554min
Economic Update: Learning from Economic Defeats
July 12, 2015 Continuing our new format experiment of two in-depth analyses, the first half of today's show we discuss how The New Deal was both a victory and a defeat. Both offer crucial lessons for ...
14 Juli 201553min
Economic Update: System Change - Then and Now
March 29, 2015 In this episode of Economic Update we take a look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership secrets, the Heinz-Kraft merger, the overly costly and underperforming US medical care system, the fin...
11 Maj 201556min
Economic Update: Economic Change and Personal Life Crises
April 5, 2015 This episode of Economic Update features a look into the car parts industry, why and how German courts cut Uber, how Russia's economy is growing despite economic sanctions, why there's n...
11 Maj 201556min
