Podcast Episodes

Making Critical Arguments

Season 9 Episode 40

Updates on US housing crisis as systemic failure (the homeless LA opera singer), Greta Thunberg's critics exposed, Europeans gain from US-China trade…

6 years, 7 months ago

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Worker Co-ops, Socialism's Future

Season 9 Episode 39

On the first half of the show, Prof. Wolff focuses on how, why socialism has changed from what it meant in the 19th and 20th centuries (public enterp…

6 years, 7 months ago

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A Growing US Left

Season 9 Episode 38

Updates on California events (LA Times labor union, 80,000 Kaiser workers to strike, new state public banking law), gross inefficiency of private car…

6 years, 7 months ago

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Capitalism and Mental Health

Season 9 Episode 37

Updates on ICE raid in Mississippi, global comparisons of gun violence, conservatives on Dem's wealth tax ideas. Interview With Dr Harriet Fraad on h…

6 years, 8 months ago

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US Economy and the Market

Season 9 Episode 36

Analysis of the state of the US economy at summer's end, 2019: a decidedly mixed picture. Critique of the institution of the market that focuses on i…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Capitalism in Denial

Season 9 Episode 35

Updates on parallel declines of UK and US capitalisms; denials of their systemic problems worsens them. Longer segments on (1) political econom…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Homelessness in the US

Season 9 Episode 34

Updates on politicians' "blame game" of scapegoating to avoid blaming capitalism, middle class squeezed by prices, limits of workers on corporate boa…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Socialism From Past to Future

This is a repeat episode. No new episode in observance of the Labor Day Holiday. An all new EU will return next week. 

On this episode of Economic Up…

6 years, 9 months ago

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Injustice, Race and Class

Season 9 Episode 33

Updates on 3 deadly failures of capitalism, DOJ investigation of hi-tech monopolies, worker coops franchised, how income inequality breeds social ine…

6 years, 9 months ago

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Working Class History and the 2020 Election

Season 9 Episode 32

This special program discusses how the history of the US working class shaped US politics. We start with how and why the 1930s Great Depression marri…

6 years, 9 months ago

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