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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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  • Making Sense Of Trump's Economic Plan

    Making Sense Of Trump's Economic Plan
    Jun 17 2025

    This week’s episode of Economic Update features an analysis by Professor Wolff on:
    1. How Trump seeks to address the problem of costly American wars and their impact on sharply rising budget deficits,
    2. How the rising U.S. debt has led to the loss of the United States’ "AAA" credit rating,
    3. How Trump’s response is to seek to slash government spending and raise money by imposing tariffs on the entire world,
    4. How this backfires as other countries retaliate, hurting US exports and causing the dollar to lose its appeal as the world's safest currency,
    5. How China's economic rise is more substantial than the U.S. measures aimed at stopping or slowing that rise,
    6. How the declining U.S. empire undermines the U.S. capitalist economy by making it increasingly difficult for CEOs and other corporate leaders in the U.S., households, and the government to prevail over and dominate the U.S. economy and society.

    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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  • Analyzing Trump's Mass Support

    Analyzing Trump's Mass Support
    Jun 10 2025

    On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the blow back to Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s rationalization of budget cuts to Medicaid to help fund tax cuts for corporations and the rich, 8,000 Connecticut healthcare workers win contract gains by threatening to strike, and how the advertising industry spawned by capitalism distorts and corrupts human communication. The show's second half features an interview with UC-Berkeley Professor Arlie Hochschild on the reasons why Trump's political base continues to support him.

    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
  • Europe Declines Faster than the United States

    Europe Declines Faster than the United States
    Jun 3 2025

    On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.S. vs Chinese wheelbarrows, the Cold War error against China, the lasting effects of terminated U.S. federal workers, how tariffs alone won't bring manufacturing back to the U.S., further declines in U.S. coal mining, McDonald's hamburgers in the U.S., and the rapid economic decline in Europe.

    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
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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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