Episodes

Friday Sep 27, 2019
Economic Update - Capitalism and Mental Health
Friday Sep 27, 2019
Friday Sep 27, 2019
Updates on ICE raid in Mississippi, global comparisons of gun violence, conservatives on Dem's wealth tax ideas. Interview With Dr Harriet Fraad on how capitalism affects mental health in US.

Monday Sep 23, 2019
Economic Update - US Economy and the Market
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Analysis of the state of the US economy at summer's end, 2019: a decidedly mixed picture. Critique of the institution of the market that focuses on its structure, social effects, and particular beneficiaries: a counter to the imaginary 'free market'.

Friday Sep 13, 2019
Economic Update - Capitalism in Denial
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Updates on parallel declines of UK and US capitalisms; denials of their systemic problems worsens them. Longer segments on (1) political economy of immigration, and (2) why the basic problem of Central and South America is 2-3 centuries of capitalism producing and reproducing extreme inequality, staggering poverty, and corrupt government elites. That is the crucial context for the Cuban and Venezuelan efforts, however imperfect and against US opposition, to break out of that capitalism.

Friday Sep 06, 2019
Economic Update - Homelessness in the US
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Updates on politicians' "blame game" of scapegoating to avoid blaming capitalism, middle class squeezed by prices, limits of workers on corporate boards of directors, lessons from a courageous Puerto Rican people. Interview Rob Robinson, global advocate for the homeless.