Economic Update: The System Implodes: Amazon, Evictions, Tax Abuses, & Minimum Wages
[S11 E08] The System Implodes: Amazon, Evictions, Tax Abuses, & Minimum Wages
On this week’s show, Prof. Wolff discusses Amazon’s profits; New York state’s eviction crisis and capitalism’s reproduction of poverty and inequality; New York’s stock transfer tax; raising the minimum wage; and the subsidizing of billionaire’s big sport businesses.
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