Episodes

Tuesday Dec 30, 2014
Signs of Deepening Inequality - 12.28.14
Tuesday Dec 30, 2014
Tuesday Dec 30, 2014
Updates on successful Oregon teaching assistants' strike, evicting the homeless, law limits unpaid internships to 4 weeks, and universities become businesses. Response to our audiences on the economics of war and military in US - "the elephant in the economy" - and on political corruption in the new budget. Major discussion of the sharp decline in most Americans' wealth since 2007 (no recovery there either) coupled with widening wealth gaps between whites and both African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans.

Friday Dec 19, 2014
Capitalism's Christmas Presents - 12.21.14
Friday Dec 19, 2014
Friday Dec 19, 2014
Updates on economics of oil price collapse, resumption of US-Cuba relations, lost middle class, and the economics of Uber car service. Response to questions on upsurge of union organizing and on Supreme Court anti-labor ruling. Major discussion of why both men and women in the US are leaving the labor force.

Monday Dec 15, 2014
Mainstream vs Critical Economics - 12.14.14
Monday Dec 15, 2014
Monday Dec 15, 2014
Updates on Mexican farm exploitation, Grenoble takes down advertising, US teachers underpaid, and cutting workers' pensions. Responses to listeners on Harvard and Yale as full participants in capitalism's defects. Analyzing modern "economics" as a discipline from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and since.

Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Economic Update - Labor and Unions - 12.07.14
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Sunday Dec 07, 2014

Friday Dec 05, 2014
Economics of Private Property - 11.30.14
Friday Dec 05, 2014
Friday Dec 05, 2014
Updates on unpaid internships, extreme wealth, and economic perceptions. Response to listener questions on real economics of public pensions and of home refinancing. In depth analyses of private property and income and of economic regulation vs system change.