Episodes

Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Economic Update - Economics, Psychology and Mass Murder - 10.08.17
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
"Updates on Trump/GOP tax plan, Americans having "trouble paying bills," post-1989 Russia more unequal than USSR, Eastern now colony of Western Europe, targeting finance vs entire system, closing rural US hospitals, Puerto Rico as US colony. Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad on economics, psychology and mass murders."

Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Economic Update - Strikes and the Labor Movement Today - 10.01.17
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Updates on closing 6,400 retail stores in 2017, decline in US housing starts, 800 major corporations oppose Trump on DACA, US child poverty rates, US to rely on banks' "self-reporting" of their misdeeds, and significance of California Disclose Act. Interview investigative journalist Bob Hennelly on Local 3 strike in New York and its importance to the US labor movement today.

Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Economic Update - Capitalism, Revolution, and Socialism - 09.24.17
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Updates on major capitalist failures, buying senators on health care, opioid addiction's effects on insurance and on labor force participation, price gouging in emergencies, and US income inequality. Major discussion on 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution in 1917: lessons of USSR economic history for 21st century socialism.

Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Economic Update - Corporate Capitalism in Decline - 09.17.17
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017

Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Economic Update - A Tale of Two Crises: 1929 and 2008 - 09.03.17
Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Updates on US working conditions 2017, looming US recession and plans for negative interest rates, schools raise funds by shaming poor school children, and the economics of fascism. Major discussion: why FDR's New Deal (successful trickle up economics) was not repeated after 2008 (unsuccessful trickle down economics). Consequences of post-1945 destruction of coalition that produced New Deal.

Sunday Aug 27, 2017
Economic Update - Human Rights vs US Water Economics - 08.27.17
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
Updates on Trump vs Amazon over taxes, Americans dying younger, Monsanto profits at farmers' expense, and economics of homeless school children. Interview Ron Robinson on US crisis around access to and safety of water in US.

Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Economic Update - Economics as Deception - 08.20.17
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Updates on how millennials have fallen behind their parents in income wealth, etc., on poor medical outcomes in US despite paying most for health (especially drugs), deepening scandals of German car corps, and why a Chinese t-shirt-maker investment in Arkansas teaches frightening economic lessons. Interview with Prof Michael Hudson on "Junk Economics.

Sunday Aug 13, 2017
Economic Update - Faith and Labor Fight Inequality - 08.13.17
Sunday Aug 13, 2017
Sunday Aug 13, 2017
"Updates on how golf courses are economically undemocratic, how US drug corps block much cheaper medicine imports, why US corps neither need nor deserve tax cuts, how Monsanto bought academic research to keep dangerous "Roundup" on the market, and the economics and politics of scapegoating immigrants in the US and Germany. Interview with Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger on their combination of faith and advocating for labor to undo inequality in the US.

Sunday Aug 06, 2017
Economic Update - Collective Action for Change- 08.06.17
Sunday Aug 06, 2017
Sunday Aug 06, 2017

Friday Jul 28, 2017
Economic Update - Economics of Socialism - 07.30.17
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Updates on Russia sanctions, medical companies' failures, cable company monopolies, CEO pay, battling Marxian economics in Utah. Major discussion of economics of socialism.