Sponsored by Share International Our May 25 issue is online now, with Michael Hofmann on Goethe’s last years, Jerome Groopman on the business of biotech, Joan Acocella on Balanchine, Jed S. Rakoff on William O. Douglas’s environmentalism, Adam Hochschild on 1619 and 1776, Willa Glickman on grassroots labor unions, Brenda […]
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2023 The [Anglo-Saxon] king, then, who crowns the fabric of the state, is neither a mere ornamental appendage nor a ruler after the imperial model. He is not the supreme landowner, for he cannot without consent of the witan add a portion of the public […]
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2023 The powers of the general government are only of a general nature, and their object is to protect, defend, and strengthen the United States; but the internal administration of governments is left to the state legislatures, who exclusively retain such powers as will give […]
I’ve covered the city’s restaurants long enough to wonder why anyone would willingly enter into such a ruthless, unsparing industry. It’s filled with all the obvious problems (bureaucratic red tape, irritating customers, the constant specter of bankruptcy), and the second you look below the surface, you find it’s […]
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Here are my most recent articles for you In Only 4 Months in 2023, There Have Been 70 Major Bankruptcies According to Mike Shedlock of Mish Talk, there have been 70 bankruptcies through April of 2023. For perspective, in 2009, 118 bankruptcies took place through April. During the […]
View in browser Subscribe May 3, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Joe Ciolli, a deputy executive editor in Insider’s business division. The countdown is on towards a US-debt default that could happen as soon as June 1. If that were to transpire, a whole cascade of bad things […]
May 2, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Josée Rose, executive editor for business, here. Price hikes have been a part of life for a while. Anyone who has reached for a carton of eggs, filled up their tank with gas, or tried to buy pretty much anything has felt the […]
May 1, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Lisa Ryan, an executive editor on Insider’s audience team. First, some major news today: JPMorgan is buying First Republic Bank. More on that in a bit. As for today’s big story, we’re zooming in on a dilemma many of us […]
by Peter Zeihan on May 1, 2023 When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) releases its least optimistic report in the last 50 years, alarm bells should go off for everyone. IMF’s projected global economic growth for the next year is 2.8%, and for the next five years is […]
April 30, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. On the agenda today: Leaked messages from Amazon’s Slack channel for staffers being pushed out. Jane Roberts […]
“The collective affairs of mankind will be controlled by one single federal government. Which will have continuously increasing powers. I believe it as surely as I believe spring will come again next year.” H.G. Wells Dear Subscribers, As my email list service subscription expired, I failed to send […]
Last updated on: April 21, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment ChatGPT has released a paper that contains a list of jobs that it is likely to replace. The jobs to be taken away by GPT-powered systems have been labeled as occupations with the highest exposure. We […]
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April 29, 2023 A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL This week, Fortune held its annual Brainstorm Health conference and it was electric. Fortune Well editor Jennifer Fields and senior writer Erika Fry cochaired the event along with health tech venture capitalists Deena Shakir and Christina Farr. […]
April 29, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Short-term rentals — like the accommodations available on Airbnb and Vrbo — are at the center of nationwide debates over how to regulate them. Today’s big story focuses on the fight over these rentals in one small city in Montana. What else is […]
View in browser Subscribe April 28, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Matt Turner, editor in chief of business, here. COVID-19 helped launch Salesforce skywards, but high-profile exits, slowing growth, and pressure from investors have made for a bumpy 18 months. CEO Marc Benioff says his performance through that time has […]
Justin Klawans How Bernard Arnault became the world’s richest person Harold Maass Will RFK Jr.’s campaign hurt Biden, or help him? Devika Rao Abortion bans fail in South Carolina and Nebraska by 1 vote Advertisement from Wisebread Earn $200 After Spending $500 Joel Mathis Is China supplanting America […]
Independent Institute Scholars Weigh in on the Banking Crisis What is going on, and why tighter government controls may be counterproductive How Did Silicon Valley Bank Miss Its Ticking Time Bomb? Fox Business Network’s Making Money, March 27 2023; Judy Shelton (Sr. Fellow) Sr. Fellow Judy Shelton is […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 26, 2023 Today’s shenanigans come to you from Lake Pukaki in Central Otago, New Zealand. I think I’ve found my favorite trail snack – Kikorangi Triple Cream Blue from Kapiti – I swear it will turn a 15-mile trek into a brisk walk. […]
April 24, 2023 Hello — Jeffrey Cane, Insider’s finance editor, here. Goldman Sachs’ purchase of two jets was among the big changes ushered in by CEO David Solomon. And it has led to some internal grumbling ever since. But where does Solomon fly to? Insider’s Dakin Campbell […]
Legalized Marijuana’s $30 billion industry arrived in Midwest in 2018 after decades of traumatic criminal marijuana laws. How do these new laws repair damage to communities? How are cannabis users effected? Missouri’s Amendment 3 adopted in November 2022 contained many “constitutionally-driven” deadlines for legal recreational marijuana, including automatic […]
The Work is Female REISH GALUTHA Apr 23, 2023 This is a Carousel guest piece by an anon The > 80% Female Workplace I worked for five years at a media agency that was over eighty percent female. For the first few years, I reported to a straightforward […]
PharmaHeretic Apr 23, 2023 Almost two decades ago, in my mid-20s, I saw a documentary about the lifestyle of heirs to very large inherited fortunes made by Jamie Johnson- himself an heir to the Johnson & Johnson family fortune. I found that documentary, known as ‘Born Rich (2003)’ […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 24, 2023 The economics of green energy are vastly different from traditional fossil fuels, and we must understand their differences if the transition to green energy will ever be successful. When building a traditional power plant, most of the costs come from the […]
The political establishment has constructed a new apparatus of control Leighton Woodhouse Apr 23, 2023 In 2002, the Bush administration, desperate to sell its planned invasion of Iraq to the American public, turned to the mainstream media. Every evening on Fox News, White House officials invoked Hitler allusions […]
April 23, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. On the agenda today: Inside the wild, drug-fueled world of celebrity lectures. How Amazon wants managers to […]
April 22, 2023 A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL When companies are in crisis, they may look to their past chief executives to help them through the storm. These boomerang CEOs are often iconic figures for the business—think Disney’s Bob Iger. But when boards go reaching […]
The dollar is finally being dethroned BY John Michael Greer Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and […]
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023 JFK Revisited will challenge everything you thought you know about the JFK assassination. – Charles Burris, “Top Secret JFK Documents the Pentagon will Never Release” [2023] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 20, 2023 Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and […]
April 21, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Pardon our lateness — we’re having some technical issues today. Shona Ghosh, UK deputy executive editor, here. Tech executives were briefly wild for flying cars, including Larry Page, Google’s billionaire cofounder. Hugh Langley and Rob Price earlier took us inside the spectacular failure […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As gold bulls defend the key $2,000 level, sound money proponents are scoring big wins in state legislatures. Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently signed the Arkansas Legal Tender Act into law. It reaffirms gold and silver as legal tender, as well […]
By Tom Woods Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., officially announced his bid for president. And his speech had some great bits in it. Have I gone soft, and love politicians now? Don’t worry about that. What I do genuinely respect is a disruptor. Because if anything deserves to […]
(Jackson, Mississippi) – With the stroke of Gov. Tate Reeves’s pen on Wednesday, Mississippi has become the 43rd state in the country to end sales taxes on the purchase of physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion. Senate Bill 2862, sponsored by Sen. Juan Barnett (D-34), […]
At their best, restaurants are spaces for role-playing: Spend a night at a Parisian brasserie, a Tokyo omakase counter, or, as our diner-at-large E. Alex Jung did over the past couple of weeks, inside the very real Manhattan of .01 percenters that the fictional Roy family inhabits on […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 20, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Militarized robots are the anti-guillotine. They’re the final solution to the ancient “there are a lot more of us than there are of our rulers” problem. Everyone with wealth and power has […]
April 20, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Matt Turner, editor in chief of business, here. Depression is a massive challenge that conventional mental-health care has struggled to tackle. Today’s big story centers on the dark side of the startups that believe tech can solve the world’s most complex problems — […]
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Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
View in browser Subscribe April 19, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Spriha Srivastava, Insider’s London bureau chief. Are there too many real-estate agents in the US? We’re about to find out. As today’s big story explains, there are now two agents for every home for sale — and […]
Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller Reason Homelessness has been rising in America’s West Coast cities for more than a decade. Entire blocks of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland are occupied by tent encampments plagued by violence, drug overdoses, and disease. But the problem is concentrated in a […]
The modern campus experience is sociologically fraught, but it just might have the keys to rebuilding social capital Robert Stark Apr 18, 2023 Higher education is hyper competitive, with acceptance rates at top universities much lower than they were in the past, which is also an economically exploitative, […]
Arkansas Governor Signs Senate Bill 1718, Reaffirming Gold and Silver as Legal Tender and Removing All Tax Liability from the Monetary Metals Money Metals Little Rock, Arkansas (April 18, 2023) – Sound money advocates are rejoicing as House Bill 1718, the Arkansas Legal Tender Act has become the […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 18, 2023 That pan-shaped state above Texas offers much more than just tornados and sports. The Sooner State has done most of the heavy lifting in establishing itself as an agricultural, precision manufacturing, and energy state. All that to say, Oklahoma is not […]
April 18, 2023 Hello and happy Tax Day, Insiders. Everyone’s talking about Netflix’s reality dating show “Love is Blind” — particularly after Sunday night’s botched live reunion went viral. Today, Insider’s Katie Warren has a new report about the behind-the-scenes reality of the show, with one contestant saying […]
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Andrew Aoyama Deputy managing editor The people who live and work in Appalachian coal country tend to be viewed as climate-change villains rather than victims. But the deadly floods that swept a pocket of eastern Kentucky last summer challenge common preconceptions about which Americans […]
April 17, 2023 Hello, Insiders. The trial for Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News was scheduled to begin today, but as of last night, the trial has been delayed one day amid reports that the media giant is pursuing settlement talks. Today’s big story […]
Can the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco succeed where Gov. Gavin Newsom failed? Beige Luciano-Adams Apr 17, 2023 San Francisco Mayor London Breed, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (Getty Images By Beige Luciano-Adams In Los Angeles, we see more incidents of […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 17, 2023 The world of international trade is constantly evolving, and it’s important to keep up with the latest trends and developments. From emerging markets to geopolitical conflicts, there are many factors that can impact global trade, and we’ll be discussing some of […]
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