Economic Update Creators & Guests

Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, host of the video show & podcast Economic Update, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York.

Robert Ovetz is a lecturer in Political Science at San Jose State University (US) and author of the book, When Workers Shot Back.

William I. Robinson is an author and American professor of sociology at the University of California.

Adam Hochschild is an author, journalist, historian, and lecturer.

Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and public speaker who writes about Wall Street and the US economy.Prins worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs for 2 years and as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns for seven years, and was a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. She was Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos think tank from 2002 to 2016. Prins is known for her book All the Presidents' Bankers, in which she explores over a century of close relationships between the 19 presidents from Teddy Roosevelt through Barack Obama and the key bankers of their day, based on archival documents. Prins also received recognition for her whistleblower book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, for her views on the U.S. economy, for her published spending figures on federal programs and initiatives related to the 2008 bailout, and for her advocacy for the reinstatement of the Glass–Steagall Act and regulatory reform of the financial industry. She was also a member of Senator Bernie Sanders' panel of top economic experts to advise on Federal Reserve reform.