Hello, Insiders. This week, I’m focusing my notes on the war in Ukraine. Today, let’s dig into American support. It’s been massive — about $76.8 billion in aid. Biden recently made a daring trip to Kyiv to reaffirm US support of Ukrainian efforts against Russia. But will it […]
February 28, 2023 WORDS OF WISDOM “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement…” MARIE CURIE TOP NEWS Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Share* […]
February 28, 2023 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Chick-Fil-A Bans Unaccompanied Kids Under 16 SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: Discovery ‘Masters of Camouflage’: Photographer Spots Scops Owls in Their Natural Habitats—Can You Spot Them? SHARE* READ MORE Executive Branch White House Breaks Silence on […]
View in browser Subscribe February 27, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This week, I’m going to focus my notes on Russia’s war in Ukraine. One year of this war has left a trail of devastation. So today, I want to look at the cost of this conflict so far — […]
If you make it, they will break it. This is true for virtually everything, but especially so with the security features present in banknotes. After all, who doesn’t want to print their own money? “Arthur “Art” Williams Jr. is an American-born artist and former counterfeiter, who counterfeited the […]
MOST READ Norfolk Southern Argued Against “Emotional Evocations of ‘Deadly Chemicals’” After 2005 Derailment Daniel Boguslaw, Lee Fang After East Palestine, as in 2005, harmful chemical releases are unlikely to affect the rail company’s stock price or bottom line. READ MORE → Bristling Under Progressive Mayor, […]
February 26, 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: Allegations of sexual abuse, hard drugs, and violence at a top insurance […]
Digital Currencies, CBDCs and manufactured disasters…all for CONTROL. Richard Werner – author and University of Winchester professor & internationally renowned economist with a track record for accurate economic analysis – joins us and warns of the totalitarian dystopian future that is on the way… Thank you for watching […]
February 25, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Nicholas Carlson is on vacation; this is Lisa Ryan filling in. I’m the executive editor of Insider’s newsletters, homepage, and notifications. So let me take a moment to plug our app. It’s one of the best ways to stay up-to-date on the fascinating […]
Click here to view this email in your browser. February 25, 2023 A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL Next week, the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in two cases challenging President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan. The outcomes of the cases—Biden v. Nebraska […]
February 24, 2023 National Security Ford’s Deal With Chinese EV Battery Maker Sparks Security Concerns SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: Judiciary Judge Orders Depositions of FBI Director in Federal Case SHARE* READ MORE Jan. 6 Coverage Trump Special Counsel Seeking Phone […]
February 23, 2023 Ohio NTSB Releases First Report on Train Derailment in East Palestine, Points to ‘Overheat Failure’ SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: Donald Trump Should Presidential Candidates Undertake This Test? Trump Says Yes SHARE* READ MORE US News Here’s What […]
By Tom Woods These days I’ve been encouraged by how many disallowed opinions have been circulating. Yesterday I talked about “national divorce.” But also: we have millions of people now who look askance at the FBI and the CIA, and many of whom even favor abolishing one or […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Bill Maher’s recent conversations on MSNBC regarding the problems with capitalism.
Erik Baker It Is Happening Again Industrial toxicity without industrial employment Still from footage from the National Transportation Safety Board. February 17, 2023 First there was the fire, the smoke billowing infernally into the Appalachian night. It just kept burning. Days of insatiable flame. A black pillar of […]
Time to scare them with muh “big government” The Armchair Urbanist Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=… Podcast Episode about Batteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qcx… My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alanthefisher Discord here: https://discord.gg/urbanist My Twitter where I shitpost: https://twitter.com/alanthefisher Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alanthefisher Merch: https://armchair-urbanist-2.creator-s… Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:42 US Rail History 101 4:00 Class 1’s the Beginning […]
Organizing franchises is swell, but the attacks on unionization drives must stop. February 16, 2023 By Mark Kreidler Workers rally outside a Staten Island Starbucks location on October 5, 2022 in New York City. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images. The successful effort to unionize hundreds of Starbucks locations […]
In News by Patrick Range McDonald September 14, 2022 It wasn’t long ago that researchers at the University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, and UCLA released key studies that found rent control is an effective tool to keep people housed and to stabilize the housing affordability crisis. Big […]
Justin Klawans, Staff writer February 14, 2023 Tesla factory in Buffalo, New York. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tesla employees at a factory in Buffalo, New York, have started a campaign to form a union, a group representing the workers announced Tuesday. If successful, the organization, Tesla Workers […]
February 22, 2023 Hello, Insiders. I want to recognize some of the phenomenal work that Insider has produced this Black History Month. Our Voices of Color team has shared how Black Americans made Mardi Gras their own, examined the 50-year evolution of hip-hop, and traced the 500-year history […]
February 22, 2023 Companies Walmart Has ‘A Lot of Trepidation’ About Economy, as Consumers Feel ‘Very Pressured’ SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: Crossroads LIVE: Russia Deploys Nuclear Armed Ships; China Nears Red Line on Arming Russia SHARE* READ MORE 2024 Election […]
(Jackson, Mississippi) – State lawmakers of both houses have just voted overwhelmingly to exempt physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion from the Mississippi state sales tax, sending the bill to Governor Tate Reeves (R) for his signature. Senate Bill 2019, sponsored by Sen. Chad McMahan […]
February 20, 2023 Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, and the author of many thousands of articles… You Call This Easing Inflation? SHARE* READ MORE Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and […]
February 20, 2023 Hello, Insiders. I’m James Dean, deputy executive editor for business in the UK, filling in for Nicholas Carlson as the US observes Presidents Day. I’m old enough to have paid for a subscription to London’s Evening Standard before it dropped its cover price. Like many […]
Online Only Erik Baker It Is Happening Again Industrial toxicity without industrial employment Still from footage from the National Transportation Safety Board. February 17, 2023 First there was the fire, the smoke billowing infernally into the Appalachian night. It just kept burning. Days of insatiable flame. A black […]
First Keynote Presentation at the “Marking Telos 200: The New Politics of Class” event in New York, NY, October 14–15, 2022, held at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY “The New Class Divides and Their Implications for the Future” Joel Kotkin, Chapman University Moderator: Adrian […]
February 18, 2023 A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL Out of all the Fortune 500 companies, only eight are without a permanent CEO—with retail businesses claiming half of those spots. Fortune’s Phil Wahba writes that few retail executives have what it takes to be a CEO […]
February 18, 2023 Hello, Insiders. For some of us in the US, it’s a long weekend. So we’ve packed this edition of the newsletter with fascinating reads, the latest on some major trends, your notes on the AI revolution, and even a list of what you should watch. […]
Episode 112 with David Sirota Krystal Kyle & Friends 3 hr ago David Sirota joins us to discuss the issue at the front of our minds — the Norfolk Southern train derailments that have created massive health and environmental issues as a result of corporate greed and our […]
View this email in your browser | Manage newsletter subscriptions 02.17.23 Hi, folks. Are your news feeds, like mine, loaded with “stories” consisting of reporters conversing with AI chatbots or even turning over whole paragraphs to AI babble? Journos, it’s now old news that these things are amazing, […]
Happy Friday, Insiders! All week, I’ve been exploring the AI revolution, from how it could benefit you to how it could threaten you. And I’ve loved reading your replies — I’ll share them in tomorrow’s edition. Up today: What AI means for web search. Right now, we type […]
Robert Stark 3 hr ago While the broke genius archetype may be a meme, the topic of the intelligent yet poor is especially relevant to how we view issues of wealth, privilege, status, and societal incentive structures. A stereotypical demographic profile of the smart but poor, might be […]
February 16, 2023 Hello, Insiders! This week, I’m digging into artificial intelligence. So far, we’ve looked at its applications. Today, let’s consider who’s poised to make bank. The short answer: investors. In the public markets, Microsoft’s rally on Bing’s revamp brought its market cap back above $2 trillion. […]
by Peter Zeihan on February 16, 2023 Before we jump into the newsletter, I wanted to remind you that tomorrow is the big day! Join the webinar and learn how the Ukraine War has affected global supply chains, agriculture and much more. Click the link below for more info, and […]
It’s a manipulative reframing of sex and the sex industry that intentionally obfuscates the reality of porn and prostitution. Meghan Murphy Feb 13 I and a few anti-sex industry activists, radical feminists, and women who managed to exit the sex trade fought for many years against the rebranding […]
The employment rate for minors exceeds 50% in Quebec, where there is no minimum age requirement to start working. By Hélène Jouan (Montreal (Canada) correspondent) In Quebec, there is no minimum age to work. Employers must obtain written authorization from the parents for minors under 14 years of […]
Get an inside look into the current inflation crisis with economist Richard Werner, who predicted it back in early 2020 before the war, before the energy crisis, and before the supply chain crisis. Werner explains how central bank policies caused the inflation and how his original Quantitative Easing […]
Catherine Garcia The train derailment disaster in Ohio Harold Maass Is Nikki Haley’s GOP candidacy a game-changer? Brigid Kennedy ‘No mercy for you’: Buffalo shooter sentenced to life in prison Advertisement from Wisebread Best Reward Cards of 2023 With $200 Bonus Becca Stanek What is ‘lifestyle inflation’ and […]
By Jp Cortez (Des Moines, Iowa) – With inflation raging across America, an Iowa lawmaker seeks to end one of the strongest disincentives to owning and using gold and silver: capital gains taxes. A tax-neutral bill introduced by Rep. Jeff Shipley (R – Van Buren), House File 208 […]
— Justin Miller, deputy editor, Intelligencer Every couple of months there’s a new headline about the world’s top museums returning antiquities to their homelands. The Met, the Getty, and others have sent dozens of objects back to Italy, Greece, and the Middle East in recent years, but no […]
February 15, 2023 Inflation Egg Prices Soar Over 70 Percent as Inflation Report Shocks in Some Food Categories SHARE* READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT: Crossroads LIVE NOW: FBI Tracking Unvaccinated Teachers With Fingerprints; Canada Pushes for Digital IDs SHARE* READ MORE US […]
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023 The tremendous merit of gold is, if we want to put it that way, a negative one: It is not a managed paper money that can ruin everyone who is legally forced to accept it or who puts his confidence in it. The technical […]
Money Metals (Jackson, Mississippi) – A lawmaker in Mississippi introduced legislation yesterday that would prompt the state to invest a small portion of state funds in gold and silver, as well as eliminate sales and income tax liabilities on the monetary metals. Mississippi is one only eight states […]
Top News Stories Toyota honorary chairman Shoichiro Toyoda dies at 97 Toyoda was the son of Toyota Motor’s founder and the father of current chief executive Akio Toyoda. Kazuo Ueda nominated to be Bank of Japan chief An academic, author and former BOJ board member, Ueda will be […]
by Peter Zeihan on February 14, 2023 The big news from the weekend is that Russia announced a plan to cut 500,000 b/d (barrels per day) of oil production. This accounts for about .5% of global supply and roughly 10% of Russian oil exports. This alone isn’t a huge […]
February 14, 2023 Hello from London, Insiders! This week, I’m using my notes to explore artificial intelligence. After decades of promise, it feels like it’s suddenly here for real. The topic for today: AI’s threat to you — and your job. It sure seems that AI might be […]
By Vincent Lloyd, Compact In the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a rigorous application process—the acceptance rate is reportedly around 3 percent—to […]
By Jack Graham The classic pattern of a fascist takeover of government goes something like this… The fascist party grows to the point where it is big enough to be a kind of kingmaker in a deadlocked representative democratic system, and the conservative elites of that system, threatened […]
February 13, 2023 US Oregon’s Eugene Council Bans Natural Gas Hookups in New Residences Share* READ MORE Advertisement: US News FDA Announces Recall of Tens of Thousands of Unapproved COVID Test Kits Share* READ MORE Congress Chinese Balloon ‘Did a […]
Batya Ungar-Sargon makes the case for why many in the working class are leaving the Democratic Party for the GOP.
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