#OnThisDay in 1894, José Carlos Mariátegui was born in Peru. A journalist, organizer, and Marxist thinker, he became one of the pioneers of Latin American socialism, arguing that socialist politics must be rooted in local realities, not imported models.
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The Dialectic is back!
Season 3 is devoted to debates in economics; why do economists disagree? How can we distinguish between different economic theories?
This episode begins with an overview of the major debates.
No Congressperson asked Bill Gates how Epstein "came to be aware of Gates' infidelities and used them to pressure Gates?" A true answer would clarify Gates-Epstein link and the endless horrors of the Epstein class.
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#WolffBites: Trump says "I love the inflation." Because it is great for his employer buddies. By prices rising faster than wages, wealth gets redistributed upwards from employees to employers. The MAGA hero.
cnbc.com/2026/06/10/trump-in…
“A minimum wage natural experiment has been running for over a decade” by Prof @arindube. Must read thread to understand the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment.
We've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not.
What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now.
Link next post.
#WolffBites: US economy not so great now: highest credit card debt in history PLUS highest rate of credit card delinquency ever. Households are desperate: "There's too much month at the end of the money..."
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📺 | #DiEM25 | @yanisvaroufakis y @profwolff examinan los orígenes del sistema del petrodólar, el papel cambiante del poder estadounidense, las consecuencias económicas del conflicto en Irán y las crisis que configuran el capitalismo global actual.
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Sanitation workers and the death of the working class:
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Naeem Sadiq comes on to talk about sanitation workers, deaths from people going into gutters, minimum wage, labour unions and more.
People won't watch a podcast on real issues
#WolffBites: US savings rate now very low 2.6% (what we save out of our disposable personal incomes). Prices up faster than wages cuts savings across Trump's 2nd term. We risk our futures if we cannot save now. Trump's economy is not "great."
cnbc.com/2026/05/28/savings-…
#WolffBites: In this planet's era of anti-colonialism and amid the rise of the global south, Israel's attempt to expand its settler colonialism becomes ever more desperate as does its alliance with the declining US empire