Published Fri, Dec 23 20227:40 AM ESTUpdated Mon, Dec 26 20227:09 PM EST Patti Domm@in/patti-domm-9224884/@pattidomm Key Points Economists have penciled in a recession in their forecasts for next year, but views vary on the timing and severity. What they do agree on is that the Federal Reserve’s interest […]
By Mike Gleason Money Metals Precious metals markets are finishing out a choppy 2022 on an up note. A strong fourth quarter is pushing both gold and silver prices back up into positive territory for the year. The yellow metal got off to a hot start in 2022, […]
Executive director of National Coalition For The Homeless, Donald Whitehead Jr., and Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never, debate lasing solutions to homelessness.
It’s been another massive year – thank you for sticking with Insider through all of it. We’ve covered huge shifts in the tech industry and major employment (and unemployment) trends, but we’ve also written about alpine adventures gone awry, weird trends among the business elite and so much […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 30, 2022 NB: The following video is one I recorded while on my annual backpacking trip in August; please excuse any potential anachronisms. Camping at Adair Lake is most comparable to spending a night in a wind tunnel – and yes, it was […]
By Keith Preston December 29, 2022 While I agree that American/Atlanticist/unipolar/whatever hegemony is receding, I don’t think we will return to the bipolar world of the Cold War. Instead, we are moving toward a multipolar order like in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, where there were multiple great […]
This week, Briahna spoke to Co-Founder of Security Policy Reform Institute, Stephen Semler, about his thorough and viral analysis of the 2023 Omninus bill. No one is breaking down military spending like Stephen. We discuss how the bill undermines Biden’s climate “victories,” increased spending on the Ukraine/Russia conflict, […]
December 29, 2022 Hello Insiders! Some readers say my questions for you yesterday about immigration hinted at my own opinion on the matter. And I was even accused of bias. Egad! Well, OK, busted: I do have opinions on many issues! But I don’t feel like a […]
December 28, 2022 Hello, Insiders. It seems like the pandemic built the border wall Donald Trump never could. Back in March 2020, Trump enacted Title 42, a controversial emergency rule that allowed the US to turn away asylum seekers at the border. Joe Biden didn’t revoke it upon […]
Professor of economics at The New School For Social Research Clara Mattei discusses her new book, “The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.”
Briahna Joy Gray: Elites’ identity politics ATTACK on student debtors
Giant asset managers are finding few friends in Washington as GOP lawmakers attack them for their climate and social agendas. The political isolation of the world’s largest money managers is forcing companies to rethink how they message environmental and social goals. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo By Zachary Warmbrodt […]
December 27, 2022 Big Tech, Censorship, and Socialism Dr Kulldorff ‘Not Surprised’ About Being Censored by Twitter, Says Trust in Science Has Been Undermined Share* READ MORE A Novel and Breathtakingly Beautiful Documentary Series Dr. Malone, assisted by his wife, explains in full detail […]
Posted By: Mike Maxwell 24 December 2022 This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 29 October 2022 by Mike Maxwell of Imperium Press, as part of the Forum’s “Quarterly Inquiry Series”. ♣ Friedrich List, “The National System of Political Economy” (Imperium […]
December 27, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Did you travel for the holidays? If so, I hope you got to your destination just fine — and that you weren’t booked on one of the thousands of flights that were canceled or delayed as brutal icy and snowy weather hit the […]
By Samuel Gregg, Reason The Business Roundtable—an association of America’s leading CEOs—committed itself in 2019 to “modernizing its principles on the role of a corporation.” In the past, the group explained, it held that “corporations exist principally to serve their shareholders.” But “it has become clear that this […]
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Linh Dinh Dec 22 [Bengaluru, 12/17/22] After 20 days in Bengaluru, I took a train to Chennai. Though I had just a month in India, I felt I should see at least one more city. Just as Philadelphia or Boston is so unlike New York, one’s impressions of […]
Lyft charged one of my passengers $59. I got $16.52. Timothy B Lee Dec 22 It was the Saturday night before Halloween, and I was ferrying costumed, intoxicated young adults around our nation’s capital. Shortly before midnight, I picked up a normally dressed woman in downtown D.C., who […]
This holiday season at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island, Merle Ayers is feeling especially grateful for the Whiz. At two feet tall and 66 pounds, the powerful robot vacuum doesn’t mind working late into the night after the parties are over. The Whiz doesn’t care that […]
December 23, 2022 Hello, Insiders. I’m writing to you from my not-so-sunny homestate, Florida. It’s where my parents still live, and where we’re spending Christmas. It’s unusually cold here and getting colder fast. (Apparently so cold that iguanas are falling out of trees?) While we intended to […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 23, 2022 A number of changes are coming soon to the world of American automotive. NAFTA-related tariffs on foreign cars and trucks take effect in 2023 and 2024, while the Biden administration’s buy-American and buy-green policies will make electronic vehicles more affordable…assuming those […]
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December 22, 2022 Cryptocurrency Sam Bankman-Fried Associates Plead Guilty to Charges in FTX Collapse Share* READ MORE A Novel and Breathtakingly Beautiful Documentary Series Dr. Malone, assisted by his wife, explains in full detail what he thinks about the mRNA vaccines, the way they […]
December 22, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Do you send out holiday cards? Every couple years my wife and I will — but maybe we should start sending them regularly! Because they seem like a really great opportunity to overshare and embarrass the hell out of our nearest and dearest. […]
December 20, 2022 Congress Congress Unveils Sweeping ‘Omnibus’ Funding Bill With $1.7 Trillion Price Tag Share* READ MORE A Novel and Breathtakingly Beautiful Documentary Series Dr. Malone, assisted by his wife, explains in full detail what he thinks about the mRNA vaccines, the way […]
Story by Asia Martin, Business Insider India Over the past year, more and more tech workers have seen perks pulled as companies try to ride out a tough market and potential recession. Meta trimmed $1,000 off its health and wellness benefits per employee, canceled on-site laundry, ended a […]
Nicholas Carlson, December 20, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Today’s edition is packed with absolutely incredible reporting. We were among a group of publications that went to court to unseal records in a gender discrimination lawsuit against Nike — and today, we’re publishing findings from graphic employee surveys that […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 20, 2022 Steel. The backbone of…just about everything. The cars we drive. The buildings we work in. Where we store our food. You get the point. But what happens when access to the inputs necessary for steel production starts to disappear? As we […]
In the second chapter of filmmaker Oscar Leon’s series on Ecuador’s resistance, Leon travels to the rural Andean community of Buenos Aires to meet rural campesinos and indigenous citizens defending their land against multinational mining companies. The clash over land and resources goes to the heart of the […]
Nicholas Carlson, December 19, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Given how terrible social media can be for teenagers’ mental health, my plan for when my kids reach that age is to tell them, “Sorry, no smartphones until you’re 18.” The good news: There’s a bunch of teens in NYC […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet What was called “the Labor Question” a century ago has returned to the forefront of public debate, thanks to highly publicized attempts to unionize companies as varied as Amazon and The New York Times, and in spite of the efforts of the flacks of […]
By Victor Davis Hanson New York Post December 16, 20225:15pm Updated Before the November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. REUTERS More On: sam bankman-fried Sam Bankman-Fried prosecutors target top Democrats for info on FTX donations FTX judge to hear media companies’ request to reveal customer […]
Alyson Shontell, Fortune It’s been a bad week for crypto. And not just for Sam Bankman-Fried who was arrested Monday in the Bahamas on charges related to money laundering, wire and securities fraud, and campaign finance violations. His arch nemesis and former mentor, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, […]
Episode 103 with Coffeezilla Krystal Kyle & Friends 1 hr ago This episode gives us not only an in-depth view of the major upset in the crypto world with the fall of FTX, but also the opportunity to get to know Coffeezilla, YouTube commentator extraordinaire who’s built a […]
The Nation We at The Nation are thinking quite a bit about the progressives who defended our democracy in preparation for our annual honor roll, which arrives on newsstands next month. For Repro Nation’s final issue of 2022, I wanted to reflect a bit on abortion rights defenders, […]
By Tom Woods A close family member recently spent the night in the hospital, where doctors monitored her blood pressure. The bill, before insurance, came to about $53,000. It’s all right to admit that there’s something wrong with American health care. We’re not betraying the free market in […]
By Lester Black, SFGATE Brandon Wheeler has grown pot professionally for 20 years. His parents grew pot before him, and so did his grandparents. Despite these deep roots in the industry, he still felt a weight lift when he pulled his last pot plants out of the ground this […]
Nicholas Carlson December 16, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Twitter suspended several accounts belonging to journalists who cover Elon Musk at outlets like CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Musk suggested this was related to the removal of an account that tracked his private jet, @ElonJet. […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 15, 2022 FUSION. The clean energy of the future. No carbon footprint. Bottomless. Cheap. Sound too good to be true? Well, if it looks like a duck… Before I express my concerns, I want to acknowledge how monumental this step is. It’s taken […]
Fortune 🔥 Dive into our Hottest Magazine Features 🔥 How CEOs can lead in a recession and come out stronger: 5 powerful strategies from corner-office veterans 16 former PepsiCo executives are now Fortune 500 CEOs. Here’s how the food and beverage giant became an incubator for leaders The […]
In this week’s show, Prof Wolff talks about the social effects of inflation and the lack of accountability on the part of employers. Capitalist employers set prices with the only motive of maximizing. Employees, the vast majority, must live with inflation but are excluded from decisions setting prices. […]
From the boardroom to the war room Harrison Koehli 5 hr ago Remember Rod? TANNEN MAURY/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK Before their research into corporate psychopathy, Paul Babiak and his colleagues raised several questions in need of answers. They are equally relevant to the study of political psychopathy and can be rephrased […]
December 14, 2022 Cryptocurrency FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Denied Bail in Bahamas After Arrest, Faces up to 115 Years in Jail Share* READ MORE The Final War – The 100-Year Plot to Defeat America With exclusive research and personal stories from whistleblowers, the film […]
On the Coming Standard of Living Crisis RedHawk 8 hr ago “The battle outside ragin’ will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, for the times they are a-changin’.” In 2022, the crisis facing young men has finally gone mainstream. Political pundits from all sides of the […]
By: Annie Dieu-Le-Veut December 13, 2022 s some of you may know, I often turn to the ancient myths, left to us by our ancestors, for advice and guidance about the issues facing us today. The classical Greek myth about Achilles and his heel contains much wisdom about […]
And there’s plenty of science to back up his claims. By Stacey Leasca Updated on December 9, 2022 Former White House chef Sam Kass is sounding the alarm on the future of coffee. Earlier this week, the former first chef (who also acted as the White House’s first-ever […]
Microsoft’s stake in the LSE just might be the biggest news of the year Michael Taylor Dec 13 I have long wondered why the tech giants don’t just swallow global finance whole. They have, after all, unrivalled skills at harvesting, assessing and understanding information and most of the […]
Kevin A. Carson on the State and its Economics – YouTube Kevin A. Carson of C4SS fame joins us today to talk about his scholarly new book “The State: Theory and Praxis”! Order your copy of The State: Theory and Praxis: https://www.amazon.com/State-Theory-P… Kevin Carson’s Website (where you can […]
Spriha Srivastava, December 13, 2022 Hello, Insiders. This is Spriha Srivastava, filling in again for Nicholas Carlson. Do you ever look back at the year and think about the new things you added to your list of expenses? Was it a new subscription service? For […]
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