Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/vɪˈdɑːl/; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms […]
Business Insider Sam’s Club just raised membership prices, but it’s still cheaper than Costco. Here’s how the two clubs stack up. The two retailers are nearly identical in many ways, but Costco’s food court has better options and is more convenient. Here’s how they stack up. READ MORE […]
A reader writes, “It’s not cheap being Rome,” pointing out the cost of the US military-industrial complex and the overseas empire. The US didn’t have much of a federal welfare state back then as well. The growth of welfare states and warfare states tends to correlate. It is […]
Pressure mounts for credit card companies to track suspect gun sales By Clare Hymes, Alyssa Spady September 1, 2022 / 2:22 PM / CBS News A group of congressional Democrats is urging credit card companies to track suspect firearm and ammunition purchases as a means to identify and […]
By David Burge Thank god we’re finally addressing the plight of America’s most disadvantaged community, Harvard Law graduates Lawrence Tribe is University Professor Emeritus and former Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Fucking Law School. He’s the one saying “thousands of my former students” are making less […]
by Barnini Chakraborty, Senior Investigations Reporter Washington Examiner The images are hard to ignore: ratty, rodent-infested, tarp tents crammed together on public sidewalks next to piles of trash, human excrement, and used condoms. That’s the daily snapshot from Los Angeles’s Skid Row. Similar scenes have unfolded across dozens of large […]
Business Insider Millennials have struggled to find well-paid jobs despite being the most-educated generation. It’s because there are more college degrees, but fewer jobs that require them. NBER researchers found that the declining availability of jobs that require college degrees is responsible for millennials’ poor financial prospects. READ […]
Fortune The return-to-office battle will resume after Labor Day. Here’s how employers can bring back workers for good How Riot Games maintained a 96% employee satisfaction rating after taking its global onboarding process fully virtual Forget quiet quitting, managers are running off talent by quiet firing McDonald’s board […]
Business Insider The 25 US cities with the lowest cost of living It can be expensive to live in big cities like New York or San Francisco, but there are many other more affordable cities across the US to consider. READ MORE Cryptocurrency firm accidentally sent $10.5 million […]
“In theory, everyone wants to solve world hunger.” The current economical philosophy of most of the developed world is that profit is the highest priority, and that the best way to create profit is to cut costs. One of the greatest expenses of any company is the salaries […]
Robert Stark Single payer healthcare in California is kaput for now, as the failed Assembly Bill 1400, to implement “CalCare,” would have required a state constitutional amendment, a supermajority in both the State Senate and Assembly, and then be put to the public for a vote. The […]
A practical way to aid the poor J.Lund The pandemic exposed the inadequacies of the global welfare system. In the search for a more effective way of helping people, there is growing movement on the Left toward a UBI, or Universal Basic Income. But I argue that […]
Given the accumulation of problems confronting global capitalism today, bringing complete system change into the discussion is long and desperately overdue. By Richard Wolff LA Progressive At the end of July, an economic adviser working for Bank of America wrote a memo that got leaked. It made bluntly […]
Why the high cost of housing matters more than you think J.Lund When we consider the challenges that civilization faces this century, from climate change, to poverty, to depopulation, there is one issue that lies at the core of everything: housing. The global housing crisis is as […]
Business Insider Wealthy Americans are cutting back — and it could push the US closer to a recession High-income Americans’ spending is “crucial” to powering the economy, Bank of America said. Yet their shopping is falling fast amid high inflation. READ MORE A police officer with $85,000 in […]
By Casey Harper | The Center Square (The Center Square) – More Americans believe the latest legislation to hire 87,000 Internal Revenue Service agents is part of a plan to audit middle and lower class Americans and small businesses than to target corporations and wealthy Americans, according to […]
Fortune These 183 housing markets could soon see home prices fall 20%, Moody’s says Exclusive: 30-year-old billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has been called the next Warren Buffett. His counterintuitive investment strategy will either build him an empire—or end in disaster Private equity is the biggest player in a booming […]
Business Insider How to ‘quiet quit,’ from a former teacher who did it for 2 years so she could enjoy a better life while still getting a paycheck By Jacob Zinkula Maggie Perkins, 30, engaged in “quiet quitting” while working as a teacher beginning in 2018. She actually […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is talking tough and warning of more interest rate pain to come. At the same time, Fed officials are now admitting that their sized-up rate hikes won’t even be sufficient to tame the price inflation […]
Peter R. Quiñones My good friend John Bush has been in the business of helping people escape cities, build homesteads (easier than most people think and you don’t have to be rural), and defeat boredom on a budget. If any of this interests you, check the info […]
Business Insider I work an extra job because childcare costs more than my salary. It’s either that or give up my career. Bunny McFadden works at a nonprofit in San Francisco. She freelances at night for 10 hours a week to afford $2,500 per kid in childcare. READ […]
Independent Institute If you haven’t yet seen our new 38-minute documentary film, Beyond Homeless…now is the time. Independent Institute has been submitting its documentary, Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope, to film festivals across the country. Beyond Homeless is a hard-hitting, challenging film that explores the root causes of street […]
Business Insider Elon Musk’s mom, Maye, says she sleeps in a ‘garage’ when she visits him because ‘you can’t have a fancy house near a rocket site’ Elon has said he lives in a “very small” three-bedroom house in Boca Chica, Texas worth $45,000 and located near SpaceX’s […]
By Nathan Schneider America Magazine Boulder, Colo., is a town full of characters, and Richard Warner was one of them. Dr. Warner—a psychiatrist, anthropologist and transplanted Englishman, with ruddy cheeks and wavy hair—held a particularly zealous conviction that any patient with mental illness could recover and, further, that […]
By Steve Gillis Workers World The longest strike in Starbucks’ history, at Boston’s 874 Commonwealth Ave. shop, concluded its fifth week Aug. 21 with solidarity appearances by Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson and Senator Bernie Sanders. A movement of young workers and veteran unionists in Boston […]
The Signal What’s driving a global rush for critical minerals? Lisa Sachs on the environmental challenges of clean technology. Pixabay (Originally published 2022 | 03.18) On the shore of the Congo River in Kinshasa sits the Fleuve Congo Hotel, a five-star hotel with a weekly pool party in a country where […]
Misha talks to Joel Kotkin, uber-geographer, about the coming neo-feudalism and “zaibatsuization” of America’s economy, how Chinese and American economic models are converging, and how to preserve liberty in an age of oligarchic tech dominance. ABOUT THE SERIES The 21st century may be the Pacific Century, and China […]
My take on these questions is unconventional, but in today’s America I would say the Democrats are the “conservative” party, if we define conservatism as a defense of elite interests, the status quo, pragmatic reformism that avoids overstepping, not rocking the boat too heavily, etc. That’s the Burkean […]
Business Insider Mark Zuckerberg said he gave up running as exercise to take his mind off work because ‘the problem with running is you can think a lot’ Zuckerberg described waking up and looking at his phone each day as being “punched in the stomach.” He said he […]
New York Review of Books In October 2011 Jeff Madrick wrote a dispatch from Zuccotti Park for the Review. Three weeks after protesters had first converged there under the banner “Occupy Wall Street,” he found that the movement—initially mocked in the media for its youth and unseriousness—was coming […]
Money Metals Exchange READ ONLINE Treasury Secretary in Apparent Violation of Requirement to Mint Silver Eagles in Quantities “Sufficient to Meet Public Demand” Washington, DC – Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) is calling out U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Mint Director Ventris Gibson for the “long-running production […]
From toilet paper to candy bars, companies hide rising costs by shrinking the size of everyday products. Here’s what that looks like. The prices of consumer goods are increasing, from food to household necessities. Some companies are hiding this by shrinking product sizes instead. READ MORE More than […]
Because that’s what it’s all about, all of politics and government. Money money money. Not the people, state of the nation, only money.
This has always been their strategy: use whatever is necessary (race, culture, income, etc.) to divide working people one from another and keep them under the elite’s thumb.
CBS News MoneyWatch Rich Americans hide “billions” offshore thanks to tax loophole, Senate panel finds By Irina Ivanova August 25, 2022 / 8:19 AM / MoneyWatch A gaping hole in U.S. tax laws is allowing the rich to stash billions offshore in foreign bank accounts, according to lawmakers. […]
Fortune Fighting inflation won’t be quick or painless Nationwide’s chief investment strategist says the market is in an ’emotion-driven zigzag pattern’—but if you buy stocks now you’ll probably be happy in a year Jamie Dimon warns ‘something worse’ than a recession could be coming Bitcoin could hit $35,000 […]
Business Insider One chart shows where your spending power is dwindling the fastest in the world’s biggest economies from the US to Japan The US isn’t alone in its fight against inflation. The world’s largest economies are also dealing with surging prices, and only a few are recovering. […]
The fleecing of taxpayers by big corporations in this country is unbelievable. We “saved” the airlines with billions of bailouts and to thank for that, we get worse service.
No one has been paying student loans for around 2 years. I’m not sure how this increases inflation when people have already been spending their student loan payments on other goods/services
Business Insider These 3 charts show the scale of the extreme energy crisis in Europe, where electricity prices have surged 1,000% above normal levels European natural gas and electricity are trading at prices more than 10 times higher than normal — and it’s driving the economy into the […]
Business Insider A North Carolina man is testing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving by driving toward his son in the road in an attempt to refute viral videos of the EV smashing into child mannequins Carmine Cupani, who owns an auto shop that imports Teslas, is sharing videos of his […]
The price of essentials like rent and medical drugs will never come down to pre-pandemic inflation levels if corporate greed goes unchallenged. by Edward Ongweso Jr These days, it seems like everyone has a few important questions on their mind: Is the economy still in the gutter? Or […]
Business Insider US Mobile P2P Payments Forecast Insider Intelligence breaks down our estimates for growth in the mobile P2P payments space and details what’s next for providers. READ MORE Primark is eyeing huge US growth. Take a look inside the fast-fashion giant’s biggest store, which has a hair […]
Walmart will cover abortion care for 1.6 million employees Walmart’s health-insurance plans will now pay directly for certain abortions, and will pay for employees to travel to obtain abortions in other cases. READ MORE TikTok’s in-app browser has code that could be used to track data like passwords […]
Jose Alberto Nino You think of Whole Foods (or “Whole Paycheck” as some of my friends call it) and you probably don’t think of conservative values. The organic-only crowd and well-to-do white collar liberals that shop there and scoff at other grocery stores have painted the company with […]
Business Insider Clean energy stocks are set to be the big winners of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act just signed by Biden, Morningstar says Lithium producers are ones to watch as the Inflation Reduction Act goes into law, with higher demand for the mineral set to keep prices […]
Ep. 2186 Vivek Ramaswamy on Getting Politics Out of Investing
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The concept of “wealth hoarding” has gained traction in the wake of the Occupy movement and the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns, the idea being that billionaires are amassing treasure like mythical dragons in the same way someone with […]
Insider’s new subscriber-exclusive interview series, Block Street, puts the hard questions in front of market experts and veteran investors — Ray Dalio, Sam Bankman-Fried and Peter Tuchman for starters — in conversation with host Laila Maidan, covering everything from changing crypto regulations to Wall Street news and beyond. […]
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