Economic Update: The Economics of US Labor Struggles and Gaza

[@flyingsquirrel111]

These weekly updates help keep me sane.

[@JamesBrown-ux9ds]

Minute 20 and later - maybe the 2023 71.7 billion USD NSA budget could be worth mentioning too? And US defense budget 2024 ist said to be approved 842 billion USD now. And the general public of the world of course watches/monitors when and how the US empire will follow the assumed trend away from defense hardwares to ever better NSA capabilities as shown by future budgets, reductions in hardware (defense) outbalanced by NSA capabilities - these budgets are on purpose for the US and the world, they are not for themselves. And I continue to miss the potus to make announcements on such shifts between the two budgets and when this may presumably happen. (The USA misses out on so many things today everywhere, it's not yet too important.) (Maybe defense just doesn't want NSA to know to much about details of US defense secrets? And therefore wouldn't be too much in favor of future increses in NSA budgets. We all know using NSA more is way more efficient than bombings or boots on the ground, fact.) (Use of NSA wrongly may become reversed with less harm to the US and the rest of the world, when compared with solid damage done by force and explosives somewhere else and abroad, a fact not yet discussed very often? But why?)

[@flyingsquirrel111]

@JamesBrown-ux9ds why you telling me this?

[@jillfryer6699]

you are not alone

[@RW-vu3dz]

Truely glad to have found this today! Enjoy the delivery!

[@vivalaleta]

Love your style, Professor Wolff. So much information in a casual and complete delivery.

[@jgalt308]

Especially when you never bother with actually verifying it.

[@vivalaleta]

@jgalt308 What in particular would you like me to verify? hmmm?

[@jgalt308]

@@vivalaleta everything in the video especially the complete part as already challenged.

[@sigolwidearemo8575]

Thank-you Mr. Wolfe for teaching economy in this world. 😊

[@XykcTepa]

Seized such a nice way to describe it. STOLE is the right word. They just declared it's OK to steal another country's assets in the name of democracy!

[@pausereflect5911]

THEY HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS. 80 years so far if you take it back to India days under the Brits. Since SANCTIONS they've called it all sorts of names under the pretext of sanctions. PIRACY and STEALING is RIGHT.

[@pausereflect5911]

THIS time other countries have the power to respond. Trumpf's hatefilled campaigns seems to assure of raws.

[@philipzaccheus8398]

Listening is the best and easier way of getting informed so good luck

[@jillfryer6699]

not so. Can be in one ear and out the other too easily. You need to also read, reread and reread again and make notes.

[@juliasalley]

It’s amazing really. We have a financial crisis, caused by greedy, reckless financial institutions. Congress passes legislation requiring those institutions to be less greedy and reckless. The institutions then lobby to have those restrictions removed, usually in the name of “remaining competitive”. This leads to another financial crisis. It’s completely predictable, and we have been doing this dance since the Great Depression almost 100 years ago.

[@DanielleB.Wooten]

Agree; the rules should be applicable to all banks - big or small. First; very few meaningful laws are passed and then this cycle of doing-undoing seems to support deregulation risking the economy and the faith in banks.

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[@lucciolasormonta6778]

Dear Mr.Wolff, thank you for this analisys. You understand that european settlers have to give back all stolen properties!?! There is no agreement until justice will be done and all the crimes against humanity will be judged.

[@chengteevarianceteo5222]

Well said prof Wolfe. God bless you.

[@colinbrigham8253]

Thank you professor 😊

[@olga66]

Enchanted! ❤

[@flow963]

Who authorized the $billions in military aid to Israel? Under what authority does POTUS order US troops and aircraft carriers, etc. to join a war without a declaration of war?

[@GrandSolarEclipse]

Terrorisme was created to allow the US to go to war without congress having to declare one. The FED ,the US army and all the 3 letter institutions like the CIA, FBI ,IRS are controlled by the same group of people. They want more for themselves and nothing for you and I. They declare war, print money and the citizens have to pay through taxation and inflation. Money has lost its value through that process. They have all the gold and the important businesses. The control the currency flow through printing and taxation. They are the Beast of revelation spoken about in the bible. The US dollar is the mark of the beast . And you know the beast system because they impose sanctions, you won't be able to buy or sell just like what happened to Russia and currency confiscation.

[@stephenlock7236]

When was the last time the POTUS paid any attention to the law?. The POTUS is a law onto itself.

[@TheTerminator-1]

And if you think it's bad now, just wait till till/if Trump regains power. His SCOTUS has basically made him a king. We are sooooo screwed

[@jgalt308]

@@stephenlock7236 That ended in 1939.

[@Angela-nc9gr]

​@@jgalt308Right ✅️

[@itzzekee]

LONG LIFE DR WOLLF🙏🏻

[@MikeTesa]

I need a wage increase but I'm on commission. Not doing well at all. Boy I wish we were union

[@paulsherman51]

Wages only applies to, and benefits, people who are employees. Thus, "living wage" and "minimum wage" are exactly the wrong things to do--they only drive a viscious spiral upward without bound. What's needed are maximum costs (e.g. price controls; regulations) because they apply to everyone.

[@jgalt308]

@@paulsherman51 The gift of fiat is what causes inflation and in terms of lawful money the rate of inflation has been 7700% since 1934. To put that in perspective, previous rates have been 95% from 1860 to 1865 and 113% from 1897 to 1926. Also the minimum wage was the living wage as in living "minimum living wage" which began at 25 cents.hr in 1938.

[@paulsherman51]

@@jgalt308 true, but don't forget the economic system since 1934 has been caputalism. Again, "minimum living wage" applied only to employees (i.e., "wage slaves") working under private business owning masters. Prices to independent (non-wage slave) workers and businesses are analagous to wages of employees. To be fair, cannot control one without the other, else the system becomes unbalanced. Fundamentally, increasing the minimum level of anything leads to positive feedback and an unstable closed-loop dynamic; lowering--or controlling--the maximum level of anything leads to negative feedback and a stable closed-loop system.

[@Retalak]

I appreciate your ability to recognize Israel as a settler colonial state and criticize it's actions in Gaza. I know you have family in Israel, it's definitely not an easy position to be in. I hope for peace for everyone's sake and for the health and well-being of your family there.

[@mr-iz8cx]

Ethics

[@Salamanders4life]

his family should move to their actual motherland instead of being a part of the colonial state

[@hermitthedruid]

Free Palestine!

[@gcteak]

Thanks!

[@leonardtoole5375]

Thanks. Mr wolf. Best wishes from. Liverpool. England.

[@joshJ.]

Thank you 🙏 Professor Wolfe for another great analysis on the world economy! And also for saying it like it is as far as Israel/Palestine , middles East affairs

[@rogerstarkey5390]

Can USA (essentially bankrupt) affird to continue funding the 51st state? (Israel)

[@limitisillusion7]

For a time. But then the funds being drawn away from the mainland US will take their toll. There's is no identifiable inflection point. It's more like a gradual decline in morale.

[@fauziachoudhry5312]

It's the other way around. US is the state of Israel

[@JoseColomer-e9u]

Exactly - wouldn't need them

[@jgalt308]

Now that is funny.

[@yogi4lyfe]

Thank you

[@ellarweegadsden8483]

Good show.

[@astralab-d1]

22:33 Federal and state funding of police keeps the chain of command compliant to big money interests. Who will break the cycle of secrecy and coercion?

[@jgalt308]

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

[@pausereflect5911]

The "Monied Interests" gotta feel safe, don't they? USA being the "safest" as Fortress America!

[@imperson7005]

The police system from street cops to how prisoners are treated needs a re work. Unfortunately the prison system is at the base and the model of controlling public behavior and opinions

[@jackshultz2024]

What might make for an interesting program would be a comparison of the elements of the American GDP and the Chinese GDP. The US economy is heavily financialized and militarized. How do these factors influence their respective economies?

[@jgalt308]

You mean "with Chinese characteristics" isn't a sufficient explanation?

[@a.esquivel2434]

Amazing work Dr. RICHARD WOLF!! ❤

[@ABee-vd6rt]

China spent over $900 BILLION US DOLLARS on education in 2023 alone. That’s pretty awesome.

[@khafrekhufu7259]

Invest in baidu, baba, PPD. China's growth is nothing short of amazing...plant your seed folks

[@joeme]

I wonder if we have spent that much in the last ten years?

[@joeme]

@@khafrekhufu7259 China's labor market is the reason the US is screwed. Tricky Dick got China to look outside. Ronnie Radical got them to come out and play. Slick Willie signed China into the World Trade Organization, at which time AMERICA and AMERICANS started losing 50,000 manufacturing jobs A MONTH. The rich and corpeRAT America said it was for lower labor rates. Price went up, quality tanked and the rich and corpeRAT America opened more bank accounts while Dad & Jr carpool in a 20 year old car to start another day at Mickey D's. In my book, you are no better than a Chinaman with your Patriotism.

[@abelflores1593]

​@@khafrekhufu7259China's going to ban America from investing in China you didn't know that

[@mikem3242]

@@khafrekhufu7259lmao colonial mindset 😂😂😂

[@terezahoward4008]

Thank you Ienjoyed

[@JMoroccoMisterBoy]

Tks. much

[@eugencunliffe-ion3110]

Well done Mr Wolff, I was wondering..... and you answered. THANK YOU.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Where's Humphrey Bogart? Where Sitting Bull? 🤔

[@debbino4249]

what is the music that starts economic update?

[@jingchen9610]

ordered the book

[@ZenBen_the_Elder]

A small token

[@faizalmacho8960]

THANKS PROFESSOR

[@Ace1000ks]

The US spent $118,000,000,000 on the police, so the US is a militarized police state. 🤣

[@jgalt308]

That is no longer actually engaged in policing.

[@jgalt308]

@@Ace1000ks Which words are beyond your comprehesion?

[@pausereflect5911]

​@@jgalt308They are certainly equipped for a lot more than Policing for sure. Looks like an armed force.

[@jgalt308]

@@pausereflect5911 "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

[@pausereflect5911]

@@jgalt308 Too right!

[@RaymondLe-vo1or]

China came up!

[@LightWeaver]

The US really needs to decouple our economy from warfare, otherwise we will continue to spread ourselves too thin abroad instead of focusing on helping our citizens out of poverty.

[@nenamisu]

It's crazy how much actual news you get from these videos.

[@jgalt308]

In journalism the news is factual...what those facts indicate is NOT a news function.

[@jermainemyrn19]

Im homeschooling my kids. They will be reading your book understanding capitalism. I'm not preaching econ 101 to them because it's all lies.

[@limitisillusion7]

Econ 101 is fine to gain an understanding of the current function of an economy, supply and demand, etc. It explains what's going on. The problem is when we define the bounds of our economy by the principles in econ 101.

[@jgalt308]

@@limitisillusion7 And what principles would those be?

[@pausereflect5911]

What a shame, that a tax paying community/country has to resort to home schooling. In a well organized SOCIETY, we'd be sure to make the best provisions for our children. Still I suppose they mean to outsource that to AI too.

[@MikeXwolf]

Professor Wolf, I agree with almost everything you say but what I'm failng to see in all of your messaging is a way out. What do we do??

[@fredminsky4684]

You must explain how democracy (MOB RULE) is just fine.republic is what we are 😮😮😮

[@jgalt308]

"constitutional republic" and the only one in existence...

[@fredminsky4684]

@jgalt308 correct thank you👍

[@jgalt308]

@@fredminsky4684 😎✔

[@randyosborne3971]

Our Congress is for sale. On the take. BOTH PARTIES. Therefore, I'm all in on gold.

[@ErnestZDodson]

In light of the global crisis, rising inflation, and economic instability caused by inadequate governance, stocks, ETFs, Mutual funds, and REITs, assets can serve as a viable path to achieving financial independence

[@Grey-y6u]

If you've achieved any financial security, savings, owning a house, a pension.... you'll find these are going to be a financial burden around your neck..... they'll tax you to oblivion..

[@Joyce-is7kq]

Rising prices have affected my intention of retiring at 62, working part-time, and building my savings. I'm worried about whether individuals who weathered the 2008 financial crisis found it less challenging than my current situation. The stock market's volatility, coupled with a reduced income, is making me anxious about having enough for retirement.

[@Pfluegerr]

More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.

[@SbcCompany-h1w]

One lesson I've learnt from billionaires is to always put your money to work, and diversifying your investments.

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[@LowKeyTired-q7d]

What is that military centric american fixation bro ???

[@Ustaadjhatka]

Dr. Wolf is a genuinely good human. God bless, and thank you for the information you provide .

[@dmetalii]

It may be a good idea to title your video "Economic Update with Richard Wolff" so that when someone search's his name in the searchbar, these videos appear in the results.

[@indigifem1]

Professor, not a”war”; Israel is under legal review for apartheid, atrocities and crimes against humanity that preceded the current review for genocide. Re: “reservations”, US settler colonial genocides and Indigenous peoples-while “reservations” are a significant reality for some of the Indigenous peoples the US settler society conducted genocide against, the US also conducted genocide against over 400 federally non-recognized tribal nations whose descendants still resist and remain in non-reservation communities across the U.S. Furthermore, the US is committing genocidal acts against millions of Indigenous families who are tax paying migrant workers and whose settler countries of origin are south of the contested U.S.-Mexico border. Also, a large number of non-recognized Indigenous peoples that the U.S. has conducted genocidal violence against are the numerous tribal groups that fought and still fight against the “U.S.” border wall, a gulag structure that American Zionists architected in the Texas-Mexico region and which significant Indigenous resistance movement against has determined key ‘design’ ties between Israel govt and Michael Chertoff prior to the implementation of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Professor, so much respect for you, and please do more detailed research on the US-Indigenous genocides beyond legacy academic scholarship! Your mind will be decolonized by it. Hope this helps you refine your keyword searches.

[@nmavrantzas]

I try to remind myself that Prof. Wolff is talking to 'muricans. Maybe above the norm, but 'muricans all the same.

[@stephenhardy312]

Fabian: what a brilliant name for a socialist, if a little bit too reformist! George Bernard Shawe was a member of the Fabian Society.

[@breft3416]

Unregulated capitalism is destructive beyond it's basic faults.

[@stephenhardy312]

24:16 'Terra Nullius', a 'land of no people' was used to describe Australia. Clearly wrong and the rest is a ghastly history.

[@etspiritus]

✊🏾✌🏾💚

[@jglg7238]

Do a video topic on "Yellow Peril" to educate, arrogant westerners and european, about Asia China

[@thomasduggan8755]

❤ Best wishes from Manchester Old England great show everybody keep up the good work

[@zomplak]

all roads lead to inflation all vote fueling the acceleration the winner : corporate the looser : TAXPAYER

[@limitisillusion7]

I don't have a problem with replacing workers with machines. We have always adapted to this phenomenon in the past, and we will in the future. For example, you don't see people complaining about backhoes taking the jobs of men with shovels anymore. What we need to focus on is how to distribute the value created by the machines to the people who's jobs were replaced. If one backhoe operator replaces 10 workers with a shovel, we have to essentially divide the operation of the backhoe among the 10 workers. It's not quite that simple though, because the backhoe requires engineers, salesmen, mechanics, and an oil industry to operate. Even if the number of total laborers diminishes, the remaining labor must be divided amongst the available laborers. That means less hours should be spent working for a proportionally higher wage.

[@03invictus]

Thank you Dr.Wolf America should appoint you as the new Secretary of the Treasury ,i think America would be in better hands !

[@jgalt308]

Now why would you appoint someone who doesn't know what money is or where inflation comes from?

[@sigolwidearemo8575]

More than eighty years of genecide in the GA,ZA 😢.

[@astralab-d1]

Wolff needs to narrate a documentary. Great inflection and nuance!

[@G0ldbl4e]

Search IDF officers invoked defunct ‘Hannibal Protocol’ during Oct. 7 fighting - report

[@samaval9920]

USpioneered this tactic when it dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, + many US, English. Australian, New Zealnder, etc. POWs- deliberately sacrificed in order to hit targets.

[@PahatRout]

Prof. are the average workers misled by their union bosses? Or simply beyond their perception on what is happening to the national economy?

[@peterkerruish8136]

I cannot even make a comment - because You nailed it M8. Thankyou.

[@chieftainarrowhead]

We're all slaves to a higher power ...

[@jgalt308]

seeking better chains.

[@matthewingerson]

The decent & intelligent members of the working-class people realize that they are slaves to the indecent & intelligent parasites of the wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. The indecent & ignorant members of the working-class are too stupid to realize that they are also slaves. But, instead of confronting & combating the indecent & intelligent parasites of the wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics, the indecent & ignorant members of the working-class do whatever they are told to do by their wealthy-class masters. All of the biggest problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are caused by (a)the indecent, wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics of authoritarianism, and by (b)the indecent, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics of authoritarianism. Galt is one of the indecent, working-class dupes who willingly slaves away for his indecent, wealthy-class masters.

[@JeffDoerr]

Prove it you zealot wing ding.

[@414monii]

We need a patreon stream with Qs and As, Dr. Wolfe

[@jgalt308]

Then join...then you might get to ask a question that might be answered although not likely...but it is the only benefit you will be offered... and the professor "wouldn't have it any other way."

[@tranphung2726]

Excellent elucidations, Mr. Wolff.

[@NicholasWarnertheFirst]

Great Stuff 🎉

[@akken2112]

My two favorite living scholars, Dr Wolff and Dr Horne.

[@patriciacvener1968]

Social Security colas never keep up with inflation either. Once those workers join us elderly trying to subsist on our monthly payment they will go backwards financially even more.

[@hrwise89]

My parents got their 2 or 3 percent social security COLA this year, and their rent went up 14%. A truly reprehensible system

[@patriciacvener1968]

@@hrwise89 Exactly. We are tired of the Capitalists trying to push our deaths.

[@tesso.6193]

At this point it's better to retire in a global south country where USD goes a lot further. There are already retiree communities in many places.

[@tomover9905]

Thank you for this video

[@soltanakouider5922]

thk u

[@JohnBeerschoten]

It is never about securkity for the Israelis, that is just an excuse for expansion.

[@adelsabry33sabry66]

Great thanks a lot from Gaza

[@marycollins8215]

Best intro music ever! Go Dr. Wolff

[@astralab-d1]

Great program and episode! Unparalleled perfection.

[@ttvrevolversmoke9214]

😊

[@fafdus]

so i have to pay exorbitant prices to buy shit that comes from countries with tariffs

[@lindencamelback2305]

Send in the US Air Force.

[@EvgenyUskov]

Please come back to RT!

[@phongy45]

why usa leaders are not listening to you guys????

[@vivalaleta]

Because they prefer money and power over information.

[@jgalt308]

@@vivalaleta The money is fake...the POWER is REAL.

[@ramazanhoxha4265]

good stuff here

[@SimonAshworthWood]

Vote Green Party! Jill Stein for president! Free Palestine!

[@GrandSolarEclipse]

It doesn't matter who you vote for. The deep state runs it all and they will get their way. Most of those candidates are puppets that play along while giving you hope for change. The last president to fight the system was JFK. We all know what happened to him.

[@mjs3343]

Interesting info and perspectives. It makes sense. Thank you.

[@StateOfPurgatory]

Is that really Israel or it is Imperialism led by great Imperialism America

[@richardthut7071]

Unions the ingen of inflation 1 of

[@mikepeterson4248]

Earth is level & stationary.

[@Rodrifuuu]

Ah, a capitalist.

[@AlmaMercer]

Thank you Good reporting

[@maytons]

There is no politician or agency that can change the laws of economics. Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will gradually disappear from circulation. The "Triffin dilemma" refers to the economic conflict that arises when a country's currency serves as the primary global reserve currency, forcing it to balance its domestic economic interests with the need to provide enough liquidity to the international market, potentially leading to trade deficits and undermining confidence in the currency's value if it runs excessive deficits to meet global demand. The bullwhip effect is a supply chain phenomenon that occurs when small demand changes at the retail level become larger fluctuations in demand as they move up the supply chain. The effect is named after the physics of cracking a whip, where a small wrist snap creates a chain reaction of increasing wave patterns. The Cantillon effect occurs when a central bank increases the money supply and the new money doesn't get distributed evenly across the economy. Instead, it's initially received by certain organizations, such as banks and private equity firms, which gives them more purchasing power than the general public. These organizations can then make investments and get loans, causing prices to rise before the rest of the population receives the new money.

[@someonenotnoone]

Behavioral sciences are in fact dependent on behaviors. All people change the laws of economics.

[@jtlusong]

I love how this channel’s intro be soundin like a Dr. Dre, 50 Cent or Eminem song

[@thomasduggan8755]

Best wishes from Manchester Old England great show everybody keep up the good work ❤️😎 Cheers

[@cynthiahall2379]

Israel had its hand in the events of Oct. 7. We know that

Isrealie leader hate young progresiif raver!!!!!that was not a big lost for them!!!!!! 750 idf soldiers dies since oct 7...600 kills by there own millitary....french montreal qc....

[@jgalt308]

What hand did it have in the events of 1936 thru 39?

[@leroitiaks]

There has been no single material evidence of war crimes committed by the Resistance during Al Aqsa Flood on October 7th 2023 so far (though crimes might have been committed). The zionist entity's media and individual military personals have acknowledged of the use of the "Hannibal Doctrine", i.e., the killing of their own citizen to avoid them being captured by the Resistance. In addition, much of the "civilians" in the entity (age 18-51) are reservists for the IDF, and therefore would be considered legitimate target according to the US and the West's definition of "enemy combatants".

[@hermitthedruid]

Well said.

[@rickykirk2203]

But if you say these facts you are labeled a terrorist sympathizer…

[@basilalfehaid4423]

They said there was one kid that got shot in a crossfire between Hamas and IDF

[@tesso.6193]

@@basilalfehaid4423 That's like 50k less kids than Israel killed. Israel went out of its way to build civilian settlements around and between military bases that exist entirely to genocide Gazans every few years.

[@stephenlock7236]

​@@rickykirk2203A terrorist sympathiser nowadays would be correctly use to describe a state terrorist.

[@juliusmanabeng8071]

Israel had been going out on a limb for so long, it's unthinkable what happens when the US finally goes bankrupt and the USD is no longer a significant currency.

[@jgalt308]

That happened long ago...

[@Lonelyheart1776]

👍👍

[@judithgrace9850]

6:03

[@astralab-d1]

16:57

[@NancyRode-u9i]

🙋🏽‍♀️🇺🇸professor Wolff↕️💙Harris Walz

[@astralab-d1]

18:43

[@nmavrantzas]

23:16 "A difficult topic". Why is it so difficult? It only took 5 minutes to cover it completely.

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[@cristinakasselas555]

Excellent report, in plain language for all to understand ! Good luck to all of us as there is nothing bright in the future !