Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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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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The content covers critical economic topics, including labor rights, housing affordability, and wealth inequality, with episodes that tackle subjects like capitalism's impact on homelessness, the economic implications of U.S. politics, and the evolution of family structures. Specific examples include deep dives into the illegal drug trade, worker co-ops, and recent U.S. labor movements.
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.
In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Trump’s effort to buy votes for Republicans and its consequences, World Wars 1 and 2 as culminations of capitalist colonialism, the U.S. as the inheritor of prior colonialisms to become the world’s first global imperialist police force securing the wealth flow to the U.S. that is now in decline. The second half of today’s show features an interview with Dave Zirin, author of the new book The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.
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