Episodes
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Economic Update - Military Spending and Debt
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Updates on France's successful mass uprisings (Yellow Vests in 2019; mass union strikes in 2020) that forced gov't to back down on changes that workers opposed; how endless wars impose huge debts; and how US Catholic Church uses bankruptcy law to keep assets from compensating victims of pedophile priests. Interview journalist Bob Hennelly on military spending and debts in the US economy.
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Economic Update - Independent Media
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Updates on sale of coop craft brewery, US medical costs highest in world, and the "overcoming poverty" defense of capitalism's inequality and instability. Interview Laura Flanders on independent media.
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Economic Update - "Answering our Critics"
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Three major criticisms of Economic Update are considered: (1) that we don't praise capitalism for reducing world poverty, (2) that we don't admit that "socialism has never worked anywhere," and (3) that no inventor of a new product or technique who starts a business will ever accept that employees in such a business are equal partners with the inventor, originator of the business. Today's program answers these criticisms, refuting their arguments systematically.
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Economic Update - US Capitalism and the Family: Myth vs Reality
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Updates on Job Quality Index and its US decline, the French activism against President Macron's effort to cut pensions, Gartman Letter urges investors to sell stocks in face of Trump's policies deteriorating the economy, Obamas purchase $11.5 million Martha's Vineyard mansion, and Kansas City cuts public transport fares to zero. Interview with Dr Harriet Fraad on myth vs reality of US capitalism and the family