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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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The Resurgence of White Supremacy
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.S. businesses receiving refunds for Trump's illegal tariffs without lowering price...
DSA Revives Socialism in U.S. Politics
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on new U.S. government rules that are universally hostile to international students, th...
The Great Shift of Economic Thought from Macro to Micro
The rational approach is to ask which works better in an industry or to meet any social need: private enterprise or government enterprise. It is irrat...
A Critique of Profit
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff devotes the entire show to a critical analysis of profit. The point is to show that it is a very biased...
U.S. Housing Crisis Deepens
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents updates on the Australian dockworkers' union's fight against A.I., the German auto workers' fig...
Markets: Institutions Deeply In Need of Criticism
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents an analysis of how markets work, which parts of society they favor and serve, and which they di...
U.S. Capitalism as a Crisis for Men
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on rising wages for app-based NYC food delivery workers, a wave of U.S. firms being sol...
Marx's Key Insight: Capitalism's Surplus
The central concept of Marx's contribution to a critical understanding of the capitalist economic system - the entry point into his distinctive analys...
Supermarket Jobs, Super Exploitation
This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the so-called Social Security Crisis, the gross inequality of stock ownership in the U.S....
Lessons from China's Economic Development
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor devotes the entire program to the why and how of China's passage from abject poverty and colonial...
The Yellow Vests Mass Movement in France
This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the big union wins for 40,000 workers in the UC system, the ongoing strike of graduate stu...
Center for Popular Economics: Goals and Achievements
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on why and how worker co-ops are a strategic direction for socialism, and Europe...
Economic Update: The Economics of Unemployment Today
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff briefly discusses two current large strikes by workers fighting back: the British Columbia nurses in Can...
Economic Update: The Global "Birth Strike" Changes Everything
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the tentative agreement reached by the unionized portion (85%) of the staff at the L...
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...