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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. Beyond focusing a critical eye on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program also explores systemic solutions to our economy's problems including alternative ways to organize production and distribution of the goods and services we all depend on.
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Economic Update: The U.S. Military Machine&What It Costs from 2023-12-05T23:25
We hope you all enjoy this week's episode of Economic Update featuring updates on Tesla vs the Swedish Unions, a teachers strike in Portland, Oregon, "food insecurity" in the U.S. today, how the...
ListenEconomic Update: American's Self Image VS Reality from 2023-11-28T15:27
Economic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show ...
ListenWhen Labor Movements Rise from 2023-11-21T20:22
Economic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show ...
ListenInequality Undermines Health&Healthcare in the U.S. from 2023-11-14T22:20
Economic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show ...
ListenSocial&Labor Movements Claim Real Victories from 2023-11-07T23:39
Economic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show ...
ListenWhat Socialism Needs to Succeed from 2023-10-31T22:06
Economic Update is now back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released every week. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show we...
ListenProgressive Politics Win from 2022-04-21T04:00:11
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 looms. In the second half of the show, Wol...
ListenUkraine and an Empire’s Decline from 2022-04-14T04:00:18
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 unde...
ListenCapitalism and Its Self-delusions from 2022-04-07T04:00:17
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 the evaluation with the very d...
ListenAmazon Workers Organize a Union from 2022-03-31T04:00:51
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about oil and gas inflation, its impacts, and politicians' phony solutions, the stagnant US gender pay gap and its significance, and why Americans...
ListenChristian Socialism from 2022-03-24T04:01:03
This week on Economic Update, Prof Wolff presents updates on Amazon workers' strike, the impact of US inflation, and the underappreciated economic aspects of Russia-Ukraine war. In the second ha...
ListenUkraine, Race and Class from 2022-03-17T04:00
This week's show on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about the emerging new world order, Ukraine and inflation, and the economics of sanctions. On the second half of the show, Wolff is joined...
ListenWhat Marx&Marxism Offer us Today from 2022-03-10T05:00
This week's show features a discussion of what Marx offers in the way of a basic critique of capitalism and an alternative economic system that would be better for most people, and how this diff...
ListenGreen Party vs 2-Party Monopoly from 2022-03-03T05:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about the UK selling visa to the rich, why "non-profit" is really "un-taxed," Apple's CEO's 2021 pay of $99 million, AOC and NYPD arrests for stealing diap...
ListenUnaffordable Housing from 2022-02-24T05:00
Covid Criminals, Pandemic Profiteers from 2022-02-17T05:00
Rebuilding a Labor and Left Movement from 2022-02-03T05:00
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of US Megacorp merger (Microsoft and Activision Blizzard), China vs US on inflation and economic growth, and the collapse of Boris J...
ListenThe Socialism Issue from 2022-01-27T05:01:31
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about the recreation of `company towns' (eg., Kalamazoo, MI) by the richest US capitalists, Biden and the reality of US jobs lost, how and why the US follo...
ListenThe End of the Megamachine from 2022-01-20T05:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about the sharp reduction in US population growth; how "lockdowns" are the anti-Covid policy everywhere, ,some gov't run and focused while others are priva...
ListenEmotions and US Politics Today from 2022-01-13T05:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about US bank closings as a sign of system decline; victory for 3000 striking Columbia University students; Laredo, Texas combats food deserts with co-ops;...
ListenAnti-Mandate is NOT Anti-Vaccine from 2021-12-16T05:01
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of obscene wealth in the US and the economics of the rape crisis in th US and UK. The second half of the show features an interview with author ...
ListenEcology, Co-ops, and Profit from 2021-12-09T05:01
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on 50 years of fossil fuel corps putting profits before science, CVS to close 900 drugstores as part of decline of US workers living standards, FBI...
ListenClass Struggles in the US Today from 2021-12-02T05:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about teacher burnout economics, inflation as an employer-employee fight, the "labor shortage" isn't, "Build Back Better" does not begin to approach what Euro...
ListenImagining a Different Economy from 2021-11-25T05:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on his recent debate with Ayn Rand Institute on capitalism vs socialism, inflation in Europe, an analysis of right vs left splitting in US today, a...
ListenChris Hedges and US Prisons from 2021-11-18T05:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on South Dakota leads US to become world's #2 "tax haven," pandemic's economic shock cut by very uncapitalistic means, why employers want the govt...
ListenGermany Shifts Left from 2021-11-11T05:00
Biden's and Democrats' fading tax reforms, German and Austrian politics shift left, Yale sells out to rich donors, product shortages often deliberate, wages for housework, and real US food inflation.
ListenA Story of War from 2021-11-04T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how Amazon rips off small business and squeezes workers, US and China's military tactics, top mainstream economists grasp the deepening critique of capita...
ListenChina and Inflation: Real Analyses, not BS from 2021-10-28T04:00
The program's first half focuses on the realities of China's rise and not the Cold War rhetoric. The second half analyzes the inflation now threatening the US economy. Its causes and consequences t...
ListenCornel West on "Black Prophetic Fire" from 2021-10-21T17:05:22
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the strengths of socialism in German elections, British and US public opinion; and the US policies that are impoverishing its Puerto Rican colon...
ListenSigns of System Decline from 2021-10-14T04:00
On this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the following topics: US wars lost: against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Covid; private profit from climate disaster; systemic infrastructure neglect;...
ListenHow US Workers are Really Treated from 2021-10-07T04:00
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff pays homage to Mikis Theodorakis, Greek musician and political hero, and discusses Starbucks workers in Buffalo, the economic fallout of Supreme Court's an...
ListenNative Americans and American Socialists from 2021-09-30T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff present updates on global supply chain slow-downs; student costs/debts in US, UK higher than peer nations; FED adds inflation to the ways its policies worsen income...
ListenSocialism & Worker Co-ops from 2021-09-23T13:56:29
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20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a ...
Occupy Wall Street: Analysis and Legacy from 2021-09-16T04:00
This program is devoted to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) on its 10th anniversary. Prof. Wolff discusses OWS as a historic turning point, as legacy for the US left, and his personal experience. Wolff pre...
ListenThe Rational and Irrational in Anti-Vaxxers from 2021-09-09T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the complexities of anti-vaccination movements, the long decline of religion in US capitalism, Disneys’s shift to serve the richest, lessons fro...
Listen20 Years after 9/11, US is still a Stuck Nation from 2021-09-02T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Alabama miners' strike, how China's focus on reducing inequality affects competition with the US, and the economics of the "right to repair" con...
ListenExtremes of Rich/Poor in US Capitalism from 2021-08-26T04:00
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses the new US program for monthly child benefits; why Covid strengthens some and divides other nations; the myth of "labor shortage;" the real cost ...
ListenLiberating Technology from Capitalism from 2021-08-19T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff provides updates on two small labor victories (Vermont's AFL-CIO and 4000 pork-processing meat cutters in Sioux Falls), how global capitalism became even more unequ...
ListenChile's Feminist Social Revolution from 2021-08-12T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the election of a socialist, African-American woman as new mayor in Buffalo, NY; US unemployment insurance's meager support for jobless; Teamsters target ...
ListenA US Left Rises to Remake the World from 2021-08-05T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on "The Friends" reunion and what it teaches, how China outmaneuvers US tariffs, etc., and how Yellow Vests plus French unions defeated Macron "ref...
ListenBest Years of US Lie in its Past from 2021-07-29T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about Chipotle Mexican Grill blaming its price increases on its workers, economist Arthur Laffer's claims that many poor, minority workers are "not worth $15/...
ListenCapitalism's Shrinking Popularity from 2021-07-22T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses French voters abstaining (66%), and rejecting party establishments in the face of social crisis; Seattle City Council helps tenants with law changes as co...
ListenThe Challenge of Progressive Unionism from 2021-07-15T12:30:06
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Wall Street money corrupting US elections and the facts of a declining US capitalism (wage stagnation driving inequality, rising health and education cost...
ListenInflation and Labor Shortage from 2021-07-08T13:55:38
On this week's show, Prof Wolff talks about the social effects of inflation and the lack of accountability on the part of employers. Capitalist employers set prices with the only motive of maximizi...
ListenThe Three Basic Kinds of Socialism (Repeat) from 2021-07-01T04:00
As ever more people become anti-capitalist and look toward socialist alternatives, it is important to grasp key differences among the alternative kinds of socialism. This program explains those dif...
ListenHow Capitalism Shapes Our Food from 2021-06-25T04:00
In this episode, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the economic aspects of the Covid pandemic: lockdowns vs vaccines, scientific debate vs corporate advertising, long-term vs short term costs, the bi...
ListenInsurgent Working Class and Organization from 2021-06-17T04:00
In this week's show, Prof Wolff presents updates on the efforts to finally add dental, vision, and hearing coverage to Medicare, the effects of Trump's tariffs on China, and the contradictions betw...
ListenThe Center Cannot Hold from 2021-06-10T04:00
This program begins by analyzing the political monopoly (aka "The Center") operated by the GOP and Dems in the US: its organization and dominance until the last few years. The monopoly deteriorates...
ListenA "Living Wage" from 2021-06-03T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff comments on how and why "consumerism" matters and on why Biden's "progressive shift" is both like and unlike (far more limited so far) FDR's. Wolff then interviews ...
ListenThe Great American Purge (REPEAT) from 2021-05-27T04:00
The program begins by explaining the economics behind the great US anti-leftist purge (McCarthyism) after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts of that purge over the last half century. Finally,...
ListenLabor and Capitalism's Rise and Fall from 2021-05-20T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Congress Bills H.R.51 giving statehood to Washington, DC, and H.R.1 countering GOP efforts to restrict voting; and Biden's tax reforms to help pay for new...
ListenValuing Work by Women of Color from 2021-05-13T04:00
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, US government's racist hou...
ListenCapitalism versus Democracy from 2021-05-06T04:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents an analysis of how and why capitalism is an undemocratic economic system. The first half is devoted to the micro-level, the organization of the enterprise....
ListenHow US Capitalism Uses Nationalism from 2021-04-29T04:00
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 ...
ListenA Green 3rd Party for the US from 2021-04-22T06:00
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 state budget. On the se...
ListenWorkers Successfully Take Over their Workplaces from 2021-04-15T06:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses how the US home rental market is failing over 20% of all renters, and the basic flaws in Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal. On the second half ...
ListenMarxism's Ongoing Relevance from 2021-04-08T06:00
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 capitalist so...
ListenWhen Economic Systems Fail from 2021-04-01T06:00
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 s...
ListenDems' Self-promotion versus Hard Economic Realities from 2021-03-25T05:00
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 proposal. On the second half of the s...
ListenFinally a Tiny Sales Tax on Stocks from 2021-03-18T05:00
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 social issues. On the second half of the show...
ListenPeople to People: Horizontal Social Change from 2021-03-11T06:00
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 ...
ListenSocialism and Puerto Rico from 2021-03-04T06:00
On this week's EU, Prof. Wolff presents updates on worsening US inequality, universities borrowing more, billions earned by hedge funds in 2020, Bezos "charity" giving, Macron and French conservati...
ListenThe System Implodes: Amazon, Evictions, Tax Abuses, and Minimum Wages from 2021-02-25T06:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Amazon's profits; New York state's eviction crisis and capitalism's reproduction of poverty and inequality; New York's stock transfer tax; raising the min...
ListenWhy Capitalism Reproduces Inequality and a Solution from 2021-02-18T06:00
The extreme economic inequalities of both global and US capitalism are not new or exceptional. Capitalism reproduces inequality and repeatedly blocks or reverses redistribution efforts.Inequality s...
ListenThe US Political Right in Anger and Mourning from 2021-02-11T06:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the radical policies of Berlin's city gov't and its Die LInke Party; why raising minimum wage to $15/hour is too little, too late; how bans on e...
ListenHistory's Lessons on Capitalism's Failures: Germany and US from 2021-02-04T06:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff evaluates capitalism by how it deals with Covid-19 and talks about Boeing's latest fatal crash. The second half of the show is dedicated to a major discussion of th...
ListenChina: Capitalist, Socialist, or What? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff talks about the Chinese economy. China is run by a Communist Party but describes itself as socialist, while the employer/employee structure of its enterprises is...
ListenCapitalism's Definition is not Innocent from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's all new EU, Prof. Wolff contends that defenders of capitalism chose a poor definition because that made it much easier to defend capitalism. A much better, clearer definition was and...
ListenThe FED's Rigged Money Management from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the following: the US is a poor place to raise kids according to a recent Forbes' magazine article, the collapsing restaurant industry, eviction policy (F...
ListenProgressive Social Media Surges in Canada from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the first half of this week's episode, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of pandemic eviction and updates on: the real US unemployment costs, Denmark sides with Germany against US pressure, China'...
ListenNew US Labor Militancy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about the Geneva, Switzerland vote that's raising the min wage to $ 25.16/hour or over $50k/year; GOP block federal aid to cities and states; economics of pol...
ListenHow We Get Beyond Capitalism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the 'Social Progress Index" and US capitalism's decline; how most young Americans, 18-29, now live with their parents; Argentina's debts are cut...
ListenProfessional Athletes Lead The Way from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on why the FED monetary policy dominates the US; fatal flaws of eviction moratorium; luxury, fashion centers shift to China despite US anti-China p...
ListenUS Labor Crisis Deepens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's all new Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses the Federal Reserve's pro-inflation policy's causes and effects, professional athletes and "dual power," more state-monopoly capitalism...
ListenCapitalism's Worst Nightmare from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's show: what major social changes will flow from today's combination of major economic crash and the viral pandemic (capitalism's worst nightmare)? To answer, we consider how European ...
ListenCuban Commitment to Worker Coops from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the first half of this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the different metrics used for US unemployment, IMF on uneven recovery, money and US elections, Indigenous People's Day, and l...
ListenCapitalism's Anxiety About the State from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how capitalism gets in the way of fighting Covid-19, systemic racism and Covid-19, why Europe did not allow the mass unemployment imposed on the...
ListenGrowing Left Public Voices from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the first half of this week's episode, Prof. Wolff discusses the following: graduate student strike at University of Michigan, Johnson & Johnson charged in opioid deaths, the richest Americans g...
ListenThe Declining Empire with Chris Hedges from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses the following: Denmark's new taxes on banks and rich people to help workers doing dangerous jobs; West Virginia AG sues Walmart and CVS for com...
ListenWhat "Capitalism's Decline" Means from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week's show is dedicated to a discussion of the signs of US capitalism's decline. US history as the passage of US capitalism from its birth, through its state-supported growth and expansion, t...
ListenUS Labor battles Covid-19 and Politics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the first half of this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses labor's gains (Florida and Maine) and losses (the tragic Prop 22 in California), and the refutation of the claim that China's spectacula...
ListenNo Matter Who Wins from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents the following short updates: Inspire Brands buys Dunkin Donuts, as big firms grow while medium and small firms die; private US capitalism is now on "life-s...
ListenNoam Chomsky on Prospects and Tasks as 2021 Begins from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Prof Wolff gives updates on President-elect Biden's economic advisor "team", how Argentina's women's movement wins legalized abortion and now targets other basic social changes, and how ...
ListenExternalities and Capitalism's Inefficiencies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This program introduces the economic concept of "externalities." Those are the real costs of employers' business decisions that employers do not pay for or take into account: costs "external" to bu...
ListenGrowing Independent, Progressive Media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week's show features updates on the continuing lessons from 2020 at the year's end: the economics of US policing and the 'defund' campaign, building a Cold War against China, and lessons from ...
ListenWhy Women Have Better Sex In Socialism from 2021-01-28T06:00
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents short updates on the Economic Plans of the Biden administration and US economic inequality, and why raising minimum wage to $15/hour is insufficient to dea...
ListenEconomic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx from 2018-05-26T16:36:32
Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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