#WolffBites: Italy's bad inflation shows right-wing's failure to solve economic crisis all over Europe. Shift to the left begins as Meloni taxes the rich and those who seek to leave Italy to escape that tax.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Meloni Targets Rich in Symbolic Tax Move to Woo Italian Voters
Premier Giorgia Meloni’s last budget before Italian elections just took an even more populist twist as attention shifts to a small measure targeting the rich.
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2026 at 8:41 PM
#WolffBites: Italy's bad inflation shows right-wing's failure to solve economic crisis all over Europe. Shift to the left begins as Meloni taxes the rich and those who seek to leave Italy to escape that tax.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#WolffBites: As big French protests expand, they inspire parallel protests in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. European gov'ts offer few solutions but much police repression, so protests expand.
www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/e...
www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/e...
Protests spread to Germany as hundreds of thousands march again in France | CNN
Cost-of-living protests that began in France have spread to Germany where demonstrations to coincide with Halloween took place on Saturday, with tens of thousands of people turning out across the coun...
www.cnn.com
November 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
#WolffBites: As big French protests expand, they inspire parallel protests in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. European gov'ts offer few solutions but much police repression, so protests expand.
www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/e...
www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/e...
#WolffBites: Lula wins Brazil presidency against hostile opposition from billionaires Trump, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...
finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...
Meta Unseats Musk as Tech Villain for Lula in Brazil’s Election
A new villain is emerging in the closing stretch of Brazil’s bitterly contested presidential election: Meta Platforms Inc.
finance.yahoo.com
October 26, 2026 at 2:59 AM
#WolffBites: Lula wins Brazil presidency against hostile opposition from billionaires Trump, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...
finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...
#WolffBites: Slogan of students in France's streets: "Too young to be listened to, but old enough to suffer police violence."
www.truthdig.com/articles/if-...
www.truthdig.com/articles/if-...
'If We Burn, You Burn With Us': France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt
While media have fixated on the violence, French students achieved something rare on the weekend: Sectors that usually fight alone marched together.
www.truthdig.com
October 25, 2026 at 5:21 PM
#WolffBites: Slogan of students in France's streets: "Too young to be listened to, but old enough to suffer police violence."
www.truthdig.com/articles/if-...
www.truthdig.com/articles/if-...
#WolffBites: When Norway taxed business wealth, very few rich businesses left Norway, business tax revenues rose by 70%, and no adverse effects. Conclusion: tax raises on business could serve US too.
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
October 23, 2026 at 7:57 PM
#WolffBites: When Norway taxed business wealth, very few rich businesses left Norway, business tax revenues rose by 70%, and no adverse effects. Conclusion: tax raises on business could serve US too.
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
#WolffBites: Investors in French gov't bonds see rising risks of French leaders' refusal to honor their gov't debts. So they demand higher interest rates. Same is happening elsewhere in Europe and in US. Crisis spreads.
October 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
#WolffBites: Investors in French gov't bonds see rising risks of French leaders' refusal to honor their gov't debts. So they demand higher interest rates. Same is happening elsewhere in Europe and in US. Crisis spreads.
#WolffBites: Macron, "boss" of France's political "center," (1) tries police/army repression of protests, (2) panders to the right by blaming immigrants, and (3) keeps neglecting schools (the protests' cause). Trump urges/applauds repression in France, of course.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Macron bans ‘illegitimate‘ protests in France as he tries to get a grip on unrest
French president will decide on concrete ‘next steps’ regarding demonstrations called for Saturday and after, as part of tough security response to recent rioting
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2026 at 5:46 PM
#WolffBites: Macron, "boss" of France's political "center," (1) tries police/army repression of protests, (2) panders to the right by blaming immigrants, and (3) keeps neglecting schools (the protests' cause). Trump urges/applauds repression in France, of course.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
#WolffBites: French President Macron focuses on violent police repression of teenagers. How France's elite responds to millions of teachers and students protesting inadequate funding of schools. Result: protests spread across Europe.
www.cnn.com/world/video/...
www.cnn.com/world/video/...
French police tactics under scrutiny after teenagers seriously injured during protests | CNN
A 14-year-old boy left with a fractured jaw after police fired a tear gas canister at close range, striking him in the face. Another teenager who lost the use of an eye. As students across France cont...
www.cnn.com
October 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM
#WolffBites: French President Macron focuses on violent police repression of teenagers. How France's elite responds to millions of teachers and students protesting inadequate funding of schools. Result: protests spread across Europe.
www.cnn.com/world/video/...
www.cnn.com/world/video/...
#WolffBites: French protests against cuts in public services spread to Portugal and Italy, as earlier to Belgium. Italy's gov't learns nothing, hits protesters with police, solving nothing, provoking more protests.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
‘We are suffocating’: protests spread to Lisbon and Milan as housing and living cost tensions intensify
Hundreds at Lisbon tent camp demand action, as Giorgia Meloni says march in Italy was exploited by ‘hooligans’
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2026 at 9:36 PM
#WolffBites: French protests against cuts in public services spread to Portugal and Italy, as earlier to Belgium. Italy's gov't learns nothing, hits protesters with police, solving nothing, provoking more protests.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
#WolffBites: Union Pacific donated $2.5 million for Trump's White House ballroom. Meanwhile Union Pacific seeks approval of its $85 billion Norfolk Southern acquisition. How gov't and big business serve one another.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Axios Closer - Follow the money
www.axios.com
October 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
#WolffBites: Union Pacific donated $2.5 million for Trump's White House ballroom. Meanwhile Union Pacific seeks approval of its $85 billion Norfolk Southern acquisition. How gov't and big business serve one another.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
#WolffBites: Planned public execution at Fort Hood would NOT be new. Over last year at least 238 boat people in the Caribbean have been publicly executed. Public execution is just coding home.
www.newsamericasnow.com/us-boat-stri...
www.newsamericasnow.com/us-boat-stri...
U.S. Boat Strikes Have Killed At Least 238 In The Caribbean
At least 238 people have been killed in U.S. boat strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels since September 2025.
www.newsamericasnow.com
October 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
#WolffBites: Planned public execution at Fort Hood would NOT be new. Over last year at least 238 boat people in the Caribbean have been publicly executed. Public execution is just coding home.
www.newsamericasnow.com/us-boat-stri...
www.newsamericasnow.com/us-boat-stri...
#WolffBites: Capitalism made the already richest man in the world - Musk - much richer (a trillionaire). Musk uses that money to buy US elections so officials will preserve the capitalism that enriched him. That is the opposite of democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2026 at 1:29 PM
#WolffBites: Capitalism made the already richest man in the world - Musk - much richer (a trillionaire). Musk uses that money to buy US elections so officials will preserve the capitalism that enriched him. That is the opposite of democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
#WolffBites: As people increasingly ask "how can we do better than capitalism," the Nobel prize goes yet again to economists who work to keep capitalism by "managing" its profound instabilities better.
news.columbia.edu/news/columbi...
news.columbia.edu/news/columbi...
Columbia’s Michael Woodford Wins 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Woodford receives Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Robert E. Hall of Stanford University, for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.
news.columbia.edu
October 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
#WolffBites: As people increasingly ask "how can we do better than capitalism," the Nobel prize goes yet again to economists who work to keep capitalism by "managing" its profound instabilities better.
news.columbia.edu/news/columbi...
news.columbia.edu/news/columbi...
#WolffBites: US consumer confidence just fell (in September) to its lowest level since the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile Trump and Bessent repeat, like robots, how "great" the economy is.
October 11, 2026 at 10:45 PM
#WolffBites: US consumer confidence just fell (in September) to its lowest level since the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile Trump and Bessent repeat, like robots, how "great" the economy is.
#WolffBites: French protests grow against cuts in gov't spending on education and other social needs. Now Belgian students join too. Stupid gov'ts' first response: police repression. All Europe edges closer to social explosion. And the US?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WI...
'RIOT WAVE' HITS EUROPE: Belgium Rocked By Clashes After France Student Unrest | Watch
YouTube video by Times Of India
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
#WolffBites: French protests grow against cuts in gov't spending on education and other social needs. Now Belgian students join too. Stupid gov'ts' first response: police repression. All Europe edges closer to social explosion. And the US?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WI...
#WolffBites: As yes-women clap for him, he wants a new name (either Trump or America) for the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. As the actual US empire and its leader decline, growing their names becomes more urgent and desperate.
www.dailymail.com/news/article...
www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Trump floats renaming Atlantic or Pacific 'Trump Ocean' to huge cheers
The president joked about finding another major river or ocean to rename before leaving office, while ruling out changing the Hudson or Mississippi rivers.
www.dailymail.com
October 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
#WolffBites: As yes-women clap for him, he wants a new name (either Trump or America) for the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. As the actual US empire and its leader decline, growing their names becomes more urgent and desperate.
www.dailymail.com/news/article...
www.dailymail.com/news/article...
#WolffBites: On October 7: when "they had no choice" is said about Israel's wars against Palestinians, the aim is to end debate about the choices that were and are always there. The fear is about where debate can lead.
October 8, 2026 at 5:54 AM
#WolffBites: On October 7: when "they had no choice" is said about Israel's wars against Palestinians, the aim is to end debate about the choices that were and are always there. The fear is about where debate can lead.
''No one in their right mind would move their factory to the United states'' 🔥 #trumpadministration #macroeconomics ##wolffbites #perspectives #currentevents #synthesis
October 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
''No one in their right mind would move their factory to the United states'' 🔥 #trumpadministration #macroeconomics ##wolffbites #perspectives #currentevents #synthesis
#WolffBites: Stock market hits record highs. When empires decline, the top 10% keep squeezing wealth despite decline. They push the rising costs of decline onto the masses (think DOGE). The richest 10% own 80% of US stock markets. The masses merely watch.
finance.yahoo.com/markets/live...
finance.yahoo.com/markets/live...
Stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs as Nvidia, AMD lead tech higher
Stocks continued to march higher despite elevated bond yields.
finance.yahoo.com
October 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
#WolffBites: Stock market hits record highs. When empires decline, the top 10% keep squeezing wealth despite decline. They push the rising costs of decline onto the masses (think DOGE). The richest 10% own 80% of US stock markets. The masses merely watch.
finance.yahoo.com/markets/live...
finance.yahoo.com/markets/live...
#WolffBites: France's students raise crucial school issues. Macron ignores them. Students demand change. Macron ignores them. They protest publicly. Macron's police try to intimidate students. Street fires emerge. Of course, Macron blames students and "condemns violence."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
MSN
www.msn.com
October 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
#WolffBites: France's students raise crucial school issues. Macron ignores them. Students demand change. Macron ignores them. They protest publicly. Macron's police try to intimidate students. Street fires emerge. Of course, Macron blames students and "condemns violence."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
#WolffBites: France's interest rates rise, risk recession, infect other Europe. Desperate Macron takes money from education to pay creditors. Students + French people say no.
www.axios.com/2026/10/05/f...
www.axios.com/2026/10/05/f...
Why France's debt crisis matters
The situation is drawing comparisons to the sovereign debt crises that roiled Europe more than a decade ago.
www.axios.com
October 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
#WolffBites: France's interest rates rise, risk recession, infect other Europe. Desperate Macron takes money from education to pay creditors. Students + French people say no.
www.axios.com/2026/10/05/f...
www.axios.com/2026/10/05/f...
#WolffBites: After Macron's gov't saved money on education to spend more on big business, military goods, and anti-Russian hysteria.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
France school protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ as PM calls crisis cabinet meeting
About 900 demonstrations, blockades and related incidents under way outside high schools around the country
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
#WolffBites: After Macron's gov't saved money on education to spend more on big business, military goods, and anti-Russian hysteria.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
#Wolffbites: To cruelty add incompetence. Tennessee's botched its killing of a woman arrested at 19 (after a life of sexual abuse) and jailed until now (she is 50).
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...?
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...?
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2026 at 6:31 PM
#Wolffbites: To cruelty add incompetence. Tennessee's botched its killing of a woman arrested at 19 (after a life of sexual abuse) and jailed until now (she is 50).
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...?
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...?