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The fight for remote jobs

September 26, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hiya! One of the major stories of the past few days has been the budding relationship between Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce. From how Kelce’s salary compares to Swift’s concert ticket sales to a guide to […]

The Second Nakba

Sponsored by Liveright In the Review’s October 19 issue, David Shulman writes about Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. The book, which Thrall expanded from an article he wrote for NYR Online, recounts a 2012 accident in the West Bank, […]

Shut It All Down

Plus: Nonessential government programs (all of them?), AI firefighting, tech-world hit pieces, and more… LIZ WOLFE Congressional impasse With a government shutdown looking ever more likely, the Senate is now debating whether Ukraine aid ought to be included in whatever stopgap bill they pass to fund the government. At […]

Dozens Of Government UFO Whistleblowers Have Given Testimony To Congress, Pentagon, And Inspectors General, Say Sources

Despite the growing number of UFO/UAP whistleblowers, leaders the military and intelligence community are fighting greater disclosure Michael Shellenberger , Andrew Mohar , and Phoebe Smith Sep 25, 2023 ∙ Paid Thomas A. Monheim, nominee for Inspector General of the Intelligence Community speaks at a hearing with the […]

9/25/23: Democrats Freak Over Trump Plus 10 Poll, WGA Strike Reach Agreement, Biden To Picket with UAW, Nazi Honored In Canadian Parliament, Gaetz Fights Shutdown Politics, Menendez Pulls Race Card, Bachelor For Olds, Legalized Bribery, Anti Racist Grift Squanders Millions

Krystal and Saagar discuss the WGA reaching a tentative agreement after striking for almost 150 days, Democrats freak over Trump plus 10 over Biden poll, Biden to join the picket line at UAW in historic move, UAW President Shawn Fain shreds the Big 3’s lies on Car prices, […]

Wall Street’s new job path

with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! We had some breaking news late Sunday: The Writers Guild of America reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to end a 146-day strike. My colleagues have the latest on that here. As for today’s edition, we’re looking at how AI could upend […]

Win for Writers Guild, Loss for AI

Win for Writers Guild, Loss for AI Plus: IRS insanity, robocop photo ops, and more… LIZ WOLFE Fran Drescher holds Hollywood hostage: On Sunday night, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) reached a tentative deal with studios and streaming platforms, likely ending the 146-day strike that has brought new TV and […]

China: a superpower’s slump

Today’s best articles Where Oscar season stands after the fall film festivals 6 hotels to visit this fall How fees impact your investment portfolio and how to save on them 5 fashionably funny cartoons about the Senate dress code China: a superpower’s slump Biden creates White House Office […]

Goldman partner exodus

September 24, 2023 • 5 min read with Matt Turner Hello! I’m the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of the week’s top stories. On the agenda today: Why former Goldman Sachs partners say they left the firm. […]

Strike!

Sponsored by Celadan Books  Gabriel Winant Eight and Skate Today’s iteration of the United Auto Workers—now on a decisive strike—is both a renewal of an old tradition and a new creation. Larry Rohter Searching for the True Brazil The writer Mário de Andrade advocated a lusty embrace of the […]

How Vanguard Conquered the World

The Corbett Report Sep 24, 2023 by James Corbett corbettreport.com September 24, 2023 So, you’ve watched How BlackRock Conquered the World and you’re now aware of how this financial behemoth with trillions of dollars of assets under management has taken over vast swaths of the economy. You know […]

Super-rich to get lessons in succession at Cambridge as the university offers a new course to ‘equip the world’s most influential families to shape the 21st Century’

Hit show Succession features family power struggle to take over a media empire Now a course at Cambridge University aims to help heirs of real-life tycoons  The course, priced at £12K, aims to produce world leaders and chief executives  By Sam Merriman For The Mail On Sunday Published: […]

The Oliver Anthony Problem

Ep. 2396 The Oliver Anthony Problem The singer who goes by the name Oliver Anthony took America by storm with his unexpected hit “Rich Men North of Richmond.” He correctly identified the villains in America — not rich people as a class, but a specific group of unjustly […]

Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster?

Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debate the merits of anarcho-capitalism. GENE EPSTEIN | 9.22.2023 11:55 AM (Brook photo by Gage Skidmore; Graphic by Lex Villena) Audio Player Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. 1×1.1×1.25×1.5x2x3x :15  :15 Download Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster? Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron […]