Trump 2.0 The First Year: An Assessment
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides an assessment of the first year of Trump's second term in office, covering how he inherited the problems of a declining empire and proved unable, or unwilling, to stop or reverse the decline, and how that flows in part from the ways the Republican and Democratic parties operate and in part from the difficult conditions both face. The results at the end of the first year are very poor for both parties.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
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| 0:31.6 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
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