Episodes
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.
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Economic Update: Cornel West on ”Black Prophetic Fire”
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the strengths of socialism in German elections, British and US public opinion; and the US policies that are impoverishing its Puerto Rican colony. The second half of the show features an interview with Dr. Cornel West, with special attention to the contradictory realities of Harvard University, the public health failure of US policy toward Covid, the hostility toward Haiti and Haitians, and China.
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Economic Update: ”Signs of System Decline”
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
On this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the following topics: US wars lost: against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Covid; private profit from climate disaster; systemic infrastructure neglect; decline of whites in US; UK fears about US loss in Afghanistan; capitalism's profit-driven "long supply chains;" and lastly, workers power against employers in US today.
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Economic Update - How US Workers are Really Treated
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff pays to Mikis Theodorakis, Greek musician and political hero and discusses Starbucks workers in Buffalo, the economic fallout of Supreme Court's anti-aborton act, what Hurricane Ida fatalities show, and the $8 trillion cost of US wars since 9/11. The second half of the show features an interview Leila Roberts and Tess Fraad-Wolff on the harsh realities of US treatment of workers this Labor Day season, 2021.
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Economic Update - ”Native Americans and American Socialists”
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff present updates on global supply chain slow-downs; student costs/debts in US, UK far higher than in most peer nations; FED adds inflation to the ways its policies worsen income and wealth inequalities; and lastly, higher gun sales and violence since 1990s despite the dramatic declines in violent crime rate. The second half of the show features an interview with Michelle Vassel (administrator of Wiyot tribe) and David Cobb (Director of Cooperation Humboldt) on their ongoing political collaborations.
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Economic Update - SOCIALISM AND WORKER COOPS [REPEAT]
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures into democratic worker cooperatives. The powerful appeal of worker coops as grounding a new 21st century socialism is presented.
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Economic Update - Occupy Wall Street: Analysis and Legacy
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
This program is devoted to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) on its 10th anniversary. Prof. Wolff discusses OWS as a historic turning point, as legacy for the US left, and his personal experience. Wolff presents OWS's 4 basic causes, its anti-capitalist economics, and its lessons.
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
Economic Update - The Rational and Irrational in Anti-Vaxxers
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the complexities of anti-vaccination movements, the long decline of religion in US capitalism, Disneys’s shift to serve the richest, lessons from AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka's leadership, and failures of GOP, Dem leaders to stop last 75 years of decline of manufacturing in the US economy (driven by corporate profitability).