Understanding the US’s Pandemic-Era Capitalism

FEATURING RICHARD WOLFF – Randall Lane, Business writer for Forbes magazine has just published a lengthy article entitled “Greater Capitalism: How the Pandemic is Permanently Reshaping Our Economic System for the Better.” In it Lane laments the fact that too many Americans worry the economy is rigged to benefit the rich but points out that during the pandemic some glimmers of hope in salvaging capitalism lie in the fact that several publicly traded companies were shamed into returning their taxpayer backed loans. He also lauds the philanthropic efforts of billionaires and claimed that “The Invisible Hand is operating on itself with dispatch.”

What exactly does pandemic-era capitalism in the US look like?

Read Richard Wolff’s article ‘Capitalism vs. Safety, Health: An Old Story Again,’ HERE.

Richard Wolff, visiting professor at the New School University, New York and professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of a number of books including ‘Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism’, ‘Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism’, ‘Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA’, more. He is the host of the nationally syndicated program Economic Update.