By Dean Brooke, Rogue Economics Foreword/Disclaimer I originally wrote this piece as part of a much broader essay back in 2018 during the last tightening cycle and things have changed – A LOT – since then. I have had to source this retrospectively from the notes I retained […]
Finance reporter for The Hill, Sylvan Lane, joins the hosts to discuss President Biden’s plan to address inflation.
by Peter Zeihan on June 1, 2022 I’m re-sharing a couple of videos from early May to highlight a couple key trends coming to a head: the EU ban on Russian oil imports, and a continuing challenge of indemnification for ships carrying cargoes of Russian goods–oil, stolen Ukrainian […]
Kyle blazing up while watching this is everything.
Kim Iversen and Briahna Joy Gray discuss European Union leaders’ agreement to embargo most Russian oil imports, and Russia’s response to the decision.
DUI defense attorney Ryan Tait answers the hosts’ questions about DUIs in light of the arrest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, this weekend.
Author and organizer Astra Taylor criticizes President Biden’s alleged plan to cancel $10,000 of student debt per borrower.
Krystal and Saagar outline the Fed’s next moves on inflation and rip the plan by President Biden in a WSJ op ed that he proposes for fighting inflation
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Washington Post economics reporter Jeff Stein to get the details of Biden’s proposal to cancel $10K per person in student debt through executive action
Saagar issues a critique of the NYT for blaming ordinary Americans for the high gas prices instead of talking about solutions and recommending people simply drive less this Summer
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the stock ban negotiations in Congress that have stalled behind the scenes in large part due to Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to the bill
Krystal and Saagar break down the European Union’s partial embargo of Russian oil to support Ukraine that had divided EU members before the group reached a compromise position
By Stefan Gleason Talk of “peak inflation” is helping to drive investor inflows back into stock and bond markets. As the narrative goes, inflation readings have hit their highs for the year. The Federal Reserve will hike rates until monetary policy “normalizes,” then declare victory over the very […]
by Peter Zeihan on May 31, 2022 Between the Ukraine war, supply chain shortages, energy shocks, and government policy that probably spent too much money for too long a period of time, Americans are feeling the pinch of ever-higher inflation on an ever-broadening array of goods. The question […]
By Harry Robertson Business Insider Stock markets have fallen sharply in 2022 as the Fed has hiked rates and Russia has invaded Ukraine. Some meme stocks are down 80%, while tech companies have been left battered and bruised. Here are four charts that explain what’s going on in […]
Yes, cancel some debt, but NOT WITHOUT ALSO addressing the broken education scam system as well. Just cancelling some debt TODAY doesn’t fix the ongoing root problem of people feeling like they have no choice but to be fleeced into debt for a chance at a credential-inflated future.
Representatives from Strippers United break down why they seek to form a union, as well as the dangers sex workers face while on the job.
The familiar list of college expenses have led, semester by semester, to America’s current $1.7 trillion-dollar student loan debt. Tuition and other costs will soon enough create a similar burden for today’s students, but many want to upend the cycle.
Krystal dives into the big business that school safety has become and how they have profited immensely from bipartisan legislation passed to address school shootings
By Joel Kotkin “Young people do not degenerate; this occurs only after grown men have already become corrupt.” – Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 1748. The great test of a generation is whether it leaves better prospects for its descendants. Yet by virtually every indication, the baby boomers, […]
By PharmaHeretic Over the past two decades, occasional and sensational mass shootings have become a familiar part of the American social and media landscape. While countries with much stricter gun laws and lower rates of firearm ownership, such as Brazil or Mexico, often have far higher rates of […]
By Joshua Bote, San Francisco Gate Employees at Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, are urging executives to cease their working relationship with the National Rifle Association after the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead. An open letter titled, “Ending our […]
Krystal and Saagar have Marshall Kosloff interview NYT economics journalist Peter Goodman about the Davos men shaping the elite agenda at the World Economic Forum
Krystal and Saagar go back and forth on the different solutions to the gas price issue that can be implemented to combat high costs for Americans at the pump
Krystal and Saagar have Matt Stoller break down the market and regulatory forces that led to the baby formula crisis happening and how Biden is tackling it
Krystal and Saagar talk with Starbucks unionization leader Laila Dalton about how the company harassed her and then fired her from the store she was working at in Phoenix
The Signal What are the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries doing with a new type of economic agreement in the Indo-Pacific? Wendy Cutler on Biden’s experimental attempt to pick up where Obama left off. Ishan A dozen countries have now joined with the United States to […]
Roofer Lives Matter. Of all my criticisms of conservatives, their police/military worship would be the strongest, although that seems to be changing in some camps on the Right. Industrial Safety and Hygiene News AdvisorSmith studied the most dangerous jobs in the United States based on data from the […]
Nashville, Tennessee (May 29, 2022) – With Governor Bill Lee’s signature on Friday, Tennessee has officially become the 42nd state in the U.S. to remove sales taxes from constitutional sound money (i.e., gold and silver). Tennessee’s House Bill 1874 and Senate Bill 1857, introduced by Representative Bud Hulsey (R-2) and Senator Frank Niceley (R-8) passed […]
Business Insider Elon Musk dares Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to poll her Twitter followers on whether they’re more wary of politicians or billionaires Musk’s taunt comes after Ocasio-Cortez said she would ditch her Tesla for another electric car that was made by unionized workers. READ MORE Premium Inside the little-known […]
By Alyson Shontell, Fortune. This week, Fortune published the Fortune 500, our annual list of America’s biggest corporations by revenue. Our 68th edition of the list is marked by record-setting highs for the companies on the 500, which collectively grew their revenue by 17% and their profits by 114% over […]
Ryan Grim details new developments in American energy policy and the solar industry.
Krystal talks with the Lever journalist Andrew Perez about the influence Jeff Bezos has over the Washington Post and his promotion of a column downplaying corporate profits
Briahna Joy Gray, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Ukranian President Zelensky’s video appearance at Davos.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by commodity markets expert Rupert Russell to better understand the coming food crisis caused by destruction in Ukraine and the beginnings of bread riots across the world
The Signal What happened with the political will to inoculate the world? James Love on the barriers keeping coronavirus shots out of developing countries. Swarnavo Chakrabarti At a Covid-19 summit hosted by the U.S. President two weeks ago, donors came up far short of the US$15 billion that the […]
Rogue Economics Team Why are Bezos and Musk Investing Billions to ‘Transform’ the American Economy? And What Does It Mean for Your Money? Something strange is happening behind the scenes in our financial system. Right now, the mainstream media is completely ignoring what might be the most important […]
by Peter Zeihan on May 26, 2022 The U.S. Federal Reserve is in the midst of raising interest rates. By raising the cost of borrowing and making debt (money) more expensive, you control spending thereby controlling inflation. The United States is currently experiencing the worst inflation crisis in […]
Kentucky senator reacts to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
Every day, millions of sailors, truck drivers, longshoremen, warehouse workers and delivery drivers keep mountains of goods moving into stores and homes to meet consumers’ increasing expectations of convenience. But this complex movement of goods underpinning the global economy is far more vulnerable than many imagined.
National Democrats have raised alarms about support slipping in rural America over the last two decades.
Briahna Joy Gray, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate the path forward on inflation. According to the CDC the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks.
Inflation has become a top campaign issue heading into the 2022 midterms, as higher commodity prices place strain on working families. Inflation began rising quickly a year ago as vaccinated consumers returned to spending at pre-pandemic levels.
Saagar takes viewers through the agenda of the 2022 World Economic Forum held in Davos that made speech restriction and controls on free speech central to the agenda for the world to see
Krystal and Saagar dive into the shifts in the housing market that took place in April where the rates of home buying tanked after the Fed rose interest rates to cool the super hot market
by Peter Zeihan on May 25, 2022 In the worlds of finance, trade, economies, currencies and energy there is a lot going on. We’ve a war in Ukraine that will likely generate the largest oil dislocation in modern history. The global Baby Boomer generation is retiring and taking […]
For starters, the US should release the billions of dollars of Venezuelan gold reserves from the Bank of England
Best way to do it since most of the country screwed up legalization and now it’s all high thc – CAPITALISM!
The dude basically just said that individual freedoms and bodily autonomy are less important than maintaining a cheap labor pool. Yeah, his logic is flawed, but it’s also evil.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave debate the baby formula crisis, including President Joe Biden’s announcement of the first two Defense Production Act authorizations for baby formula manufacturers, Abott Nutrition and Reckitt.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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