My guest is Dr. M. Professor Richard Wolf.

He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University

of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught economics

from 1973 to 2008.

He is currently a visiting professor

in the graduate program in international affairs

at the New School in New York City.

His weekly show, Economic Update with Richard D. Wolf,

is syndicated on over 70 radio stations nationwide.

It's available for broadcast on free speech TV.

And his latest book is called The Sickness Is the System

when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

Richard Wolf, thank you so much for being with me.

It's an honor to talk to you.

Thank you, Mary Ann. It's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you. I had mentioned to you before we came on

that it must be a little bit amusing for you

to find yourself this kind of economics professor

pop icon at this point in your life.

And I remember a time when not that, you know,

it was a pretty elite thing to know who Richard Wolf was

and what Richard Wolf was saying.

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