Fortune Singapore, Tokyo, and Shanghai all dream of replacing Hong Kong as Asia’s top financial center. Here’s how they compare ‘We’re stuck with this white elephant’: A Wisconsin town’s big bet on electronics maker Foxconn hasn’t panned out as planned The world’s 10 biggest pharmaceutical companies raked in […]
The rise and fall of Bed Bath & Beyond: Once one of America’s most beloved big-box retailers, it’s now on the brink Bed Bath & Beyond has been a go-to destination for home goods for decades, but slumping sales and executive turmoil threaten the future of the brand. […]
By Chris White For Dailymail.com Celebrities including Kanye West, Jay-Z and Khloe Kardashian received millions in government PPP (Payment Protection Program) loans, set up for desperate businesses hit by the Covid pandemic DailyMail.com can now reveal the exact amounts that these millionaires took out via the government program […]
By Chloe Berger Fortune Known for offbeat felonies, media headline star “Florida man,” swampy weather, Disney adults, and Trump’s recently raided home, Mar-a-Lago, Florida doesn’t always get the best rep. Migrating to cloud technology to optimize database operations From AWS But the Sunshine State is beloved for its […]
By Colin Lodewick Fortune Last week, the star tech investor Marc Andreessen was revealed by The Atlantic to be against a proposal to bring new housing to the posh Bay Area town where he lives—a position at odds with his more general call in a famous essay for […]
Both Libertarians and Socialists tend to have their heads up their asses when it comes to questions of wealth inequality. All serious thinkers since antiquity have recognized that too great an imbalance in wealth distribution causes serious problems. This is not Marxism. This is Aristotle. Libertarians will first […]
By Joel Kotkin With inflation soaring, trust in governments plummeting, and the global economy teetering on the brink of collapse, one might expect to see the masses out in the streets, calling for the heads of their rulers. But instead of rage and rebellion, we mostly see apathy. […]
Business Insider If you’re looking for an apartment, get ready to pay: Rents are 39% higher than a year ago As inflation and interest rate hikes weigh on Americans, renters and buyers are having a more difficult time affording housing. READ MORE Elon Musk scores a rare win […]
Analyzing the structural behavior of the IRS and comparing to modern emergent redefinitions of the term ‘racism.’ Handwaving Freakoutery The Inflation Reduction Act took it on the chin a week ago with lots of people sharing a not totally true yet not entirely false either statistic that the […]
By Rachel Treisman NPR A man who held multiple people hostage inside a Beirut bank in an attempt to get access to his own savings was hailed as a hero in Lebanon, which is suffering from its worst economic crisis in modern history. Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, a 42-year-old […]
Scamming the boss: Some employees are outsourcing their jobs to other people. Here’s how companies are spotting the fraudsters. By Rebecca Knight As remote work provides opportunities for fraud, some employees are outsourcing their jobs. Staffing executives say the practice is more common in IT, coding, and developer […]
Business Insider The Democrats’ new climate and tax bill will invest billions in clean energy. Here are 21 high-paying green careers for people who want to save the planet. Plenty of roles in the renewable-energy industry and other “green” jobs are expected to be in demand in the […]
By Tim Stanley, The Spectator The Conservative leadership contest has descended into a low-tax auction, which is not a good thing. The implication is that the Conservatives think government should be minuscule at the very moment when private enterprise is letting us down – the energy companies are […]
A seriously anarchist approach to economics would eschew agitation for any new laws or begging the state for any new handouts, and instead, focus on chipping away government policies that central wealth, and creating alternative economic arrangments. Anarchist economics would include attacking laws pertaining to legal tender, currency […]
This article by self-described “national socialist” comparing the MAGA rioters to the san culottes of revolutionary France is quite interesting. The way I see class relationships at present is something like this: In the 19th century, we had the industrial revolution in the context of classical liberalism and […]
Business Insider Here are 14 electric vehicles that might qualify for new tax breaks under the climate bill Some electric cars, SUVs, and trucks may qualify for $7,500 tax credits under the climate bill President Biden is expected to sign though many won’t. READ MORE The CEO of […]
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason Where there’s demand for books, the internet will supply them. Shadow libraries exist in the space where intellectual property rights collide with the free-flowing exchange of knowledge and ideas. In some cases, these repositories of pirated books and journal articles serve as a […]
Business Insider TikTok is getting all the attention, but more teens spend time on YouTube, survey says TikTok is widely seen as the most popular social media app among teens, but new data shows one in five teens use YouTube “almost constantly.” READ MORE Vogue letting its hair […]
Business Insider Technologies like virtual reality and robotics could reduce the energy industry’s carbon footprint and advance workers’ skill sets Oil-and-gas leaders are testing VR and AR to accurately pinpoint potential hazards and operate sites entirely with tablets. READ MORE More homebuyers are taking a cue from Elon […]
By Richard Wolff, LA Progressive Market mechanisms” and “market solutions”: politicians, bureaucrats, media pundits, and academics like to refer to them as if they were somehow politically and ideologically neutral, above partisanship. They are not. Or as if they were uniquely fair and optimally efficient, which they are […]
Business Insider Inflation cooled off in July as tumbling gas prices offered Americans much-needed relief The Consumer Price Index — a closely watched inflation yardstick — rose 8.5% in the year through July, easing from the previous month’s sky-high pace. READ MORE 28 people who became highly successful […]
Balaji Srinivasan is an investor, founder, and Former CTO of Coinbase and GP at a16z and author of The Network State, which will be the main focus of the podcast today. The Network State explores ideas surrounding digital communities and the future of how we coordinate as a […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Novavax’s vaccine rollout that many consumers rejected.
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case that Democrats are lying about key provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss allegations that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought her son on her Taiwan trip as an unnamed guest.
Libertarians need to get over their fetishization of capitalism. Individualist-anarchism, yes. Capitalism, no.
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By Alan Bickley, Free Life In 2003, most opposition to the Iraq War was confined to the argument that intervention there would do no good to the people of Iraq or in the intervening countries. This soon turned out to be a true argument, and those of us […]
Meet a 39-year-old remote worker making $116,000 who says he could quit and get a job that pays more — but he’d rather have the flexibility to work from home At his current company, a Connecticut-based millennial makes $116,000. It’s less than he could be making elsewhere, but […]
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave break down the establishment’s varying views on the Inflation Reduction Act.
By Aki Ito, Business Insider Paying people based on where they live never made a ton of sense, but it’s the way salaries have always worked. You could do the same job with the same qualifications — but if you lived in Dallas or Minneapolis or St. Louis, […]
Business Insider Retailers are building their own ad businesses to compete with Amazon. Here’s the latest news on Walmart, Instacart, and more. Walmart, Target, Instacart, and others are building advertising businesses to boost their margins and capitalize on the online shopping boom. READ MORE Procter & Gamble responds […]
The “inflation reduction” reconciliation bill has now passed. How should the left feel? I spoke to Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project about what the climate provisions really mean in the broader context of the fight against climate change, whether or not it actually addresses inflation, & […]
Host of a “Fresh Perspective,” Jeff Charles weighs in on Black Americans moving to the South as living costs increase in expensive, Democratic led-cities in the North.
Batya Ungar-Sargon and Robby Soave discuss one amendment in the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act concerning the IRS.
Telos Institute Marking Telos 200: The New Politics of Class October 14–15, 2022 The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY New York, NY Marking Telos 200: The New Politics of Class Keynote Speakers Joel Kotkin, Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in […]
Business Insider Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to ‘a public debate’ on the company’s bot data Musk has accused Twitter of having more bots and fake accounts than it lets on and claims it’s withheld bot data from him, which Twitter denies. READ MORE The US […]
by Peter Zeihan on August 8, 2022 The latest jobs report–published August 5–showed that the United States added over half a million new jobs in the month of July. Unemployment is at or a near a 50-year low. Both points add credence to a growing number of economists […]
By Stratton J. Davis Today, a proposed bill which came about through an agreement reached by Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer was passed by the Senate, a bill which is deceptively titled the “Inflation Reduction Act.” What it actually is is a $280 billion chips and […]
Business Insider Meta’s latest AI chatbot has mixed feelings about CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!” When asked about CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s AI chatbot gave answers ranging from “I think he is a great guy” […]
By Emma Camp, Reason New housing construction for 1,100 UC Berkeley students and 125 homeless people was paused Wednesday in response to protests. On Wednesday, protesters flooded People’s Park in Berkeley, California, chanting, “Housing is a human right, fight, fight, fight!” The reason the crowd was protesting? The […]
Comedian and writer, Kate Willett, discusses her piece on how the pandemic contributed to a ‘slacker uprising.’
Research director at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller, breaks down the mentality inside ‘the blob’ and how the military-industrial complex sabotages itself from the inside.
Katie Halper and Emily Jashinsky react to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s agreement to the Democrat’s economic bill, with some key changes.
Business Insider Crude oil prices have tanked to their lowest levels since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine The fall in oil prices comes as a relief for consumers battling soaring inflation, but signals a decline in demand as recession fears loom. READ MORE The 2022 job market is like […]
Meta is being sued for giving US hospitals a data-tracking tool that allegedly ended up disclosing patient information to Facebook A second lawsuit alleges hospitals violated HIPAA by providing private patient data to Meta that it sometimes then used in personalized Facebook ads. READ MORE Some housing markets […]
Meet a dad with 6-figure student debt for his kids’ college who Airbnbs his house for an extra $31,000 a year to keep up with payments After his kids graduated college, George Botelho took over their loans to help them out. Between that payment and alimony, he can […]
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