Episodes
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Economic Update: ”Imagining a Different Economy”
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on his recent debate with Ayn Rand Institute on capitalism vs socialism, inflation in Europe, an analysis of right vs left splitting in US today, and real vs fake causes of energy price inflation. The second half of the show features an interview with David McNally, Prof, University of Houston, on lessons of capitalism's history.
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Economic Update: ”Chris Hedges and US Prisons”
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on South Dakota leads US to become world's #2 "tax haven," pandemic's economic shock cut by very uncapitalistic means, why employers want the govt to pay workers to go back to work, and how libertarians mistake puppets for puppeteers. The second half of the show features an interview with Chris Hedges on lessons for us from US prisons and prisoners.
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Economic Update: Germany Shifts Left
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Biden's and Democrats' fading tax reforms, German and Austrian politics shift left, Yale sells out to rich donors, product shortages often deliberate, wages for housework, and real US food inflation.
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Economic Update: ”A Story of War”
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how Amazon rips off small business and squeezes workers, US and China's military tactics, top mainstream economists grasp the deepening critique of capitalism, and how strikes at Nabisco and Kellogg expose capitalism's classic contours of class struggle. The second half of the show features an interview with Prof Talia Lugacy on her new independent film This is Not a War Story released by Warner Media HBO Max.
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Economic Update - ”China and Inflation: Real Analyses, not BS”
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
The program's first half focuses on the realities of China's rise and not the Cold War rhetoric. The second half analyzes the inflation now threatening the US economy. Its causes and consequences turn out to be quite different from the mainstream media treatments of the subject.