Nine Key Events in 2025
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff analyzes topics from Israel and Gaza to Epstein scandals to U.S. neocolonialism to Europe's failure to seize Russian wealth held in European banks with a focus on the historical importance of key developments shaping the global crisis emerging today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends to another economic update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.9 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm going to devote today's program to looking back over the year 2025 and going through |
| 0:41.6 | nine, yep, nine things that strike me and I hope we'll interest you as key events of |
| 0:51.7 | that year that's just behind us. It's the right time to have such an assessment. |
| 0:57.7 | I know others have been doing it, so I thought you might be interested in how this program |
| 1:04.2 | and this perspective looks upon the year just past in terms of what stands out. |
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