Dec 27, 2018
Updates on poverty in California, childhood obesity in US,
economic fallout from (real meaning of) Trump steel tariff. Prof
Wolff responds to questions by explaining how US politics has
sustained US capitalism and what the politics of change will
require.
Dec 20, 2018
Updates on LA vote on public bank; contradictions of Trump's "nationalism;" big business criticism of tariffs; corporations like 7-Eleven use immigration crisis for profits. Major discussion: the urgent social issues that elections ignore or hide.
Dec 20, 2018
Prof. Wolff continues his interview with the co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, Kali Akuno, on the Mississippi development project focused on worker co-op.
Dec 13, 2018
This week’s updates include: massive international study of
profit-driven food production, the huge costs of contemporary
loneliness, police raid Deutsche Bank, Falling house prices,
Belgium follows France in mass street demonstrations, and US
economy hurt by poor incomes of Millennials. Interview with Kali
Akuno,...
Dec 12, 2018
Professor Wolff continues his discussion of the economics behind the great U.S. anti-leftist purge (“McCarthyism”) after 1945.