Episodes

Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Economic Update – Transcending Capitalism – 12.13.15
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Updates on denying bailout for Puerto Rico and gross wealth inequality in US and Wisconsin. Response to listeners on guns and the capitalist profit motive. Interview with Prof. Cathy Mulder on transcending capitalism via worker cooperatives.

Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Economic Update – Austerity's Social Costs – 12.06.15
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Updates on Portugal joins Greece against austerity, US austerity especially in Puerto Rico and Illinois, useless laws for banks, words not action in Paris. Major discussions of Thanksgiving economics, Germany and refugees, France and terrorism, US airlines cheat for profits.

Sunday Nov 29, 2015
Economic Update – Why Whites in Trouble – 11.29.15
Sunday Nov 29, 2015
Sunday Nov 29, 2015
Updates on economics of immigration, economic alarmists, Ireland as tax haven. Response to listeners on role and place for small business in worker-coop based economy. Interview with Dr Harriet Fraad on crisis for middle-aged whites in US today.

Sunday Nov 22, 2015
Economic Update – Big vs Small Business – 11.22.15
Sunday Nov 22, 2015
Sunday Nov 22, 2015
Updates on Japan's Recession, half of New York City economically in trouble, ACA deductibles undermine affordability, Million student March, another crooked capitalist. Response to listeners on private vs public enterprises. Major topics: small vs big business and big ideas not being discussed in campaigns.

Sunday Nov 15, 2015
Economic Update – Economic Power Struggles – 11.15.15
Sunday Nov 15, 2015
Sunday Nov 15, 2015
Updates on Greek and Portuguese austerity struggles, obesity and Coca Cola, importance of U of Missouri, JC Penney's fake sales, and Macy's urgent sales. Response to listeners on politics, economics of TPP. Major discussions of (1) upcoming FED decision on interest rates and (2) economic causes of gentrified US cities.

Sunday Nov 08, 2015
Economic Update – How Capitalism Works – 11.08.15
Sunday Nov 08, 2015
Sunday Nov 08, 2015
Updates on capitalism vs higher education, real costs of apps, how other half banks. In depth analyses of projected economic downturn in 2016, capitalist inequality and housing changes, and how capitalism affects sports.

Sunday Nov 01, 2015
Economic Update – Teaching High School Economics – 11.01.15
Sunday Nov 01, 2015
Sunday Nov 01, 2015
Updates on Obama harshness re student debt, how much corps and rich abuse tax havens, MIT rejects fossil-fuel divestment, profit over safety at tylenol company. Response to listener on where US economy headed now. Interview life-long high school teacher Alan Schulman on teaching economics after the 2008 crisis: problems and prospects.

Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Economic Update – Capitalism vs Democratic Socialism – 10.25.15
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Updates on monster merger in beer, buying the US presidency, homeless in Hawaii, Canada's election results. Response to listener's question on relation of individualism to capitalism and socialism. Major discussion of history of socialism vs capitalism with focus on specific place of democratic socialism.

Sunday Oct 18, 2015
Economic Update – Coops vs capitalism – 10.18.15
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
"Saving capitalism, looming economic downturn, Berlin 250,000 against TTIP, US plan to give Puerto Rican taxes to banks. Response to question on planning. Interview: Laura Flanders, independent journalist on coops vs capitalism."

Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Economic Update – Capitalism's Crimes – 10.11.15
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Updates on Planned Parenthood, Irish and French unions' initiatives. Responses to questions on the VW scandal and the TPP deals. In depth update and analysis of the ongoing Crisis in Greece with Prof. Harry Konstantinides.