Economic Update: Valuing Work by Women of Color
[S11 E19] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Bernie Madoff's $ 82 billion swindles and capitalism's incentives for swindling, the economics of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...READ MORE
Economic Update: Capitalism vs. Democracy
[S11 E18] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents an analysis of how and why capitalism is an undemocratic economic system...READ MORE
Economic Update: How US Capitalism Uses Nationalism
[S11 E17] New
From 1945 to 1990 we were told a great struggle pitted capitalism against socialism/communism (chiefly the USSR and China). Yet still today, US leaders demonize Russia and China despite the end of communism in the USSR and a huge growth of capitalist enterprises in China. The explanation lies in US capitalism's long history of using nationalism...READ MORE
Economic Update: A Green 3rd Party for the US
[S11 E16] New
On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff talks about Rolls Royce's $400,000 cars, unionization defeat at Amazon, why Biden boom is just hype, and progressive wins in the New York...READ MORE
Economic Update: Workers Successfully Take Over their Workplaces
[S11 E15] New
Economic Update: Marxism's Ongoing Relevance
[S11 E14] New
After clearing away the Cold War debris that blocked discussion of Marxism's insights since 1945, we focus on Marxism's core contribution to (1) thinking about and (2) changing modern...READ MORE
Economic Update: When Economic Systems Fail
[S11 E13] New
On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff talks about the structural failure of Biden's American Rescue Plan, Nigerian mass workers' movement, private electricity for the US rich, big vs small business...READ MORE
Economic Update: Dems' Self-promotion versus Hard Economic Realities
[S11 E12] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the US coal industry decline, Brazil's Covid disaster, economic surge after Covid, and Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax...READ MORE
Economic Update: Finally a Tiny Sales Tax on Stocks
[S11 E11] New
On this week's show, Wolff talks about the taxing of CEO pay in the US, the immoral and self-defeating vaccine policy, and LeBron James speaking out on...READ MORE
Economic Update: People to People: Horizontal Social Change
[S11 E10] New
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Texas energy catastrophe, the 'Robinhood/Reddit' Wall Street incident, college workers organizing, Hollywood's dependency on China, and how New Zealand...READ MORE