Episodes
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Economic Update - "#MeToo and Corona: System is Key"
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
This program focuses on how the capitalist economic system plays crucial roles in the #MeToo examples of Weinstein and Cosby and also in the failed response to the Corona virus crisis. The organization of capitalist enterprises - power and wealth concentrated at the top in a tiny minority - invites and enables sexual harassment and abuse by people positioned like Weinstein and Cosby. A profit-driven medical-industrial complex did not invest in preparing for the virus and a profit-subservient gov't failed to mobilize private and public resources to test for, contain, and overcome the disease.
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Economic Update - Comedy and Tragedy of Capitalism
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Updates on capitalism's failures exposed by the Coronavirus; Sanders and the re-entry of socialism into US politics; US social mobility goes down; and Macron evades democracy to try to force pension cuts (alias "reform") onto French people. Interview Lee Camp on his comedy and his critique of capitalism.
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Economic Update - Capitalism, Jobs, Depressed People
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
On this week's episode of EU, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Vancouver, BC, taxing its richest; JP Morgan Chase recognizes climate change threat and market's failure to cope; ways money shapes US politics today; why US women's soccer gender discrimination lawsuit helps all soccer players vs profit-driven soccer federation.
The second half of the show features an interview with psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on why our jobs get us depressed and what to do about it.
Saturday Mar 07, 2020
Economic Update - Using Unemployment Against Workers
Saturday Mar 07, 2020
Saturday Mar 07, 2020
Updates on high US maternal death rate, wealth inequality and the Pope, #MeToo hits the banks, Macron and Black Rock plot French pension "reform," dying Newsweek caught in corruption scandal using bible college. Interview Perf. Gertrude Goldberg on US unemployment, its social costs, and struggle for a universal job guarantee.