By Mike Gleason Well, what a week for the gold market! The monetary metal gained $30 on Thursday to close at $1,900 for the first time since last spring, and silver battled back to $24 per ounce. Gold’s uptrend is being confirmed by the mining stocks. On Thursday, […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist and professor Bob Kuttner to go over why the left should support the growing movement for economic decoupling from China and rebuilding American supply chains
“Slavery is likely to be abolished…and chattel slavery destroyed. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborer, while the European plan…is capital control of labor by controlling wages.” – […]
Starbucks worker, Joseph Thomas, gives a firsthand account of the unionization efforts taking place at Starbucks locations in California.
Yeah, because we didn’t already have an oligarchy before the pandemic.
Krystal breaks down the long term losses with working class voters for the Democratic party that began during the Obama presidency and has developed to a crisis for Dems in 2022 and beyond
While I don’t entirely agree with the way in which Lindsay frames this analysis, Kulinski is mistaken to dismiss Lindsay’s entire analysis as foolishness. The book Lindsay co-wrote with Pluckrose called Cynical Theories is actually a really good critique of postmodern identity politics. But man since that book […]
Team Rising weighs in on reports that the White House plans to seek more than $770 billion in the 2023 defense budget.
I noticed Kyle accidentally called Joe Manchin Joe Biden but it’s not a mistake worth fixing it’s basically correct
Boise, Idaho (February 17, 2022) — The Idaho State House today overwhelmingly approved a bill which enables the State Treasurer to protect state reserve funds from inflation and financial risk by holding physical gold and silver. State representatives voted 55-14 to pass House Bill 522, the Idaho Sound […]
Kim Iversen makes the case that the media is demonizing the working class.
Associate editor at Reason, Liz Wolfe, explains how PM Justin Trudeau’s move to freeze the Freedom Convoy out by crowdfunding platforms is “precisely the use case for crypto.”
Co-host of The BadFaith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, details the worker safety issues brought to light following a wrongful death lawsuit against Alec Baldwin.
By Peter Zeihan on February 16, 2022 The United States Federal Reserve is preparing to raise interest rates in 2022. The question is not longer one of “if” or “when,” but how frequently and by how much. The implications will reverberate throughout American society and the economy. It won’t just […]
Bloomberg News The Chinese yuan is having a greater impact on its emerging-market counterparts than ever before and may play a crucial role in determining their performance in the coming year. The currency’s correlation with an MSCI Inc. index of its developing-nation peers rose to record in September […]
But don’t worry these huge financial incentives weren’t a factor behind vax mandates. The CEO of Pfizer even said so.
‘Work yourself to illness or death. Don’t fear death.’ – The ruling class
Marine veteran and U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri, Lucas Kunce, details Germany’s energy dependence on Russia and makes the national security case for decarbonization.
Imagine a child constantly puts his had in the cookie jar without permission and gets caught. Then the father locks up the cookie jar. Then the child says “psssh, Dad why would you just assume I’m gonna try and get a cookie without asking”… Father: “Idk son, maybe […]
It’s insane how insider trading is only legal if you are a politician. You or I hear something through the grapevine and then we go to prison for a few years. Politicians behind closed doors pass laws, then lie to the public about what’s going to happen, and […]
Krystal and Saagar deliver the latest news on the Ukraine crisis that is happening as we speak with Russia deciding to withdraw troops and Ukraine’s president’s sarcasm rattling markets
He actually created a recession to control inflation, and then lifted the economy out of the recession with Keynesian policies. It is amazing that he is so admired by fiscal conservatives, deficit hawks, libertarians, and gold bugs. Ronald (Ronald Wilson, 1911-2004) Reagan, Republican candidate for United States President. […]
Do not forget all those children that escape home for all possible reasons
By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Americans get fed a lot of BS when it comes to price inflation. Prices in the U.S. are rising faster than they were in the late 1970s when gasoline shortages triggered an economic crisis. Today, supply chain disruptions and exploding […]
The Saudis should be paying their own bills.
Ryan Grim makes the case against the Biden administration’s ‘shameful’ reallocation of assets from the Afghanistan Central Bank.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Afghan journalist Ali Latifi to break down the Biden administration’s decision to confiscate billions of dollars in the country’s assets as the country faces a banking and starvation crisis
A video of Dave Chappelle from a local Yellow Springs, Ohio city council meeting has gone viral, with widespread condemnations directed at Chappelle for allegedly opposing a development featuring affordable housing. A closer inspection of the situation reveals that these reports were inaccurate, and Chappelle’s objections to the […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the media’s claim that Trump flushed White House documents down a toilet at Mar-a-lago causing it to clog instead of turning them over to the archives
Business leader, investor, and anti-poverty advocate, Joe Sanberg makes the case for initiating an $18 minimum wage in California.
Krystal and Saagar provide an update on the story of Rotterdam disassembling a historic bridge for Jeff Bezos’ super yacht to pass through the Dutch port city
Krystal and Saagar break down the increasingly desperate and hostile tactics being used by Starbucks to fight the wave of union drives happening in their stores across America
Historiansplaining We consider the strange ambiguous developments of this year, including the political paralysis in the US, the furors over mask and vaccine mandates, and most importantly, the labor reshuffle or “great resignation,” in light of crises past, including the bubonic plague and World War I and World […]
By Michael Hudson, Counterpunch The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime is aimed […]
The Revolving Door Project’s Jeff Hauser details the potential conflict-of-interest issue with the Biden administration’s nomination to head the FDA.
Team Rising discuss corporate greed and the generational wealth gap as polling shows 70 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss public health response to gambling addiction.
Krystal and Saagar talk to Daily Poster founder David Sirota about the misinformation machine that corporate media has become
Krystal and Saagar talk to the founder of WallStreetBets Subreddit about how Julian Assange’s family raised millions for his legal defense through crypto and what the implications could be
Saagar breaks down the case of tech hipsters and fake rappers who got caught trying to pull off a billion dollar bitcoin heist
Katie Halper fact checks reporting on Dave Chappelle’s alleged role in deterring the construction of an affordable housing complex in Ohio.
Labor economist Aaron Sojourner and professor Julia Raifman explain new data showing the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on low-wage workers.
Ryan Grim breaks down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reversal on a stock trading ban for members of Congress.
Krystal delivers a scathing rebuke of the new woke union busting tactic being used by large corporations with supposedly progressive values facing workplace union drives
Krystal and Saagar cover the new bipartisan legislation being proposed to ban stock trades by member of congress after Nancy Pelosi gave in to the public pressure to change her stance
By Brendan Morrow The Week Prices in the U.S. are soaring at the fastest rate in decades. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday the consumer price index increased 7.5 percent over the last 12 months, the fastest pace in 40 years, The Washington Post reports. This was higher […]
Is something fundamentally changing in how Americans think about work? Jonathan Malesic on the causes and consequences of the Great Resignation. The U.S. economy has been gripped since early 2021 by the phenomenon of the Great Resignation: American employers logged 47 million employee resignations last year, which equates to […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Geopolitical tensions are casting a pall over the Olympics in China amid rising fears of war with Russia. As nations prepare for conflict, investors should brace for potential fallout in asset markets. Both China and Russia play hugely important roles […]
By Christine Hitt, SFGATE Over the last seven years, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have purchased 1,500 acres worth of land on Hawaii’s island of Kauai. They now own more of the island than the government of Kauai itself (975 acres). Zuckerberg and Chan spent more […]
Finally, a story that doesn’t have to do with Joe Rogan.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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