Economic Update : ”The Deepening Fragility of US Power”

In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on successful unionization at Trader Joes, lottery tickets as disguised regressive taxation, gasoline inflation brings record profits to big oil companies, and pharmaceutical industries' ad campaign to block gov't plan to buy medications in bulk and pass savings onto public. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Vijay Prashad on his new book with Noam Chomsky on the fragility of US global power.