Economic Update - Inconvenient Economic Truths with Richard Wolff

Updates on unpaid law clerks, Buffett's minimum tax on high incomes, and CBO report on medical care costs and federal deficits. Discussion of Walmart as emblem and example of capitalist "success." Responding to listeners on Robin Hood tax and student debt relief campaign and on rationales for cutting corporate tax rates.

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The Bike Show get's high-tech retro with a flashback to materials of the past that are making a splash now. In this episode we talk about wood and wool as the re-imagined, super hot, high tech materials of the future with Adam George, creator and fabricator of Bound Bikes (a bmboo bicycle and trailer maker), Chris DiStephano, the Communications Director for Rapha Performance Roadwear North America and Emily McKissock, Account Manager for Icbreaker Merino. Later in the show we get a re-cap from the world of BikeCraft-- Portland's annual hand-made bicycle accessory wonderland.

 Rita will be sitting in for Bob this afternoon playing lots of new releases that have recently come into the station. You'll hear classic '60s jazz done by the Paul Winter Sextet at the White House, Chicago based alto saxist Caroline Davis's debut recording and the latest from guitarist Rez Abbasi.