Updates on California's vote for tax hikes on the super rich, a public-funded museum sued for charging admission, and worker self-direction as a solution for the bankrupt Hostess bakery. Interview with political science professor Peter Ranis on workers' coops in Argentina, Cuba, and the US. Response to questions on why corporations and the rich prefer austerity as policy in capitalist downturns.

      El realizador del documental "Todo está bien" Jesse Freston, dijo que el sistema político norteamericano es de negación total y no es una situación casual. En la cinta se ejemplifican regiones enteras que son invisibles para el gobierno pues abarcan problemas emblemáticos que lo cuestionan y van al fondo del sistema económico, como lo que sucede en Detroit y la región de los Apalaches.

  Updates on politicians' big business incomes after their government jobs and the debate over social security. Interview with Prof David Fasenfest of Detroit's Wayne State University on causes and cures of Detroit's economic devastation. Responses to listeners on Britain's homeless and on controlling banks "too big to fail."     On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

Riots have again erupted in Greece - as the Greeks continue to protest the austerity measures that are destroying their country. Is America out of the woods when it comes to austerity policies - or is there a chance Republicans will still force the crippling policies down our throats? Professor Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to weigh in.   

  These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad. We will focus on the evolving global capitalist economic crisis and its consequences.

Updates on Obama's re-election, unemployment's social costs, and Kodak's betrayal of retirees. Interview journalist Ed Morales: history of Puerto Rico as US colony and policy laboratory and global crisis's impact on Puerto Rico since 2007.

Updates on student debt crisis, profit-driven history of US housing, and storm (Sandy) economics. Discussions of Keynesian and Marxian economics. Response to question on transition from capitalist to workers self-directed enterprises.

On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

  Professor Wolff addressed a crowd at the Baltimore Book Festival on September 30 in the Radical Books Pavillon.

  Professor Wolff and Chris Hedges speak with Esther Armah on WBAI's Wakeup Call on 99.5fm in NYC.   They are introduced at 6:33.

  Since 2006 our mission at Black Agenda Report has been to challenge the current crop of black political and cultural misleaders with a vision of a new black politics of struggle, one that takes into account class differences among blacks so as to confont the prison state, and deal with the many other oppressive aspects of everyday black life which our misleaders ignore.     On Friday, October 12 most of the Black Agenda Report team gathered at Harlem's historic Riverside Church to celebrate our sixth anniversary. We were joined by Dr.