The Signal Is the U.S. Republican Party becoming a “multi-racial, working-class” coalition? Matt Grossmann assesses the evidence for a major political realignment. Jezael Melgoza (Originally published 2022 | 05.26) Hispanic voters in America are “literally cascading into the Republican Party,” Donald Trump told Fox News earlier this year. […]
Explore Fortune’s most popular stories from October Wall Street: U.S. housing market to see the second-biggest home price decline since the Great Depression How Silicon Valley’s retail revolution withered. Eight years after Allbirds and Glossier were born, VC investors say direct-to-consumer is dead 35-year-old Canva founder Melanie Perkins […]
Nicholas Carlson November 3, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Where’d you sleep last night? Wherever it was, it was probably more comfortable than where Twitter staffer Esther Crawford slept the other night — on the floor in a sleeping bag in a conference room. She says she and her […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 3, 2022 Is it a bird? A plane? Nope, just interest rates rising again. At this point, most of us know the drill with the Federal Reserve raising and lowering interest rates to play puppet master with demand. However, not all of us […]
Crimethinc Tracing Twitter from Its Roots as a Protest Tool to Elon Musk’s Acquisition 2022-10-28 Current Events Technology Elon Musk has taken possession of Twitter, claiming he will make it “a common digital town square.” What kind of town square is owned by a single plutocrat? The square […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: “No no you don’t understand, this US war is completely different from all the other US wars. See, the US is intervening in Ukraine for humanitarian reasons. We’re fighting a bad guy who is an evil dictator that loves […]
Nicholas Carlson November 2, 2022 Hello, Insiders. War in Europe, political violence in California, epochal elections in South America, and Elon Musk’s shenanigans are dominating headlines — but everyone on social media is talking about the viral story of one woman who refused to give up her […]
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Discover Fortune’s latest Magazine Features How inflation in the U.S. stacks up against the rest of the world The 15 Most Powerful Women in Startups Collisions and close calls: The e-bike boom is getting increasingly dangerous, creating a push for stricter cycling rules Forget haunted houses and hayrides. […]
Nicholas Carlson November 1, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Elon Musk is reportedly considering charging $20 a month to be verified on Twitter. As someone who is verified, my response is “Ha! Twitter and Musk can have their blue check back.” It was always a little embarrassing to have, […]
Jose Alberto Nino The ink is dry, Elon has kicked his shoes up on his new desk in the Twitter HQ, the world is basically exactly the same since the billionaire innovator took over the social media company, even though you’d think that WWIII has erupted and a […]
Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.
By Grace Kay, Yahoo Former Twitter CFO Ned Segal said the past 6 months have “pulled on every mental muscle.” The executive was ousted on Thursday, but is set to walk away with a $25.4 million golden parachute. In a thread on Twitter, Segal said his time at […]
by Kevin Helms Bitcoin.Com Economists have weighed in on reports that China and Russia may be developing a new gold-backed currency that could undermine the U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s primary reserve currency. Russia and China May Be Developing Gold-Backed Currency Several experts have shared their views […]
Nicholas Carlson October 31, 2022 Hello, Insiders. It’s Halloween! You’ve probably noticed the Spirit Halloween fake costume memes everywhere online. They seemingly spare no one — we’ve seen satirical costumes of everything ranging from “The Sopranos” to current affairs, including the hoax of imposters pretending to be […]
By Alyson Shontell, Fortune This week, Fortune unveiled its 37th annual list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies based on revenue, profit, and stock returns over the past three years. A host of challenging business circumstances—from high inflation to the war in Ukraine—created a lot of movement. Only 24 […]
Ari Levy@levynews Key Points Last year, Facebook was among the five most valuable U.S. companies, with a market cap over $1 trillion. Now the company is worth about $270 billion. Meta forecast a third straight quarter of revenue declines on Wednesday, leaving CEO Mark Zuckerberg to thank investors […]
by Tyler Durden Thursday, Oct 27, 2022 – 11:40 PM Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Economic centralization is the ultimate form of organized conspiratorial power, because it allows a small group of people to dictate the terms of trade for a society and therefore dictate the terms […]
George Torres was labeled one of the most dangerous men in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but always maintained that he was a simple grocery store owner. This is the story of his alleged underground empire. All information and media used to compile this […]
By Ariel Zilber October 27, 20221:10pm Updated Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost more than $90 billion in the last 13 months. Bloomberg via Getty Images More On: mark zuckerberg Jim Cramer chokes up as he apologizes for pushing Meta stock: ‘I screwed up!’ Meta employees told to […]
Leftists and Democrats love to use “minimum wage” and “taxing the rich” as policy talking points to win favor amongst the public. But if we look at how minimum wage has worked over time, we can see that it’s just a way to “pass the buck” (lol) rather […]
What you can do to protect yourself in these uncertain times! Published 10/28/22 Stratton J. Davis One of the more prominent self-evident truths when it comes to the government is that they will blame everyone and everything for what goes wrong except themselves. Inflation is one of […]
Nicholas Carlson October 28, 2022 Insider Today Hello, Insiders. Waking up this morning really felt like the dawn of a new day. After weeks (months!) of will-he-or-won’t-he, Elon Musk is officially Twitter’s new owner. Musk, a self-described “free-speech absolutist,” is now at the helm of one of the […]
Calls for Biden to socialize industry have moved quickly from fringe to mainstream Michael Shellenberger Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate from Wisconsin Tom Nelson (left) and energy expert Jason Bordoff (right) are urging the Biden administration to nationalize U.S. oil and gas companies. The energy crisis is worsening. The […]
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Nicholas Carlson October 27, 2022 Hello, Insiders! So we’ve been sending this newsletter out for a couple of weeks now, and we want to know: how’s it going? Send us a note, if you have a couple minutes. What are you liking so far? What do you […]
00:50 John Fetterman stumbles through his debate with Dr Oz 15:00 We can set wage rates by dialing back immigration 22:00 We can choose our crime rates, https://www.wsj.com/articles/safe-str… 26:00 Why was Elon Musk so threatening? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/bu… 45:50 Alex Jones, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/a… 55:50 Alex Jones complained Glenn Beck stole his […]
California is an oligarchy, exhibit #197,209,008 Yasha May 10 How much of a hold does the oligarchy have on California’s political system? I guess there are a lot of ways to answer this question. But let me give you one that’s closest to my heart and my professional […]
By Khristopher J. Brook, CBS News A California cannabis company is being sued by two local consumers for allegedly lying about the potency of its products. Jasper Centeno of Long Beach and Blake Wilson of Fresno filed a lawsuit in state court last week accusing DreamFields Brands of false advertising, […]
Insider Nicholas Carlson October 26, 2022 Hello, Insiders! We are mired in bad news: War in Europe. Inflation everywhere. Horrible quarterly results from Google’s parent firm and soon others. So here’s some good news, from the teens of all people. It turns out they are into a […]
In the latest installation of an ongoing Grayzone series, filmmaker Oscar Leon meets the leaders of an anti-mining and indigenous strike that paralyzed Ecuador for two weeks during June 2022. Leon visited two of the most representative towns of the Ecuadorian resistance and spoke to some of the […]
Fortune Discover Fortune’s latest Magazine Features Fortune’s 25th Most Powerful Women’s list is a reminder of how much progress we’ve made—and how much farther there is to go Melinda French Gates is investing $1 billion of her own money for women in the United States. Here’s an inside […]
Nicholas Carlson October 25, 2022 Hello! You know what I’m excited about today? Bonds. Just like the stock market, bonds have been having a bad year. But that could be turning around as a recession looms. And as I read this morning on Insider, one chief investment […]
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Nicholas Carlson October 24, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Former President Donald Trump’s real-estate and golf-resort empire goes on trial today in Manhattan court. As Laura Italiano and Dave Levinthal report, this is a low-level corporate fraud case. (Don’t confuse it with the New York attorney general’s $250 million […]
Alyson Shontell, Fortune When #MeToo became a national and international movement to bring voice and justice to women who had been sexually assaulted or harassed at their workplace, it touched nearly every industry from entertainment and news to Silicon Valley. But one particular industry seemed to be […]
The Independent Review · Fall 2022 The Summer 2022 issue of The Independent Review is now available. According to a new analysis of voter registration data, Democrat economists at the Federal Reserve outnumber Republicans 10 to 1. The imbalance is even larger among economists in leadership positions, among younger economists, and […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 21, 2022 A large part of geopolitics is geography–some might even say the most important part. And when it comes to geography, few places are as blessed as the United States. One of the key pillars supporting the United States and its historical […]
Nicholas Carlson October 21, 2022 Welcome to Friday. Insider picked up its first Pulitzer Prize last night for illustrated reporting. We told the story of Zumrat Dawut, who was imprisoned in an internment camp for Uyghurs in China. Unlike many, she was able to escape both the […]
K.M. Patten: Great Reset is the Dystopian Vision of a Technocratic Totalitarian World State Author K.M. Patten discusses his book “Staying ON During the Great Reset” and Cobra Commander Klaus Schwab’s dystopian vision of a technocratic totalitarian world state where he wants our world to become contactless […]
Well those who own tech companies seem to think they’re some type of deity.
By Jon Forrest Little, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals We live in times where The Joe Rogan Experience is more popular than CNN. This says a lot. We have one man and a microphone kicking the crap out of a media conglomerate. People trust a dude who’s winging it more […]
By Eric Levitz, New York Magazine Blue America is an increasingly wealthy and well-educated place. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Americans without college degrees were more likely than university graduates to vote Democratic. But that gap began narrowing in the late 1960s before finally flipping […]
By Jack Morphet, Nolan Hicks and Bruce Golding New York Post The tricked-out tent city Mayor Adams set up for the Big Apple’s migrants is a veritable wonderland compared to the dingy, run-down accommodations in a homeless shelter just yards away, outraged residents revealed Wednesday. “They’ve got Xboxes? […]
Nicholas Carlson October 20, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Breaking news this morning: UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after just six weeks in office. It’s a stunning turn of events, and a big rebuke to the idea that tax cuts solve every problem, an idea that has dominated […]
Nicholas Carlson October 19, 2022 Hello, Insiders. It’s starting to look like American voters choosing between a Republican-controlled Congress and a Democratic one are facing another choice: Do they want the US to continue sending as much aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia? At one […]
By Joel Kotkin In the past, ruling classes sought to protect the system that secured their coveted positions. But sometimes, as in the era before the French or Russian Revolutions, some in the ruling circles stopped believing in their religion, their traditions, and their state, only to be […]
Nicholas Carlson October 18, 2022 Hello, Insiders. I can’t get over how weird this economy is. I traveled over the weekend and the airports are completely packed. Data says flying is back to pre-pandemic levels. Clearly lots of people feel good about their finances and are willing […]
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Meet Elon Musk, Technocractic Huckster The Corbett Report 3 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/musk/ Elon Musk is back in the headlines again (not that he ever really went away). He’s going to save free speech on […]
Two hundred and forty-one years ago this week, sound money helped save the day during the critical Battle of Yorktown. By: Larry Reed Foundation for Economic Education Early this month, Congressman Alex Mooney of West Virginia introduced the Gold Standard Restoration Act (H.R. 9157). If enacted into law, it would […]
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