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Season 10 Episode 10
Updates on high US maternal death rate, wealth inequality and the Pope, #MeToo hits the banks, Macron and Black Rock plot French pension "refor…
6 years, 4 months ago
When Stale Debates Distract
Season 10 Episode 9
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how air-bnb reflects workers' falling living standards, price-gouging anti-virus masks, purpose …
6 years, 5 months ago
Larger Social Changes to Support Worker Coops
Season 10 Episode 8
This program responds to a criticism that D@W focuses too much on the transition from capitalist firms to worker-coop firms with too little attention…
6 years, 5 months ago
Socialism and Left Unity in the US
Season 10 Episode 7
Updates on Trump's 2019 $ 1 trillion plus deficit, burden of poor countries' debt, Amsterdam forgives young peoples' debts, "strong man" govern…
6 years, 5 months ago
Capitalism's Uneven Development
Season 10 Episode 6
Introduction to capitalism's systematically uneven economic development. From Marx's original criticism of capitalism for producing and reproducing u…
6 years, 5 months ago
Exposing Economic Myths
Season 10 Episode 5
Discussions of (1) "unemployment rate" as inadequate measure of economy's well-being; (2) decline of real value of US minimum wage; (3) multiple fail…
6 years, 6 months ago
Military Spending and Debt
Season 10 Episode 4
Updates on France's successful mass uprisings (Yellow Vests in 2019; mass union strikes in 2020) that forced gov't to back down on changes that worke…
6 years, 6 months ago
Independent Media
Season 10 Episode 3
Updates on sale of coop craft brewery, US medical costs highest in world, and the "overcoming poverty" defense of capitalism's inequality and instabi…
6 years, 6 months ago
[S10 E02] Answering our Critics
Season 10 Episode 2
On this all new episode, Prof Wolff discusses three major criticisms of Economic Update: (1) that we don't praise capitalism for reducing world pover…
6 years, 6 months ago
US Capitalism and the Family: Myth vs Reality
Season 10 Episode 1
Updates on Job Quality Index and its US decline, the French activism against President Macron's effort to cut pensions, Gartman Letter urges investor…
6 years, 6 months ago