Podcast Episodes

Pandemic Capitalism: A View from Asia

Season 10 Episode 30

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses corruption of public workers' pensions, capitalist contracts displaced by legal fights, Canada's COVID-19 …

6 years ago

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Today's Pandemic as a Crisis of Capitalism

Season 10 Episode 29

On this week's episode, Prof. Wolff presents the following updates: company cutting candy bar size but keeping the same price, Barcelona punishes lan…

6 years ago

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The "Great Debate" that Wasn't

Season 10 Episode 28

Throughout capitalism's history, the big topic in economics was how far the government should intervene in the economy. Conservatives wanted minimum …

6 years ago

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Sports and Capitalism

Season 10 Episode 27

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on false "trade-off" between illness and economy, going from normal to extraordinary injustice, hyp…

6 years ago

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Europe's New Internationalist Left

Season 10 Episode 26

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on "zombie" companies and their rapid growth in the US, The Federal Reserve "stress tests" expose r…

6 years ago

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The Pandemic's Lesson about Capitalism

Season 10 Episode 25

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff argues that preparing and coping with the Corona pandemic was inadequate: medical supplies were seriously deficient.…

6 years, 1 month ago

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Working Class Radicalism

Season 10 Episode 24

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on why US record on Covid-19 so much worse than most others'; corp buys Trump; US billionaires got …

6 years, 1 month ago

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Dark Times, Hard Truths

Season 10 Episode 23

Updates on mismanaging Covid-19 and US system's crash; reactions to econ decline; sharing gains of firms profiting from the virus; the mistake of "do…

6 years, 1 month ago

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Socialism vs Covid-19: A Very Different Story

Season 10 Episode 22

US has 5% of world's population but 30% of world's Covid-19 deaths. US capitalism did poorly against the virus. Today's program explores how sociali…

6 years, 1 month ago

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Cornel West on Pandemic Capitalism

Season 10 Episode 21

Updates on how pandemic and capitalism are combining to worsen social divides in the US. Interview with Cornel West on (1) how pandemic + economic cr…

6 years, 2 months ago

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