Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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[S13 E40] Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
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"Update on Nobel Prize in economics to Harvard Prof. Claudia Goldin; comment on Maine/Halloween shootings, global financial secrecy index and President Biden's pursuit of money for war. Major segments on (i) UAW strike victories at Ford, GM and Stellantis, and (ii) abortion access victory in France." Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:16.3 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. As usual, I want to remind |
| 0:24.7 | you that we now have a very well-functioning volunteer, Charlie Fabian, who is available at an |
| 0:32.3 | email I'm about to give you. If you have suggestions, proposals, documents that you think we might be able to use |
| 0:39.9 | to construct these segments on our program, please let Charlie know. |
| 0:45.4 | Here's the email. |
| 0:47.1 | Charlie. |
| 0:47.7 | .info-338 at gmail.com. |
| 0:53.7 | Once again, Charlie.com. 438 at gmail.com. Today's program is going to look at |
| 1:04.2 | Harvard professor Gloria Golden, who just got the Nobel Prize in economics. We're going to have |
| 1:10.6 | something to say about the spate of shootings, the Nobel Prize in economics. We're going to have something to say about the spate |
| 1:12.4 | of shootings, the big one in Maine that you all have heard about, and then the literal rampage |
| 1:20.0 | of shootings across the Halloween weekend. I'm going to talk a little bit about the financial |
| 1:26.5 | secrecy index in case you haven't heard |
| 1:29.6 | about that, and then have a few words to say about President Biden's proposal of a supplemental |
| 1:36.9 | $106 billion for various military activities around the world on top of everything already spent there. |
| 1:47.3 | In the second half of the program, we're going to be talking about the remarkable results |
| 1:52.6 | of the United Auto Workers' strike against the big three auto companies here in the United |
| 1:58.8 | States, and then something also about the struggle |
| 2:03.2 | around abortion. |
| 2:05.6 | So a big program, let's jump right in. |
| 2:09.2 | Claudia Golden has been a professor of economics for quite many years up at Harvard, and |
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