Episodes
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Economic Update - Capitalism, Revolution, and Socialism - 09.24.17
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Updates on major capitalist failures, buying senators on health care, opioid addiction's effects on insurance and on labor force participation, price gouging in emergencies, and US income inequality. Major discussion on 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution in 1917: lessons of USSR economic history for 21st century socialism.
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Economic Update - Corporate Capitalism in Decline - 09.17.17
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Economic Update - A Tale of Two Crises: 1929 and 2008 - 09.03.17
Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Updates on US working conditions 2017, looming US recession and plans for negative interest rates, schools raise funds by shaming poor school children, and the economics of fascism. Major discussion: why FDR's New Deal (successful trickle up economics) was not repeated after 2008 (unsuccessful trickle down economics). Consequences of post-1945 destruction of coalition that produced New Deal.