Updates on workers' sit-in this week at Chicago window factory, French presidential election as a referendum on austerity response to capitalist crisis, and failure of US to prosecute financial crime. Interview with Economics Professor Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island, on today's "jobless recovery," comparing workers' militancy in the 1930s to conditions today, questioning "human rights" as the way forward for workers and unions. Response to listener on causes and effects of speculation in oil and food.

 

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. Economic Update is a weekly show for people who want to understand and change not only their own financial situation but also the larger economy we all depend on. 

 

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