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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 listen...

In response to questions about Marx's relevance today, this program explains how Marx's criticism of capitalism was unique (more micro-focus...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on the 3 major teachers' unions struggling with the LA Unified S...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the 3800 Colorado meatpackers on strike before diving into a presentation on how the...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents updates on European turmoil that include how the French municipal electi...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the flaws in the argument that profit is an appropriate, just return to the risk tak...

On this episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on job losses in February 2026 in the U.S. economy, how California unio...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff explains how and why Trump's tariff policies add uncertainties to global trade that undermine...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the history of highly successful government-built and-operated housing...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff breaks down the simultaneous huge spending increases on the military in the U.S....

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on the shared significance of three major strikes: New York City...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides an assessment of the first year of Trump's second term in office, covering how he inh...

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 Reserv...

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 purch...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Pentagon's investments into private companies, the end of...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff analyzes topics from Israel and Gaza to Epstein scandals to U.S. neocolonialism to Europe's fa...

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 def...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Black Friday strikes against Amazon in Germany and agains...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides an analysis of "globalization" as a fancy slogan to hide a profit-driven...

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...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the internal struggle inside the U.S. Teamsters Union between...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the nationwide Starbucks strikes and on the results of Trump's tariffs: fa...

On today's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers an introduction to the key economic concept of "the surplus." He explains ec...

The totality of today's Economic Update is devoted to exploring (1) the multiple ways that capitalism imposes class warfare on its people, a...

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 w...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Italian dockworker unions refusing to load or unload Isra...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the impending U.S. recession, JP Morgan admits failures of the neoliberal...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the censoring of U.S. government reports on hunger, changes i...

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...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the non-profit reporters that are unionizing in Ohio, the Hil...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the flight attendants' union strike in Canada, polls show that U.S. Democr...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Vermont Public Employers who got the contractual right to...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Bernie-endorsed Independent U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine,...

The left-wing surge of the U.S. working class during the Great Depression of the 1930s compelled the Democratic Party to prioritize serving...

Economic Update returns this week with an all-new episode of updates by Professor Wolff on: Trump ending Housing First Spain exploring the p...

Economic Update returns next week to its regular schedule! This week's episode was recorded in June this year and covers topics our viewers...

In this week's episode of the "Best Of Economic Update Series," we examine a comparison between the economic failures we face today caused b...

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 globa...

This week on Economic Update, we revisit two of the most viewed episodes of Economic Update. The first features Professor Wolff's analysis o...

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...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the following about Mamdani's victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral race:...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on Medicare advantage and "pre-authorization" as a way to reduce...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the political theater, of the U.S./Iran hostilities, the poli...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff, responding to requests, explores the parallels between what led to the rise of Hitler and fas...

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...

This week's episode of Economic Update features an analysis by Professor Wolff on: 1. How Trump seeks to address the problem of costly Ameri...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the blow back to Iowa Senator Joni Ernst's rationalization of...

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.S. vs Chinese wheelbarrows, the Cold War error against Chin...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Trump's cuts to school mental health counselors, the mass strike in LA Cou...

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff begins by presenting updates on the death of libertarianism and the rise of US economic nation...

Professor Wolff begins this week on Economic Update by analyzing the choice between reform and revolution through two historical discussions...