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Season 9 Episode 31
Updates on economics of 2 million home health aides, extreme Uber inequalities, Alaska universities 41% budget cuts, Michigan governor during Flint W…
6 years, 9 months ago
Win-win for Women's Soccer
Season 9 Episode 30
Updates on Trump as distraction vehicle, Macron's corruption, coffee price collapse drives immigrants to US, why rightists oppose free tuition and st…
6 years, 9 months ago
A Socialist Politician Wins
Season 9 Episode 29
Depriving non-white students, fast food made worse for profit, Wayfair workers demand power, more scapegoating of immigrants, firms' promises of gain…
6 years, 10 months ago
Economic Update: Socialism and Worker Co-ops
Season 9 Episode 28
20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed …
6 years, 10 months ago
Economic Update: Worker Coops Rising
Season 9 Episode 27
Updates on "regulatory capture" in the US vs EU, IMF report on the US economy today finds major negatives, and how Trump's desperation for re-electio…
6 years, 10 months ago
Economic Update: Is US Capitalism in Decline?
Season 9 Episode 26
On this episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on inequalities in pay for CEOs vs average workers; economics of mega-mergers; billi…
6 years, 10 months ago
Economic Update: China's Economic Record and Strategy
Season 9 Episode 25
As follow-up to earlier parallel program on the USSR, this program seeks to offer (1) an overview of China's economic development mostly over the las…
6 years, 11 months ago
Economic Update: Rise and Fall of the USSR
Season 9 Episode 24
In this episode of EU, Prof. Wolff tries to go beyond simplistic, sterile Cold War debates of demonizers vs celebrants of the USSR. USSR's strengths …
6 years, 11 months ago
Economic Update: A New Labor Movement Rising
Season 9 Episode 23
Updates on US church membership and its tax subsidies, Toyota and Merkel slam US economic nationalism, 40 US states sue price-gouging pharma firms, T…
6 years, 11 months ago
Economic Update: 3 Basic Kinds of Socialism
Season 9 Episode 22
As ever more people become anti-capitalist and look toward socialist alternatives, it is important to grasp key differences among the alternative kin…
6 years, 11 months ago