The Economic Crisis
Economic Update: Social Turmoil Coming
Published on April 12, 2013AUDIOUpdates on CEO pay, the assault on social security, Maggie Thatcher, and "job creation." Interview with Chris Hedges on deepening social crisis, divisions, and turmoil coming. Response to listeners: on French socialists, hidden money, and workers coops paying taxes.
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.
Economic Update: Economic Reality Checks
Published on April 5, 2013AUDIOUpdates on "recovery," No. Dakota's public bank, costs of US wars, global austerity, and rising health care costs for employees. Major discussions of banking crisis, Stockton, CA bankruptcy, declining US manufacturing and "neutrality on raising corporations' taxes. WSDEs: Mexican tire factor run by workers since 2005; responses to questions on "pure" capitalism and business reactions to resource limits.
Economic Update: Economics and Capitalism
Published on March 29, 2013AUDIOUpdates on Cyprus's extreme austerity, equal justice and markets, falling job quality, and capitalism's impact on China. In-depth discussions of how worker coops can get needed capital and on basic flaw in economic education at college and university levels. Response to listeners' questions on printing money and inflation and on teachers' self-directed schools.
Capitalism in Crisis: on Democracy Now! Urging End to Austerity, New Jobs Program, Democratizing Work
Published on March 25, 2013VIDEOTune in across the world today. Check the schedule here for your local listing. Or watch online today at www.democracynow.org/
Moyers & Company Part II
Published on March 22, 2013VIDEO
Richard Wolff on Capitalism’s Destructive PowerRichard Wolff’s smart, blunt talk about the crisis of capitalism on his first Moyers & Company appearance was so compelling and provocative, we asked him to return. This time, the economics expert answers questions sent in by our viewers, diving further into economic inequality, the limitations of industry regulation, and the widening gap between a booming stock market and a population that increasingly lives in poverty.
Economic Update: Fighting Economic Injustice
Published on March 22, 2013AUDIOUpdates on important lessons of Cyprus crisis, big bucks for Wells Fargo CEO, the home finance crisis, and real fur faked. Interview with Keith Harrington on organizing for a changed, new economic system.On implications of Cyprus
Published on March 19, 2013AUDIOBrian Edwards-Tiekert interviews Professor Wolff on Up Front on KPKA about the recent deposit tax proposal and its implications for the rest of the world.
Listen on KPFA's player at this link
Austerity: Another "Policy Mistake" Again
Capitalism prescribes the same policy mistakes over and over again - austerity, punishment for debtors (unless they are financial institutions), labor cost cutting – that exacerbate its inevitable crises. When will we attack the structural roots of crisis? Shoddy political theater distracts people with vague demons called debt ceiling, fiscal cliff and now, sequester. Party leaders posture for major donors, media boosters and the faithful. They claim to save us from the demons.
