Episodes
Wednesday Oct 29, 2014
Economic Update - Capitalism, Inequality, and Martin Luther King - 10/29/14
Wednesday Oct 29, 2014
Wednesday Oct 29, 2014
Updates on Detroit’s water shutoffs, corporations prioritize profit at people’s expense (4 big examples), US Senators making money, economics of ebola, and hedge funds pay fines with pensioners’ money. Interview: Dr. Obery hendricks, Jr., on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s lifelong criticism of capitalism and preference for democratic socialism. Response to listeners on (1) economics of the disabled (productivity and wages) and (2) reduced 2014 deficit in US.
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014
Economic Update - Why Economics Are So Poorly Understood - 10/15/14
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014
Updates on GM recalls, Cuba's investment in medical training, Germany's end all tuition requirements. Major discussions of why economics education so poor and report from Santa Fe movement for public banking. Response to listeners on why no recovery from the crisis and how to think about transition to worker coop based economy.
Wednesday Oct 08, 2014
Economic Update - The Economics of Corporations - 10/08/14
Wednesday Oct 08, 2014
Wednesday Oct 08, 2014
Updates on economics of migrants, choosing not to go to college, corporate tax dodges and their effects. Major discussions of (1) the economics of insurance, and (2) the basic economics of capitalist corporations. Responses to questions on (1) Rockefellers selling their fossil fuel holdings and (2) the economics of "mutual" companies.
Wednesday Oct 01, 2014
Economic Update - How Capitalism Works - 10/01/14
Wednesday Oct 01, 2014
Wednesday Oct 01, 2014
Updates on why efforts against obesity fail, Cadillac moves to New York, Atlanta Symphony lockout, subprime auto-credit, bank economics. Major discussion on the economics of climate change. Responses to questions on Jamestown in US history, minimum wage struggles now, and economics of insurance.