The Collapse Of Silicon Valley Bank Is Meant To Control Big Tech and Usher In CBDC
Several bank closings and bank runs lead to chaos in the market. Kim takes a deeper dive into the whys and what is to come.
Boomer Dad explains why America is experiencing labor issues and hits the nail on the head
1 TikTokker Elyse Myers has perfect response after being criticized sporting her curly hair In a day and age where inclusivity and individuality are more widely encouraged than ever, you wouldn’t think that something like the hair on someone’s head could be the subject of ridicule. But alas, here we […]
Why Silicon Valley Bank failed
March 13, 2023 Hello, Insiders. The markets are in chaos as the Silicon Valley Bank contagion spreads. We’re diving into that and more today. Here’s what’s on the agenda: Why Silicon Valley Bank failed. An Oscar nominee went viral for blocking views with a huge gown. Can VCs […]
The Fall of the Silicon Valley Bank and the Rise of the New Fascism
01:30 The New Fascism (1-2-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146667 13:00 Israel’s new right-wing government, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20… 23:20 Howard Kurtz on the Twitter Files 33:00 When Did Intellectuals Stop Supporting The Free Market Of Ideas?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143526 47:30 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about the Silicon Valley Bank bankruptcy * Should You Interview Nazis? […]
Analyzing FDR’s New Deal
by Jay Lino Mar 10 The New Deal was a series of programs, public works projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936, with the goal of combating the effects of the Great Depression. The New Deal […]
Why even brilliant scholars misunderstand poverty in America
Housing expert Matthew Desmond argues poverty has stagnated in America, but misses something big. By Dylan Matthewsdylan@vox.com Mar 10, 2023, 2:45pm EST A homeless encampment outside City Hall in San Francisco, on May 22, 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown.Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Dylan Matthews […]
Trusting the Numbers in a Deglobalized World
by Peter Zeihan on March 13, 2023 To my fellow nerds reading along…this is your trigger warning…today we’re talking about BAD DATA. Sorry for the dramatics, but I’m sure many of you share my frustration when you can’t find the correct numbers for that forecast you’re working on […]
California City Gets Rid of Homeless Population Problem With Zero-Tolerance Measures Against Homeless Encampments
Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you California City Gets Rid of Homeless Population Problem With Zero-Tolerance Measures Against Homeless Encampments Over the last few years, cities in California have been mired by a widespread homeless crisis that has resulted in the state government […]
How Silicon Valley Bank imploded
View in browser Subscribe March 12, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. With the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, we’re witnessing the biggest bank collapse since the 2008 financial crisis. We’re diving into that and much more today. On the […]
Silicon Valley Bank fails in 2nd-largest collapse in U.S. history
Brendan Morrow 2023 Oscar predictions: Who will win, and who could surprise? The Week Staff Regulating the rails The Week Staff Tax status: Happily separate Advertisement from Wisebread Best Rewards Card of 2023 With $200 Bonus Justin Klawans Silicon Valley Bank fails in 2nd-largest collapse in U.S. history […]
French Protesters Take On Amazon
Krystal Kyle & Friends 4 hr ago If you’re looking for international inspiration in the world of labor organizing, look no further: David Adler @davidrkadler Holy shit. French trade union CGT cut the power to Amazon facility in Morlàas to protest Macron’s pension reform. “We have placed Amazon […]
Biggest bank failure since 2008
March 11, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Get ready: Daylight-saving time kicks in overnight. It’s one of the most controversial and impossible issues of our time. So be prepared to lose an hour of sleep. But that’s later — let’s get started. On deck today: Silicon Valley Bank’s crisis could […]
‘Sheer panic’ has gripped VCs and founders as Silicon Valley Bank implodes
March 11, 2023 ‘Sheer panic’ has gripped VCs and founders as Silicon Valley Bank implodes Silicon Valley Bank is no more. The FDIC seized the assets of the bank, a fixture of the VC world and a prolific lender to the tech and life sciences sectors, on Friday, […]
8-year-old raises $100,000 after finding out his favorite Waffle House server lived in a motel
1 Co-workers prank retiring employee by dressing exactly like him. Including his bald head. Well, well, well, if it isn’t one of the cutest pranks I’ve ever seen pulled off. (I know I started that off like I was going to say something negative, but sometimes you’ve gotta […]
Silicon Valley Bank crisis
March 10, 2023 Hello, Insiders. There’s major news going on today, so we’ll get right to it. My usual note will be shared as a final thought below. Let’s go. In today’s edition: The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has pushed big banks into a state of turmoil. […]
Fed Chairman Powell Lies to Congress: “the Dollar Has Held Its Value Over Time”
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As the Fed signals further rate hikes ahead, precious metals markets are probing for support levels. Notwithstanding today’s bounce, precious metals markets have struggled after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell delivered testimony to Congress. Powell seemed to walk back his remarks from […]
Watch Russel Brand AGREE With Tucker Carlson, SLAM The WOKE GRIFT Of Big Corporations
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to actor Russell Brand’s recent conversation with Tucker Carlson over the relationship between corporations and culture wars.
Behind Florida’s big boom
March 9, 2023 Hi, Insiders. I’m Shona Ghosh, a deputy executive editor for Insider in the UK. I’m filling in for Nicholas Carlson. I’ve been fascinated by the debate around people doing “fake work” in Big Tech. These companies sucked up so much talent during the boom years […]
Sound Money Bills Moving Forward Rapidly in Many States
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Because there is so much activity happening at the state level with respect to sound money legislation, here is a quick update on some of the most important bills that are currently pending. SALES TAX REMOVAL First and foremost, as to repealing […]
How The Fed Plans To Control and Surveil You Using Digital Currency
Dr. Michael Rectenwald, author, Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, and former NYU Professor. He is the author of “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda” Michael discusses the various components of the Great Reset, including the economic system it establishes, the deep history […]
Covid and the global war on the poor: a critique from the left
Historian Toby Green and journalist Thomas Fazi join The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss their new book, “Covid and the global war on the poor: a critique from the left,” which surveys the devastating impact of lockdowns and school closures on the planet’s most vulnerable populations, from sub-Saharan […]
Millennials’ economic quagmire
March 8, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Happy International Women’s Day. This week, I’m focusing my notes on COVID-19, three years on. Up today: masks. They’re annoying. They’re partisan. And do they actually work to keep people healthy? A new gold-standard review of mask studies suggests we don’t know that […]
Server got a $10 tip from a party of 21. TikTok users increased it to thousands in a few hours.
1 Server got a $10 tip from a party of 21. TikTok users increased it to thousands in a few hours. It’s not a secret that servers are typically underpaid and make most of their money from tips, which means if people don’t tip, the server is losing money […]
Tennessee House Votes 98-0 to Allow State Treasurer to Acquire and Hold Gold to Protect the State
Nashville, Tennessee (March 7, 2023) – As inflation continues to terrorize the budgets of Americans and states alike, two Tennessee bills empowering the State Treasurer to invest state funds in physical gold and silver are moving quickly through the legislature. House Bill 1479, introduced by Rep. Bud Hulsey, passed […]
AI will solve your email problems
March 7, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This week, we’re exploring life three years into COVID-19. Today, a big question: Are we still in a pandemic? First of all, the World Health Organization classifies a pandemic as a fast-spreading disease outbreak that covers wide swaths of the world. Dr. Anthony […]
ChatGPT, Please Take My Job!
AI Won’t Cause Permanent Unemployment—But It Will Disrupt Labor Markets for the Better Joseph Politano Mar 4 AI-Generated art by DALL-E 2 The last few months have been a whirlwind for commercially available artificial intelligence. Image generation programs like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion have stolen headlines for […]
THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMISM OF PETER THIEL
by Romo1979Posted onMarch 5, 2023 The Man and His Pyrrhonian Skepticism Some things in the world are certain – one thing is that one day you’ll die; another is that nobody visits The Hebrew Conservative for happy news. And yet what is life if not a local equilibrium […]
Investors May Be Piling into Cash at Exactly the Wrong Time
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Investors have recently been piling into cash. According to a report by BofA Global Research, cash funds last week saw their largest inflows since the pandemic panic of early 2020. Back then, cash instruments offered little to no yield and, they did […]
When will America’s rental prices come down?
Joel Mathis Why drivers don’t want to let go of the stick shift Rafi Schwartz Can Fox News survive? Harold Maass Is Kamala Harris an asset or liability for Democrats in 2024? Advertisement from Wisebread High Paying Card For Good To Excellent Credit Becca Stanek When will America’s […]
IRS Warns of New Tax Scam That Tempts Innocent Taxpayers Into Becoming Criminals
March 06, 2023 Economy IRS Warns of New Tax Scam That Tempts Innocent Taxpayers Into Becoming Criminals SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: Discovery Never-Before-Seen VIDEO of Sunken Titanic Released—Marks First Time Humans Feast Eyes on Wreck SHARE* READ MORE 2024 Election […]
Interfering with the Russian Gold Trade
by Peter Zeihan on March 6, 2023 The Russians are taking a page from the Iranians by using gold to avoid the sanctions imposed on the Euro and USD. But before we look at how the Europeans are trying to disrupt their gold usage, we must understand why […]
A cure for your phone addiction
March 6, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Three years ago this month, COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in New York City. China was already under quarantine, Europe was in chaos, and New York quickly became the epicenter of the outbreak in the US. (Check out our 10-minute, Emmy-winning documentary about this time.) A […]
Goldman in the hot seat
March 5, 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 our top reads of the week. On the agenda today: Elon Musk let other car companies catch up to Tesla. How Boomers’ […]
Hybrid work is failing to provide workers with two of the three things they want most, says a management expert
Click here to view this email in your browser. March 4, 2023 A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL Getting a job in venture capital is one of the hottest gigs in business. If you manage to get in at the right firm, it’s not just a […]
How Minor League Baseball Scored Itself a Union
Our March 20/27 Issue Read Online Read as PDF FEATURED How Minor League Baseball Scored Itself a Union The players who make America’s pastime possible have had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them. KELLY CANDAELE AND PETER DREIER FROM THIS ISSUE “This Is […]
Capitalism Produces Socialism
Andrew Willard Jones From the print magazine: This essay was originally published in New Polity Issue 2.4 (Fall 2021). Order the full issue here. Abstract There is a lot of talk these days about an increasing interest in socialism. It is quite the conundrum if approached within the […]
Your Airbnb is watching you
March 4, 2023 Hello, Insiders. We shared a great story from our economy team yesterday, exploring the ways companies are “quietly firing” (or pushing out) workers. Has this happened to you? Have you ever had to quiet fire someone? Let us know: insidertoday@insider.com. But it’s our Saturday edition, […]
International Finance
The Jews don’t have a monopoly on International Finance. They became moneylenders in ancient times because both Christians and Muslims forbade usury, but today, people of all races and religions are involved. The main financiers are the banks. The world’s largest bank is the Industrial and Commercial Bank […]
‘6 Stand-ups Analyze ChatGPT’s Attempts to Steal Their Jobs,’
— Megh Wright, senior editor, Vulture In New York’s recent feature about linguist Emily M. Bender and the philosophical implications of large language models, writer Elizabeth Weil describes chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT as “the Platonic ideal of the bullshitter.” You know who else is skilled at bullshitting? Comedians. […]
Idaho House Votes to Authorize State Gold & Silver Holdings
Boise, Idaho (March 2, 2023) — The Idaho State House today approved a bill to enable the State Treasurer to protect state funds from inflation and other financial risks by holding some physical gold and and silver. State representatives voted 40-29 to pass House Bill 180, the Idaho Sound Money Reserves Act, […]
Signs you might be ‘quiet fired’
March 3, 2023 Hello, Insiders. All week, I’ve been exploring the war between Russia and Ukraine — and I want to wrap things up by focusing on the Ukrainians impacted by this conflict. Our reporters have spoken with many of them over the last year. The stories are […]
IRS Warns Taxpayers of Consequences for Failure to Meet Certain Tax Obligations
March 03, 2023 Tax IRS Warns Taxpayers of Consequences for Failure to Meet Certain Tax Obligations SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: People Couple Welcomes Rare 2nd Set of Identical Twins 13 Months After Giving Birth to 1st Set of Twins SHARE* […]
Central Bank Gold Buying Is Ramping Up… Why?
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Precious metals markets are attempting to stage a rally this week off oversold conditions even as investors remain skittish over rate hikes. Multiple Federal Reserve officials came out and suggested they favor additional interest rate hikes while inflation readings continue […]
3 Points of Focus for Supreme Court in Student Loan Forgiveness Arguments
March 02, 2023 Judiciary 3 Points of Focus for Supreme Court in Student Loan Forgiveness Arguments SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: EpochTV Live LIVE NOW: CPAC 2023 in Washington—March 2 SHARE* READ MORE Congress Rep. Comer Says He’s Delaying Hunter Biden […]
Electric Vehicle Companies See Fall in Demand
March 02, 2023 Companies Electric Vehicle Companies See Fall in Demand SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: Animals Alaska Police Give Pig Who ‘Looked Cold’ a Ride Home After Call From a Concerned Citizen SHARE* READ MORE Ohio Railway Workers Getting Sick […]
Demographics Part 7: The Northeast Asian Crash
by Peter Zeihan on March 2, 2023 Today we’re talking about another region of the world competing for the title of “worst demographics” – and that, of course, is none other than Northeast Asia. China is its own beast, and for those of you that have followed me for […]
Tester to Join Manchin to Overturn Biden ESG Investment Rule, Ensuring Bill Goes to President’s Desk
March 01, 2023 TODAY IN HISTORY President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps 1961 TOP NEWS Politics Tester to Join Manchin to Overturn Biden ESG Investment Rule, Ensuring Bill Goes to President’s Desk Share* READ MORE Judiciary Supreme Court Makes Major Ruling on […]
Catch-22: Rate Hikes May Fuel Even MORE Inflationary Deficit Spending
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Federal Reserve rate hikes meant to quell inflation may ultimately have the opposite effect. Of course, higher borrowing costs will force consumers to scale back and businesses to trim payrolls. A contraction in debt-financed economic activity will in theory cause […]
Supreme Court Slashes IRS Penalty Against Taxpayer for Not Reporting Foreign Bank Accounts
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‘The Original King of Crypto Is Back,’
— Nick Summers, features editor, New York Only in crypto! Only in crypto can a CEO who pleaded guilty to violating the law — whose company prosecutors accused of being “a tool for money laundering and criminal activity” on a scale that “will never be known” — be […]
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