Category: Economics/Class Relations

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The hottest job markets

September 23, 2023 • 5 min read with Diamond Naga Siu It’s Saturday! After moving from one high-rent city (New York City) to another one (San Diego), I often think about what life would be like in an RV instead. Stories like this one — of an RV-life couple […]

College housing crisis

INSIDE SCOOP Tyler Le/Insider America’s biggest private-equity firms are screwing over college students As rents reach new highs, students are getting shorted. READ NOW Insider Today Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. COUNT ME IN

The New Colonialist Food Economy

September 22, 2023 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is by far the biggest funder of initiatives aimed at the transformation of African agriculture. But Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has been a resounding failure by its own self-proclaimed altruistic metrics, making nearly zero progress […]

Side hustles’ turning point

September 21, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hey there! Winning the lottery can come with headaches. Just ask Randy Rush, whose $37 million payday wrecked relationships with his mother and best friend. In today’s big story, we’re looking at how generative AI is making it […]

How To Defeat BlackRock

Appears in this episode The Corbett Report The Corbett Report explore the world of politics, history, science and economics from a radically alternative perspective. From geopolitical conspiracies to monetary manipulation, repressed history and social engineering, The Corbett Report goes where other podcasts fear to tread.show more Episode details […]

Ex-Goldman partners dish

September 20, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Halfway there! Hats off to this Danish artist for trying to get away with getting paid for two blank canvases titled “Take the Money and Run.” In today’s big story, former Goldman Sachs partners explain what led them […]

Fed’s decision day looms

September 19, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hiya! Not everyone loves the rise of influencers, but we all can support Teddy Siegel’s efforts to help people find a rare commodity: public bathrooms in New York City. In today’s big story, we’re looking at the Fed’s […]

How BlackRock Conquered the World

Appears in this episode The Corbett Report The Corbett Report explore the world of politics, history, science and economics from a radically alternative perspective. From geopolitical conspiracies to monetary manipulation, repressed history and social engineering, The Corbett Report goes where other podcasts fear to tread.show more What is […]

Tech’s biggest lie

September 18, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! Find someone as committed to you as much as Mark Sumersett is dedicated to surfing. Sumersett isn’t giving up surfing despite a shark biting his face last week.   “Heck yeah, I’m going surfing again,” he […]

Tiny homes, big problems

September 17, 2023 with Matt Turner Hi, welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. On the agenda today: The SEC is asking questions about Boxabl, the buzzy tiny-home startup. A software engineer who moved to Seattle said it was the […]

Pharmaceutical-Grade Monopolies

Sponsored by MUBI Daniel J. Kevles Unreasonable Terms In Owning the Sun, Alexander Zaitchik shows how American drug companies have exploited government contracts to pursue profit over public interest. Lynn Hunt The Orphan Among Revolutions Christopher Clark’s history of the 1848 revolutions highlights the destinies of individuals and the legacy of […]

The Middle Class Is Increasingly Becoming “The Impoverished Class”, And The Poor Are Increasingly Being Pushed Into The Streets

September 12, 2023 by Michael ShareTweet America’s middle class is being systematically eviscerated.  When the Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system during the pandemic, most Americans didn’t realize what that would do to them.  That money certainly made the wealthy a whole lot wealthier, […]

The New Colonialist Food Economy

FEATURED The New Colonialist Food Economy How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South. ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK FROM THIS ISSUE America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled The American Rescue Plan created unprecedented programs protecting parents and young children, renters, […]

A Musk genius

September 16, 2023   A NOTE FROM FORTUNE Fortune executive editor Nick Lichtenberg here, filling in for Alyson.   This week, the big one dropped. Walter Isaacson, the former Time editor turned documenter of genius brains from Leonardo da Vinci to Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, dropped his much anticipated all-access […]

Your manager is burnt out

September 16, 2023 • 4 min read with Diamond Naga Siu Welcome to the weekend, friends! I’m hoping to play a bit of pickleball now that the weather is cooling down. If you’re interested in trying it out or are just starting, a professional player revealed what new […]

Your knockoff’s hidden cost

September 15, 2023 • with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! Sen. Mitt Romney smothering salmon in ketchup is bad, but I’d argue you shouldn’t cover anything in ketchup. Grow up and use a real condiment like mustard or barbecue sauce. In today’s big story, we’re looking at the booming […]

Big banks are screwed

September 14, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Almost to the weekend! Changing phone chargers is already a massive headache, but now you have the bonus of electrocuting your new iPhone 15 if you use the wrong USB-C plugin. Speaking of shocks, Citigroup announced a massive […]