Richard Wolff: Global Capitalism: November 2013 Monthly Update

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Published on Nov 12, 2013

In addition to our usual shorter updates on major economic events in the news over the last month, major attention will be devoted to the following:
The federal government's austerity policy, compromises with the Republicans over social security, medicare, Obamacare, etc.
The state and local governments' austerity policies (summary of a major new report on state and local cutbacks)
How and why changes in federal, state and local taxes could remove the need for austerity and achieve tax justice.
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics

[passiveporcupine]

1. this was excellent

as usual

[BelgianMadCow]

2. Hell, I'll rec this thread

twice

[antigop]

3. that was great. Thanks for posting. Finally got a chance to watch it. nt