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10,000 Striking John Deere Workers Demand “Equitable” Pay & Benefits as Company Sees Record Profits
We go to the picket line in Iowa, where thousands of workers are on strike at John Deere after the United Auto Workers failed to reach an agreement with the company to improve wages. Despite…
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Understanding ‘Striktober’ and ‘The Great Resignation’
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught at Yale University and at City University of New York. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the…
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Leaked Documents Expose Amazon's Plans To Gobble Up America
Leaked documents appear to show Amazon's private-brands team in India "secretly exploited internal data" to copy products from other sellers and rig search results. Thom Hartmann talks about how they prove why we need to…
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Wall Street Billionaires Profit From Extreme Poverty They Caused
We’re seeing massive homelessness in cities across America because a handful of Wall Street billionaires want to make a killing - Will America remove housing from their clutches? The rich are not just profiting off…
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Can a Treasury Magic Trick Stop Shut Down?
The Treasury plans and emergency $1 Trillion coin idea to prevent a government shutdown. Could it work? What happens if the government does shut down? Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to explain how the…
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Economic Update: Socialism & Worker Co-ops
20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures…
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Central Banks Tightening Could Choke Out Middle Class
Bank interest rates are on the rise. The Federal Reserve have poured vast amounts of money to boost the economy during the past two years to stimulate spending. The risk is that the extra money…
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What mainstream media got wrong about Occupy Wall Street
On the latest #JustSolutions, Free Speech TV speaks with Arun Gupta about what mainstream media got wrong about the Occupy Wall Street movement. #OccupyWallStreet It’s been ten years since thousands of protesters took to the…
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Can China Survive Default?
Global markets have watched anxiously as a huge and deeply indebted Chinese property company flirts with default, fearing that any collapse could ripple through the international financial system. One Chinese property company, Evergrande, affected the…
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Economic Update: Occupy Wall Street: Analysis & Legacy
This program is devoted to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) on its 10th anniversary. Prof. Wolff discusses OWS as a historic turning point, as a legacy for the US left, and his personal experience. Wolff presents…
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“Another World Is Possible”: How Occupy Wall Street Reshaped Politics, Kicked Off New Era of Protest
On the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we examine the legacy of the historic protests with three veterans of the movement: Nelini Stamp, now the director of strategy and partnerships at the Working Families…
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Michael Sandel: Even a Perfect Meritocracy Would Be Bad
Michael Sandel, Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University and author of the book "The Tyranny of Merit: Can we find the Common Good?" joins David to discuss meritocracy, inequality, and much more.. -- The…
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Dems Pushing Higher Wealthy & Corporate Taxes
Democrats are proposing higher taxes on top earners and corporations to pay for their proposed stimulus bill. -- The David Pakman Show is a news and political talk program, known for its controversial interviews with…
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Economic Update: The Rational & Irrational in Anti-Vaxxers
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the complexities of anti-vaccination movements, the long decline of religion in US capitalism, Disneys’s shift to serve the richest, lessons from AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka's leadership,…
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“Will Corporate Greed Prolong the Pandemic?” Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on Global Vaccine Equity
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says global vaccine inequity endangers everyone on the planet, including those in rich countries, and says the best way to solve the problem is to drastically increase production of COVID-19 vaccines.…
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Why the Billionaires Should Vaccinate the World
If we don’t vaccinate the world, more variants will arise. During the pandemic, billionaires saw their wealth rise at the fastest rate ever, by $5 trillion – in 18 months. If they were taxed on…
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Biden Says Trump Tax Cuts Added $8 Trillion to Debt
Joe Biden points out the hypocrisy of Republicans fearmongering about the debt and deficit when they didn't care about how to pay for things under Donald Trump. -- The David Pakman Show is a news…
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Economic Update: A US Left Rises to Remake the World
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the "Friends" reunion and what it teaches, how China outmaneuvers US tariffs, etc., and how Yellow Vests plus French unions defeated Macron "reforms." On the second…
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