Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic

dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolf.

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Today's program is going to be talking about the economy of Germany and all that it means for Europe and therefore the world.

Organizing success among low-paid workers in California.

What the war in Ukraine has meant to the stock market versus what it has meant to you and me?

And the mass movement of protests of European farmers, we don't give enough attention to agricultural work and work

conditions, neither in this country nor in many others. So this was a chance to make up for that deficit by talking about a remarkable

movement across the continent of Europe, led and mobilised by the farmers in those countries.

And in our second half we will continue what we began last week,

which is a survey of some of the more egregious, unjust, unfair aspects of the tax code of the United States

now that we are heading into the annual tax-paying season.

Okay, let's start.

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