Economic Update

Economic Update - Economic Decline Mounts - 07/09/13

Updates on political economy of “internships,” Philadelphia public schools disaster, Obama criticized by South African unions. Major discussions of social costs of financial crises, “quantitative easing” policies, and the contradictions of capitalism (part 1). Response to question on workers self-directed enterprises as means for transition beyond capitalism.

Economic Update - Capitalism's Social Costs - 07/02/13

Updates on Obamacare's "penalties," a Parisian suicide, neglect of community colleges, and how inequality worsens itself. Interview with psychotherapist Dr. Harriet Fraad on why US workers don't fight against their economic decline. Response to listener's question on how to prevent socialism from deforming into Stalinism.

Economic Update - Economic Realities - 06/25/13

Updates on G8 and Bernanke “shows”, Turkey vs Brazil protests, Europe’s austerity, drug companies “pay to delay.” Major discussions of crisis in financing public education and of lotteries as disguised tax increases. Responses to listener questions on job losses from progress, worker coops’ survivability, capitalism and democracy, and campaign financing reform.

Economic Update - Capitalism and Democracy - 06/18/13

Updates on pay gaps, Alabama bankruptcy, Minnesota lockout, Greek lockout. Discussions of capitalism and democracy, "pure" capitalism," and capitalism' historical shifts. Comments on listeners' questions: workers' owning vs directing and tax-exempt vs "non-profit."

Economic Update - Capitalism's Costs - 06/11/13

Updates on Disney's price hikes, Portugal's unions' general strike, Chinese buy US biggest pork processor, low-wage retail workers fighting in Seattle, General Petraeus goes corporate, and income/wealth inequality in US. Detailed discussions of (1) why technical progress fails to ease work burdens in capitalism, and (2) why/how US "recovery" is so uneven as well as fragile. Response to listeners on anarchism and on Chinese solar panels.

Economic Update - Labor, Unions and Crisis - 06/04/13

Updates on corporate globalization, Philly schools, paid vacation law(?), the "Cadillac Tax. Interview with Stanley Aronowitz on labor, unions and the left. Responses to listeners on higher ed economics and US income inequality

Economic Update - A Journalist's Perspective - 05/28/13

Updates on changing US retirement ages, Pope Francis's anti-capitalism, inequality inside countries, unionists march in Rome, public schools being savaged. Interview with independent journalist and writer Laura Flanders of GritTV. Response to listeners questions on Apple Computer's exposure as major tax evader.

Economic Update - Measuring Capitalism's Results - 05/21/13

Updates on Google caught evading taxes, food stamp nation, public higher ed crisis. Major discussions on the US medical-industrial complex and the meaning of Bangladesh's building collapse. Responses to listener questions on anarchism and economics of private property.

Economic Update - 05/14/13

Economic Update - 05/07/13