Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff · Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff
Making Sense Of Trump's Economic Plan
June 17, 2025·31 min·2 clips
Richard Wolff reveals the U.S. empire has peaked and is now declining, explaining the root of Trump's economic desperation.
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A blunt structural read on Trump, taxes, power, and American decline.
Economic Update reads as a blunt attempt to make sense of Trump-era whiplash by treating it as more than random noise. Richard Wolff links the mess to corporate power, taxes, and a government that leans on money from the rich, then pulls the larger frame back toward American…
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If Trump's plan feels like chaos, this gives you the structure behind it.
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