Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Hosted by Richard D Wolff · Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff
4.8from 1,969 ratings
- 589
- Episodes
- 141
- Transcribed
- 1,969
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 74M
- YouTube views
About 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 large. Beyond focusing a critical eye on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program also explores systemic solutions to our economy's problems including alternative ways to organize production and distribution of the goods and services we all depend on.
- Publisher
- Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 May 2015
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
141 of 589 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Challenging How Capitalism Works
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Challenge for Socialism
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Challenging How Capitalism Works
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The facilities, owned and operated in most cases by people trying to make money, have been making use of artificial intelligence in a way that the nurses are fighting. They're using it to come up with clever new ways to save money on nurses, to save money on nursing, to come up with ways to speed up what nurses are required to do. […]
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- Harriet Fraad
- Steve Mellon
- Dave Zirin
- Francesca Fiorentini
- Kshama Sawant
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- YouTube views
- 73,755,887
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,969 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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- Quality
- 56
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff?
Richard D Wolff host the show. Published by Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff.
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