Brutal Signs of a Collapsing Empire | Richard D. Wolff 

Empires are the most dangerous not when they are the strongest but when they are collapsing.

Prof. Wolff is simply the best at what he does. Teaching economics. And Nima is simply the best at what he does. Interviewing top tier guests with no interruptions. TY gentkemen!

Prof Wolff is brilliant. Thank you for hosting him. We need more to hear his important messages.

I love listening to this man. I never had much interest in economics, but if this guy is the lecturer, I'm attending.

What a way to start my morning: coffee, Lawrence Wilkerson and now, Richard Wolff. Great work, Nima!

Thank you, Nima Alkhorshid, for having Professor Richard Wolff on with his expertise.

US wanted to make a fool out of Russia and China. But instead, the US made a fool of itself. Let that be a lesson.

Prof.Wolff is always clear and consise. Thank you.

I think the apocryphal quote attributed to Churchill applies generally here "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing... after they've exhausted all other options." This is happening all throughout the west. We're trying all the wrong 'solutions' first because we're afraid of the true solution: set capitalism aside.

Another great lecture from Professor Richard Wolff,

"The ability to forget when it's convenient is not an admirable quality." Bravo Professor.

The Party system has allowed private money to buy the entire political class in the west. There is no opposition just silence and the parliamentary privilege MPs are vested with to question government actions goes unused. That tells you everything. Our individual votes have been devalued worse than our currency. Abolish the party whip et all. All MPs independent all votes in parliament by conscience and the interest of the electorate. We need two election cycles where the only people who meet to vote are those who have paid income tax minimum of three years previous to election end of story. No beneficiaries no students no civil servants either no state employees at all. NO PRIVATE FUNDING OF POLITICIANS. We have private interests paying to have their agendas inflicted on us as public Policy. Private money has also bought and destroyed the Independance of the fifth estate. the CLIMATE SCAM IS the overarching covert huge resource grab by private capitol. Governments allowed individuals and corporations to amass such wealth that the political class the media local government and the state sector have all been bought off that it was inevitable that national sovereignty itself would be next.

Boeing CEO got a $45M raise over the last couple years Union employees for like a 2% raise over 10 years Mr Wolff hits the bail on the head. No wonder Boeing doors are falling out of the sky...

🎶 ….TOO MANY BILLIONAIRES MAKING TOO MANY PROBLEMS, BUT THIS IS THE WEST WE LIVE IN…. 🎶

#BanAIPAC #BanAIPAC #BanAIPAC

You cannot teach philosophy -- or "values" -- to someone with an empty belly. I thought this would be common knowledge.

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What’s depressing is everyone just now finding out. He was that way in the primaries for 2020. There is no way Biden got 81million votes. He was senile then. But my dumb countrymen are just now noticing???? I need a new country 😏

#ProsecuteBlinken #ProsecuteBlinken #ProsecuteBlinken

The U.S.A. is collapsing like U.S.S.R. was doing the same!

Nobody explains things they way prof Willf does!!

Thank you Professor Wolff for the truth!

The United States will highly end up to be a third world country at the end of this turmoil they started unless they do a 180 degree change even at this it may take decades this country is like in the hospital with your dying parents Dr Wolff is the student who surpassed his teachers today 😢😢😢

😂😂😂.Wolf is real man .what he talks is down to earth...🙏🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌✌️✌️✌️

Yes, exactly described the problem of capitalism.

We are lucky to hear Prof. Wolf ❤❤

We were at a popular beach in my generally upscale neighborhood on a restaurant terrace viewing the frivolities and were shocked by the generally frumpy appearance and bad behavior of the young 20 something beach patrons before us, and the fact that this normally once packed patio terrace was deserted bar a couple tourists, when we commented to the lovely waitress about our observations she said very matter of fact with a shrug, "as you see folks poverty is rising."

All the signs point to a major course correction, particularly in how the US imposes itself on the global financial system. This overdue change must make the US's global financial policies and its dollar far less onerous to do business with. But leadership in the West appears incapable of making it. Thar be dragons. If the US/West can't remake itself into an acceptable alternative to the coming BRICS behemoth, there will be deeply troubled times ahead. The US/West either turns direction now to become a less self-serving global economic participant somewhat akin to the BRICS initiative, or de-dollarization will increase until Western isolation becomes unsustainable. It is as Professor Wolff says, "This is a dead old [system] and we're watching it painfully disintegrate."

Fareed lives in an ivory tower, completely detached from reality.

You've explained the French voting system brilliantly Prof Wolff, unfortunately you seemed to have missed the point of WHY the French, Brits or Americans vote for "far Right' candidates. You assume nothing will change for ordinary taxpayers, but what we're fed up are the REASONS we're becoming poorer which is that the current leaders don't CARE about us, or our history and society or our replacement by immigrants and a different religion and culture. So it isn't that we're anti-immigrant, but anti our Leaders who despise us and everything about our countries

Prof Wolff is fantastic

The USA did not want Russia to be a partner with Europe. (58:47)

PLEASE HAVE JILL STEIN ON TALKING ABOUT "LATE-STAGE CAPITALISM!!!!!" SHE UNDERSTANDS IT-- AND ISN'T OWNED BY THE OLIGHARCHS!!!!!!!

Excellent interview and can listen to Mr. Wolff over again and again! H has the talent of explaining any subject with examples and clarity💙 Thank you to both from NY ✔️

Excellent interview and great information from professor Wolff thank you

Thank you professor. Once again

Great analysis, worthy of downloading and saving. Criticism is that the issue of immigration is not immigrants, but too many to assimilate-catastrophically many, encouraged to endure horrific treks, and most are not vetted-to protect citizens.

Ancore,this man give so much beneficial advice I could listen to him all day. Thank you for all the brilliant guest you have on here.

Thank you, great interview. Richard is an amazing chap that the world really can learn from.

Thank You Richard Wolff for Your statement regarding the immigrants. Finally am I not alone! All the best!

Another Wow! analysis from Prof. Wolff. No wonder the Bad Guys and Gals who run the US/collective west do not want The People to access rational, practical voices like his. Thank you, Nima, you do a great service in providing such an excellent platform for informed, articulate individuals.

Professor Wolff talks to people like they are children, and yet he is supremely inarticulate

Professor Wolff always a compelling podcast..

RW is a living legend. He is BY FAR, my favourite personality to listen too on the Internet. I learn something new, every time he opens his mouth. If I had of encountered a personality like his at University in 1987, I would have become an Economist, not a Research Engineer. RW has the 'X-Factor' ! .... Biden, Trump & everyone else, would LOVE to have RW's X-Factor !

One of the best from Richard Wolf. He is a gem.

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are two economists I always enjoy listening to, since they explain complex issues in very understandable terms.

The supreme court’s latest decisions are the final nail in this coffin. It won’t be long now.

I love the way you handle an interview as well. :)

Brilliant. Thank you both

I love Prof. Wolff

Great interview 👍.

Solar panels is not the answer to heating and cooling your house! Neither for business! You can’t run a steel mill on solar or wind!Most of of Our Power Grid is failing and we have 97 Dams through out our are in Danger! This will cause major flooding unless fit! Hoover Dam is very Horrible Shape!

Few are calling it as it is. It's poor vs rich. Wolff is fantastic.

Nima, your show is like an opiate I’m addicted to it thank you for the fantastic show and guest and for not interrupting him like other hosts often do😊

We live in a system where you get as much as you can and give as little as you can. The wider the gap, the more successful you will be. That’s how they define success! Give nothing and take everything! Some day this must come to an end. One way or another!

Fareed Zakaria's world view is centred on personal a want and sense of "Gees Mom look at me" "I'm on CNN", and he loves being part of Main-stream American media. He feels that defines him. To him that is all he and his family want. I am "one of them" and they like me. He will never-ever criticise America.

I love the way Dr. Wolff .akes these complex ideas understandable. Even for someone who has no background in any of this❤❤❤

Loved this! So informative! You chrystalise my uninformed ideas......thank you

Is Blinken a statisition? As every statement that man makes is the complete opposite to facts & reality

two words- malevolent neglect. Their sadism and cruelty is beyond question.

Thank you Nima and to your guest Richard

Thank you so much Nima, for being a profesional host!!!! Its not necessary to constantly interrupt the professor with vanal commentaries.!!!!

I love Wolfie. He's my favorite economist.

I am also a long-time fan of the incomparable Richard D. Wolff!

Don't go war with the Poker face if you know what It is this means. 😳

I USED to be a big fan Zakaria and then he became a sell-out. Zakaria used to have guest like Stephen Cohen.

Fareed is a doofus.

Muchas gracias por compartir estas reflexiones!!

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By the 'Fight Back to Inflation' bill I think Richard Wolff is referring to 'Build Back Better.'

The U.S. is in crisis and all Wolff wants to talks about is France, France, France.

Brics are smart on business, they can exclude you if you not a Brics member and will not do business with you, sorry for the G7😂😂😂

US promotes heavily on the rich, much less on the general public.

Mr. Wolff you present information very clearly so that we can understand what is actuall happening in this capitalistic system and how we got to this point. I just want to let you know I really really appreciate what you're doing and hope you will continue teaching us. N.C. here💫

I know that it causes you pain to criticize the Dems but, what's the time, Mr Wolffe?

Agreed 100% . As always a best narrative and global perspective . Fareed like his NT is a descending figure who should retire now along his candidate Genocidel Biden .

Richard keeps talking about the collapse of capitalism and the empire. Yet every day, both forces tick on and we all get alittle older. And when either force is threatened, the other comes to its aid while we all watch.

Germany under Schroeder started a russian partnership. But it was brought down by the US. That would be a thread to them. So i decided about 20 years ago to leave Germany to relocate to Asia.

As always, brilliant interview

Nima, you remind me of Lex Fridman, a favorite podcaster of mine, different but equally pertinent. tnx for your good work.

Great country the worst generation in human history left us. Thanks Boomers

Great work, the professor Wolf is the best! thank you for such a great work!

Oh C'mon. The real biden went years ago.

The Chinese simply did not turn out to be the kind of "canned capitalists" that American capitalists have been for 200 years, unwilling to change. You must remember that China has tried many economic forms of government in its history, it was "everything" and the most extreme socialism and the most extreme capitalism....Unlike the USA, they EXPERIMENTED and eventually chose something "average" :).Now in China, with the presence of a "capitalist economy", the social sphere is very, very well developed, no one will ever throw a person out on the street, they will not leave him hungry and sick.And at the very top of this Chinese economy is the Chinese Communist Party. By the way, it's about the same in Russia, BUT Russia is still a more social state than China, despite the fact that the Communist Party of Russia is far from being in the first roles now.......BUT at the same time, 90% of Russians are carriers of socialist consciousness. For almost any Russian person, such things as "paid medicine, paid education" are a crime that should never happen on the territory of Russia.

Wealthy people in gated communities love to virtue signal about imigration and the terrible people who are concerned about it. Dr. Wolff is an ivy league professor who is wealthy and lives in a gated community.

Great video. Thanks

All empires rise and fall in exactly the same way And the same amount of time.

Exrtreme Capitalism is autocracy.

Australians should listen to this guy and catch a wake up call or they going downhill

Thx prof Wolfe. Truly a courageous man of the people. Wolfe, Sachs and Hudson make me proud to be a citizen❤. Gawd help all those countries our rulers have exploited

Nima has the easiest job in the world. He only has to say like 2 words an episode when he has Wolff on haha.

1.25x speed sounds normal.

I disagree with Richard Wolf fundamentally. My reason. I have never had any problems with free trade. If someone designs and manufactures something and both countries need it then trade absolutely. The thing that Richard Wolf misunderstands is how this Country takes everything since the 70s and now still does that is designed and manufactured by Engineers and factory workers here and business majors send it to other countries for a few reasons. They get to use slave labor, they get to no longer pay the Engineers and factory workers, meaning what it takes to build something, they give away our designs or it gets copied by the other countries and as a result we pay less taxes and earn less. We are nothing more than a country of Chinese Distribution centers selling the very things we designed and manufactured. It boils down to putting the consumer addicted manufacturing in these countries to hide the Coal pollution, the water pollution, the workers are in miserable working conditions. I could go on. I worked in factories in America, I am an Engineer and older and saw the dismantling of America. Richard had no hands on knowledge nor experience from the way he talks with such authority. He is clueless and its teachers like him that taught this country to give this nation away. Richard is 100% wrong. I know I lived it and stood arm in arm with my fellow Americans as we saw what stupidity did and still does.

I came to the Lord asking for his blessingsas a single mom because raising my son (Joel) was an act of courage despite all the challenges. And the Lord answered my prayers with a benefiting income of $31,000 every month. To God be the glory. Joel is in school and life's been fair lately.

Thank you gentlemen.I only hope more people wake up to what's going on .

what's that accent this guy has? I'm not american but I know it's a known accent in america. Is it the same al Al Pacino's ? Is it Brooklyn?

What he calls capitalism is in fact crony capitalism, ie, business in bed with government. Calling it socialism is more accurate.

A great difference between the West and the China coalition is how they view/treat the "90%" ie., the Global South. We have yet to throw off our imperialist past and neo-con notions and embrace cooperation, collaboration, and mutual benefit. It's the new coin of the progressive world.

Thank you for your lucid description of the recent French elections!

Yeeeaahh, no- this guy is a commie, period. We all know that 100+ million people left this existence due to Communism.. Thank you, Nima.. 🙏🏻💪🙏🏻