Economic Update: Lawyers VS The System

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Economic Update: [S9 E18] Lawyers vs. The System

THIS WEEK'S TOPICS (w/timestamps):
00:54 - Updates on how U.S. college students have become share-croppers for investors;
04:16 - conservatives' fake opposition to government intervention in the economy;
07:33 - the deepening inadequacy of retirement savings of baby boomers in the U.S.;
10:56 - and how the disappearing middle class in the U.S. leads many first to blame, or rather scapegoat, foreigners and then their own fellow citizens;
14:43 - announcements.
15:12 - SPECIAL GUEST: Prof. Wolff interviews Michael Steven Smith on his new book, Lawyers for the Left.

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Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler, a New York red-diaper baby of the 1930s, joined the Communist Party as a Harvard student. Fleeing the U.S. Army during the McCarthy Era, he swam the Danube River to the Soviet Zone of Austria and was sent to East Germany. There, he studied journalism and became a freelance writer and popular speaker. He was pardoned by the U.S. Army in 1994 and, in 2003, published an autobiography, Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany ((U. of Mass.Press).  Victor Grossman will be visiting Washington, DC from May 15-May 18 on a national book tour of his latest book weighing problems of GDR socialism and modern capitalism entitled A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee by Monthly Review press.

The link to LAWYERS FOR LEFT: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/lawyers-for-the-left/

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