Socialism: Aug 29, 2019: 7pm - 8pm

On this episode of Economic Update, Prof. Richard Wolff begins with socialism's history especially in the US: from being widely discussed up to 1945, then repressed in the Cold War, and now vigorously...

A Deepening Crisis of Capitalism: Oct 30, 2018: 2pm - 3pm

Part 1: Updates on IMF prediction of slowing global growth, Bank of England warnings on accumulation of sub-prime debt, Nordhaus Nobel prize and market ideology, Dutch unions and others against corpor...

Capitalism’s Failures & Contradictions: Aug 21, 2018: 2pm - 3pm

Part 1: "Hiding Capitalism's Failures" with updates on Europe's higher labor force participation, Cuomo campaign fakes "small donations", U.S. restaurants decline as pinched incomes switch to food del...

Doing Better than Capitalism, Millennials for Revolution: Jul 31, 2018: 2pm - 3pm

In the first half: Updates on New Zealand firm succeeds with 4 day work week; Vienna's public housing successes; Fordham adjuncts' union wins big; Burberry destroys $ millions in new clothes; precario...

An Unsustainable System: May 29, 2018: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on decline of cities/private cities, freelancers' economy, why legalize sports betting now, Fiat-Chrysler-Porsche added to emissions cheating scandal, new federal jobs guarantee, Catholic Univ...

Another 'Gilded Age': May 17, 2018: 10am - 11am

Updates on Theranos bankruptcy and workers' risks, the second "gilded age," mortgage lenders turn to rich borrowers, Trump on drug prices is just rhetoric, economic effects of breaking Iran treaty. In...

Marxism's Contribution: Jan 30, 2018: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on New York City's suit against big oil and dumping $5 billion in fossil fuel investments, fast-rising U.S. consumer debt, further attacks on labor and living standards in Greece, collapse of...

How Economies Change: Oct 31, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on privatized probation, New Zealand rejects austerity, electricity cutoffs refute "recovery", declining medical insurance, neo-liberalism attacked, rich funders of fake "public interest group...

Human Rights vs U.S. Water Economics: Aug 29, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on Trump vs Amazon over taxes, Americans dying younger, Monsanto profits at farmers' expense, and economics of homeless school children. Interview with Ron Robinson on U.S. crisis around acces...

Worker Co-ops as Our Economic Future: May 30, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on Trump's 2018 budget, Ford's undemocratic decisions, U.S. opioid epidemic, Swiss vote to end nuclear power, Harley-Davidson moving jobs overseas, Canada outlaws overbooking seats on planes....

Economics and Family Values: May 09, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on French election's significance; Obama's $400,000 bank speaking fee; U.S. corporate tax cuts; Wells Fargo "saved" by Warren Buffett; why bringing home U.S. corporations' foreign profits just...

Economics, Psychology and Trump: Apr 11, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on: Citibank says it favors the rich, French presidential elections, U.S. college admissions favor the rich, injustice of U.S. property tax system. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on the econ...

Questions about Capitalism: Mar 14, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on Caterpillar tax evasion, Obamacare, slave labor for immigrants, Harvard and slavery, billionaires, Puerto Rico, and Greece. Major discussion: Questions about capitalism. Economic Update is...

Solving Old Economic Problems: Feb 14, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on Vermont brewery goes worker co-op, profitability proves nothing, Trump knocks "fiduciary rule," immigration reduces crime, Pelosi endorses capitalism. Major discussions of applying Hegel on...

Trumponomics Exposed: Jan 31, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on basic economy airfares, Trump-May delusions, drop in US union membership, Trump's attacks on Mexico and TPP, elite colleges vs state schools. Major discussion of (1) what 'capitalism' means...

Economics of Emotional Labor: Jan 10, 2017: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on new French labor law, obesity economics, universal basic income, a mobile home co-op, and Danish day care. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on emotional labor. Economic Update is a weekly s...

Economics of Women Voting Trump: Dec 13, 2016: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on Trump gutting estate tax; capitalist outrages; Trump appoints Wall Street billionaires; Green Party victory in Austria; big oil companies' desperation; Pope Francis on equality of opportuni...

Moving Beyond Capitalism: Nov 29, 2016: 2pm - 3pm

Updates on real corporate taxes, Canada's infrastructure maneuver, economics of real estate, foreign students leaving. Major discussions of the economics of interest rate hikes and how the politics of...

Dr. Harriet Fraad: Nov 08, 2016: 2pm - 3pm

"Economy, Psychology, Mental Health": Updates on Harvard's greed, corporate megamergers, Germany outlaws GMOs, campaign fund-raising, Koch brothers fund Catholics fighting Pope's views, Portland, OR t...

20161011: Oct 11, 2016: 2pm - 3pm

"Capital for Worker Coops": Updates on U.S. workers' productivity rising while wages flat since 2009, U.S. corporations evading taxes, Gallup Poll on poor U.S. job picture, wealth of billionaires enou...

Arlie Hochschild: Oct 04, 2016: 10am - 11am

"Economics and Red States": Updates on Corbyn's victory in U.K., Uber drivers unionize, state retirement systems sued for threatening pensions, hard facts about U.S. medical insurance. Interview with...

Higher Ed Class Struggles: Sep 27, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on top corporate leaders and top government officials as tight partners, British wages and Brexit, Goldman Sachs. Interview with Prof. Michael Pelias on Long Island University's lockout of fac...

Peter Ranis: Sep 20, 2016: 10am - 11am

"Worker Co-ops vs Capitalism": Updates on declining US incomes, parental leave policies, rising medical deductibles, social security dependence, officials who take big, corp jobs. Interview with Peter...

Economics for Labor Day: Sep 13, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on dark money, the Mylan drug scandal, airlines concentrating, capitalism and poor countries (India, China). Labor Day: key facts, struggles, and issues. Economic Update is a weekly show for p...

Prof. Ian Seda: Sep 06, 2016: 10am - 11am

"Puerto Rico's Crisis is Systemic": US income inequality vs the rest of the world; Europe exposes Apple Corp's tax evasion; TTP and TTIP face rising opposition; even Martin Wolf sees capitalism's cont...

20160830: Aug 30, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on universities, politicians, and grad student unions, Bill Gates' obscene wealth, Harley-Davidson's illegal pollution and more. Analyses of capitalism's craziness: insufficient demand, unempl...

20160823: Aug 23, 2016: 10am - 11am

"The System Exposed": Updates on Olympic economics, mass transit, productivity truths, labor weakness and political parties, golden parachutes, Tim Cook's thin "patriotism," PG&E's crimes, the rich vs...

20160816: Aug 16, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on Macy's closing 141 stores, Clinton campaign economics, age and pensions, corruptions of think tanks. Detailed economics of worker co-ops. Economic Update is a weekly show for people who wan...

20160809: Aug 09, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on more VW sleaze, Irish bankers to jail, US public pension economics, Yale worker wins back job, Yale exposed. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on how a post-1970s profit-driven US economy ba...

Adam Hochschild: Aug 02, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on India's inequality, Philly's poverty behind the DNC front, new initiatives from unions, Starbucks' profiteering, gutting federal estate tax. Interview with Adam Hochschild on economic crisi...

Convention Economics: Jul 26, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on platform contradictions, the VW scandal, CEOs' pay explosion, Italian banks crisis, scary US auto loans. Major discussions: economics of lotteries, when profit decides who gets mortgages, a...

Rob Robinson: Jul 19, 2016: 10am - 11am

"Leaders" exposed by crises: Johnson in UK, Dimon in US. Stagnant incomes for most. Interview with Rob Robinson on conditions of and prospects for African-Americans. Economic Update is a weekly show f...

Dr. Harriet Fraad: Jul 12, 2016: 10am - 11am

"Psychology, Economics, and Orlando": Updates on minimum wage raises, economics of prisons, evidence that notions of "economic recovery" are myths for most of the world. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fra...

What Brexit Means: Jul 05, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on the new Puerto Rico deal, French street battles, German leaders' need for humility, fake Cleveland revitalization, selling out national parks. Major analysis of Brexit in a changing world e...

Small Victories, Big Lessons : Jun 28, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on victories (1) over US sugar industry and (2) in reducing Sweden's 40-hour workweek to 30 hours with no pay cut. Major analyses of jobs moving south, legal fight over tax exemption for relig...

Alan Schulman: Jun 21, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on CEO pay, new book on inequality, US estate and inheritance taxes. Interview with Alan Schulman, coordinator of Democracy at Work in New York City. Economic Update is a weekly show for peopl...

Betsy Avila: Jun 14, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on new book, "Coming of Age in the Other America"; new research shows superiority of worker coops over capitalist enterprises; negative results of profit-driven enterprises; "America" replaces...

Carol Dansereau: Jun 07, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on fossil-fuel divestment, Zika virus economics, product recalls, and payday loan scandal. Interview with environmentalist lawyer/activist Carol Dansereau. Economic Update is a weekly show for...

20160531: May 31, 2016: 10am - 11am

"Listen, Prof. Krugman": Updates on car companies buying ride-share companies, Pope's latest, evidence against Prof. Krugman's rosy view of inequality. Major discussions of (1) why markets need not un...

Joan Berezin, Kip Waldo: May 24, 2016: 10am - 11am

"The Idea of Revolution": Updates on Alabama convicts' strike against slavery, Greece's victimization, TTIP exposed, and taxing Yale. Interview with Joan Berezin and Kip Waldo on revolutionary change....

Bob Hennelly: May 17, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on "carry interest tax loophole," Miami's Marlin Park and state subsidies for business, negative interest rates, and banks' "bail-in" versus "bail-out". Interview with reporter Bob Hennelly ab...

20160510: May 10, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on rich tax evaders, Takata airbags, equalized wealth data, money in Chicago politics. Major discussions of corporate food scandals, governmentt fiscal "crises" and why build worker coop secto...

Rob Robinson: May 03, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on the slow US economy, how money drives Yale University, Chobani workers get profits, more car corporations scandal, and Christian/Marxist dialogue. Interview with anti-poverty activist Rob R...

Gentrification: Apr 26, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on pay of CEOs that fight $15/hr. for workers, workers who get public assistance, facts on taxes paid and evaded, Mitsubishi like VW. Major discussion on the economics of gentrification. Econo...

20160419: Apr 19, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on the IMF, the Panama Papers and tax evasion, workers fighting back. Major discussions of the economics of prisons and sugar babies and of how worker coops might have changed the USSR and Chi...

20160412: Apr 12, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on tax issues: Panama Papers, corporate tax rates, tax-avoiding "inversions" and Yale's tax avoidance. Part 2 of interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad: capitalist efficiency produces human ineffici...

20160405: Apr 05, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on China's rising wages, lethal overdoses and economic crisis, courts worsen Puerto Rico's crisis, moving jobs to Mexico, and Florida governor tries to help Yale evade taxes. Major discussions...

Dr. Harriet Fraad: Mar 29, 2016: 10am - 11am

Economic Update is a weekly show for people who want to understand and change not only their own financial situation but also the larger economy we all depend on. Today: Updates on top bankers' pay, b...

20160322: Mar 22, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on FED decision, struggles over China trade and Brexit, and fascism. Major discussions: (1) critique of capitalists' "job creation" and (2) why state support of worker coops is what capitalism...

20160315: Mar 15, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on Europe's new economic stimulus, French workers rally for job security, US airlines' rip-off fees. Response to question about government blame for economic crisis since 2008. Major discussio...