Category: Economics/Class Relations

The Weekly Wrap-Up for 5/10/2025

Equities moved higher this week as investors cheered news of the Trump administration’s first trade deal. More importantly, talks between the U.S. and China this week may signal more clarity around trading with the country’s largest trading partner. The trade deal reversed the bearish momentum in stocks after […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/9/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Saga, CDbio, Temtum, Oxygen, Stacks and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 9th, 2025   How Exec Order 14179 Could […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/8/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Saga, Temtum, CDbio, Cryptostone, Stacks and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 8th, 2025   An Emerging AI Breakthrough That’s […]

Broken Windows and the Broken Logic of Trade Wars

May 7, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, Over the last several days, there have been two especially noteworthy international elections. Friedrich Merz, of Germany’s conservative party, was voted Chancellor […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/7/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Saga, Electroneum, Vertex Protocol, Cryptostone, Convex Finance, Sui and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 7th, 2025   Market Panic: Trump Just Dropped a […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/6/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Saga, Electroneum, Vertex Protocol, Cryptostone, Convex Finance, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 6th, 2025   AI Is Exploding […]

Not All Tariffs Are Created Equal

By Michael Lind, Tablet The Trump administration’s rollout of its tariff strategy on “Liberation Day,” April 2, was a debacle of historic proportions, causing the greatest stock market crash since the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of an even more frightening flight from the dollar as a safe […]

It’s Not Really About Glennon

How a popular writer became a proxy for the fear and frustration people feel living in a merciless hyper-capitalist system Kirsten Powers May 05, 2025 The uber bestselling author, cultural force, and friend of Oprah, Glennon Doyle, did not receive a universally warm welcome when she recently arrived […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/5/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Saga, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Electroneum, Convex Finance, Moon Tropica, GoPlus Security and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 5th, 2025   Is he […]

China’s factories are in another world

China’s industrial proficiency is shocking to manufacturing experts. Their degrees of automation, of engineering expertise, and supply chain domination have no close peer across other modern economies. China’s latest innovation is “dark factories”, massive production centers that produce complex products with no humans involved. In an absurd example, […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/4/2025

Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 4th, 2025   Market Panic: Trump Just Dropped a Bomb on Your Stocks (ad) tock Market Panic: Trump Just Dropped a Bomb […]

The Week Ahead for 5/4/2025

Get ready for the week in stocks: key earnings, ex-dividend dates, and IPOs to watch.Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 4th, 2025   Market Panic: Trump Just Dropped […]

The Weekly Wrap-Up for 5/3/2025

The relief rally continued this week. Investors cheered mostly good news from several Magnificent 7 stocks this week. Friday’s stronger-than-expected April jobs report was the icing on the cake. However, the strong results don’t appear to make a compelling case for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/3/2025

Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 3rd, 2025   Silicon Valley Gold Rush (ad) A new technology has sparked a modern-day gold rush in Silicon Valley. OpenAI’s Sam […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/2/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Saga, Moon Tropica, Balkari Token, BILLION•DOLLAR•CAT, ABCMETA and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 2nd, 2025   Final window before […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/1/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Saga, Balkari Token, Citrus, Humanscape, Kin and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 1st, 2025   The Race to Build […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 4/30/2025

Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio April 30th, 2025   Gold’s Surge: Is This The Next Big Discovery? (ad) A seasoned team, a prime location, and a massive resource […]

Too Hot to Work

Prostitution is cool again, oops I meant sex work Evgenia Apr 27, 2025 In the last few months since MAGA came into full power, it seems that the vibe shift I’ve been harping on has been taking a more definitive shape. It’s not just a vibe anymore, it […]

The Week Ahead for 4/27/2025

Get ready for the week in stocks: key earnings, ex-dividend dates, and IPOs to watch.Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio April 27th, 2025   Trump Treasure June 30 (ad) […]

The Weekly Wrap-Up for 4/26/2025

Stocks rallied this week. All the major indexes were higher; even Bitcoin began to move higher. There are several reasons for the bullish sentiment, and they all have to do with tariffs. Specifically, the idea is that the United States may be closer to announcing deals with several […]

LG Display Initiated, Cytokinetics Initiated, Cadence Design Systems Upgraded and more…

Ratings changes for MediciNova, Sorrento Therapeutics, Western Digital, ANI Pharmaceuticals, OptimumBank, Broadway Financial, Sphere 3D and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285 to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio April 24th, 2025   Gold’s Outpacing Stocks […]

The Weekly Wrap-Up for 4/19/2025

Stocks were down in a shortened trading week. On Wednesday, NVIDIA reported that it would record a $5.5 billion charge related to tariffs. Then, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dampened immediate hopes for interest rate cuts. That means that tariff policy, and the accompanying uncertainty, remain front and […]

Trump Takes on the Fed

  THIS EDITION OF THE WEEK IS SPONSORED BY NATIONAL REVIEW APRIL 18, 2025 ◼ Just to clarify, Mr. President: When we said we wanted lower prices, we weren’t talking about stocks.   ◼ President Trump is criticizing Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell for waiting too long to […]

Headlines and Analyst Ratings for 4/18/2025

Ratings changes for ePlus, SBA Communications, Nathan’s Famous, Liberty TripAdvisor, First Foundation, Kaiser Aluminum, Carver Bancorp and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285 to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio April 18th, 2025   Your Wealth […]