Episodes
Saturday May 25, 2019
Economic Update - The Great American Purge
Saturday May 25, 2019
Saturday May 25, 2019
The program begins by explaining the economics behind the great US anti-leftist purge (“McCarthyism”) after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts of that purge over the last half century. Finally, it explains how that history produced a very different political response to the crash of 2008 compared to FDR’s response to 1929.
Saturday May 18, 2019
Economic Update - Living in a Socialist Economy
Saturday May 18, 2019
Saturday May 18, 2019
Updates on the US "bribing for college admission" scandal, how lobbyists reflect and worsen inequality, So. and No. Carolina teachers strike for better education, how NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) reflect and worsen workplace inequalities across global capitalism. Interview Victor Grossman, American who lived and worked in socialist Germany across the entire history of the GDR.
Saturday May 11, 2019
Economic Update - Social Movement for Economic Democracy
Saturday May 11, 2019
Saturday May 11, 2019
Updates on 60 megacorps who paid no 2018 Federal taxes, GM's CEO gets $29.1 million while GM fires thousands, wrecks communities, etc., Notre Dame tragedy exposes French inequality as billionaires suddenly find money for a church, not for people, rising wave of US worker strikes reflect militance and unity. Interview with Rebecca Lurie, Director of Community and Worker Ownership Project, CUNY.
Saturday May 04, 2019
Economic Update - Lawyers vs the System
Saturday May 04, 2019
Saturday May 04, 2019
Updates on US college students as share-croppers for investors, on conservatives' fake opposition to gov't intervention in the economy, on deepening inadequacy of retirement savings of US baby boomers, and on how fading US middle class leads many first to blame/scapegoat foreigners, then fellow citizens. Interview Michael Steven Smith on new book, Lawyers for the Left.