Ukraine Invasion FORCES The World To Reckon With Oil & Authoritarianism
Ryan Grim details the role the petrodollar has in today’s current crisis in Ukraine.
FINANCIAL PANIC: Russian Currency COLLAPSES Amid Bank Run
Krystal and Saagar break down the economic turmoil and financial panic taking place in Russia as the western world goes on an economic offensive in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
FDA Reveals Rat INFESTATION Of Family Dollar Warehouse
Krystal and Saagar cover the huge rat infestation in a family Dollar warehouse that caused the chain to close hundreds of stores and recall numerous products from their shelves
Is Business School the Root of Corporate Evil?
Krystal and Saagar announce a new partnership with James Li, the host of 51-49 on YouTube and James dives into how the education of corporate elites encourages them to make evil decisions
Saudi-Russia Collusion Is Driving Up Gas Prices — and Worsening Ukraine Crisis
By Ken Klippenstein The Intercept A spat between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Biden is pushing gas prices ever higher. It started under Obama. As Russia ordered troops into Ukraine on Monday, gas prices soared to their highest levels in over seven years. While the media […]
EU, UK, Canada, US pledge to remove selected Russian banks from interbank messaging system SWIFT
By Amanda Macias, CNBC The U.S., European allies and Canada agreed to disconnect specific Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. SWIFT is an independent enterprise based in Belgium that serves as an internal messaging system between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions in […]
Digest: Recent Newsletters on Russia and Ukraine (Peter Zeihan)
By Peter Zeihan on February 25, 2022 I thought it would be helpful to collect our recent newsletters on the subject of Russia and Ukraine in a single place for easy reference. As a reminder, the Zeihan on Geopolitics newsletter is free, and a searchable archive of all past […]
Koch Groups LOBBY SCOTUS To Stop EPA From LIMITING Carbon Emissions: Report
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez discusses corporate influence on our country’s climate crisis response.
Child Poverty Rose 41% Over Only TWO Months After Tax Credit Expired
Team Rising discusses the Biden administration’s failure to re-extend the child tax credit.
Fed BANS Stock Trading In Strict Crackdown, Is Congress Next?
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Melik Abdul react to the Fed’s decision to bar officials from trading stocks, crypto, and bonds.
Millennials SCREWED OVER By Boomers. Is The American Dream DEAD?
Team Rising discusses new data showing a record number of Millenials are postponing or forgoing marriage, homeownership, and children.
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Catherine Liu
Ok,… this is annoying the crap out of me for some reason… Is Kyiv pronounced ‘Keev’ or ‘Key-ev’? This invasion is the first time I’ve ever heard it pronounced ‘Keev’. From Texas Governor Abbott’s cruel attack on trans kids and their families to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s […]
Russian Ukraine Invasion & Commodities Disruption | Peter Zeihan
The Invasion of Ukraine and Russian Product Exports Now that the question of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has proven itself not to be a hypothetical, Western governments will be pushed to respond. The United States and its European allies are likely to pursue a sanctions campaign, but […]
Elon Musk and brother Kimbal face insider trading probe from SEC: report
By Theo Wayt New York Post Elon Musk and his younger brother are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission over whether the siblings violated insider trading laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The probe reportedly centers on Kimbal Musk’s sale in November of 88,500 […]
What is Putin’s Endgame? Garry Kasparov on Russia’s Attack on Ukraine
A vocal critic of the Russian leadership is Garry Kasparov, the chess grandmaster who ranked world number one repeatedly for 20 years before turning his attention to politics. He’s telling leaders to “help Ukraine fight against the monster you helped create.” Kasparov speaks with Walter Isaacson.
Will Coastal Elites DESTROY Your Town?
Krystal breaks down the trends in work as the pandemic has generated an entire infrastructure of remote work leading to more separation between the professional class and working class
Oil SKYROCKETS, Markets Tank As Gas Price Surge Likely
Krystal and Saagar look at how the markets have reacted to Putin’s invasion in Ukraine and the response from Biden and the western world creating economic instability via oil and gas prices
GREAT RESET Has INFILTRATED Cabinets Around The World With Young Leaders Like Trudeau
This is precisely the type of global ruling class that I have been predicting for the last 20+ years. Go back and read this essay I wrote in 2003. This global yuppie totalitarianism is now our main enemy. Kim Iversen details the prestigious class of the Young Global […]
FLorida GOP DROPS ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Amendment That Would See LGBT Students Outed
Pennsylvania House candidate and advisor to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Lovitz, makes the case against Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.
‘It should be illegal’: NYC landlords slap tenants with huge rent hikes
By Hannah Frishberg New York Post Based on recent rent hikes, New York has freshly become twice as nice to live in. As the pandemic ebbs, landlords are sticking their tenants with surging monthly rents — part of a record-breaking bump in housing costs that’s sweeping the nation, […]
The Next Affordable City Is Already Too Expensive
By Conor Dougherty New York Times In Spokane, Wash., home prices jumped 60 percent in the past two years. The increase is fueled by buyers fleeing the boom in cities like Austin. Who will have to flee next? READ MORE
Outrage as Canadian single mom on minimum wage has bank account frozen for donating $50 to Freedom Convoy: Trudeau is blasted for draconian law that ‘would never have been imposed on BLM’
By Andrea Cavallier For Dailymail.Com and Wires Canadian MP Mark Strahl tweeted Sunday that the bank account of a single mom called Briane was frozen after she gave $50 to the Freedom Convoy Authorities say 206 bank accounts had been frozen under the power granted by federal emergencies […]
The New Eurasian Century
By Joel Kotkin The current crises in eastern Europe reflect more than just Kremlin mischief-making—they reflect the first fruits of an emerging world order that spans the vastness from Beijing to Berlin. Unlike the longstanding liberal status quo, with its roots in classical civilization and the Enlightenment, this […]
Bill Gates Says Omicron “SADLY” Better Than Vax At Building Covid Immunity
Kim Iversen details Bill Gates’ latest comments on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Larry Kudlow Laughs Like Cartoon Villain At Workers
“When we want to incentivize the rich, we give them money. When we want to incentive the poor, we take away their money.”
Biden Appoints VULTURE CAPITALIST To Top Supply Chain Job: Report
The American Prospect’s Lee Harris breaks down the hedge fund past of the new chief executive of the Development Finance Corporation.
Billionaire BUYS Supreme Court’s Destruction Of EPA
Would love to see the court apply the same logic to the DEA
Warning from Canada: Financial Freedom Under Attack
Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals As the world nervously awaits the next development in nuclear-armed Russia’s standoff with Ukraine, a different headline-grabbing standoff may be even more consequential for investors. Canada’s trucker-led Freedom Convoy has been protesting draconian government mandates and restrictions. In response, Canadian Prime […]
How DC Elites SACRIFICED Kids to Culture War Nonsense
Krystal gives the complete timeline of how the child tax credit was implemented and successfully cut childhood poverty before DC elites cynically let the program end amidst the culture war
Child Poverty SKYROCKETS 41% In Colossal Dem Failure
Republicans and Democrats only differ when it comes to issues that do not affect money (LBTQ rights, abortion, etc.). When money is concerned, both serve their paymasters.
Canada’s Financial Warfare Shows We NEED Bitcoin
Saagar makes the case for bitcoin and all crypto currency given the Canadian government’s financial crackdown of the Trucker convoy and those who helped fund it
WORST Propaganda I’ve Ever Seen: Media Blames The Left For Biden’s Failures
The rise in crime is not surprising whatsoever. With rising prices and wages that have been stagnant for over 40 years, what did we all expect? Those who are desperate steal just to make a living. They eventually get arrested and sent to jail over that. Politicians like […]
Jacobin vs New Right: Is GOP FAKING Worker Support?
Krystal and Saagar are joined by policy expert Oren Cass of American Compass and Jacobin writer Paul Prescod for a debate on the GOP’s new legislation geared towards getting workers on corporate boards
Praise of Folly Podcast #61: Industrial Revolution and its Consequences
Todd Lewis will be joined by Existentialist Non-Grata to discuss the nature and implications of the Industrial Revolution.
Richard Wolff & Jimmy Dore DESTROY Majority Report Anti Freedom Convoy DEBATE
Doesn’t Jackson know that it’s only a worker’s movement if Netflix employees are involved?
How The Post Occupy Left ABANDONED Class For Wokeness
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends talk to author Michael Levitin about his new book on Occupy Wall Street and how the left has since abandoned mass class centric politics
THIS WEEK’S BIGGEST STORIES IN BUSINESS
Home prices set to soar 12% in 2022 says a top forecaster: ‘No end in sight’ The Nasdaq is on the plunge. Private market investors say it could ultimately be a good thing Why a top crypto quant fund manager thinks it’s not time to buy Bitcoin or […]
The New Gold: What’s driving a global rush for critical minerals?
Lisa Sachs on the environmental challenges of clean technology. On the shore of the Congo River in Kinshasa sits the Fleuve Congo Hotel, a five-star hotel with a weekly pool party in a country where most people subsist on less than $2 a day. The hotel hosts an ongoing […]
Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants
By Sam Biddle The Intercept Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. As Amazon’s dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast fleet of vehicles shuttling packages from warehouse to doorstep around the world. […]
Rents reach ‘insane’ levels across US with no end in sight
By RJ Rico, Press Democrat Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space. But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and […]
Forty Acres and an Arsenal: A Radical Libertarian Approach to Reparations
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I don’t believe in taxes. I know that’s not exactly the trendiest take on the left these days, but I just can’t justify giving any institution that kind of power. I would love nothing better than to play […]
How Big Business is Trying to RIG Legal Weed Market
On the latest BIG Breakdown, policy expert and writer Matt Stoller dives into all of the big money in the legal weed market and how big business is moving to take full advantage of it
The Trucker Protests should be a Wake Up Call for Leftists
The rich see an economic crisis as a garage sale and stay rich by investing and diversifying their portfolio with stocks.
A New Class War Comes to Canada
By Ross Douthat, New York Times A great and mostly unknown prophet of our time is Michael Young, whose book “The Rise of the Meritocracy,” published way back in 1958, both coined the term in its title and predicted, in its fictional vision of the 21st century, meritocracy’s […]
THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE OF WOKENESS AND CAPITALISM
“What makes an arranged marriage work? My mom and dad’s marriage worked because people who knew and cared about them got them together after thinking hard about whether they’d be compatible. Each of their parents ran through an exhaustive checklist. The whole point of it all was to […]
10 years post-Occupy: where does the 99% go from here?
We’re thrilled to bring you Episode 61 of Krystal Kyle & Friends, with our special guest Michael Levitin. You know Michael from his book Generation Occupy, a look at how, ten years down the road, the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to resonate through contemporary politics and shape […]
Saudi Arabia DENIES Biden Push To Speed Up Oil Production Gas Prices, Inflation Loom Over Midterms
Team Rising gives their thoughts on reports that the White House is exploring a gas tax holiday.
NYC FURTHER Punishing Workers Who Were Fired Over Vax Mandate, CUT OFF From Food Stamps & Benefits
Author of the Vulgar Marxism newsletter, Matthew Thomas, details the progressive response to New York City’s denial of food stamps, cash assistance, and unemployment benefits to qualifying New Yorkers who lost their jobs over failing to comply with the city’s vaccine mandate.
Is BlackRock CEO Larry Fink The Most POWERFUL Man In The World?
Executive director at Consumers’ Research, Will Hild, breaks down the economic incentives driving the corporate class to work with the Chinese Communist Party.
Inside Biden’s Legal FIGHT Against Student Debtors
Krystal and Saagar talk with Daily Poster journalist Julia Rock about how the Biden administration has been fighting student debtors in court despite the rhetoric it has used publicly
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