Episodes
Saturday Nov 24, 2018
Economic Update - Why Capitalism Demonizes Government
Saturday Nov 24, 2018
Saturday Nov 24, 2018
Updates on UK war on "Unexplained Wealth," why capitalism needs yet attacks government, historical reality of low wages in US, cozy deals between big corporations and credit rating agencies again. Major discussions of capitalism's oscillations between nationalist and internationalist phases (are we now moving backwards to nationalism again?) and once more on the inefficiency and immorality of markets as a mechanism of distribution.
Saturday Nov 17, 2018
Economic Update - US Midterm Elections
Saturday Nov 17, 2018
Saturday Nov 17, 2018
Updates on how China hits back economically; capitalism surviving in Italy through explosive debt creation; why lotteries have heavy economic costs; and how Grinnell College undergraduate workers successfully organized. Interview with Prof. David Harvey on a Marxist view of the US midterm elections: causes and consequences.
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Economic Update - “Follow the Money
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Updates on profits-vs-science and weedkiller “roundup,” most Americans not better off than in 2016, WHO reports bans on corporal punishment of kids and how doing so saves money too, Janet Yellen warns huge corporate debts risk another major economic crash. Interview with Riva Enteen, editor of Follow the Money, a collection of KPFA interviews.
Saturday Nov 03, 2018
Economic Update - US "Sugar Arrangements” Industry
Saturday Nov 03, 2018
Saturday Nov 03, 2018
Updates on latest foreign and US elections, the CEA document against socialism, growing inequality of billionaires’ wealth, army represses report on costs and errors of Iraq war, and expose of Maine’s subsidy for corporations by helping indebted students. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on the US “Sugar Arrangements” industry.