KPFA Letters and Politics: Everything You Need to Know About Inflation
On KPFA's Letters and Politics, Prof Wolff joins to discuss everything you need to know about inflation.
Read moreBreaking Points: Richard Wolff CALLS Out Economists Who Missed GDP Decline
On Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: Richard Wolff joins to discuss the GDP contraction and why the consensus of economists missed the mark with their forecasts.
Read moreFault Lines: The Novel Solution for Inflation the Fed Refuses to Consider
On Sputnik's Fault Lines radio: Professor Richard Wolff joined the conversation to talk about President Nixon’s novel solution for inflation that the Fed refuses to consider, why raising interest rates is used to combat inflation, and the problems Joe Biden faces if he decides to keep his promise to relieve student loan debt.
Read moreThe Socialist Program: How to Tackle the Inflation Crisis in the Interests of the Working Class
Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how the Federal Reserve raised interest rates at the highest rate in over 20 years, signaling a major shift in policy as it attempts to tackle the spiraling inflation crisis. But will this maneuver work? Or is it likely to instead spark a new recession?
Read moreEconomic Update: Housing - Human Rights vs. System Failure
[S12 E18] New
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses global impacts of food inflation, endless class struggle over length of the workday and workweek and US deaths by guns. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews housing activists Manon Vergerio and Velvet Ross (Fannie Lou Diane) on the US housing crisis...READ MORE
Economic Update: Inflation - How Markets Fail
[S12 E17] New
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about Sri Lanka’s economic crisis as a global example, and how US billionaires escape taxation at our expense. In the second half, Wolff discusses...READ MORE
The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
Article by Richard D. Wolff
"The socialist left now, as during earlier centuries, advocates for an economic system that does not yet exist in any nation. However, the socialist left does so with the knowledge of what happened to those experiments in socialism that turned out to be and still are forms of state capitalism. Hopefully, 21st-century socialism will not need to repeat those experiments."
Read moreBy Any Means Necessary: Inflation Fuels Recession Fears as Corporations Continue to Price Gouge
On Radio Sputnik: By Any Means Necessary with Sean Blackmon and Jacqueline Luqman, Prof Wolff joins to discuss runaway inflation fueled by corporate profit and how the proposed solutions to the crisis hurts working and poor people, and more.
Read moreZero Hour: On War and Empire: Unintended Consequences
Prof. Richard Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ ESkow to discuss War and Empire: Unintended Consequences.
Read moreThe Socialist Program: Elon Musk Buys Twitter - How Capitalism Mutilates the Notion of a "Free Press"
Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss Elon Musk, a billionaire, buying Twitter, one of the world's largest mass communications platforms. Why are billionaires so determined to control the information available to the public?
Read moreact.tv with Julianna Forlano: Ukraine Attack Sparks Worldwide Economic Fallout
Prof Richard Wolff joins Julianna Forlano on act.tv to discuss the worldwide economic fallout from the Russian attack on Ukraine. Certainly, Russians will feel the brunt of it, given the sanctions levied against the country, and Ukraine will suffer greatly as well. And Europe will also feel economic pain as it relies on Russia to meet its energy needs. But could there be a spillover effect in America? Is a U.S. recession possible? In short, yes, it’s very possible.
Read moreEconomic Update: Progressive Politics Win
[S12 E16] New
This week on Economic Update, an analysis of Ukraine propaganda war, US inflation worsens, the US college debt crisis and New York City eviction crisis...READ MORE
The Socialist Program: Tax Day: Exposing the Lies of the Rich
Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the extreme injustices of the U.S. tax system. Monday was Tax Day — no cause for celebration for millions of ordinary people. But for the ultra rich, it wasn’t so bad. Many of the wealthiest people on the planet actually pay a tax rate that is lower than a typical worker — how do they get away with this scam?
Read moreKatie Halper: Richard Wolff on Ukraine, Sanctions & War
On with Katie Halper, economist Richard Wolff talks about Ukraine, Russia, sanctions, and why this moment is similar to World War One.
Read more103.7 The Beat "Torn N 2": Critical Race Theory
103.7 The Beat's Torn N 2 program features host Gregory T. Roberts and co-host Pastor Melvin Burns II and guest Professor of Economics emeritus Richard D. Wolff regarding the Critical Race Theory and more.
Read moreZero Hour: Capitalism, Global Empire, and Eskow's Grandpa
Prof Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to discuss capitalism, the global empire, and Eskow's Grandpa.
Read moreThe Socialist Program: Historic Price Surge Continues -- Recession Coming?
Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss what's coming next for our economy as inflation rises and pressure mounts on the Federal Reserve to pull back its extraordinary support for big business. Is a recession coming?
Read morePolitics Done Right: The death of American Capitalism
On Politics Done Right with Egberto Willies, Economist and Professor Dr. Richard Wolff explains why America's capitalism is, as the economic system of past empires, on a permanent decline.
Read moreEconomic Update: Ukraine & An Empire’s Decline
[S12 E15] New
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses nurses’ suicides as results of our profit-driven healthcare, sanctions and their effect on inflation, US states where 40% of workers earn under $15/hr, and US corporate...READ MORE
The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
Article by Richard Wolff
"Global warfare (“world wars”) accompanied the globalization of capitalism and its profit motive. The war in Ukraine is the latest chapter in the history of capitalism, empire, and war."
Read moreBen Burgis: Richard Wolff Debates Branko Marcetic on Vaccine Mandates
GTAA Season 3 Episode 41 with Ben Burgis: Prof. Richard Wolff and Jacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic hash out a disagreement on vaccine mandates. Prof. Wolff is critical of such mandates on workers' rights grounds while Branko has strongly endorsed them in Jacobin. Ben Burgis is, just this once a moderator instead of a participant in a debate.
Read moreThom Hartmann: Deutsche Bank Forecasts US Recession
Prof Wolff joins the Thom Hartmann program: The Federal Reserve's fight against inflation will spark a recession in the United States that begins late next year, Deutsche Bank warned on Tuesday. Richard Wolff discusses what the frightening big bank prediction, what a US recession would mean for you and what you can do about it.
Read moreThe Socialist Program: Amazon Workers Rise: Union Wins Historic Victory Against Corporate Giant
On The Socialist Program: Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how Amazon workers in Staten Island made history by forming the first labor union in the United States at the corporate giant. Meanwhile, support for unionization increased as Amazon workers participated in a re-vote at a facility in Bessemer, Alabama, with the final outcome still too close to call. The surge of labor militancy is continuing and taking on bigger and bigger opponents – what comes next?
Read moreEconomic Update: Capitalism and Its Self-delusions
[S12 E14] New
In the first half of this week's show, Wolff evaluates US capitalism as a system of production and distribution of goods and services. In the second half, he compares...READ MORE
Thom Hartmann: How Putin’s Demand for Ruble Payments for Gas Will Play Out
Prof Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to discuss: Germany buys 40% of its gas from Russia, via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. These contracts are in euros and dollars, yet Russia is now demanding payment in Roubles. Germany has declined and warned that there may be shortages and rationing of gas.
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