Category: Economics/Class Relations

The Paradox of the Self-Made Man

B.P.S. Mar 20, 2025 People often dispute the legitimacy of wealth and whether certain people truly deserve their fortunes. This has been especially true more recently, with riotous populism afoot, tycoons more brazenly intermixing business with politics, and the uppermost tier of society has seemingly accessed some kind […]

The Week Ahead for 3/23/2025

Get ready for the week in stocks: key earnings, ex-dividend dates, and IPOs to watch.Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio March 23rd, 2025   DOGE could send 6 AI […]

A New Party of Progress

Manifesto of the National Labor Party Benjamin Stuart Reed Mar 07, 2025   The election of President Trump should be seen as the euthanizing bullet to the sick donkey long in decay. In truth, a Do Not Resuscitate order should have been affixed to it years ago, as […]

The Weekly Wrap-Up for 3/22/2025

Stocks got a mid-week boost after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged. However, a poor earnings report from FedEx Inc. (NYSE: FDX) had stocks drifting lower and set for another week of losses. Investors are trying to price in uncertainty regarding the Trump administration’s tariffs, which are […]

Inside the AI talent wars

View this email in your browser. Saturday, March 22, 2025 Verne Kopytoff Senior Editor, Tech The AI boom has created a new class of rock stars. Engineers and researchers specialized in the all-important technology are landing huge pay packages as companies, desperate to gain an edge over rivals, […]

Tesla & NATO’s “Years of Lead” Strategy

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The Acorn – 101

In this issue: Rising to our feet The Owners and Controllers of Global Financial Capital Donald Trump and the Global Mafia Dreaming of an ancient peace Frantz Fanon: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. Rising to our feet by Paul Cudenec How does it make you feel to […]

Why Tariffs Are Good

The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China by Michael Lind, Tablet March 07, 2025 Donald Trump is back—and so is the tariff. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” the president […]

Was This Wall Street’s Worst Kept Secret?

Unsubscribe Trump’s Secret Weapon (From American Alternative) Walgreens Boots Alliance: Don’t Write Off This Asset Champ Yet Troubled pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (NASDAQ: WBA) has been a spectacular disappointment since completing its merging in 2014. Shares rose to a high of $97.14 following the union but had […]

Larry Fink says retirement is a benefit increasingly limited to Fortune 500 employees, and widening the scope should be a ‘national priority’

BY Eleanor Pringle March 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM EDT BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned of a growing retirement crisis, emphasizing that only employees at top companies benefit from adequate retirement planning while many Americans feel unprepared. He urges corporate leaders and politicians to rethink the system, acknowledging […]

Mad King Trump’s Tariff Disaster

MARCH 12, 2025 On the Prospect website Mad King Trump’s Tariff Disaster The president’s trade war on Canada is heating up in the dumbest conceivable manner. BY RYAN COOPER Doug Collins’s Cancel Culture The VA secretary is targeting the wrong contracts to eliminate waste and inefficiency. BY SUZANNE […]

The Work of Socialism in One Country

The Work of Socialism in One Country Ber Borochov’s theory of localized self-determination and class solidarity could address dilemmas that have baffled the Left Oliver Bateman Does the Work Mar 11, 2025 The work of Ber Borochov Ber Borochov (1881–1917) was a leading thinker among fin-de-siècle socialist Zionists. […]

The Impact of Trump’s Economic Policy Shifts

March 12, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, International equity markets have not responded kindly to recent policy uncertainty, with stock indices volatile in the face of renewed trade tensions. […]