#WolffBites: One key risk in Trump's tariffs was always that they might be changed or ended (by SCOTUS, US elections, or Trump). One key risk in going to war against Iran is that the US might lose (as it did in Vietnam or Afghanistan). Such are the dilemmas of declining empires.

#WolffBites: SCOTUS ruling against Trump's tariffs changes little. The tariff's' uncertainty (varied to bully tribute from other countries) kept CEOs from reshoring manufacturing or redoing most supply chains etc. www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/p...

Jesse Jackson: A Meditation On Greatness open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Wolff Responds: "Murder Victims, not Narco-Terrorists" Dated February 18, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

#WolffBites: Growing US movements of resistance and for change now include US labor unions. They grew by 500,000 members in 2025 despite - or better, partly because of - all Trump and MAGA tried. The winds of change are shifting! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#WolffBites: Rubio expands MAGA to advocate for MSGA - make colonialism great again - instead of "managing the orderly decline of the west." Like Don Quixote tilting against windmills, Rubio and Trump aim to reverse world history. Result is disorderly decline. www.youtube.com/shorts/F5cDf...

Jesse Jackson was a product of his time. His 1988 presidential campaign was endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America and by Bernie Sanders. He spoke at Hugo Chavez's funeral in Venezuela. He helped prepare for today's rediscovery of socialism in the US. capitalresearch.org/article/from...

UK, German leaders make a "moral case for rearmament." Hoping to offset very low, declining popularity, both leaders beat war drums, this time against Russia instead of 2 World Wars against one another. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#WolffBites: In 2025, Trump gov't tried to incentivize US couples into having more children while deporting immigrants who have more children. So fewer births than 2024. Incoherent policies. apnews.com/article/how-...

Hello friends, next month myself alongside @shahramazhar.bsky.social will be presenting “Marxian Class Analysis”, an Online Course. This is part of the Left Education Project organized by @democracyatwork.bsky.social and #LeftForum You may register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/marxian-cl...

#WolffBites: We welcome the growing global recognition that basic social needs - like saving the planet from ecological disaster - require challenging capitalism by advocating for the democratization of enterprises. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

. @democracyatwork.bsky.social "On Socialism: Exploring Theory & Practice with Richard( @profwolff.bsky.social )Wolff" #DemocracyAtWork www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwwX...

#WolffBites: Imagine a political party really confronting our "affordability" crisis by focusing on bringing down grocery prices! Canada's NDP does well what US Democrats fail so badly to do or even to imagine. youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-n...

EU Story: San Francisco Teachers’ Strike Shuts Down 120 Schools democracyatwork.substack.com/p/eu-story-s...

Wolff Responds: Capitalism and The Epstein Class open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

#WolffBites: Alberta province in Canada has a Trump-like authoritarian leader who threatens the independence of courts. Unlike the US Supreme Court, supreme judges in Alberta fight back against authoritarian threats. queergranddad.substack.com/p/did-albert...

#WolffBites: Amazon, Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google): 3 megacorps report many $ billions in 2025 tax cuts, part of GOP's "big, beautiful" tax bill. Trump and the billionaires; each keeps other on top. finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

#WolffBites: Polls on Trump handling of the economy drop sharply. Declining economy got Trump in and now threatens to drive his party out. www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/p...

#WolffBites: Another reason for decreasing marriages and children is the average US cost of babysitting one child per hour is now $26.24 (rising faster than inflation). Also driving mothers out of the job market. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

#WolffBites: The Epstein scandal dissolved the weak glue holding the UK gov't together. As it disintegrates, the UK may perhaps follow the US into a desperate Trump-type authoritarianism equally incapable of stopping western capitalism's further decline. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#WolffBites: Our "Free Press" lets billionaires like Bezos cut and ruin an important newspaper institution however he pleases. Maybe what he saves by crippling the Washington Post helps subsidize the Melania movie. www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/b...

#WolffBites: Gallup Poll shows 40% of US women would like to leave the US to live. Big increase from 2018 and much higher than for other developed economies (OECD). Another angle to view decline of US. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

Good Morning friends, please find my latest editorial piece on our current state of affairs and how we got here. via @democracyatwork.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

#WolffBite: Trump proposed to increase funding of the War Department by $600 billion next year, but the US has not paid its debts to the UN (now $2.2 billion). Trump's priorities for war and for peace differ. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

#WolffBites: Trump closing the Kennedy Center (after most artists cancel shows there) "for renovation" is like a politician quitting (after getting caught in bad behavior) "to spend more time with his family."

Don Lemon, the Authoritarian State, and the End of Dissent as We Knew It open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

#WolffBites: The FED's job is to limit the inherent instability of capitalism, the costly cycles of inflation/recession/depression that capitalism never overcame. Blaming the FED for capitalism's problem misunderstands economics.

#WolffBites: USSR's decline left US empire to reach its peak. World's central banks exchanged gold for US dollar treasuries. As US empire goes into decline after 2000 and China rises.... Those banks shift back from US treasuries to gold.

#WolffBites: The writing is on the wall: Canada and Britain send leaders to Beijing for expanded trade deals with China (as US closes itself off with tariffs). Only political blindness misses what the wall writing teaches us. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

New Episode of #EconomicUpdate out today at 4:30PM EST @profwolff.bsky.social joined by Clara Mattei of @freefreeforum.bsky.social to discuss her new book! Watch it then here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9UA...

#WolffBites: Trump's Agriculture Secretary tells poor Americans to eat $3 meals if they cant afford more. Like equally clueless Marie Antionette telling France's poor to eat cake if bread is too costly. www.cnn.com/politics/vid...

EU Story: Minneapolis ICE Out of Minnesota — General Strike (January 23) via @democracyatwork.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

#WolffBites: Target, Delta Airlines, and Hilton Hotels among mega-corporations whose workers are demanding they take stands against ICE in wake of Minneapolis killing. Labor builds the movement. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#WolffBites: Russia/China "have" vast Asian portion of Russia to develop economically. A desperate US wants an equivalent (take Greenland and Canada), keep Europeans out. "National security" covers a lot.

#WolffBites: Many global billionaires see capitalism's global crisis, leading them to call on politicians to tax the rich - like themselves - to cut global inequality rather than just talk about it... Too bad other billionaires have bought those politicians. timetowin.world

#WolffBites: The biggest threat to US capitalism is this inequality: 20% richest do 59% of total consumer spending that keeps economy going, but poorest 80% do only 41% of spending. Capitalism keeps producing the inequality that destroys it.

Big US bank CEOs denounce plans to cap credit card interest rates at 10%/year (instead of 22%/year now). If such caps happen, banks threaten to withdraw credit cards from millions. Will we let banks keep ripping us off by blocking caps? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Query on Greenland: Might Trump fear that Europe, via Denmark, wants a vast, resource-rich Greenland to help Europe regain a powerful place in a world economy otherwise dominated by China and/or the US?

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#WolffBites: Trevor Slavin, Asset Manager at BlackRock and then Barings, says that 70% of Trump's policy announcements are "just bluster." The financial professionals disregard them. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

#WolffBites: Germany stopped buying cheap Russian oil and gas to bankrupt Russia and to win the Ukraine war. It failed but also raised Germany's energy prices and thus other prices. Recession followed.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGtK...

#WolffBites: Minneapolis Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO strongly endorses March 23 general strike to protest actions of ICE. A major step in capitalism's deepening crisis. minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

When Trump uses ancient law against people in Minnesota, we remember a great woman's quote: “What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.” ― Rosa Luxemburg (murdered Berlin 15 January 1919)

As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., let's not miss noting where he would stand in the battle of ICE versus Minneapolis.

#WolffBites: SA, SS, and Gestapo all began small “to protect” Nazi Party meetings. Hitler grew them into a big army to terrorize his political enemies including running concentration camps.

#WolffBites: Will US bankers support independent money-management (the FED) or will short-term competitive greed among bankers dictate subservience to Trump as he tries to subordinate the FED?

#WolffBites: GOP corporate donors know their cash goes to buy votes of certain masses (evangelical Christians, white supremacists, super patriots, racists, etc.). But what if Trump's policies cost donors (like a 10% cap on credit card interest rates)? Trump gets trounced.

#WolffBites: When past empires suffered economic decline (as all eventually did) and they lost political power, they often desperately tried military power to reverse the empire's decline. It never worked.

Wolff Responds: Venezuela: Where Will this End? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5x...

#WolffBites: Job prospects in the US worse today than at any time over the last 12 years (worse even than during the pandemic).