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 Wolfe.

Today's program starts with a discussion of three enormous strikes, nurses and teachers

from the East Coast to the West Coast and in the middle.

And then it goes on to talk about the Munich Security Conference that happened in the

middle of February in that part of Germany.

Very important lessons from both of those phenomena.

And in the second half, we'll be interviewing a psychotherapist in New York City about

the Epstein case and what she calls the Epstein class of people and the issues raised in her

judgment about our country and our culture by what we are witnessing and experiencing,

at least at one remove. Before we jump into this important set of topics, I want to

remind you that we are in the Left Education Forum, the Left Education Project, we have a spring

lineup of courses and classes that we're offering.

And they begin on Monday, March the 2nd.

And this week, you can find a variety of special registration promotions and discounted

tuition offers when you go to www.wleftforum.org slash LEP for Left Education Project.

And if you click on special promotions there, that will be what you can choose among.

Here's an opportunity to learn directly from seasoned professionals, mostly university

professors.

You will see that one of the courses I am a teacher in, and I will be meeting together

with my colleague from the University, Bucknell University,

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