Economy

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...