Category: Economics/Class Relations

Big Tech’s big trial

September 12, 2023 • with Dan DeFrancesco Hiya! Getting old is relating to this grandmother who swallowed an AirPod instead of her vitamins while she was distracted. Speaking of Big Tech, it’s a big day for the industry as the DOJ’s antitrust trial against Google starts today. More […]

Automating away CEOs

September 11, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back. Today is always a difficult day, particularly here in New York, as we remember the innocent lives lost 22 years ago.   If you only read one piece on the incredible acts of heroism that took […]

Hope for the future

If, 30 years ago, you told the founders of WIRED that the internet they were optimistic would change human society would, indeed, change our society—just not wholly in ways they would expect—they’d be shocked. As part of our 30th anniversary celebration, we’re pleased to announce LiveWIRED, taking place […]

Is Elon Musk too powerful?

View this email in your browser Today’s best articles Rafi Schwartz Is Elon Musk too powerful? Joel Mathis The Wisconsin plan to overturn an election Becca Stanek Is it worth upgrading your phone? When to splurge and how to save. Advertisement by Enbridge Is hydrogen the key to […]

How much Google pays

September 8, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! We’ve got a new dinosaur, and you know it’s a good one when even the paleontologists involved are calling it “bizarre.” In today’s big story, we’re taking a deeper look at the leaked Google salary data […]

Resources on Anarchist Economics

  A series of resources on the economy of production, trade, taxation, money and alternative means of exchange.     (1765) Anders Chydenius, The National Gain [English] (1844) Karl Marx, The Competition among the Capitalists [English] (1848) Karl Marx, On Free Trade [English] (1848) John Stuart Mill, Of […]

YC’s Demo Day decline

September 7, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy start to the NFL season to all those who celebrate! There’s something beautiful about knowing I’ve got plans for the next 23 Sundays in a row. (My wife might disagree.)   In today’s big story, a legendary […]

IPOs’ make-or-break moment

with Dan DeFrancesco Halfway to the weekend! Here’s a video of Mark Zuckerberg sparring with MMA fighters on a floating barge, proving that reality is always better than fiction. Speaking of fighting, the IPO market has been KO’d since 2022. But that could change with one company’s upcoming […]

Gen Z is out on college

with Dan DeFrancesco Hi, and welcome to the new-look version of Insider Today! Come in and get yourself acquainted. Just try not to break anything. I’m Dan DeFrancesco, your host for the next five minutes.   Hopefully, you had a relaxing holiday weekend and weren’t caught up in […]

How to find your next job

September 2, 2023 Happy Saturday, Insiders! If you’re thinking of traveling to Austria, maybe consider getting a tattoo for a year of free public transportation.   Before adding new body art, check out our big story on how to find your new job.   What’s on deck: Travel: […]

Profiting from disaster

September 3, 2023 Hi, this is Cadie Thompson, an executive editor at Insider, filling in for Matt Turner. It’s Labor Day weekend here in the US — so hopefully you’re having a restful time and looking for some great reads. Let’s get right to some of this week’s […]

How the rich save on taxes

Hello, Insiders! We’ve pulled together some of our most fascinating reads about big money, including where Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon takes the corporate jet and why some big landlords are facing a reckoning. RECOMMENDED READS Robert Daly How the rich save on taxes: With dynasty trusts, rich […]

Austin was overhyped

September 1, 2023 Happy Friday! Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart. The more you eat them… the longer you live! In today’s big story, we’re looking at tech workers who regret moving to Austin.   What’s on deck: Markets: Foreign investors are selling off Chinese stocks at […]

Bitcoin’s big win

August 30, 2023 Halfway there! If you’ve got some upcoming travel plans in Europe, don’t read this story about European pilots admitting to dozing off while flying. In today’s big story, we’ve got big news out of crypto country.   What’s on deck: Markets: Americans aren’t pumped about […]

Should We Abolish Zoning?

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2023 In the United States, at least, the Federal welfare state is primarily a development of the twentieth century. Governmental welfare measures, if any, before World War I were handled largely at the local level; there had been no substantial use of Federal funds to […]

Google salaries revealed

Hello, Insiders! The tech industry can have high highs and low lows. Who’s up and who’s down is constantly changing. And so, on this late summer day, we’re sharing some of our recent top reads to help you navigate the industry, from big salaries to even bigger parties. […]

Moralizing Capitalism

In The New York Review of Books’s September 21 issue, Osita Nwanevu reads What It Took to Win, Michael Kazin’s history of the Democratic Party, alongside Left Behind, the historian Lily Geismer’s critical assessment of the last forty years of the Democrats’ attempts to address inequality. Following Kazin’s chronicle […]

Blackstone’s next big bet

August 28, 2023 Welcome back! The internet didn’t waste time having fun with former President Donald Trump’s mugshot.   In today’s big story, we’re looking at how PE giant Blackstone is making a big bet on a behind-the-scenes piece of the AI revolution.   What’s on deck: Markets: […]

Remote reckoning

August 27, 2023 Hi, welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories of the week. I’m Cadie Thompson, an executive editor in Insider’s business division, filling in for Matt Turner. Let’s get started. On the agenda today: Hidden investors took over […]

The truth about Scooter Braun

Hello Insiders! It’s late August — and you’re likely either out on vacation or picking up the slack for those that are. To help you through these quieter weeks, we’ve pulled together some of our most entertaining, eye-opening, and engaging reads from the past few months. RECOMMENDED READS […]