Episodes
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Economic Update – Puerto Rico as US's Greece – 09.27.15
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Updates on new Detroit book, Mayor's austerity policy in Chicago, homeless school children, soaring medical insurance deductibles. Responses to listeners on VW scandal and Pope's statements on economics. Interview with Prof. Ian Seda-Irizarry on current crisis in Puerto Rico.
Sunday Sep 20, 2015
Economic Update – Capitalism's Instability – 09.20.15
Sunday Sep 20, 2015
Sunday Sep 20, 2015
Updates on GM settlement, Census Bureau proves no recovery for 90%, GE moves jobs overseas; responses to listeners on FED agonies over interest rates and how capitalism mishandles unemployment. Major discussion of WSDEs and capitalist corporations.
Sunday Sep 13, 2015
Economic Update – Precarious Work = Capitalism's Inefficiency – 09.13.15
Sunday Sep 13, 2015
Sunday Sep 13, 2015
Updates on economics of refugees, Ford buys French political wife, LAs homeless, Labor Day history, Seattle Teachers strike, and Japan's jobs ever more precarious. Response to listeners on why rising wages need NOT mean rising prices. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad, mental health counselor, on the psychological pains, personal suffering, and huge social costs of imposing uncertainty and precarity on job security, hours and days of work, benefits, and wages.
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Economic Update – When Profits Come First – 09.06.15
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
"Updates on extreme poverty, workers' victory over tech giants, NFL concussions, Trump's economics analyzed, and Oakland for worker coops. Response to listeners on workers who lost out from 2007-2014 and on injustice of state and local taxes. Major discussions of (1) last week's stock market gyrations and (2) the resurgence of socialism."