10.08.24 Bargain hunters, rejoice! Amazon Prime Day is upon us yet again. You probably know the drill at this point—our reviewers are tracking down the best deals for gear that we’ve actually hand-tested ourselves. You can follow the deals as they happen, via our liveblog. And don’t […]
PAPERBACK, EBOOK, AND AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NOW A new book from Independent Institute contains an authoritative, morally sound blueprint for prosperity. In Good as Gold: How to Unleash the Power of Sound Money, Senior Fellow Judy Shelton—former chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and critically acclaimed monetary economist—charts […]
Friday, 4 October 2024 “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” Leonardo da Vinci STORY OF THE DAY SA’s CEOs on why they are optimistic about the country By Ray Mahlaka Sentiment around South Africa has improved since the coalition government was formed and Eskom’s blackouts faded. However, CEOs […]
October 5, 2024 A Funny Way for the Fed to Stay Apolitical In a Letter to the Editor, Senior Fellow Judy Shelton responds to Alan Blinder on the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate cut. Why so many students hate Israel Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg lays out the facts about […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you Texas Governor Leading Insulin Manufacturers For Conspiracy to Hike Drug Prices Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit against leading insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers concerning an alleged conspiracy to raise insulin prices. Pharmacy […]
Steve Sailer Oct 05, 2024 Harvard economist Raj Chetty has released a new paper based on a colossal 57 million people born between 1978 and 1992. Chetty has managed to get his claws upon their parents 1040 tax forms from 1978-2019 and their own 1040s up through 2019. […]
October 4 2024 STEALING HOME: Local Governments’ Shocking Property Tax Grabs COMMENTARY By John Stossel If homeowners miss property tax payments, even if they never received the bills, some towns grab the whole house and keep the proceeds. More New Data on Migrant Crime Rates Raises Eyebrows, Alarm […]
And Wall Street’s battle against Lina Khan ramps up Ryan Grim Oct 04, 2024 Lina Khan testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on May 15, 2024. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images As part of her business community charm offensive, Kamala Harris recently hosted Visa CEO Ryan McInerney at […]
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Lies or Economic Illiteracy? Michael Rectenwald Oct 02, 2024 Kamala Harris has suggested that, if elected, her administration would “pass the first ever federal ban on price gouging on food.” She has also stated that she would undertake several interventions into the health care industry, including a promise […]
Franklin O’Kanu Sep 10, 2024 Humanity broken while profits soar We live in a world run by corporations, yet many still cling to the illusion that these entities exist for our benefit. But let’s be clear: corporations are not here for humanity. They’re here for profit—period. As you […]
Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 Jeff John Roberts Finance and Crypto Editor At Princeton University, Nader Al-Naji rowed alongside young men who went on to become Olympians and executives at firms like Tesla and JPMorgan. Al-Naji would also take his place among the American elite, raising hundreds of millions […]
What the Left Is Getting Wrong About the GOP’s Health Ideas Senior Fellow John Goodman explains how we could have a fully free market for health insurance, comparable to the markets for other kinds of insurance, and improve healthcare for everyone. The American Economic Association Leaves Out the […]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2024 For two days it felt like heaven was a place on earth: I was at the Ron Paul Institute (RPI) for Peace and Prosperity Conference. – Ginny Garner, “The 2024 Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Conference: The Liberty Platform Revealed” [2024] HORNBERGER’S BLOG September […]
Caitlin Johnstone Sep 26, 2024 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): I saw a fascinating tweet by BloomTech CEO Austen Allred the other day that stirred up a lot of thoughts here. “Of the Silicon Valley founders I know who went on some […]
September 25, 2024 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. This past week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a monetary policy “recalibration” in the form of a 50 basis point rate cut. The […]
Announcing Peter Zeihan’s Patreon Page + Will the National Debt Kill the US Economy? by Peter Zeihan on September 26, 2024 CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PATREON I want to start off by saying thank you to everyone who has been a part of this crazy journey of geopolitical […]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world…. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither […]
Recently from The Signal: Martin Wolf on why global trade is slowing down. … Today: What’s wrong with China’s economy? Victor Shih on the major reckoning facing the government in Beijing. … Also: Gustav Jönsson on America’s tricky relationships with dictators. … & now live: Your invitation to become a […]
Recently from The Signal: Jan Leighley on who votes in America. … Today: Why is international trade slowing down? Martin Wolf on advanced technologies, left-behind communities, and economic warfare with China. … Also: Gustav Jönsson on how working with establishment conservatives has been transforming the nationalist right in Sweden. […]
Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024 Alicia Adamczyk Senior Writer After more than a year of will-they-or-won’t-they, the Federal Reserve announced a 50-basis-point cut to its benchmark federal funds rate this week, the first since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and likely the first of multiple cuts through […]
September 21, 2024 How Much Will the Fed Cut Rates? On Fed Day, Senior Fellow Judy Shelton expressed skepticism of the fed’s supposedly neutral political agenda “For all the Fed says about not being political, I think 50 would definitely expose them to accusations of being political.” Should […]
by Kenneth Schmidt Arktos Journal Sep 18, 2024 Kenneth Schmidt elaborates on nationalism as a product of both intellectual engagement with culture and the lived experiences of the working class, arguing that dogmatic neo-liberalism has ravaged community bonds, traditional institutions, and family structures. Nationalists of various kinds, ranging […]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other […]
by Peter Zeihan on September 16, 2024 Taiwan has positioned itself as the dominant player in the semiconductor industry, but what would happen if a conflict with China broke out? Well, if semiconductor supply chain vulnerabilities are top of mind, than sure, this should be of concern (but […]
On September 9, 2024, the European Commission issued a report on Europe’s increasingly dire economy. The author of the report, which is titled “The Future of European Competitiveness”, is Mario Draghi, the former President of the European Central Bank. Draghi’s report acknowledges that Europe’s loss of access to […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you POLL: Most American Voters Believe the Government is Lying About Recent Jobs Report According to a poll recently conducted by Rasmussen, the majority of voters believe the government has cooked job creation numbers. The poll found that […]
Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 Shawn Tully Senior Editor-at-Large On Thursday, Boeing’s union voted to reject a last-minute deal with the company, setting up a strike that couldn’t come at a worse time for the aerospace company. Boeing is already in a tough position as it deals with delivery […]
Episode 191 with David Sirota Krystal Kyle & Friends Sep 13, 2024 From the unhinged anti-immigrant rhetoric at Tuesday’s presidential debate to Elon Musk’s insane Twitter harassment to David Sirota’s fascinating new podcast on corruption, we’ve got a full show for you this week with lots of exciting […]
View this email in your browser The Self-Inflicted Downfall of Mexican Energy by Peter Zeihan on September 13, 2024 Following its discovery in the 70s, the Cantarell oil field enabled Mexico to become a major oil producer. Decades of lax management and complacency by Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil […]
Anthony Flores and his girlfriend, Anna Moore, met Dr. Mark Sawusch, a twice-divorced ophthalmologist who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, at a vegan-ice-cream shop in Malibu in 2017; a week later, they moved into his bungalow on the Pacific Coast Highway; a year later, he was dead […]
By Cake Boy A question in the current anarchist milieu is whether anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism are compatible. Is bottom unity ( libertarian unity) possible? The main topic here is land. Both schools, anarcho-communism and anarcho-capitalism, have different perceptions of what land is and what it should be. To […]
By David SjostedtPublished May 01, 2024 • 2:21pm With all of their belongings packed into a stroller, Gabriella Crespo and her 14-year-old son, Adeimis, wait outside an emergency homeless shelter in the Mission District each night, wondering whether there will be space on a school gymnasium floor for […]
Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (Editions 1968, 2003, 2021), […]
Michael Rectenwald Sep 09, 2024 With central bank digital currency (CBDC), the surveillance possible under the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4-IR) is extended to commercial transactions. CDBCs are the digital versions of fiat money, or money backed not by any real marketable assets (like gold) but by the state’s […]
A way to make things much fairer in regards to this issue? Random Musings and History Apr 28, 2024 Start writing today. Use the button below to create your Substack and connect your publication with Random’s Substack Start a Substack Some pro-choicers have previously proposed a “financial abortion” […]
Alan Schmidt Sep 08, 2024 When I was twelve, a buddy of mine invited me and a few others over to his farm for a sleepover. The activities will be familiar to people in the remote country, comprising driving go-carts, running around in the woods, and a […]
by Peter Zeihan on September 9, 2024 YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT SCOTT BASE VINEYARD BELOW CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO Today’s video is fueled by Scott Base Vineyard in Cromwell, New Zealand. After all of the time I’ve spent in New Zealand, this is far and away […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you Report: There is No STEM Worker “Shortage” In America A new report by researchers Steven Camarota and Jason Richwine of the Center for Immigration Studies, discovered that there is no shortage in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics […]
Big Tech billionaire and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman is calling for the firing of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, the most effective FTC chair we’ve had in decades.1 We’re not about to let that happen. Lina Khan has battled corporate monopolies from Big Tech to Big […]
by Peter Zeihan on September 5, 2024 Globalization has allowed us (meaning humans as a species) to make some of the worst lands farmable, inhabitable, and even prosperous. But what happens to global food exports when globalization ends? There are five requirements to sustain successful agricultural exports in […]
Troy Southgate Sep 03, 2024 DURING the 1950s, a Parisian collective of radical artists and outsiders called the Letterist International would employ a clever propaganda technique known as détournement. The term itself, meaning ‘re-routing’ or ‘hijacking,’ epitomised the group’s tendency to appropriate capitalist slogans – particularly in advertising […]
by Peter Zeihan on September 3, 2024 If the green transition is ever going to work, it needs to happen everywhere. So, don’t get your drawers in a bunch when you see green energy funds from the Inflation Reduction Act being invested in Red States. While there may […]
Josh Mitteldorf Sep 03, 2024 When I was in school, the Democratic Party’s base of support was organized labor, and the Republican Party’s base of support was management, including small business owners. The Democratic Party no longer represents workers. The Republican Party never did, although DT has harnessed […]
Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 Lee Clifford Executive Editor, Enterprise Most private equity firms are something of a black box. We know they take huge bets and often spin wild profits, but it’s not always clear how. In his latest feature for Fortune, veteran finance reporter Shawn Tully wanted […]
by Peter Zeihan on September 2, 2024 *This video was recorded prior to Peter departing on his backpacking trip in July. Guyana is a country we don’t hear about too often, but its rise as an oil producer has earned it some air time. In particular, we’ll be […]
3 lessons from a decade of populism Craig Willy Jul 31, 2024 Not your grandpa’s GOP. (Original meme @elonmusk.) Populism marches on. In the United States, Trumpism has consolidated its hold over the Republican Party. With the choice of of J. D. Vance as Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, […]
How the “spiritual atom bomb” wrecked China Craig Willy Aug 24, 2024 My maternal grandfather was a manager in the British textile industry. In that capacity, he traveled to China in 1971 and acquired the above second-edition copy of Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book.” The 1966 Foreword by […]
Our September 19 issue—the Fall Books Issue—is now online, with Anahid Nersessian on Rachel Kushner’s spy novel, Ben Tarnoff on Silicon Valley’s Trump bloc, Jed Perl on Jenny Holzer, David Shulman on the ICJ’s ruling on Israel’s unlawful occupation, Fintan O’Toole on Kamala Harris, Marina Warner on Rikki Ducornet’s […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you Indiana Secretary of State Issues, Cease, and Desist Order Against BlackRock for Alleged Fraud Connected to ESG Products and Offerings On August 22, 2024, Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales issued a cease and desist letter to […]
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