Episodes
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Economic Update: ”The Contradictions of 2021”
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Columbia University grad student strike, the contradictions of 2021, Cuba's Covid vaccine, Trump clone and French politics' lesson, why US manufacturing jobs keep vanishing, why capital-labor struggles affect high and low-paid workers alike: the baseball lockout, and Mitt Romney's 100% hypocritical attack on Dalio's China investments.
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Economic Update: ”Anti-Mandate is NOT Anti-Vaccine”
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of obscene wealth in the US and the economics of the rape crisis in th US and UK. The second half of the show features an interview with author Bob Hennelly, on the anti-mandate vs anti-vaccine confusion and the debate over Democratic Party losses and strategies.
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Economic Update: ”Ecology, Coops, and Profit”
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on 50 years of fossil fuel corps putting profits before science, CVS to close 900 drugstores as part of decline of US workers living standards, FBI lies in Malcolm X assassination, and huge estate tax cuts for US rich. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff interviews Prof. Melissa Scanlan on her new book showing how coops are a better bet than traditional capitalist corporations to solve current ecological crises."
Saturday Dec 04, 2021
Economic Update: ”Class Struggles in US Today”
Saturday Dec 04, 2021
Saturday Dec 04, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about teacher burnout economics, inflation as an employer-employee fight, the "labor shortage" isn't, "Build Back Better" does not begin to approach what Europe already has, the basic political economy of last November's elections, the critique of obscene wealth.