Economic Update: The Reality, Hype, and Danger of A.I.
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on job losses in February 2026 in the U.S. economy, how California unions are actively protecting immigrant workers from ICE, capitalist crashes and politics (1929 vs. today), and Europe's economic dead end. In the second half, Professor Wolff interviews journalist-critic (and Bernie Sanders' speechwriter) Richard RJ Eskow about AI.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:27.2 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
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| 2:18.3 | Okay, today's program has quite a few topics to go over in our updates, and then we'll |
| 2:25.6 | have an interview with an expert on artificial intelligence and the issues it raises |
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