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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

Economic Update with 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.Democracy at Work Ciencia Política Política y Gobierno
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  • The Workers' Struggle within The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

    The Workers' Struggle within The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
    Jul 8 2025

    On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the political theater, of the U.S./Iran hostilities, the political shock of Zohran Mamdani's Democratic primary win in New York City, the withdrawal of union leaders from the Democratic National Committee, and the rising trade among BRICS crosses the $1 trillion milestone. In the second part of today's show, Prof. Wolff interviews two leaders of the musicians' union representing the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, New York City: Javier Gandara and Stephanie Mortimore.

    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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    32 m
  • How Deep Fascist Parallels Run

    How Deep Fascist Parallels Run
    Jul 1 2025

    This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff, responding to requests, explores the parallels between what led to the rise of Hitler and fascism in Germany after World War I and what has brought the US to Trump and his current policies. Many key basic parallels are presented alongside some remaining differences that help explain why what Trump is doing is not yet what a fully formed US fascism would entail.

    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 m
  • 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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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! 🌎✊🗽🌹

Worth your time.

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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.

A common sense look at politics and economics

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