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Richard D. Wolff, a weekly TV and radio show and podcast
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Sunday Dec 24, 2017
Sunday Dec 24, 2017
Updates on Economic Threats: Corbyn vs Morgan Stanley, cars for super-rich, information vs profit, Fed chair Powell's over-reach, why regulations are never enough, and corporate criminality. Interview with David Jette about public vs private banking.
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Updates on UK company's parental leave policies, Citibank fined for abusing student borrowers, US tobacco companies air self-critical ads, Bezos' obscene wealth, and ideological attack on US higher education. Major topic discussions: Marxian economics and UK Labor Party policy initiatives.
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
Updates on other countries undercut US tax changes, US graduate students: fewer and taxed more, "recovery" myth vs foreclosure stats, Valve Corp: worker coops better for innovation, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize snubbed, Starbucks: not really worker-friendly. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on revolt against sexual abuse.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Updates on Uber's corrupt profiteering, sugar producers immoral cancer research, Trump's personal business, neglecting New York subways, UK's historic wage decline, and Norway's sovereign wealth fund. Interview with economist Stephanie Kelton, adviser to Bernie Sanders.
Sunday Nov 26, 2017
Sunday Nov 26, 2017
Updates on corrupt Congressional "tax reform," giant corporations' abuse of power, GE CEO wastes millions, corporate structure and sexual harassment/abuse, Detroit's fake "renaissance," dying US malls, unaffordable rents expose fake economic "recovery," and pharma giant Astra-Zeneca shows how capitalism endangers health. Interview of author and broadcaster Laura Flanders on mass media changes in today's capitalism.
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Updates on Maine's progressive economic changes, US Senate documents how the very rich abuse the estate tax, Nestle profits as nearby Flint's water still polluted, poverty and 'social exclusion' in Greece and Europe, Trump/GOP cuts health programs, US profits rise as wage share falls. Major discussions: (1) economics of migration and (2) economics of coalitions between labor unions and worker coops.
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
"Updates on critique of Uber and gig economy; WI Sen Johnson endorses inequality; Norway to pay male and female athletes same; corporations buy back their own shares; deaths of overworked Japanese; 10% NY school kids homeless; and majority of major US corporations already pay much below official 35% tax rate. Major discussion of changing economics of socialism.
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
Updates on mostly low-paid service jobs in US future, Senate deregulates banks, college spending per student reinforces income inequality, US loneliness a factor in illnesses and premature death, Univ of Chicago grad students unionize, Brazilian civil and religious authorities push almost-rotten food for the poor, and costs of pollution. Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad on psychology and economics of sex work industry.
Sunday Oct 29, 2017
Sunday Oct 29, 2017
Updates on privatized probation, New Zealand rejects austerity, electricity cutoffs refute "recovery," declining medical insurance, neo-liberalism attacked, rich funders of fake 'public interest groups.' Interview two professors (Umberto Lorenzo and Richard McIntyre) on Cuba's socialist economy changing toward worker coops.
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Updates on economic costs/benefits of refugees, rise of BRICS nations in world economy (vs US decline), closing and privatization of US public libraries, size of slavery and forced child labor in world economy now, and how the "gig" economy is just another effort to profit by lengthening the working day. Major discussion: what the historical transition to capitalism suggests about transition from capitalism to a worker-coop-based economic system.