Economic Update

Economic Update - Labor and Unions - 12.07.14

Updates on Ferguson and Portland as symptoms of economic decline, critic rejections of profit-driven business, Sen. Bernie Sanders for worker coops, homeless in New York City, and rising political lefts in Greece, Spain and now Ireland. Responses to listeners on supply-demand economics and "capturing" government regulators. Interview with Steve Early, activist and author, on the present and future of US labor movement.

Economics of Private Property - 11.30.14

Updates on unpaid internships, extreme wealth, and economic perceptions. Response to listener questions on real economics of public pensions and of home refinancing. In depth analyses of private property and income and of economic regulation vs system change.

Extreme Capitalism - 11.19.14

Updates on low Irish taxes on corps, interns fight back, thriving opium, VW brings new  labor relations to US, big banks caught cheating again. Replies to questions on domestic outsourcing and democracy of workers self-directed enterprises. Major discussions of college sports, the business oligarchy in the US and forgiving countries' debts

Economic Update - Elections but no Democracy - 11/12/14

Updates on election results, Ebola, mortgage rules, China limits execs' pay, and whose got the wealth. Responses to listeners on changes at Costco, so-called "non-profits", why ever more billionaires, and Piketty's problem. Major topics discussed: election economics, child poverty, capitalism and democracy.

Economic Update - Capitalism, Inequality, and Martin Luther King - 10/29/14

Updates on Detroit’s water shutoffs, corporations prioritize profit at people’s expense (4 big examples), US Senators making money, economics of ebola, and hedge funds pay fines with pensioners’ money. Interview: Dr. Obery hendricks, Jr., on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s lifelong criticism of capitalism and preference for democratic socialism. Response to listeners on (1) economics of the disabled (productivity and wages) and (2) reduced 2014 deficit in US.

Economic Update - Why Economics Are So Poorly Understood - 10/15/14

Updates on GM recalls, Cuba's investment in medical training, Germany's end all tuition requirements. Major discussions of why economics education so poor and report from Santa Fe movement for public banking. Response to listeners on why no recovery from the crisis and how to think about transition to worker coop based economy.

Economic Update - The Economics of Corporations - 10/08/14

 Updates on economics of migrants, choosing not to go to college, corporate tax dodges and their effects. Major discussions of (1) the economics of insurance, and (2) the basic economics of capitalist corporations. Responses to questions on (1) Rockefellers selling their fossil fuel holdings and (2) the economics of "mutual" companies.

Economic Update - How Capitalism Works - 10/01/14

Updates on why efforts against obesity fail, Cadillac moves to New York, Atlanta Symphony lockout, subprime auto-credit, bank economics. Major discussion on the economics of climate change. Responses to questions on Jamestown in US history, minimum wage struggles now, and economics of insurance.

Economic Update - Big Economic Changes - 09/24/14

Updates on new census data, Kentucky town goes "socialist," big wage theft, Maine workers coop, economic insecurity. Major discussions on "gentrification", Yellen worried, tax consequences on inequality, and global economic of beer. Responses on min wage struggles, corporate "persons" and BRICS bank.

Economic Update - Corporations are the Problem - 09/17/14

Updates on Market Basket workers' victory, top paid asset managers, FED report debunks "recovery," Chipotle's gross inequality, Montreal corruption, and Russia/China economic alliance. Major discussion: Part 2 on socialism's new directions. Response to listeners on franchising, capitalist growth, advertising and consumer desires.