Richard D. Wolff

On WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York City, What's Going On! Friday's host Rebecca Myles and Prof Wolff discuss the economy, inflation, and price gouging. 

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In this week's show, Prof Wolff discusses the stale old debate (competition vs monopoly) and which to blame for inflation; unionization drives across US campuses, and Eastern Kentucky University in particular; how US stores manage inflation; and Elon Musk...READ MORE

Article by Richard D. Wolff

"As usual, the profit-driven concerns of big business and their result—a remarkably selective historical amnesia—fuel the silence about alternative anti-inflation policies. So too do the right-wing ideological blinders that now constrict U.S. politics. Yet, policy alternatives always exist, no matter how desperately partisans promoting one policy seek to obliterate debate and discussion of others... I will present three other anti-inflation policies that do not entail interest rate increases—there are many more—that could and should be part of today’s policy discussions. All have precedents in U.S. history." 

On the Jimmy Dore Show, Prof Wolff joins to discuss Biden's "plan" for inflation and Treasury Secretary Yellen's comments.

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In this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about insurers defrauding pensions, record highway deaths, inflation and risk, interest rate rises, Massachusetts to vote on millionaires tax...READ MORE

Prof Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to talk about inflation and "solutions". 

Prof Wolff joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss the housing bubble. 

Prof Wolff joins MOATS to discuss inequality in America, or the Bright Shining Lie. 

Decolonizing Economics Summit held April 21, 2022: "As we face ecological collapse, and fascism rising across the globe, we bring together movement leaders to pose that question to them: 'What Is to Be Done?'" Presentation and discussion facilitated by David Cobb. Presenters: A discussion between Yvonne Yen Liu (Solidarity Research Center), Richard D. Wolff (Democracy at Work), Jessica Alvarez-Parfrey (Transition US), and Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson).

Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how outrage is spreading across the country in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The complete failure and cowardice on the part of the police allowed the killer to carry out the massacre. And the gun manufacturers who profit while mass shootings devastate the country are given special legal protections. How are the arms industry capitalists shielded from accountability?

On CKUW 96.9FM's Global Research News Show, Prof Wolff joins for a special edition of the show devoted to the challenges facing the Labour movement in the midst of the major redress of how we do work, and how the people are addressing new forms of tyranny in an emerging technocracy. Prof Wolff joins in the second half, for a panel discussion of major thinkers and labour activists. 

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In this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses today's US child care workers' crisis; how sanctions on Russia profit fossil fuel companies and worsen pollution; systemic causes of the US infant formula shortage; how food corp executives helped write Trump's 2020 order keeping Covid-plagued meatpacking plants operating; meat price...READ MORE

On the Thom Hartmann program, Prof Wolff joins to discuss: Following the fatal shooting at Ulvade, the second mass shooting in hardly a week, many are asking, Have mass shootings become a part of America's Economy?

Professor Richard Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to discuss the social economics of gun violence. 

Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the report from the Tax Justice Network, a well-known international organization, finding that the United States is now the country with the greatest degree of financial secrecy in the entire world. Banks and corporations move in the shadows, concealing their operations and vast wealth. What are the ultra rich up to behind the scenes?

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In this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about the GOP's stance on student debt forgiveness, US corporations replacing home ownership with rentals, today's US economy not "strong," and left unity, as 4 French left parties work to...READ MORE

Prof Wolff on the Thom Hartmann Program: "Germany's capitalists drove it into WW1" Warns Richard Wolff. Could America's capitalist lead us into fascism? "Learn from history" How does inflation lead to fascism and how do economics swing the fortunes of world history? Economic turmoil has a powerful impact on the value of the dollar in your pocket. What is the story of Germany and the United Kingdom after the first world war? What are the parallels in the US?

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.

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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

On Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Professor Wolff joins to discuss the situation for workers in the US today. 

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. 

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. 

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.

On KPFA's Letters and Politics, Prof Wolff joins to discuss everything you need to know about inflation. 

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.