20160308: Mar 08, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on injustice of Argentina's default settlement, on Pope Francis's rejection of "exploiters," and on stagnating real median incomes in US. Major discussions of (1) what Sanders's support proves...

20160301: Mar 01, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on Citibank calls "Recession" for 2016, Robert Gordon's new book "Rise and Fall of American Growth", college students to Europe for free educations, drug and food companies profit at public's...

20160223: Feb 23, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on Bloomberg's money, negative interest rates, the oil market, Puerto Rico's cruel sales tax, Fed Reserve governor supports breaking up banks 'too big to fail,' and Apple borrows despite its h...

20160216: Feb 16, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on China achieves economic superpower status, profit produces drug scarcities, Ireland's unjust austerity, millionaire tax in Massachusetts. Major discussions of self-destructive cut-backs in...

Pete Dolack: Feb 09, 2016: 11am - 12pm

Updates on the economic significance of Sanders' Iowa vote, Keynes on risks of revolution against capitalism, costs of oil market collapse. Interview with author Pete Dolack on lessons for today of pa...

20160202: Feb 02, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on Johnson Controls Corp. evades taxes, Disney sued over abuse of HB-1 visa system, French workers strike against austerity and against socialist government; response to listeners on tax-subsi...

20160126: Jan 26, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on Obama on/in Detroit, Walmart closing stores, Santa Fe and public banking, food-makers' profits vs people's health. Major discussion of Oxfam and IECD reports on world poverty and inequality...

Michael Johnson: Jan 19, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on worker actions by UK's "junior doctors" and Detroit teachers, Flint's poisoned water, Supreme Court struggle. More on U.S. government subsidy of religion. Interview on worker co-ops with Mi...

20160112: Jan 12, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on the Obamacare scandal, bank errors threaten depositors, public pension looting, subsidizing religion. Major discussion of old vs new meanings of capitalism as an economic system. Hosted by...

20160105: Jan 05, 2016: 10am - 11am

Updates on economics vs "free press", Nevada vs public education, and bikes displace autos in Europe. Responses to listeners on economics of closed ACA health coops and on inflation's dangers and impa...

20151229: Dec 29, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on Spain's new left government, no NFL money for concussion research, Harvard runs like a business, Fresno research proves widespread hunger. Responses to questions on why corporations buy bac...

20151222: Dec 22, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on the Fed's interest rate hike, Peter Drucker on "like a business," gun business, and oil economics. Response to question on whether it is China that is slowing the world economy. Major discu...

Cathy Mulder : Dec 15, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on denying a 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 trans...

20151208: Dec 08, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on Portugal joining Greece against austerity, US austerity especially in Puerto Rico and Illinois, useless laws for banks, words not action in Paris. Major discussions of Thanksgiving economic...

Harriet Fraad: Dec 01, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on economics of immigration, economic alarmists, Ireland as a tax haven. Response to listeners on the role and place for small business in a worker-coop based economy. Interview with Dr. Harri...

20151124: Nov 24, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on Japan's recession, half of New York City is economically in trouble, ACA deductibles undermine affordability, the Million Student March, another crooked capitalist. Response to listeners on...

20151117: Nov 17, 2015: 10am - 11am

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 the politics and econ...

20151110: Nov 10, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on capitalism vs higher education, the real costs of apps, how the other half banks. In-depth analyses of projected economic downturn in 2016, capitalist inequality and housing changes, and ho...

Alan Schulman: Nov 03, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on Obama harshness re student debt, how much corporations and the rich abuse tax havens, MIT rejects fossil-fuel divestment, profit over safety at Tylenol company. Response to listener on wher...

20151027: Oct 27, 2015: 10am - 11am

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. Ma...

Laura Flanders: Oct 20, 2015: 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. This week: Saving capitalism, looming...

Harry Konstantinides: Oct 13, 2015: 10am - 11am

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....

20151006: Oct 06, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on Swedish plan for peaceful transition beyond capitalism, ripoffs in car insurance, Ferguson, MO credit downgrade. Response to listeners on the CA drought and on best solution for corporate a...

Ian Seda-Irizarry: Sep 29, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on new Detroit book, Mayor's austerity policy in Chicago, homeless school children, soaring medical insurance deductibles. Responses to listeners on VW scandal and Pope's statements on economi...

20150922: Sep 22, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on GM settlement, Census Bureau proves no recovery for 90%, GE moves jobs overseas; responses to listeners on FED agonies over interest rates and how capitalism mishandles unemployment. Major...

Dr. Harriet Fraad: Sep 15, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates on economics of refugees, Ford buys French political wife, LA's homeless, Labor Day history, Seattle Teachers strike, and Japan's jobs ever more precarious. Response to listeners on why rising...

20150908: Sep 08, 2015: 10am - 11am

When Profits Come First: Updates on extreme poverty, workers' victory over tech giants, NFL concussions, Greenpeace strikers, Trump's economics analyzed, and Oakland for worker coops. Response to list...

20150901: Sep 01, 2015: 10am - 11am

Market Chaos Hits Us All: Updates on Dismaland theme park, reghettoization, western fires, Amazon undercuts pensions, and analyzing market chaos vs blaming China. Major discussions of oil market colla...

20150825: Aug 25, 2015: 10am - 11am

Labor Day Economics: Updates on Labor Day's meaning, Amazon's workplace horrors, Dunkin Donuts' CEO against $15/hr, and how capitalism undermines recycling. Response to questions on shifting US federa...

20150818: Aug 18, 2015: 10am - 11am

System Toxicity: Updates on China's currency moves, UK'S Corbyn like US Sanders, adjuncts unionize, Pepsi and Coke offer self-serving health advice, Rand Paul's misunderstanding of economics. We answe...

20150811: Aug 11, 2015: 10am - 11am

System Badly Broken: Updates on Sawant victory, fines for defective products, slowing wages, Puerto Rico as the US Greece, economics of refugee tragedies, and crooked banks' fall guys. Response to lis...

20150804: Aug 04, 2015: 10am - 11am

Economic Reality Checks: Updates on Boeing and economic blackmail, socialism returns, Chrysler fine is bogus, airline fees ploy, auto union vs wage tiers. We respond to questions on stale debate at Me...

20150728: Jul 28, 2015: 10am - 11am

Capitalism's Endless Costs: Updates on Coke vs Pepsi war, price gouging on cancer drugs, how Corwyn is good for the UK's Labor Party, and the new Pope's strong anti-capitalist speeches. We respond to...

20150721: Jul 21, 2015: 10am - 11am

Capitalism and its Others: Two alternatives to capitalism. In the first half we examine workers self-directed enterprises, how they work and how they compare to capitalist enterprises. In the second h...

20150714: Jul 14, 2015: 10am - 11am

Learning from Economic Defeats: Two in-depth analyses. In the first half: The New Deal was both a victory and a defeat. Both offer crucial lessons for today. In the second half, a critical review of l...

20150707: Jul 07, 2015: 10am - 11am

Class and Socialism: Two analyses examine the different meanings of class, class analysis and class struggle across human history and why those differences matter so much now, and how socialism evolve...

Bob Hennelly: Jun 30, 2015: 10am - 11am

Victory of alumna, faculty and students over autocratic board of Sweet Briar College in Virginia; the uniquely awful US record on paid leave for workers and an interesting move by some cities to disco...

Kristin Ross: Jun 23, 2015: 10am - 11am

Goldman Sachs' injustice, the "independent contractor" ploy just busted at FedEx and Uber, and Wisconsin governor's attack on public university to lower taxes on corps and rich. Interview with Prof. K...

Sohnya Sayres: Jun 16, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates analyze unemployment numbers to show what they hide as well as reveal. Responses to listeners' questions expose the economics of lotteries and why the largest US corporations have recently use...

Kshama Sawant: Jun 09, 2015: 10am - 11am

Updates offer latest on Greece's struggles with Europe, a critique of Buffett on rich vs poor and a hard look at $400 million gift to Harvard from billionaire Paulson. Responses to listeners on new Ma...

20150526: May 26, 2015: 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. Hosted by Richard Wolff.