"Trump Signs New Travel Ban Directive" BBC Business Matters
Prof. Wolff joins BBC's Business Matters to discuss President Trump's travel ban.
President Trump has issued an executive order putting in place a new travel ban. Is it legally watertight this time? We hear from Ambassador Norman Eisen who was senior counsel to President Obama and David Rivkin, a lawyer who served under Presidents Reagan and George Bush senior.
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کێشەکە لە سەرمایەداریە
This article by Richard Wolff was originally published in English.
...بە درێژایی سەدەی ڕابردوو، سیستەمی سەرمایەداری خراپترین نیەتەکانی خۆی نیشانداوە لەنێوانیشیاندا داڕمانی گەورەی ساڵی
Read moreEconomic Update: Unfinished Revolution: Women's Paid Labor
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Takata airbags and auto company misdeeds, Trump's defense spending, deepening inequality, why capitalism provokes...READ MORE
KPFA's Letters and Politics: Conversation on the Economics of Trump and Immigration
Prof. Wolff joins Mitch Jeserich from KPFA's Letters and Politics to speak about the current state of the globalized capitalist system and more.
Read moreEconomic Update: Economics: Where Theories Clash
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on the exploitation of adjuncts that weakens US higher education and on US's extreme wealth inequality. Major discussion of...READ MORE
Richard D. Wolff - What is Capitalism & Socialism? What differentiates them from each other?
In this interview Prof. Wolff answers...READ MORE
Economic Update: Real Economic Journalism
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on stock market bounce, Swiss voters stop corporate tax giveaway, why public are better than private schools, billionaires party...READ MORE
Economic Update: Solving Old Economic Problems
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Vermont brewery becoming a worker coop, profitability proves nothing, Trump knocks "fiduciary rule," immigration reduces crime, Pelosi...READ MORE
Global Capitalism: February 2017 Monthly Economic Update
Economic Update: Women's Movement Economics
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on NFL's income redistribution, big bucks for Starbucks CEO, US health data, pension benefits cut, Goldman Sachs in...READ MORE
RTTV Boom Bust: For-Profit Schools are making money, but failing the grade
Prof. Wolff joins Lindsay France from RTTV's Boom Bust to discuss the big money behind For-Profit schools and how they just aren’t cutting it for students.
Read moreEconomic Update: Trumponomics Exposed
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Basic economy airfares, Trump-May delusions, drop in US union membership, Trump's attacks on Mexico and TPP, elite colleges vs state schools. Major discussion of...READ MORE
Economic Update: Organizing for Social Change
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Trump advisors, small fines for big corps, wages 1980-2015 by race, gender, and class, real poverty data, bits from Davos. Interview with two senior advisors on...READ MORE
acTVism Munich: Freedom & Democracy:Global Issues in Context
Prof. Wolff joins a panel of leading experts: Edward Snowden, Srecko Horvat, Jeremy Scahill and Paul Jay in a discussion about freedom and democracy...READ MORE
Economic Update: Economic/social costs of Prisons
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on people forming coops in Detroit and Fridley, Minn; VW's guilty plea and Cuomo's fake numbers; real reason for...
LIVE ON JAN. 15 AT 1PM: acTVism Freedom & Democracy Livestream
Tune into acTVism Munich's Freedom & Democracy panel, where Richard D. Wolff joins Edward Snowden, Srecko Horvat and Paul Jay for a livestreamed event from Munich, Germany... READ MORE
Global Capitalism: January 2017 Monthly Economic Update
"Fixing Capitalism v. Moving to Another System"
Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work,
Left Forum & Judson Memorial Church
TRNN: Obama's Economic Legacy: Recovery for the Architects of Financial Crisis
Underpinning people's rage towards the establishment is the sense that modern capitalism is no longer working, says economist Richard Wolff . For working people in the United States, the last 10 years have been very, very bad. And what's worse is they come on top of the previous 20 years, when they weren't very good either -- which is why the gap between rich and poor has gotten so much more extreme...it's why the predictions that Mr. Obama's successor, Mrs. Clinton, would win the election, that assumption was destroyed. And, in large part, it was because the reality of what has happened to working people's situation turned them against the Democratic Party, made them leave the Democratic Party, and particularly the central wing, the Clinton wing.
Read moreEconomic Update: Economics of Emotional Labor
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff interviews Dr Harriet Fraad on emotional labor. READ MORE
Capitalism Is the Problem
This article originally appeared at Truthout.org
Over the last century, capitalism has repeatedly revealed its worst tendencies: instability and inequality. Instances of instability include the Great Depression (1929-1941) and the Great Recession since 2008, plus eleven "downturns" in the US between those two global collapses. Each time, millions lost jobs, misery soared, poverty worsened and massive resources were wasted. Leaders promised...READ MORE
Kapitalismus vs. Sozialismus: Eine neue Debatte
This article by Richard Wolff was originally published in English. Dieser Artikel von Richard Wolff wurde ursprünglich in Englisch veröffentlicht.
Wieder einmal gefährden die Widersprüche, Fehler und Schwächen des Kapitalismus‘ seine eigene Existenz. READ MORE
Economic Update: We Can Do Better Than Capitalism
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on mistreated homeless, keeping millions from voting, 'I, Daniel Blake,' 3000 water systems like,Trump's foreign employees, unequal retirement USA, Sen Whitehouse on anti-science. READ MORE
How Trump Could Bring on the Crash of 2016
Prof. Wolff joins Thom Hartmann on The Big Picture to discuss Trump’s economic and trade policies. If Trump cuts taxes and ramps up defense spending, the U.S. could be looking at a shift back to Reagan-era economics.
Read moreEconomic Update: Xmas vs Economic Realities
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on politicians lying about economics, fines for big banks, Maine votes left, int students come less to US, Pebble Mine struggle, fading American dream. READ MORE
Wolff on Upstream: The Recession isn't Over, but is Capitalism?
Unemployment is down and the stock market is up. So we're in a recovery, right? Many politicians & economists would like us to think that, but Prof. Wolff explains how this couldn't be farther from the truth. Not only is the recession that started in 2008 far from over, but we might actually be witnessing the collapse of capitalism as we know it. LISTEN HERE