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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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Causes & Consequences of the Iran War
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 r...
Marx's Relevance for Today
In response to questions about Marx's relevance today, this program explains how Marx's criticism of capitalism was unique (more micro-focused than ma...
Born Sick in the USA: Improving The Health of a Nation
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on the 3 major teachers' unions struggling with the LA Unified School Dist...
Economic Implications of the U.S. War on Iran
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the 3800 Colorado meatpackers on strike before diving into a presentation on how the war on Ir...
The Great U.S. Pension Crisis
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents updates on European turmoil that include how the French municipal elections are re...
Criticizing Pro-Capitalist Ideology
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the flaws in the argument that profit is an appropriate, just return to the risk taken by a ca...
Economic Update: The Reality, Hype, and Danger of A.I.
On this episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on job losses in February 2026 in the U.S. economy, how California unions are act...
Trump's Tariff Policies: A Critique
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff explains how and why Trump's tariff policies add uncertainties to global trade that undermine the very b...
The US Housing Crisis Today
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the history of highly successful government-built and-operated housing launched i...
Militarism and Decline in Europe and the U.S.
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff breaks down the simultaneous huge spending increases on the military in the U.S. and Europe...
The Jeffrey Epstein Class
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on the shared significance of three major strikes: New York City nurses, S...
Trump 2.0 The First Year: An Assessment
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides an assessment of the first year of Trump's second term in office, covering how he inherited the...
How the U.S. tax System Worsens Inequality
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.K. PM Starmer's trade visit to China, the new head of the Federal Reserve, and the...
Venezuela: Looking Deeper
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on how 73% of U.S. credit card debt is needed for everyday purchases, the...
The Political Bias of Conventional Economics
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Pentagon's investments into private companies, the end of electric...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...