April 16, 2018

Economic Update: Distorting Economic Truths

Labor strikes at Disney; home sales and prices drop sharply; Nestle's approval to profit from privatizing water; UPS and FedEx profit from Trump's attack on Amazon and lies about the USPS; US poverty far worse than in other nations

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Richard D. Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York. He is the author of many books, including Democracy at Work: A Cure or Capitalism, and Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.

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