Richard D. Wolff

[S9 E10]

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff gives a shout out to the striking Oakland school teachers and delivers updates on the dangers of declining pensions, a bank fined for helping wealthy clients evade taxes, the U.S. and the EU in...READ MORE

A patron asks:  Is religion an opium of the people? Is religious faith generally harmful to worker solidarity or cooperation? I know a catholic priest founded Mondragon, but most of the anarchists fighting Franco and establishing worker controlled industries were anti religious before the civil war ended...

[S9 E09]

This week’s episode of Economic Update features updates from Prof. Wolff on the economics of immigration, France's yellow vests join union-called general strike, demonstrations against Sackler family's profiting from...READ MORE

Wolff joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss reports that the Trump Administration intends to limit or ban Chinese telecommunications equipment by next week.

Wolff joins Hartmann to discuss the US' slow and deliberate destruction of Venezuela.

Wolff joins Boom Bust to talk about current US-China trade talks.

Wolff joins Jeserich on Letters & Politics to discuss the history of socialism in the US.

Prof. Wolff responds to Fox & Friends about the 2018 tax refunds and who has really benefited from the tax cuts of the Trump administration.

Wolff joins Boom Bust to talk about the record number of Americans struggling to make payments.

[S9 E6]

On this episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses the public education crisis (teacher strikes, declining quality, insufficient resources) and how it undermines the economic future of the U.S. and the absurdity of...READ MORE

Prof. Wolff responds to President Trump's State of the Union delivered on February 5, 2019.

Wolff joins Rick Sanchez to discuss how your viewpoint on taxes may have to do with your age, with millennials and the youth tending to favor more progressive taxation.

Wolff joins In Question to discuss how the US' attempts to prosecute a Huawei executive is mere cover for the global economic struggle it has been waging to remain dominant.

Wolff joins Hartmann to discuss taxing the working class through property tax. Is what Thom Hartmann and others are calling America's wealth tax, actually fair?

Wolff joins Boom Bust to discuss the state of the Fed.

Wolff joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss the freezing of Venezuelan funds in the Bank of England amid the deepening political crisis in Caracas.

Wolff joins in In Question to discuss the costs of the longest government shutdown in US history and how they affect federal workers.

Wolff joins RT Evening News to discuss how China is set to surpass US as the world’s largest retail market this year.

Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to discuss Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's break off of diplomatic relations with Washington, and the US recognition of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

Wolff joins Boom Bust to discuss the warning letter written by billionaire investor Seth Klarman prior to Davos.

Wolff joins Boom Bust to discuss the compounded effects of the partial government shutdown.

Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the rank of the nation during the partial government shutdown.

[S9 E2]

On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the New York City council’s vote on a minimum wage for ride-hailing drivers (Uber, Lyft, etc.), 85% of the goods made for the Trump store are made abroad, charter school teachers...READ MORE

Wolff joins News.Views.Hughes. to discuss trade talks between China and the US.

Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to show how NYC's Medicare For All could save taxpyers money as well as their lives.