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8. December 2025

Global Capitalism: Affordability: Why So Much Costs Too Much and What to do About it

We are currently in our annual crowdfunding campaign. If you want our independent and non-profit media network to continue in 2025, please participate in this campaign by clicking here. In our capitalist economy, employers pay wages and set prices that together determine whether a decent life is affordable. Employers’ goal is to maximize their profit. But employees […]


9. September 2025

Economic Update: Government Deficits; Why They Happen, Who Benefits From Them, and MMT

This episode was recorded in June this year and Professor Wolff explains what deficits are and why the capitalist system enables and invites employers to cause them. He then proceeds to explain how deficits both solve specific problems of capitalism while also causing others. Over time, problems accumulate to undermine the credit of the US […]


4. August 2025

The U.S.-E.U. Trade Deal: Too Awful To Be True

Last week, after months of tough talk from Donald Trump, the Trump administration and the European Commission announced a new ‘trade deal’ between the United States and the European Union. Within days, however, conflicting accounts emerged about the key terms of the deal. The Trump administration claims, for example, that the EU will invest $600 […]


2. May 2025

Yanis Varoufakis in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs on the Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity

Yanis Varoufakis & Jeffrey D. Sachs über die größten Krisen unserer Zeit


25. March 2025

The Failure of Global Finance is Systemic

The Failure of Global Finance is Systemic


21. February 2025

The Decline of the US Empire & Germany’s Economy

Prof. Richard Wolff – The Decline of the US Empire & Germany’s Economy


20. February 2025

Prof. Richard Wolff – The Decline of the US Empire & Germany’s Economy

Prof. Richard Wolff – The Decline of the US Empire & Germany’s Economy


1. January 2025

Gangsters of Capitalism – Jonathan M. Katz Pt. 1/2

Gangsters of Capitalism – Jonathan M. Katz Pt. 1/2