And the 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. Before beginning today's program, which is a rich program that will cover

oh Elon Musk's ignorance, new shenanigans by mega banks in the United States,

and a response to your requests

about labor actions around the world regarding the Israeli Gaza experience and a bribe, pretty much, with Mr. Trump that you may not have heard about.

And then we interview in the second half of the program

two organizers who were responsible, in good part part for the unionization of that first Starbucks in Buffalo, New York,

and are now working on organizing around the country.

I think they'll have some very important things to share with us.

But before we jump in, an announcement. There is a remarkable conference that I want to bring to your attention.

It will take place the last weekend of this month, May 31st, and the first and 2nd of June.

It's called No War but the Class War. That's the title of the conference.

It's organized by the journal Historical Materialism, the Institute for the Radical Imagination, and the Left Forum

based in New York City.

I will be at that conference, I'll be participating in an opening plenary and a round table and a panel.

I think you'll find these events, all of them, very worthwhile.

You can find out more, you can register for the conference by going to

radical imagination. info.

Let me give you that again for full information about this conference radical imagination dot info.

Okay, let's jump right into today's program. New information has emerged recently that in a way is an old

story. Mega Banks in this country, you know, the likes of Citibank, Bank of America,

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