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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. Beyond focusing a critical eye on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program also explores systemic solutions to our

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31:41

Yanis Varoufakis on the Changing World Economy

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/09/10

On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff draws attention to the 10,000 hotel workers who recently conducted a strike impacting major hotels across 19 US cities. We highlight the contested merger of the two largest grocery chains in America. Albertsons and Kroger threaten to become the third largest retail giant after Amazon, and Walmart plus the Canadian government forces 9000 Canadian railway striking workers back to work, with murmurs of a general strike looming. We also

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29:14

Labor Day And Abe Lincoln, Honoring Both Together

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/09/03

On this week’s special Labor day episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff honors both Labor Day and President Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln once said in 1861 that "Labor is the superior of capital." Yet, capital in the United States has only two major political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats who both are currently advocating for capital over labor and essentially operating as a two-party monopoly excluding all others. In today's political discourse, Labor has no party

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30:41

Capitalism and Struggle Over Climate Change

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/07/16

On this week’s Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the remarkable bursts of unionization at Starbucks in the US, award-winning New York nurse fired for referring to "genocide" in Gaza, and critique of Paul Krugman's argument that "democracy" is at stake in the 2024 election. Finally, we close with a major discussion on the tension between the realities of climate change and the profit-driven fossil fuel industry that dominates our global economy The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D

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29:01

A Sea Change In US Labor's Militancy

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/04/17

[EU S14 E15] A Sea Change In US Labor's Militancy In this week’s Economic Update Professor, Richard Wolff examines US spending on war materials for Ukraine and Israel, we will discuss Chinese Electric Vehicle imports and the US's protectionist response, and we will highlight the possible convergence of worker cooperatives as part of union negotiating strategies, and we discuss the impact of Harvard college workers vote overwhelmingly to join two unions. Finally, we Interview author and union

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29:01

How Capitalism Distributes Power

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/03/26

[EU S14 E12] How Capitalism Distributes Power Updates on resurging child labor in US, colleges athlete vote to join unions, unionization sweeping not-for-profit charities (hospitals, museums, etc) such as MassMoca in western Massachusetts. Major discussion of how capitalism concentrates power in mass media (including social media), in authoritarian internal structures of corporations, and via donations and other controls exercised over two major political parties and over politicians. The d@w Team

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29:01

Patriarchy and Capitalism

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/03/19

[EU S14 E11] Patriarch and Capitalism This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the UAW union’s latest moves. Their organizing drives at auto plants, their efforts to form unions among employed and free-lance journalists. In addition, we will highlight New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to deploy national guard troops in New York City subways and what that means for everyday residents. Finally, an interview with psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on interactions between

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29:01

Debris From A Declining Empire

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/03/12

[EU S14 E10] Debris From A Declining Empire This week's episode of Economic Update we discuss we discuss United Kingdom politician George Galloway by-election victory, and the raised minimum wage in UK. We will comment on Elon Musk's lawsuit against the NLRB, as Trader Joe, Starbucks, and Amazon also join to ask right-wing Supreme Court to gut regulation of business. We then look at US protectionism as the Biden administration raises tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, in an attempt to keep

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29:01

Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/03/05

[EU S14 E09] Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society This week's episode of Economic Update we discuss we discuss the underemployed of US college graduates, failed anti-Russian sanctions, the collapsed UK birthrate, and expanding wars in the Middle East, we will dive into the costs and risks in absence of a ceasefire in Gaza. Finally we Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad, host of Capitalism Hits Home and a clinical therapist. Professor Wolff and Dr. Fraad explore the post 1970's deindustrialization in the

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29:01

Breaking Up With Capitalism

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/02/27

[EU S14 E08] Breaking Up With Capitalism This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we discuss the Philadelphia University of the Arts Faculty Union and its struggles; we clarify what declining inflation does and does not mean; we answer the question: as to why sanctions fail. Finally we interview Essence Magazine's senior news & politics editor, author, and lawyer Malaika Jabali. We discuss her newly released book "It's Not You Its Capitalism". The d@w Team Economic

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29:01

Capitalism and Tax Injustice

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/02/20

[EU S14 E07] Capitalism and Tax Injustice This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we discuss Germany's recession, California fast-food workers unionize, How the war in Ukraine boosts US stock market, corporate stock holdings, while hurting most wage/salary incomes, In addition we ask what lessons from the protest/revolt of European farmers? Finally, the ongoing exposing of major injustices of the US federal tax system (tax exemptions for schools, churches,

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29:01

The U.S. Tax System: Designed For Economic Injustice

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/02/13

[EU S14 E06] The U.S. Tax System Designed For Economic Injustice This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we will be discussing the increasingly more common corporate threats to force remote workers back to working onsite. We then turn to Ukraine war economics, U.S. vs BGI as anti-Chinese economic nationalism, US's escalation of war in the Middle East, and finally a critique of the US tax system's injustices. If you haven't already, please subscribe to our

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29:01

The US Economy As An Apartheid System

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/02/06

****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E05] The US Economy As An Apartheid System ****************************************************************************** This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we will be discussing the continuing decline of US manufacturing; a 29,000 person strike at California State Univ.; the Houthis disrupt Red Sea shipping in move against Israel; and Texas refuses to obey US federal

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29:01

US Capitalism At The Crossroads

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2024/01/30

****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E04] US Capitalism At The Crossroads ****************************************************************************** This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the special dimensions and qualities of the US labor movement's current dynamism; Thomas Piketty’s analysis showing how capitalism generates widening wealth and income gaps leading to crashes or simmering, divisive, and domestic

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01:06:46

Economic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff ·

2018/05/26

Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.

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