Category: Economics/Class Relations

“Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de… We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelection. Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century came out just a month after Trump began his first […]

The Pond Gets Wider

Recently in The Signal: Victoria Barnes on the dynamics of debanking—and whether banks have really started closing clients’ accounts because of their political views. … Today: Why is Europe falling so far behind the U.S.? Martin Wolf on diverging histories of investment, innovation, and confidence. … Also: Gustav Jönsson […]

Those Other White People

For some white liberals, anti-racism is a smoke screen for class prejudice. Leighton Woodhouse Nov 14, 2021 One of the most pathetic spectacles of contemporary liberal culture is white people trashing other white people for being white. I understand the motivation, which is transparent: to show your #allyship […]

The Re-Skilling of America

nstead of subsidizing America’s greedy and unequal diploma mills, how about dropping degree requirements and rewarding skills? by Michael Lind December 03, 2024 Michael Lind chronicles civilizational shifts and national trends, writing about American politics and culture with a deep understanding of history and appreciation for America’s highest […]

No Shale for Europe

No Shale for Europe by Peter Zeihan on December 3, 2024 This video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, as well as exclusive perks […]

Land

By Cake Boy My perception of anarchism is Benjamin Tucker’s anarchism. Preston and I discussed pluralist anarchism here based on this core sentence. Anarchism is the idea that: All social relations should be voluntary. The Rothbardian/libertarian anarchists would agree with this statement, but their definition of voluntary is […]

My son Elon called me ‘pure evil’ when he was a raging liberal. Now he’s Trump’s First Buddy, I get to hear just what Donald’s going to do to his enemies! Musk senior reveals all about his billionaire son in no-holds barred interview

By REBECCA HARDY Published: 19:00 EST, 22 November 2024 | Updated: 01:47 EST, 23 November 2024 You’d be hard pushed to describe Elon Musk or his straight-talking South African father Errol as particularly emotional men. Yet earlier this year, father and son, who spectacularly fell out when Elon […]

The Menace of Tariffs

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024 The erection of tariff walls has the same effect as the erection of real walls. It is significant that the protectionists habitually use the language of warfare. –  Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “The Menace of Tariffs” [2024] HORNBERGER’S BLOG November 20, 2024 A Tribute […]

The BRICS: More of the Same?

“People are still defining success in terms of GDP growth. Permanent growth is only success for a cancerous tumor.People are still believing that BRICS won’t be influenced and controlled by the same class of psychopathic pedos as the West is. BRICS is and will continue to be.People still […]

Time to trump inflation?

November 16, 2024 Senior Fellow and Good as Gold author Judy Shelton explains the fundamental problem of the Fed, the state of inflation, and Trump’s reelection on Yahoo Finance. Trumping Inflation? Research Fellow Alexander Salter explores what a second Trump administration will do for the cost of living. […]