How WALL STREET Is Behind High Gas Prices
Saagar presents the figures showing that wall street investors are the major reason why gas prices are so high and the oil supply continues to be limited in the US
Saagar presents the figures showing that wall street investors are the major reason why gas prices are so high and the oil supply continues to be limited in the US
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to Paul Pelosi’s multi-million dollar Tesla buy.
Ryan Grim previews new insight into where Senator Joe Manchin intends to push Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda next.
Today’s guest is an expert on geopolitics with unique insights into global conflicts. Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist and a renowned author, speaker, and consultant. His work includes analysis on global politics, demographics, and geography to better understand economic, cultural, political and military developments to predict future […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 24, 2022 A mix of punitive sanctions and market forces is working to keep Russian energy exports out of global refineries and power plants, and ultimately in the ground as Moscow will have fewer markets willing (or able) to take deliveries. Russia’s network of […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 23, 2022 I identified the likely challenges facing Russian oil production at the outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – chief among them Moscow’s inability to keep oil flowing in the absence of foreign investment and tech, but also buyers. Without customers to […]
By Kyle Stock, BloombergQuint The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs with almost no complexity save for a slow curve or an E-ZPass lane. As […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the future of the federal government’s pandemic strategy.
Krystal and Saagar bring Marshall Kosloff’s latest interview with creator and markets analyst Kyla Scanlon about the surge in commodity prices due to the Russian war in Ukraine
Shaunna Thomas and Pamela Denise Long react to new reporting from Insider identifying 19 members of Congress who stand to profit off of the war in Ukraine due to their Raytheon and Lockheed Martin stock holdings.
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case for nationalizing the oil and gas industry.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave debate solutions to the continuing surge in gas prices.
“There’s class warfare, alright, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war… And we’re winning.” -Warren Buffett.
Ryan Grim details a major change to how major firms compute your credit score.
By Thomas Fazi The Unherd The West, following the lead of the United States, has reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by introducing a “crippling” regime of sanctions. It is a “total economic and financial war” aimed at “caus[ing] the collapse of the Russian economy”, the French finance […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to horrific new reporting on the famine in Afghanistan. Lina holds her baby boy, Osman, as he undergoes treatment at the malnutrition ward of the Ataturk National Children’s Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. According to U.N. figures from early […]
Krystal and Saagar examine the growing generational wealth gap between Baby Boomers and Millennials exacerbated by covid that has caused major problems in the housing market
Krystal covers the incoming food crisis being caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the western sanction in response as the global wheat supply and growing inequality could be the recipe for bread riots
My favorite part is the below $300k qualifier, which is like 99% of Americans. So they want 99% of Americans riding buses and living off of beans? WTF?
By Peter Zeihan on March 22, 2022 We are awash in news reports that the Europeans are poised to follow the US in banning all Russian Energy imports. Let me repeat: the Europeans are reportedly getting ready to ban imports from their largest supplier of crude oil, natural gas, […]
By Nolan Hicks New York Post A “bureaucratic nightmare” has left 2,500 city-funded apartments for homeless New Yorkers who need mental health care and other social services open — enough units to house every person living on the streets or in the subways, The Post has learned. This […]
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends talk with Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls about his campaign to get NYC Amazon warehouses unionized and the lack of support from AOC and Bernie
By Malcolm Harris The Nation The radical tactics of the IWW are better suited to the bleak US jobs landscape than those of mainstream trade unions. When the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, whose members are often dubbed “Wobblies”) launched a campaign to unionize Starbucks baristas in […]
The depression in Russia after the USSR fell makes the American Great Depression look like a cake walk – it was completely brutal and made much worse by the American advisors: Greenspan, Summers, and Rubin. They WRECKED Russia, completely wrecked it.
Like most modern system, China has some of both, although China leans more toward socialism than the USA or the West generally. Their system is more or less the same thing as Lenin’s New Economic Policy. LISTEN HERE Will China resist financialization and lead the way on climate […]
Krystal and Saagar have policy expert Matt Stoller break down the possibility of a global food crisis caused by the Russian war in Ukraine and the west’s response to it
Just talking to a regular dude, getting to hear his first-hand experiences from working at Amazon.
By Tyler Durden Winter Watch ZERO HEDGE — With Russia now officially cut off from both the USDollar and the euro, Russia’s VTB Bank is seeing a surge in Chinese Yuan deposits, attracted by the bank offering significantly higher interest rates as Putin shifts focus to ‘friendly’ nations. The state-owned […]
The Western supermajors have left. All of them. Just as the Ukraine War began, Exxon and BP and Shell have walked away from projects they’ve sunk tens of billions of dollars into, knowing full well they won’t get a cent of compensation. Halliburton and Schlumberger’s operations today are […]
The Intercept’s Alex Weatherhead details the conflict of interest in prominent polling companies’ relationship with the Democratic party and corporations.
Julia Manchester and Emily Jashinsky discuss the future of workplace vaccine mandates.
Policy communications specialist at Americans for Tax Reform, Isabelle Morales, makes the case against extending the student loan repayment moratorium.
March 12th, 2022 the Center for Political Innovation convened a public conference in Austin, Texas. This is the opening ceremony.
By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 This newsletter is an adapted excerpt from Peter’s upcoming book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning. Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big […]
By Samo Burja, City-Journal Since Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Armed Forces to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Western countries and their close allies have hit Russia with a raft of sweeping and unprecedented sanctions. Several major Russian banks were cut off from the […]
Free Thought Project (Birch Gold Group) — In an article I published in April of 2018, titled World War III Will Be An Economic War, I outlined a number of factors that portend a large-scale conflict between East and West and why this war would be mainly economic in […]
Democratic Senate candidate for Missouri, Lucas Kunce, criticizes Big Oil for profiteering off of the war in Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar analyze the Saudi Arabian threats to Biden over moving away from the petrodollar and towards the Chinese Yuan as their regime refuses to produce more oil
Krystal and Saagar explore the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates to fight inflation and whether it could cause an economic recession to come in the near future
Krystal breaks down the lies being told by big oil companies and their political allies about why gas prices are so high as was described by legendary comedian Bill Burr in an epic rant
By Andrew Korybko, One World Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine gives this civilization-state a chance to defend its independence and sovereignty that are under existential threat by the US-led West. In preserving his Great Power’s geostrategic existence, President Putin is actually attempting to retain some semblance of […]
By Laura He, CNN Business Hong Kong (CNN Business)China is quietly distancing itself from Russia’s sanction-hit economy. The two states proclaimed last month that their friendship had “no limits.” That was before Russia launched its war in Ukraine. Now, with Russia’s economy being slammed with sanctions from all […]
By Stephen Bartholomeusz Sydney Morning Herald Senior business columnist The power of the US dollar has been on full display as the core of the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Will the “weaponisation” of the dollar, however, sow the seeds for its eventual demise? The sanctions […]
By Arjae Red Workers World Starbucks workers across the country celebrated a major victory with three new stores voting in favor of unionization. The NLRB counted ballots March 9 for three stores in the Buffalo, New York, area, with a close but decisive vote in each case. This […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 17, 2022 Apologies to all for having not written much in the past three weeks. The Ukraine War has been unfolding with such unforgiving speed and complexity that I’ve just not had time. While the pace hasn’t exactly slowed, the conflict is setting into […]
Is this just another oil war? This week, Briahna Joy Gray interviews Intercept national security reporter Ken Klippenstein & Daily Poster founder David Sirota about how energy and climate policy play a role in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Brie asks Ken about his recent piece titled “Saudi-Russia Collusion is […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks to Tribune staff writer and author Grace Blakeley about whether war in Ukraine, and the resulting sanctions, might mark the beginning of the end of the US dollar’s supremacy as the global reserve currency.
Michael Starr Hopkins and Amy Tarkanian discuss the cost of oil and how corporate greed may impact gas prices.
Kim Iversen breaks down the White House’s closed-door press meeting with 30 popular Tik Tok users.
“The war in Yemen.” As Bill Hicks would say, “a war is when two armies are fighting.”
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