Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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8:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff takes complex economic issues and makes them understandable, empowering listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program explores alternative ways to organize markets and government policies. Today, it is played on 120+ radio stations nationwide and available for video streaming online. Economic Update is a Democracy at Work ([email protected]) production. [email protected] produces media and live events that aim to expose capitalism’s systemic problems and to show how democratizing our workplaces solves them. We can do better than capitalism.

Featured

Economic Update: "Establishment Media and Russia with Aaron Mate"

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on India's extreme inequality and its lesson, employers squeeze employees with "non-compete" job contracts, and how the profit motive distorts the concept of insurance. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr Stephen Bezruchka on how deeply and globally inequality endangers health with special attention to the US and Covid-19.

Full Episodes

Economic Update: "Are Mega-Corporations Ruining Our World?"

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of monopoly and oligopoly; past efforts and success in popular control over mega-corporations - in US and abroad; the fight back by mega-corporations to nullify reforms and regulations. Finally, some real solutions to the social problem and costs of an economy dominated by mega-corporations.

Economic Update 3/7/23

Host Richard D. Wolff. Wolff takes on complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large.

Economic Update 2/21/23

Host Richard D. Wolff. Wolff takes on complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large.

A Corporatized America

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff explains why capitalism does not deserve credit for improved living conditions, Home Depot billionaire blames US capitalism's problems on US workers being "lazy, fat, and stupid," Southwest Airlines as example of failures by both corporations and their gov't "regulators," George Santos as creature of capitalist advertising. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews wChris Hedges on the crisis of corporate America in 2023.

Economics for a New Year

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses US spending for war in Ukraine paid for by higher interest rates and inflation hurting middle and small businesses ; a rational transport system is NOT electric cars; an appreciation of the "degrowth" impulse with a critique of the degrowth movement's focus on individuals' consumerism and excess consumption.

"American Midnight" Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Economic updates on the French School of Economic Warfare; sanctions against Russia; and the link between asset prices and US pensions. Also, Adam Hochschild, author of "American Midnight" joins to discuss the right-wing surge of recent years.

Instability - Capitalism's Constant

In this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Twitter-Musk scandals, critique of profit as return to risk, mass European union-led strikes against inflation, economic crisis of 54 poorest nations today, US General Assembly vote against US embargo (sanctions) against Cuba, and an analysis of crypto-currency collapse.

Economic Update 12/13/22

Host Richard D. Wolff. Wolff takes on complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large.

Ana Kasparian on Today's U.S. Crisis

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses U.S. sanctions against Chinese semiconductor chip makers, OPEC+ cuts oil production by 2 million barrels per day boosting inflation, desperate UK conservatives abandon Brexit scapegoat to cozy up to Europe, and what U.S. might do to solve "labor shortages." In the second half of the show, Wolff is joined by Ana Kasparian, host of "The Young Turks," to talk about the media and today's U.S. crisis.