Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff Podcast
1) 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 macro-focused analysis). It shows how Marx's critiqu...Show More
2) 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 District, rising electricity costs in the U.S., and co...Show More
3) 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 benefits he promised tariffs would bring. He also e...Show More
4) 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 in 1918, the gains won by UAW workers in the first ...Show More
5) 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, San Francisco teachers, Kaiser Permanente health wo...Show More
6) 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 vehicle subsidies in conjunction with the arrival ...Show More
7) 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 seize Russian wealth held in European banks with a ...Show More
8) 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 many efforts to block him, and what he needs to do ...Show More
9) 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 Spain, the rapid decline of New School University ...Show More
10) 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 Union. In this presentation, he discusses the sig...Show More