Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

By: Democracy at Work Richard D. Wolff
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  • Economic Update is a weekly nationally syndicated radio program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, and profits - the program explores alternative ways to organize markets and government policies.
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  • Tariffs, the Working Class, and Resistance

    Tariffs, the Working Class, and Resistance
    Apr 15 2025

    In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff critiques the DOGE practice of firing federal civilian employees, analyzes the Trump tariff program, and shows how both are presented as ways to solve deep economic problems in the U.S. but are actually an assault on the working class. The second part of the show features an interview with David Van Deusen, the former head of the Vermont state AFL-CIO and now an organizer of union-based resistance to the Trump program.

    The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so.

    You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:

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    Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else.

    We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week.1:01

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    30 mins
  • Unlearning Market Idolatry

    Unlearning Market Idolatry
    Apr 8 2025

    This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff explores the last 150 years of largely uncritical celebrations of "the market" as if it were a perfect institution that must be protected from the intrusion of other institutions such as the government, labor unions, and popular organizations. We compare a historical example and the present to criticize today's peculiar mix of market idolatry and its rejection in the U.S.

    The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so.

    You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:

    https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Or you can go to our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate

    Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else.

    We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week.1:01

    We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: www.democracyatwork.info
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    31 mins
  • Capitalism's Anxiety About the State

    Capitalism's Anxiety About the State
    Oct 1 2020

    On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how capitalism gets in the way of fighting Covid-19, systemic racism and Covid-19, why Europe did not allow the mass unemployment imposed on the US, and Wells Fargo CEO's fake excuse for lack of diversity among bankers. In the second half of the show, Wolff explores why capitalism fears the modern state and how it controls that state.
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    29 mins
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Worth your time.

Prof Wolff has a wonderful ability to break the complexity of the economic world down to the layman's level of understanding. Thank you Prof Wolff I have learned so much from you! 🌎✊🗽🌹

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A common sense look at politics and economics

Professor Wolf is brilliant and down to earth. He has a common sense approach to talking about and examining our current political and economic situation brought on by rampant capitalism. And, more importantly, he seeks and discusses possible solutions to the problem. We're waking up to an American nightmare and our only hope is change before its too late. In a lot of ways capitalism seems natural and right. if I have a great idea and some gumption, why shouldn't I start a business and make money? And who doesn't want to make lots of money? Why should I share it? Or give it away? why should my success have to support the world? And we've all been raised to think this way. Capitalism is king. But just like a monarchy or feudalism or slavery, capitalism has the master, or boss, or king, and the slave, or surf, or wage worker. There are better, more equitable ways. We claim to believe in democracy, then why not in our work place and economy? We have laws in this country to prevent monopolies, but unlike other countries, only a two party system. There's are reason for this. The fix is in. Capitalusm has bought our political system and from the 70's has repealed every tax and regulation meant to temper great and exploitation all while shipping our jobs overseas for cheap labor. So now they own our media and politicians and have sent our jobs away. Whats left? what can we do? Power to the people my brothers and sisters. Labor must unite and fight. its the only way.

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