Podcast Episodes

Jobs Driving Us Mad

Season 12 Episode 19

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the unionization of Grinnell College student-workers; US GDP drops 1.4% in Q1 of 2022; food infl…

4 years ago

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Housing - Human Right vs. System Failure

Season 12 Episode 18

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses global impacts of food inflation, endless class struggle over length of the workday and workweek and US de…

4 years ago

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Inflation - How Markets Fail

Season 12 Episode 17

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about Sri Lanka's economic crisis as a global example, and how US billionaires escape taxation at our expense.…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Progressive Politics Win

Season 12 Episode 16

This week on Economic Update, an analysis of Ukraine propaganda war, US inflation worsens, the US college debt crisis and New York City eviction cris…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Ukraine and an Empire's Decline

Season 12 Episode 15

This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses nurses' suicides as results of our profit-driven healthcare, sanctions and their effect on inflat…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Capitalism and Its Self-delusions

Season 12 Episode 14

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 …

4 years, 1 month ago

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Amazon Workers Organize a Union

Season 12 Episode 13

This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about oil and gas inflation, its impacts, and politicians' phony solutions, the stagnant US gender pa…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Christian Socialism

Season 12 Episode 12

This week on Economic Update, Prof Wolff presents updates on Amazon workers' strike, the impact of US inflation, and the underappreciated economic as…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Ukraine, Race and Class

Season 12 Episode 11

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…

4 years, 2 months ago

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What Marx & Marxism Offer us Today

Season 12 Episode 10

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…

4 years, 2 months ago

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