The Socialist Program: Capitalism Is Bad for Babies: What's Behind the Infant Formula Crisis?
Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the shortage of infant formula and how the capitalist economy isn't structured to take into consideration the survival needs even of babies.
Read moreEconomic Update: Jobs Driving Us Mad
[S12 E19] New
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the unionization of Grinnell College student-workers; US GDP drops 1.4% in Q1 of 2022; food inflation versus rationing; Germany's refugee shame; small US businesses to plan price inflation; and western corporations leaving Russia replaced by...READ MORE
Zero Hour: Do Workers Have It Too Good Nowadays?
On Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Professor Wolff joins to discuss the situation for workers in the US today.
Read moreMitchell Center Podcast: Naming the Problem: Capitalism is the Crisis
On the Mitchell Center Podcast: CAPITALISM / SOCIALISM / DEMOCRACY Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. As our economy, political system, and society in general weather a number of immediate crises, from pandemics to inflation, economist RICHARD WOLFF argues that the real cause of our inability to grapple with them is being ignored.
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Thom Hartmann: Proof Global Inflation isn't Joe Biden’s Fault
On the Thom Hartmann Program: Why Is Inflation Being Blamed on Biden? But clever observers of the global economy know that the causes of inflation are much more.
Read moreRed May TV: Global Capitalism and the Persistence of Cold War Ideology
On Red May TV: Capitalism is structured around individual enterprises and their controlling employers and controlled employees. The relationship among these enterprises is competition. Global capitalism has repeatedly brought competing enterprises and thereby nations into conflicts and wars. Mobilizing national populations to support the conflicts and wars required grand narratives - ideologies - of good struggling against evil. The UK and Germany demonized each other in WW1; it was democracy vs fascism in WW2; capitalism/democracy vs socialism/communism in The Cold War; anti-terrorism after the Cold War; and it is now democracy against Putin's autocracy in Russia. The particular narrative/ideology changed, but the underlying issue - capitalist competition - did not.
Read moreKPFA 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