#WolffBites: Trump made more personal stockmarket trades than total trades made by all members of both US Senate and House. Profiteering from inside knowledge?
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@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: Trump made more personal stockmarket trades than total trades made by all members of both US Senate and House. Profiteering from inside knowledge?
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: Germany's Merz ups German rearmament + help for Ukraine, cuts German public services, demonizes Russia. Last desperate gestures of European decline.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: AI, like all technical changes before it, can either serve people or else competing profiteers. If the latter, it often disrupts and deprives millions and turns competition into war. Trump and his big AI funders push for AI profits. We better push back.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: Victim and Victimizer on 9/11. The US in 2001 and the US in Chile in 1973. Legacies of colonialism.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: Using his popular anti-Trumpism, Canada's PM Carney retains his banker's notion of economic "success" as including privatizing Canada's infrastructure and subsidizing its capitalists.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: EU and US leaders complain bitterly about Chinese economic competition. Why not do what competitive losers usually do: adopt and adapt China's better "model."
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@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: Trump's colonialism aims to take Greenland from Europe. Europe insists on keeping its colony. Economic decline drives both toward war.
@democracyatwork.bsky.social#WolffBites: Mamdani helped to release 9/11 papers showing how Giuliani and other pols HID UNSAFE AIR from the public. Shame on them; bravo Mamdani.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: Land becomes fruitful when labor works it. No need for landowners who take much of tht fruit. Tools, machines, inputs —capital— becomes productive only when labor works them.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: This Labor Day again, megadonors are buying elections. They fund those politicians who (1) help megadonors get their $ billions, and (2) try to keep labor from changing this undemocratic pay-to-play system.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: Pres says economy "great." But delinquency rate among sub-prime auto loans is now over 5%. After rising the last 4 years it is now higher than at any time during the last 20 years.
@profwolff.bsky.social#WolffBites: France and UK celebrate display of Bayeux tapestry that shows horror of European wars. Meanwhile, both provoke wars via NATO expansion and their politically convenient Russophobia.