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This edition: Hidden Failures of Capitalism





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Episode Details

Original tape date: August 6, 2018. First aired: October 10, 2018.

Updates on Europe's higher labor force participation; Cuomo campaign fakes "small donations"; US restaurants decline as pinched incomes switch to food delivery; "market" housing system causes homelessness; education fails to overcome black-white wealth gap. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on causes and consequences of US declining fertility rate. VTR: August 6, 2018.

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  • About this series

  • Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff begun on a single Pacifica station in March 2011. Today, it is played on 80+ stations nationwide and available for video streaming on YouTube and Facebook. Wolff's specialty on this program is to take complex economic issues and make them understandable, empowering listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program explores alternative ways to organize markets, and government policies.

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    Saturday 12:30pm
    Sunday 11pm
    Wednesday 7am, 1pm

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