Economy

EXPOSED: The Investigative Report ICE Doesn’t Want You to See

Eugene Puryear
Meghnad Bose, independent journalist and University of Memphis Professor of Journalism, joins the show to discuss his new BreakThrough News investigation exposing how over $1 billion in Americans’ retirement funds are funneled into private prison giants GEO Group and CoreCivic, which detain the vast majority of ICE detainees. Bose also...

Instacart’s AI Price Gouging EXPOSED: The Secret Scheme Hiking Up YOUR Grocery Costs

Eugene Puryear
An explosive new investigation reveals how Big Tech and major corporations are using artificial intelligence (AI) to secretly manipulate what you pay for groceries. More Perfect Union’s Eric Gardner joins Eugene Puryear to break down their report uncovering “surveillance pricing”—a scheme where apps like Instacart test and change prices in...

The Workforce Powering America 250 Demands Better Pay and Conditions

Kristine Villanueva
Every year, tens of millions of people descend on Philadelphia to walk the streets that helped launch a nation. Philadelphia is a city of “firsts” and “oldests” from the cobblestone streets of Elfreth’s Alley, to the first lending library and first public hospital.  The region drew a record-breaking 46 million...

Your Jobs Are Held HOSTAGE, Economy Crashes Constantly. It’s No Accident with Prof. Wolff

BreakThrough News
Is the next Great Depression coming? One hedge fund manager who makes his clients billions off of economic crashes thinks the current stock market looks a lot like the high before the crash in 1929. Professor Richard Wolff argues the economic system is holding your jobs hostage for the same...

Hyundai Raid: Trump’s Trade Blackmail Against South Korea

Eugene Puryear
Ju-Hyun Park, a member of Nodutdol and the Web Editor at BreakThrough News, joins the show to break down why ICE stormed a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. Nearly 500 workers were arrested, including American citizens and Korean visa holders in the largest single-site immigration raid in U.S. history. Park...

Economist: The Federal Reserve Was Never ‘Independent’

Eugene Puryear
Michael Roberts, a socialist economist and author of The Next Recession blog, joins the show to discuss Donald Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. While Trump’s attempts to seize control of the Fed is to force steep interest rate cuts that serve Wall Street, Roberts argues why the...

NYC Council Decriminalizes Street Vending Violations, Easing Burden on Immigrant Vendors

Jacqueline Cardenas
A bill passed by the New York City Council will eliminate all criminal penalties for food and general street vendors, overcoming a previous veto by Mayor Eric Adams. Under Intro-47, vendors cannot receive criminal misdemeanor charges such as serving time in jail for vending violations, though they can still receive...

What Trump Doesn’t Get About China’s Rise and America’s Decline w/ Prof. Wolff

BreakThrough News
Trump is trying to prop up the failing Intel corporation with government investment, but without addressing the fundamental relationship between the public and private sector this measure will do little to stop the relative decline of the U.S. economy. Prof. Wolff explains why the U.S. hasn’t been able to keep...

Scapegoat Immigrants to Save the Billionaires? Capitalism’s Oldest Trick with Prof. Wolff

BreakThrough News
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed that 1.6 million immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office due to the reign of terror the administration has perpetrated. Trump has also sued the Maryland federal judiciary for making him follow proper deportation procedures. Professor Richard Wolff & Brian...

How President AMLO’s Policies Lifted 13.4 Million Mexicans Out of Poverty

Eugene Puryear
Kurt Hackbarth, writer for Jacobin and host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, joins the show to discuss Mexico’s historic achievement under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: 13.4 million people lifted out of poverty in six years, including 2 million from extreme poverty. Hackbarth explains how AMLO’s social programs, wage...
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