The Deepening Fragility of US Power
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
English - August 11, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsPolitics News Government economics capitalism coops economy politics workercooperative Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Noam Chomsky on Fragile US Empire
Next Episode: "Recession - Capitalism's Failure Invites System Change"
In 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.