Episodes
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
Capitalism and War - 04.26.15
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
Updates on UK elections, crisis's long-term effects, Kansas demonizes the poor, and the mustard-ketchup economic war. Responses to listeners on child-support economics and car production moving to Mexico. Major discussions: capitalism and war - a history, new stages of Cuban socialism and US Cuba-policy, the high stakes of Greece's economic situation.
Friday Apr 17, 2015
Economic Update - Honest Economics - 04.19.15
Friday Apr 17, 2015
Friday Apr 17, 2015
Updates on Bernanke's new big-bucks finance job, GM avoids billions in victims' claims for faulty ignitions, Seattle capitalist raises all workers to minimum $70k/yr, Americans' self-delusion on inequality, private profit trumps public policy, and anti-student-debt activism. Responses to listeners: impact on China if capitalism's relocation stopped. Major discussions of economics of wages and prices, narrowness of economics education, and basic global economic development issue.
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
The Worker Coop Alternative - 04.12.15
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
Updates on inadequate unemployment insurance, Ted Cruz's campaign money, law giving domestic workers real benefits, and demonizing the poor. Responses to questions on California drought and US medical system's experiments on people. Interview with Yochai Gal on TechCollectives he organized: two successful worker coops.
Sunday Apr 05, 2015
Economic Change and Personal Life Crises - 04.03.15
Sunday Apr 05, 2015
Sunday Apr 05, 2015
Updates on car parts industry, German courts cut Uber, Russia's economy grows despite sanctions, no recovery in declining teaching positions for new US PhDs in humanities, and huge Mexican strikes against Driscoll berries produced for US. Responses to listeners on (1) countries' currency manipulations and (2) role of unions in workers' coops. Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad, mental health counsellor, on how capitalism's changes since 1970s have disrupted the personal lives of US men and women and creative solutions.