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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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