Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated 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 not only their own financial situation but the economy at larg...
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Nine Key Events in 2025
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff analyzes topics from Israel and Gaza to Epstein scandals to U.S. neocolonialism to Europe's failure to s...
Gentrification, Boston, and Racism
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff devotes the first half to New York's new Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He discusses how and why he defeated so m...
The U.S. As A 'Traumatized' Society
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Black Friday strikes against Amazon in Germany and against Zara in...
Globalization from Celebration to Condemnation
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides an analysis of "globalization" as a fancy slogan to hide a profit-driven, profit-b...
Marx Was Right
This week's episode of Economic Update is an adaptation from a talk Professor Wolff gave at Yale University on December 2, 2025, to the Yale Political...
The U.S. Military's Role in Ecological Crisis
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the internal struggle inside the U.S. Teamsters Union between O'Brien l...
Christianity Split: Love VS Hate
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the nationwide Starbucks strikes and on the results of Trump's tariffs: facts and fa...
The Key Concept of 'Surplus' in Economics
On today's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers an introduction to the key economic concept of "the surplus." He explains economic str...
Capitalism Equals Class Warfare
The totality of today's Economic Update is devoted to exploring (1) the multiple ways that capitalism imposes class warfare on its people, and (2) how...
Resurgent Labor Organizing
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff's updates include the 60+ people killed by the U.S. military in what it claimed were "narco...
The Global Housing Crisis: Rights and Realities
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Italian dockworker unions refusing to load or unload Israeli cargo,...
Union Organizing In Today's U.S.
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the impending U.S. recession, JP Morgan admits failures of the neoliberal period as...
Late Stage Capitalism and Technical Change
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the censoring of U.S. government reports on hunger, changes in U.S. agr...
Unionizing American Architects
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the I.C.E. raid at a battery factory in Georgia, the growing inequality in the U.S....
Communities of Women Build a Movement
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the non-profit reporters that are unionizing in Ohio, the Hilton Hotel...
American Style Fascism
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the flight attendants' union strike in Canada, polls show that U.S. Democrats are sh...
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) Rises
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Vermont Public Employers who got the contractual right to act with...
The Fight Against Money Corrupting Politics
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Bernie-endorsed Independent U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine, the lates...
An Argument for A New Labor Party
The left-wing surge of the U.S. working class during the Great Depression of the 1930s compelled the Democratic Party to prioritize serving the workin...
Social Problems Require Social Movement Solutions
Economic Update returns this week with an all-new episode of updates by Professor Wolff on:
Trump ending Housing First
Spain exploring...
Government Deficits; Why They Happen, Who Benefits From Them, and MMT
Economic Update returns next week to its regular schedule! This week's episode was recorded in June this year and covers topics our viewers have writt...
Best Of 2025 Part 4: Today's Economic Failures
In this week's episode of the "Best Of Economic Update Series," we examine a comparison between the economic failures we face today caused by the same...
Best Of Series Part 3: Interviews Echoing Today
This week on Economic Update, we take a look back at some of Prof. Wolff's guest interviews from years past that still echo in today's global socio-ec...
Best Of Series Part 2: The Most Viewed Updates
This week on Economic Update, we revisit two of the most viewed episodes of Economic Update. The first features Professor Wolff's analysis of the key...
Best Of Series Part 1: Psychology & Trump
This week on Economic Update, we take a look back at Donald Trump's first term as president through the lens of psychology with Dr. Harriet Fraad. She...
Mamdani's Win in NYC: Causes & Prospects for a Socialist Mayor
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the following about Mamdani's victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral race: (1) how it...
Capitalism and Culture, Their Connection in Crisis Now
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on Medicare advantage and "pre-authorization" as a way to reduce Medicare...
The Workers' Struggle within The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the political theater, of the U.S./Iran hostilities, the political shoc...
How Deep Fascist Parallels Run
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff, responding to requests, explores the parallels between what led to the rise of Hitler and fascism in Ge...
The Crisis in the Middle East With Chris Hedges
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff has a one-on-one discussion with Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, who draws on history,...
Making Sense Of Trump's Economic Plan
This week's episode of Economic Update features an analysis by Professor Wolff on:
1. How Trump seeks to address the problem of costly America...
Analyzing Trump's Mass Support
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 cu...
Europe Declines Faster than the United States
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 las...
Who Will Likely Win and Lose the U.S.-China Trade War?
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Trump's cuts to school mental health counselors, the mass strike in LA County, why C...
The Corporatization of Universities and Trump's Attacks
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff begins by presenting updates on the death of libertarianism and the rise of US economic nationalism, and...
Reform vs. Revolution
Professor Wolff begins this week on Economic Update by analyzing the choice between reform and revolution through two historical discussions: the anti...
Twin Crises of Housing and Homelessness
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Trump VS Harvard, Trump's "antisemitism" maneuver, how higher education...
Resisting Trump's Restoration Project with Kali Akuno
This week on Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff examines a major labor strike unfolding in California, where 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental heal...
Solidarity Cities as Alternatives to Capitalism
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Tariffs, the Working Class, and Resistance
In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff critiques the DOGE practice of firing federal civilian employees, analyzes the Trump tariff...