Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
168 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsEconomic 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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Resurgent Labor Organizing In The South
April 02, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E13] Resurgent Labor Organizing In The South This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the US Treasury Department charges Apple as monopoly, Georgia's state government sides openly with employers against unions, two union members decide to enter important elections as independent voices in Nebraska and West Virginia, and a critique of the FED's policy that keeps inflation and interest rates high. Finally we Interview Mike Elk, publisher of the Payday Report, on ...
How Capitalism Distributes Power
March 26, 2024 23:25 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E12] How Capitalism Distributes Power Updates on resurging child labor in US, colleges athlete vote to join unions, unionization sweeping not-for-profit charities (hospitals, museums, etc) such as MassMoca in western Massachusetts. Major discussion of how capitalism concentrates power in mass media (including social media), in authoritarian internal structures of corporations, and via donations and other controls exercised over two major political parties and over politicians. Th...
Patriarchy and Capitalism
March 19, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E11] Patriarch and Capitalism This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the UAW union’s latest moves. Their organizing drives at auto plants, their efforts to form unions among employed and free-lance journalists. In addition, we will highlight New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to deploy national guard troops in New York City subways and what that means for everyday residents. Finally, an interview with psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on interactions be...
Debris From A Declining Empire
March 12, 2024 19:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E10] Debris From A Declining Empire This week's episode of Economic Update we discuss we discuss United Kingdom politician George Galloway by-election victory, and the raised minimum wage in UK. We will comment on Elon Musk's lawsuit against the NLRB, as Trader Joe, Starbucks, and Amazon also join to ask right-wing Supreme Court to gut regulation of business. We then look at US protectionism as the Biden administration raises tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, in an attempt to k...
Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society
March 05, 2024 21:45 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E09] Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society This week's episode of Economic Update we discuss we discuss the underemployed of US college graduates, failed anti-Russian sanctions, the collapsed UK birthrate, and expanding wars in the Middle East, we will dive into the costs and risks in absence of a ceasefire in Gaza. Finally we Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad, host of Capitalism Hits Home and a clinical therapist. Professor Wolff and Dr. Fraad explore the post 1970's deindustrializati...
Breaking Up With Capitalism
February 27, 2024 21:57 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E08] Breaking Up With Capitalism This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we discuss the Philadelphia University of the Arts Faculty Union and its struggles; we clarify what declining inflation does and does not mean; we answer the question: as to why sanctions fail. Finally we interview Essence Magazine's senior news & politics editor, author, and lawyer Malaika Jabali. We discuss her newly released book "It's Not You Its Capitalism". The d@w...
Capitalism and Tax Injustice
February 20, 2024 21:10 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E07] Capitalism and Tax Injustice This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we discuss Germany's recession, California fast-food workers unionize, How the war in Ukraine boosts US stock market, corporate stock holdings, while hurting most wage/salary incomes, In addition we ask what lessons from the protest/revolt of European farmers? Finally, the ongoing exposing of major injustices of the US federal tax system (tax exemptions for schools, churches,...
The U.S. Tax System: Designed For Economic Injustice
February 13, 2024 22:39 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB[EU S14 E06] The U.S. Tax System Designed For Economic Injustice This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we will be discussing the increasingly more common corporate threats to force remote workers back to working onsite. We then turn to Ukraine war economics, U.S. vs BGI as anti-Chinese economic nationalism, US's escalation of war in the Middle East, and finally a critique of the US tax system's injustices. If you haven't already, please subscrib...
As The Empire Crumbles
January 23, 2024 17:08 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E03] As The Empire Crumbles ****************************************************************************** In this week's episode of EU, Prof.Wolff delivers updates on the mass closing of Greyhound bus stations around the U.S., the escalating strengths of Russian obstacles in Ukraine, the choice the UK faces between paying for the bombing of Yemen or funding their National Health Service, how...
Corporations vs Democracy
January 16, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E2] Corporations vs Democracy ****************************************************************************** In this weeks show, Prof. Wolff analyzes the corporation. It stands as a basic institution blocking real democracy in our society. The corporation's structure and operations empower and enrich a tiny social minority at the expense of the people's wealth and democratic power. Like the crit...
The U.S. China Decoupling Myth
January 09, 2024 17:41 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E1] The U.S. China Decoupling Myth ****************************************************************************** Happy New Year! For our first Economic Update of 2024, Professor Richard Wolff discusses the myth of the current narrative of the United States disconnecting itself economically from the Republic of China If you haven't already, please subscribe to our channel, follow us on social media ...
Facing The Human Rights Crisis
December 19, 2023 17:37 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB****************************************************************************** [EU S13 E46] Facing The Human Rights Crisis ****************************************************************************** This week's episode of Economic Update features updates on an analysis of Philadelphia, PA's extreme income inequality, the number of workers on striker per year since 2017 in the U.S., the UAW organizing a strike at the VW plant in Tennessee plus other UAW unionization drives and the...
Politics, Economics & Chocolate: Capitalism's Flaws & Failures
December 12, 2023 16:15 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB****************************************************************************** [EU S13 E45] Politics, Economics & Chocolate: Capitalism's Flaws & Failures ****************************************************************************** This week's episode of Economic Update features updates on the economic crises in Argentina and Germany, the graduate student unionization wave happening across U.S., how & where the chocolate industry is using child labor, a critical analysis of what "pr...
When Labor Movements Rise
November 21, 2023 20:22 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBEconomic 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 we all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going to release a few batches of "binge-worthy" episodes you will only find on our website and as a Patreon audience member. So stay tuned, make sure you've subscribed to our channel, follow us on social media and of course be sur...
Inequality Undermines Health & Healthcare in the U.S.
November 14, 2023 22:20 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBEconomic 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 we all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going to release a few batches of "binge-worthy" episodes you will only find on our website and as a Patreon audience member. So stay tuned, make sure you've subscribed to our channel, follow us on social media and of course be sur...
Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
November 07, 2023 23:39 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBEconomic 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 we all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going to release a few batches of "binge-worthy" episodes you will only find here and on our website. So stay tuned, make sure you've subscribed to our channel, follow us on social media and of course be sure to sign up our website...
What Socialism Needs to Succeed
October 31, 2023 22:06 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBEconomic 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 all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going to release a few batches of "binge-worthy" episodes you will only find here and on our website. So stay tuned, make sure you've subscribed to our channel, follow us on social media and of course be sure to sign up our website: ...
American Families Today are Crisis Ridden
October 24, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBNOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Despite the multiple setbacks we have experienced over the last several months in our efforts to continue producing and releasing Economic Update here on YouTube, we are very excited to announce the return of Economic Update to YouTube as of today. Over the next few days/weeks we will be releasing episodes of EU we were unable to share with our community of subscribers throughout the summer. You can find out more about why we were unable to deliver EU to you here o...
Corporate Greed VS Labor: The Struggle Intensifies
October 10, 2023 16:50 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBWe are excited to announce that this week's episode of Economic Update is the first episode we have been able to release in the same timeframe as we had been doing for years until the difficulties of this past spring. This means Economic Update is back to its regular programming schedule with a new episode released each Monday. We couldn't be happier, more relieved and more excited to get back to creating the show we all have known, needed and loved since 2011 and to celebrate, we're going t...
Private Profits VS. Public Treasure - Saving The Redwoods
September 20, 2023 22:22 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBNOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Despite the multiple setbacks we have experienced over the last several months in our efforts to continue producing and releasing Economic Update here on YouTube, we are very excited to announce the return of Economic Update to YouTube as of today. Over the next few days/weeks we will be releasing episodes of EU we were unable to share with our community of subscribers throughout the summer. You can find out more about why we were unable to deliver EU to you here o...
Profit & Inequality: Two Driving Forces of Capitalism
September 20, 2023 17:53 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBNOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: Despite the multiple setbacks we have experienced over the last several months in our efforts to continue producing and releasing Economic Update here on YouTube, we are very excited to announce the return of Economic Update to YouTube as of today. Over the next few days/weeks we will be releasing episodes of EU we were unable to share with our community of subscribers throughout the summer. You can find out more about why we were unable to deliver EU to you here on Yo...
Today's Class Struggles with Chris Hedges
July 26, 2023 19:50 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBTHANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING, YOUR PATIENCE, YOUR KINDNESSES, CONCERNS, QUESTIONS, DEVOTION, YOUR SOLIDARITY & MOST IMPORTANTLY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT HAS MEANT MORE THAN WE CAN SAY OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS THAT WERE RIFE WITH TRIALS & TRIBULATION, BETRAYAL & HEARTACHE, BUT WE CONTINUE TO GET CLOSER TO WHERE WE WERE WITH EVERYDAY THANKS IN LARGE PART TO YOU, OUR FAMILY, OUR FRIENDS & THOSE WHO SUPPORT US STILL. If you haven't already, connect with us for the ...
Capitalism's Costly Contradictions
July 12, 2023 22:17 - 29 minutes - 51.8 MBWE OWE YOU ALL AN APOLOGY WE OWE YOU ALL AN EXPLANATION WE OWE YOU ALL OUR DEEPEST SENSE OF GRATITUDE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, YOUR UNDERSTANDING, YOUR PATIENCE, YOUR KINDNESSES, YOUR CONCERNS, YOUR QUESTIONS, YOUR DEVOTION, YOUR SOLIDARITY & MOST IMPORTANTLY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT HAS MEANT MORE THAN WE CAN SAY HERE OVER THE PAST TWO MONTHS OF TRIALS, TRIBULATION AND NOW, THE TRIUMPH TO COME. Please stay connected with us for the latest news from d@w and stay tuned as well...
Varoufakis' Critique of Capitalism Today
April 27, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBYanis Varoufakis, elected member Greek parliament, joins Prof. Wolff on this week's show and offers his original, critical perspectives on (1) the banking crisis, (2) the decline of the US empire and US capitalism, (3) the mass uprisings of the French and Greek working classes in Europe, (4) the collapse of Europe's efforts to shape an independent (from the US and China) economic position, and (5) class struggle inside China.
The Emerging New World Economy: A New Empire, a Multipolar World, or a Post-Capitalist System
April 20, 2023 15:53 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBFour key changes drive a new world economy emerging from the old. First is capitalism's transition from neoliberal, globalizing to nationalistic capitalism. This includes the shift of capitalism's center from western Europe and the US to Asia and the global south and also includes the deepening economic inequality inside most nations. Second is the end of the stale, old debate between private and state capitalism (misnamed as capitalism vs socialism) in favor of private + state capitalism hy...
Today's Medicare for All Battle with Dr. William Bronston
April 13, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff discusses US deaths from Covid, poverty in the US labor force, US and Canada cooperate against immigrants, US warfare vs China's peacemaking, Amazon profits from cutting back on "free" shipping. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr. William Bronston, advocate for single-payer health care in the US. Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a d@w production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Please consider supporting our work.
Inequality’s Insidious Spread - COVID-19, India, Insurance
February 16, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on India's extreme inequality and its lesson, employers squeeze employees with "non-compete" job contracts, and how the profit motive distorts the concept of insurance. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr Stephen Bezruchka on how deeply and globally inequality endangers health with special attention to the US and Covid-19.
Unionization, Marxism and Education
February 09, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff shares updates on Starbucks union growth; Texas journalists and Yale graduate students/employees unionize, strike, win; Western Mass Labor Federation denounces Biden's denial of railway workers' right to strike; two major kinds of US tax injustice: (1) exempting bonds and stocks from property tax when 10% richest own 80% of stocks and bonds, and (2) failing to levy excess profits tax on war profiteers as UK and Portugal have already done. In the second half o...
2023 World Economic Trends
February 02, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff identifies and examines the larger economic dimensions and trends of three key aspects of today's global economy: Russia/Ukraine war, Europe's quandary, and the decline of the US empire. Attention focuses on the immense direct and indirect costs of the war in Ukraine; on Europe's desperate position and choices caught between the US and China blocs in the world economy; and on how the US empire is responding to its decline in the world economy. Our approach is...
A Corporatized America with Chris Hedges
January 26, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff explains why capitalism does not deserve credit for improved living conditions, Home Depot billionaire blames US capitalism's problems on US workers being "lazy, fat, and stupid," Southwest Airlines as example of failures by both corporations and their gov't "regulators," George Santos as creature of capitalist advertising. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Chris Hedges on the crisis of corporate America in 2023.
Economics for a New Year
January 19, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses US spending for war in Ukraine paid for by higher interest rates and inflation hurting middle and small businesses ; a rational transport system is NOT electric cars; an appreciation of the "degrowth" impulse with a critique of the degrowth movement's focus on individuals' consumerism and excess consumption.
Persuasion vs. Polarization
November 23, 2022 18:45 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff discusses the massive strike of Canadian public employees; economics of the unemployed; business owners,executives and lawyers dominate US state legislatures; and how rising interest rates push the most vulnerable to the margins of US capitalism. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Anand Giridharadas on his new book, The Persuaders.
The Terminal Crises of Global Capitalism
November 17, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBJoin d@w for virtual event Marxism For This Moment: A Conversation with Richard Wolff & David Harvey on Friday, November 18th at 1pm ET (New York, UTC-4). Buy your tickets here: https://www.democracyatwork.info/marxism_for_this_moment_richard_wolff_david_harvey **If you cannot make the live event but want to support d@w, consider purchasing a ticket anyway and we will send you access to the event recording. In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on students' solidarity wit...
Nomi Prins on the Distorted US Financial System
November 10, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about a new Congress report on huge US wealth inequality; Angela Merkel on relying on Russian oil and gas, the irrationality of 20,000 immigrants dumped on NYC, and Harvard exploiting its tax-exempt status. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr. Nomi Prins, former Goldman Sachs director, on the distorted US financial system and its social effects.
Capitalism vs Socialism is NOT Markets vs Planning
November 03, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBThis week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff shows how the economics of existing capitalist and socialist economies make use of both markets and planning. The opposition of markets and planning is largely false and has worked to distract students and observers of economic systems from better differentiations such as how they differently organize their workplaces: hierarchical in the case of capitalist, democratic in the case of worker cooperatives. Some major implications of this critique of th...
Ana Kasparian on Today's US Crisis
October 27, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses US sanctions against Chinese semiconductor chip makers, OPEC+ cuts oil production by 2 million barrels per day boosting inflation, desperate UK conservatives abandon Brexit scapegoat to cozy up to Europe, and what US might do to solve "labor shortages." In the second half of the show, Wolff is joined by Ana Kasparian, host of The Young Turks," to talk about the media and today's US crisis.
Loneliness - Capitalism's Collateral Damage
August 25, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on record homelessness in New York City, rapidly rising US household debt as recession looms, Washington retreats from globalization to economic nationalism, and 2.2 million in US lacking running water. In the second half of the show, Wolff Interviews Dr. Harriet Fraad, mental health counselor, on capitalism's loneliness crisis.
"Recession - Capitalism's Failure Invites System Change"
August 18, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff defines recession and shows its relation to inflation and stagflation in their respective roles within capitalism's inherent instability. Rooted in the structure of capitalism, recessions represent both costly burdens on employers and employees alike and also strong incentives to question, challenge, and go beyond capitalism. The economics profession has been unable to end recessions despite centuries of trying. The profession often tries to hide the capitali...
The Deepening Fragility of US Power
August 11, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on successful unionization at Trader Joe’s, lottery tickets as disguised regressive taxation, gasoline inflation brings record profits to big oil companies, and pharmaceutical industries' ad campaign to block gov't plan to buy medications in bulk and pass savings onto public. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Vijay Prashad on his new book with Noam Chomsky on the fragility of US global power.
Noam Chomsky on Fragile US Empire
August 04, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week’s show, Prof. Wolff gives updates on US freight workers strike preparations; progressives and labor targeting municipal government; Chipotle store-closing to stop unionizing, and Occupy Wall Street's "Debt Collective" $5.8 billion student loan forgiveness win. In the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff interviews Noam Chomsky on the decline and fragility of the US empire, the role of US military, and the rise of fascism as a coping mechanism.
Twin Upsurges - Unionizing and Left Politics
July 21, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week's show, Prof Wolff discusses the unionization efforts by post-doc medical researchers vote union, central bankers mislead on inflation, rising economic footprint and power of BRICS nations, and left victory in Colombia's elections. The second half of the show will feature discussions of the relevance of Marx's Labor Theory of value and the French political shift leftward with wide ramifications.
Swedish Socialism Undone
July 14, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on SCOTUS decisions, on the chaos of a declining capitalism, French elections and a strongly resurging French left, and on the meaning of recent collapse of the cryptocurrency markets. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Eleanor Goldfield, Swedish-US media activist, on why and how Sweden is not socialist.
The Great Replacement Theory
July 07, 2022 13:59 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week's show, Prof Wolff discusses the replacement theory's grain of truth amidst its mostly ideological function: to save capitalism from criticism. He analyzes why US capitalists deprived so many white, male, Christian workers of their jobs, incomes, and social standing over recent decades and why that analysis was largely silenced by Cold War taboos since 1945. Were a new US left-labor alliance now to offer that critical-of-capitalism alternative, replacement theory's notion of a g...
The Capitalist Corporation [REPEAT]
June 30, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBThis program examines the structure and functioning of the large capitalist corporation dominating modern economies. We discuss their basic economics and influence on politics. We criticize rationales for corporate profits such as "risks" and "entrepreneurship" and explore parallels between corporate structures and monarchies.
Political Divides Deepen
June 23, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on US's groceries inflation; US teacher crisis; capitalists profiting from guns and protection from guns, UN report on global suffering from Ukraine war's and sanctions regimes' costs to world's people in terms of fuel, food, and interest rate inflations; and median New York City rent of $4,000/month make city housing increasingly unaffordable to most New Yorkers. In the second half of the show, Wolff is joined by Katie Halper: podcaster, wri...
Crosscurrents of US Politics
June 16, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about the effect of Ukraine sanctions on inflation, Musk as economic dictator, Idaho progressives’ impressive gains, and offers a practical response to shootings. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews media host Krystal Ball on US politics.
Is the US Facing Another Civil War?
June 09, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn 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's peculiar economic "morals." In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Thom Hartmann on divided US politics.
The System is the Problem
June 02, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn 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, Starbucks CEO as dictator, and Mitt Romney's sudden concern with "fairness" exposed.
Capitalism's Flaws Fester
May 26, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn 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 inflation vs. general US inflation; and how cryptocurrencies (including "stablecoins") are as unstable as money has historically been.
War and the Left
May 19, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBIn 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 defeat Macron. In the second half, Wolff interviews Prof. Marcello Musto on the history of the left and Marxism, and how they deal with war in the past and in Ukraine.