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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff explores the economic consequences of the United States threatening Mexico and Canada. We also highlight how worker co-ops are joining forces with unions to strengthen both movements and examine the economics of the illegal drug trade. Additionally, we discuss the significance of Indonesia joining BRICS.

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0:00.0	Welcome, friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic
0:26.8	dimensions of our lives and those of our children.
0:30.6	I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.
0:33.6	I want to remind you, as always, that Charlie, our volunteer, is ready and waiting to take your ideas, suggestions, proposals for whatever might make this program better.
0:46.6	You can reach Charlie by email at charlie.
0:52.2	.info-338 at gmail.com.
0:58.0	And as always, we remind you that we really do have a companion volume to these programs,
1:06.0	a book that goes into greater detail than we can do in this program to understand the capitalist
1:15.5	system which is in a way what we explore as it evolves and changes its impacts on our lives.
1:24.1	So if you're interested, I urge you to take a look at this new book, just released in the last few months, called Understanding Capitalism.
1:34.3	I wrote it to work with this book, excuse me, the book, with this program, and you can find out all the information you might be
1:45.1	interested in about the book at our website, Democracy at Work.info.
1:53.0	Today we're going to be talking about the remarkable statements by the
1:59.2	president-elect or the President by the time this reaches
2:03.6	you about taking over parts or maybe even all of Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama.
2:12.6	We're going to be talking today about the Canadian and the Mexican adventures that he's proposing.
2:20.3	We're also going to be talking a good bit about the drug trade and the economics of that,
2:28.2	because that's part of the excuse Mr. Trump is using for his foreign adventures.
2:35.0	We're also going to be talking about a new phenomena in the United States when worker co-ops are also unionized.
2:44.0	Unions building co-ops, co-ops building unions, what's that all about?
2:50.5	And it now affects a growing number, a rapidly growing
2:54.4	number of American businesses. And then finally, we will talk about a remarkable new addition
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