Professor Richard D. Wolff
@profwolff.bsky.social
Professor of Economics Emeritus University of Massachusetts Founder/Director Democracy At Work #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism Follow: https://bsky.app/profile/democracyatwork.bsky.social website: www.RDWolff.com website: www.DemocracyAtWork.info
#WolffBites: As of June 7, 2026, 111 billionaires donated over $10 million to Republican Susan Collins Senate campaign in Maine. Just buying the gov't they want. www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...
Here Are Susan Collins’ 111 Billionaire Backers
Democrats see the Maine U.S. Senate race as a place where they could flip the seat but as their nominee faces pressure to withdraw, these billionaires see something else: a Republican moderate worth k...
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#WolffBites: If AI models are our technical future, China has the best and cheapest, not the US. Like electric vehicles, solar panels, batteries, etc.
#WolffBites: In capitalist healthcare systems, profits drive firms' ads about drugs, devices, procedures. The public learns to suspect the validity of those ads. Crooks then exploit those suspicions. www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/p...
RFK Jr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview | CNN Politics
In attempting to rewrite the history of the US Covid-19 response, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously re...
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#WolffBites: Why Americans shifted to oppose genocide against colonized Palestinians: it is a way to admit and oppose the genocide against colonized indigenous Americans.
#WolffBites: Biden used 2022 Chips Act to give US corporations $ millions in grants. Trump gives much more but not grants. Rather investments. When you cant beat China, join em. finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...
Trump administration adds 6 chipmakers to the government's stock portfolio, which now spans 30 companies
The Trump administration expanded the government's investment portfolio this week after six semiconductor companies signed letters of intent to receive government assistance in return for "a minority,...
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#WolffBites: A.I.'s biggest negative may not be job loss. New research shows A.I.'s bigger impact is to lower wages for already lower paid US workers. How capitalism uses technology. www.axios.com/2026/07/30/g...
U.S. economy grows at 1.5% rate in second quarter
The report captures a three-month stretch shaped by the Middle East conflict and a surge in energy prices.
axios.com
#WolffBites: In politics we replaced kings with democracies. Lets do same in workplaces: replace CEOs with workers' democratic voting.
#WolffBites: If you can't beat them, join them. Euro car-makers partner with Chinese. US will too. Chinese win the competition. www.independent.co.uk/cars/electri...
Inside the deals bringing Chinese carmakers into Europe’s factories
In the latest DriveSmart newsletter, Steve Fowler unpacks Ford’s new deal with China’s Geely – and asks whether Europe’s carmakers are wheeling in their own Trojan Horse
independent.co.uk
#WolffBites: US and EU leaders fight unwinnable, costly wars (Iran, Ukraine), avoid diplomacy to protect tough-guy reputations. thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/western-di...
Western diplomacy is dead: a post-diplomacy world
Why western leaders refuse dialogue with their adversaries while pursuing unwinnable wars
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#WolffBites: Spasms of a dying colonialism: (1) US fantasies of taking Canada, etc., (2) Euro fantasies of defeating, splitting-up and then taking Russia, and (3) Israel fantasies of taking the Middle East.
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Democracy At Work@democracyatwork.bsky.social · 2w agoNew #EconomicUpdate with @profwolff.bsky.social & Donald H Whitehead, Jr., the director of the National Coalition of the Homeless on the "U.S. #Housing Crisis Deepens" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Dk...
#WolffBites: President "Forever Wars" just opened another trade war with Canada. Because, he tells us, all his other wars (Iran, Ukraine, Gaza - with Israel) are "huge successes." www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...
Trump hits Canada with new 50% tariffs
President Trump imposed new 50% tariffs on many Canadian imports on everything from wine to hockey sticks to cement.
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#WolffBites: The "Scapegoat-ing President," Trump blames immigrants, Iranians, Democrats, Chinese, Venezuelans, Cubans, and now again Canadians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods from alcohol to hockey sticks
Rift between the two countries grows after Trump confronted Mark Carney at Sunday’s FIFA World Cup Final over wildfire smoke drifting south into U.S. cities
independent.co.uk
#WolffBites: New, better data on US economy: (1) 53% own their homes (not old 65% data), and (2) for under 35, only 22% own their homes (not old 37% data). Housing crisis deepens. www.axios.com/2026/07/21/h...
Homeownership rate in the U.S. is lower than you think, new research finds
The findings show that younger Americans are having an even harder time in trying to buy a house.
axios.com
Hello friends, please find my latest article "What is to be Done, 2026?" on @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/what-is-to...
What is to be Done, 2026?
In the second half of the 19th century, as Russia’s feudalism ended and its empire tottered, the great Russian novelist, Chernyshevsky, reflected that time’s deepening concerns and anxieties in his 18...
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New #EconomicUpdate with @profwolff.bsky.social & Donald H Whitehead, Jr., the director of the National Coalition of the Homeless on the "U.S. #Housing Crisis Deepens" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Dk...
Economic Update: U.S. Housing Crisis Deepens
YouTube video by Democracy At Work
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#WolffBites: US banking oligarchs profited off of the shift of US manufacturing to China over the last generation. Now they complain that "we" cannot manufacture enough weapons for all the wars we need. Bizarre! www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/amer...
American Oligarchs Sell the Ground Out From Underneath Their Own Feet | naked capitalism
Their "Arsenal of Democracy” is breaking down (a good thing!); too bad it doesn’t mean redirecting social capital toward social needs.
nakedcapitalism.com
#WolffBites: Careful, Mr. Trump, before you charge Canada for polluting US air. Remember: US is one of our planet's worst polluters. Charging for pollution will cost US dearly. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
US drives rise in global emissions as utilities turn back to coal, report shows
The United States accounted for about a third of the rise in global carbon dioxide emissions in 2025, as higher gas prices pushed power producers back to coal, an Energy Institute report showed on Tu...
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Hello friends I would like to invite you to read my latest article on @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/07/amer...
Richard Wolff on the Left’s New Openings in 2026
As American hegemony falters and a new global order emerges, Richard Wolff argues the crises around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz reveal capitalism entering another era of historic upheaval — and the ...
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#WolffBites: "Why call Trump "nihilist" or "out to wreck everything"? Because since 1945, big business got the GOP relentlessly to undo the New Deal: Trump aims to finish the job.
#WolffBites: Hard threatening faces will scare children. Only a cringing Secretary of the Treasury could put that face on a new US $ 1 gold coin.
#WolffBites: Starmer gone as UK leader. He badly damaged his "labor" party, grossly subsidized Zelensky, and wrecked Corbyn's alternative leadership with phony accusations of anti-semitism. No loss. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starmer says it's the 'end of my political journey' at his final Prime Minister's Questions
MPs on all sides of the House of Commons paid tribute to the departing PM, traded jokes and shared anecdotes.
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#WolffBite: On Bastille Day, celebrating France's 1789 revolution, we are reminded that revolutions happen when people lose confidence in social institutions (see Gallup poll below).
#WolffBites: Stomach bug outbreak across US worsened by reduced budgets and activities of federal Centers for Disease Control. Thanks to Trump and Musk for such "efficiency." www.axios.com/2026/07/11/e...
Why the "explosive" stomach bug outbreak remains a mystery
Cyclospora cases normally climb in the summer months.
axios.com
#WolffBites: 57% of Americans polled see grim economic conditions getting worse. But not the political "leaders." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, exclusive poll finds
About 57% of polled Americans also believe economy is worsening in grim portrait of cost of living crisis, according to Harris survey for the Guardian
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#WolffBites: Trump's mysterious plan to lower gas prices for a very few is "freedom," he attacks Mayor Mamdani's real program cutting grocery costs as "communism." Dont be fooled. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
What We Know About ‘Freedom Fuel’ Gas Stations
It is unclear who is behind the initiative and its sharply discounted gas prices.
forbes.com
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#WolffBites: If far-right LePen runs for France's president, she will match Trump since both ran as convicted criminals. The only difference: French law requires LePen to wear an ankle tag. www.reuters.com/world/marine...
Marine Le Pen verdict live: Court ruling allows far-right leader to run for president, but with an ankle tag
The court upheld Marine Le Pen's conviction for misusing EU funds but shortened her ban on running for elected office, potentially re-opening a path for the far-right leader to run in the 2027 preside...
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#WolffBites: The Vice President JD Vance got an official salary of $284,600 in 2025. His total income in 2025 was $7,400,000. On July 4 we are asked to celebrate the best gov't money can buy. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Vance’s financial disclosure reveals book revenue, crypto holdings
Vice President Vance earned millions of dollars last year, mostly from royalties tied to his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” according to his latest financial disclosure report. The annual disclosu…
thehill.com
#WolffBites: WEB DuBois helps us to appreciate the breakthrough importance of the democratic socialist electoral victories in New York, Washington and Colorado of recent weeks. No wonder the establishment worries. seattlemedium.com/democratic-s...
The "Democratic Socialist": It’s The Message Not The Messenger
Dr. W.E.B. DuBois' 1956 prediction of a one-party system resonates as democratic socialist candidates achieve electoral success. The African American community must engage with this shifting political...
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