Pacifica's Mitch Jeserich hosts “Letters & Politics,” a look at burning political issues and debates, and their historical context, within the US and worldwide.

Updates focus on (1) the food stamp program, (2) giving corporations' names to football stadiums, (3) new supports for prison reform, and (4) analyzing the federal government's tax revenues. In-depth analysis focuses on how the world's three alternative economic theories - neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian - understand economics and economic crises differently, with special emphasis on the Marxian as it is least understood.

Updates focus on (1) appointment of Prof Alan Krueger as Obama's chief economic advisor in relation to continuing high unemployment, (2) a medical study on the deaths resulting from poverty, and (3) the history of US national debt. In-depth analysis: how the economic crisis is affecting both private and Social Security pensions and how to improve Social Security's finances. Question answered focused on why the economics profession - with few exceptions - failed to anticipate the crisis or find effective policies to overcome it.

This program focuses first on newly released information about major banks subsidized by the Federal Reserve since the 2008 crash; it shows the hitherto secret largesse and exceptional terms given the banks for their "recovery." Updates also concern tax cuts for corporations and the rich and US multinationals investing overseas rather than in US. We interview Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director of New York City's Taxi Workers Alliance, a new, unusual and successful labor organization that now represents 15,000 of the city's 25,000 active taxi drivers.

This episode focused on the previous weeks' major events, including the S&P downgrade of US debt, extreme stock market gyrations, and major signs of broad economic decline. Visiting guest, Professor Immanuel Ness, touches on the history and current prospects of worker-controlled enterprises as alternatives to capitalist 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.We will focus on wages, jobs, taxes, and debts - and on interest rates, prices, and profits. We aim to explain why certain economic changes are happening and other changes get postponed or blocked and we will explore alternative ways to organize enterprises, markets, and government policies.

A Radio-Documentary on the Brecht Forum / New York Marxist School produced by Barbara Eisenmann. Aired on German Public Radio on Aug 9, 2011.

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.We will focus on wages, jobs, taxes, and debts - and on interest rates, prices, and profits. We aim to explain why certain economic changes are happening and other changes get postponed or blocked and we will explore alternative ways to organize enterprises, markets, and government policies.

Richard Wolff makes an appearance on KPFA's Evening News program on Sunday, July 31st 2011 to speak on the breaking news of the debt ceiling in the United States, commenting on the theatric aspects of the current American political events as well as the possible consequences.

Host Per Fagereng hosts a special one-hour Fight the Empire show with economist Richard Wolff on the economy and the global capitalist crisis.