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Saturday Nov 02, 2024
Economic Update: The Missing Economics of the 2024 US Presidential Election
Saturday Nov 02, 2024
Saturday Nov 02, 2024
On this week’s episode of Economic Update, with the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election only 8 days away, Professor Richard Wolff explores the shared refusal of both major candidates and their parties to face and debate solutions to the grave problems facing US capitalism in 2024: (1) inequality, (2) instability and (3) a declining empire. Instead, we are witnessing both Trump and Harris compete to be the "cheerleader in chief" for capitalism. Missing from the discourse is a genuine opposition party that might dare to offer an alternative non-capitalist vision and solution to the system's deepening problems.
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