CAUGHT: Top White House Aide Brother Paid BIG $$$ By Amazon
Krystal and Saagar break down the money Amazon is spending on lobbying campaigns including paying the brother of a top White House official tens of thousands over the past few months.
Congress Weighs PROMISING Antitrust Bill, OPENS DOOR For Further Big Tech Regulation
Author of “Goliath,” Matt Stoller, breaks down the antitrust bill that could change Big Tech.
Biden’s SHAMEFUL Nom Of Chevron Defense Lawyer Linked To Donziger Persecution
Katie Halper, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Robby Soave discuss one of President Biden’s controversial federal judicial nominees.
Economics Reporter Explains HOW Billionaire Davos Class, Like Jeff Bezos, Got RICHER During Pandemic
Global economics correspondent for The New York Times, Peter S. Goodman, previews his new book, ” Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World.”
DISASTER Looms If Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Is ANOTHER Corporatists Like Breyer
David Sirota argues that a play to identity politics isn’t enough when picking a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Breyer.
No Brainer? Voters Of ALL Ideologies Get Behind A Stock Trading Ban For Members Of Congress
Team Rising discuss wide, bipartisan support for a stock-trading ban for members of Congress.
3 theories on Democrats’ silence about the Biden boom
By Ryan Cooper The Week Last year, the United States economy turned in its best performance in roughly four decades. Inflation-adjusted growth was up 5.7 percent in 2021, and there were 6.4 million jobs created — the best such figures since 1984 and 1978, respectively. Outside of perfunctory […]
How Capitalists Stole Your Brain
Our conversation with this week’s guest, Johann Hari, moves from the individual to the collective as we discuss the digital algorithms that keep us locked into online life and the ways of resetting our consciousness — both personally and societally — that can lead us to a better […]
What the States Can Do About the Debased Dollar
Tom Woods Show It may be true that our money is screwed up at the federal level, but there are actions we can take at the state level to counteract the lunacy. JP Cortez of the Sound Money Defense League joins us to discuss what can be done […]
The economy last year grew at its fastest pace in decades, Commerce Department says
By Brigid Kennedy The Week The nation’s economy grew 5.7 percent last year, the biggest increase since 1984, NPR reports Thursday, per the Commerce Department. That said, however, the growth “wasn’t a straight line,” notes Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “The economy remains tethered to the pandemic.” […]
Chaos rules in Soho, where residents say they fear for their safety
I can’t say I much care if the bourgeois bohemians are running scared of lumpen crime. The US elites wanted the domestic United States to be a Third World country and they’re going to get it. By Georgett Roberts and Gabrielle Fonrouge Open fires burning on the street. […]
Putin the Practical Wants Ukraine Grain
by Brian Czech Pundits, think tanks, and politicians are asking, “What does Putin want with Ukraine?” If you’re familiar with Ukraine’s flag—especially the bottom half—you’re halfway to the answer. Putin: inscrutable yet exuding practicality. (Image: CC BY-SA 2.0, Credit: Global Panorama) But let’s start with the conventional wisdom. […]
Living Rent-Free Next to Millionaires
This reminds me of an anarchist tendency known as “anarcho-waterism.” Yeah, there really is such a thing. For decades, the “anchor-outs” have enjoyed living in rent-free boat homes in the Bay Area. Their boats, anchored just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, float illegally in the sightline of […]
Johann Hari: INSIDE Big Tech Effort To STEAL Your Attention
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author Johann Hari to take an in depth look at how big tech companies and other society-wide factors have stolen our ability to pay attention and focus
GOOD NEWS: Intel, GM Invest BILLIONS In Ohio, Michigan
Krystal and Saagar break down the decisions by General Moters & Intel to invest billions in domestic manufacturing facilities to help combat the semiconductor shortage and supply chain bottleneck
Spotify Paid Harry & Mehgan $30 MILLION For Podcast They Didn’t Do
I didn’t do a podcast for Spotify just as much and didn’t make a dime.
The Culture War Is Really A CLASS War That Benefits Elites, Keeps The Poor POOR
Batya Ungar-Sargon considers how progressives misinterpret class war issues as being part of the culture war.
Inside Amazon Effort To BRAINWASH Highschool Children
Krystal and Saagar dive into the educational initiative by Amazon where the company gives large amounts of money to public schools in exchange for students being taught company propaganda
Dan Crenshaw DEFENDS Congress Stock Trading: ‘You Have To Better Yourself’
“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.” ― Harry Truman
Reagan’s supply-side economics get a Biden update
Glad to see someone recognizes this. By James Pethokoukis The Week Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen took pains to distinguish Bidenomics from Reaganomics. Maybe don’t draw that line too bright. The last time U.S. inflation was raging, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan promised that cutting income taxes and business regulation […]
Peter Zeihan is Wrong about China
I am neither a Sinophobe nor a Sinophile just as I am neither a Russophobe nor a Russophile. The political establishment (neoliberals and neocons) attacks these countries as enemies of humanity, and many on the far left or far right fetishize them. Russia is still a Second World […]
U.S. and Allies Seek United Front on Russia-Ukraine Crisis
New York Times NATO nations pursued talks but warned Russia of severe penalties for aggression. Washington made plans to boost European fuel supplies in case of a Russian embargo. The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it was working with gas and crude oil suppliers from the Middle […]
Did China Actually Lift 850 Million People Out Of Poverty?
China officially surpassed the US in 2015 having the largest middle class by American standards of family net worth anywhere between 50k and 500k. The gap has only further widened today. And more than 70 percent of Chinese millennials own their own home, which has allowed them to […]
Reddit’s Wall Street Bets Founder: Market Volatility Is Normal, Crypto Isn’t Going Anywhere
Wall Street Bets founder Jaime Rogozinski discusses the stock market’s rocky start to the week.
How The Professional Managerial Class SERVES Capitalism While Virtue Signaling Progressivism
Professor of film & media studies at UC Irvine, Catherine Liu, details her book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.
SUPER BUBBLE CRASH? Dire Warning From Investor Who Predicted 2008
Krystal dives into how most major assets are in a bubble due to federal reserve policy and why sophisticated investors are predicting that this super bubble is set to crash.
UnitedHealth Makes RECORD $24 Billion In Profits
‘They are scams, on top of scams, within scams…”
The REAL Affirmative Action Scandal, Private Universities Cater To ELITES
Briahna Joy Gray argues that we should consider doing away with elite private universities all together.
Can the Left Win Trump Country? w/ Ted Boettner
Jen Pan speaks with Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute about the importance of unions for creating a basis of solidarity for progressive politics in places like West Virginia, how Democrats have abandoned working class voters in the state, and the importance of factoring in the […]
Is YOUR State Advancing Sound Money This Year?
By Jp Cortez Is your state promoting sound money? The links below detail pending state legislation where the Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange is actively working right now to defend the interests of taxpayers and precious metals investors. We see some promising signs that additional […]
Protectionism is Retarded
My own take on the question of “protectionism” is largely one of indifference. From an anarchist perspective, “protectionism” can occur on a non-state basis. It is certainly conceivable that a confederation of voluntary communities (similar to the medieval European leagues like the Lombards and Hanseatics) could have their […]
The Confucian Model
By Eammon Singleton, The American Conservative In April 1998, Sony Corporation chairman Norio Ohga made world headlines with his comment, “The Japanese economy is on the verge of collapsing.” In reality, nothing in Sony’s experience supported such an assessment. On the contrary, its business boomed right through the 1990s. More generally, Japanese industrial corporations continued to gain share from American rivals. Yet […]
David Graeber – Debt, service, and the origins of capitalism
Professor David Graeber (LSE) speaking at the University of Birmingham as part of the Birmingham Research Institute of History and Cultures’ interdisciplinary conference ‘Debt: 5000 years and counting’.
Indentured Servants: Judge ORDERS Hospital Staff To WORK
Krystal and Saagar cover the story of a local judge ordering employees at a hospital to stay at their current jobs and keep working after they tried to leave the company for better jobs
Pelosi PRESSURED Into Supporting Stock Trade Ban For Congress
What about the immediate family of Congress? They shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks either… What’s to say they can’t relay stock tips to their family members?
Market CRASH Worst Since March ’20: Is FED Causing Decline?
Krystal and Saagar break down the economic and political factors causing the stock market to go down back to March 2020 levels as the Fed considers raising interest rates
Corporate Wokeness is a Ruse and Low-info Peons Believe it
Proving that leftoids are the least intellectual and rational political bloc.
Crenshaw On Stock Trades: THEY DON’T PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE
Krystal and Saagar respond to the justification given by Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw for his insider trading that generated sky-high returns in the stock market over the past year
New Great Depression Imminent?
“On The Brink Of World War 3” “New Great Depression Imminent?” Thank you Kyle, for always being such a ray of sunshine.🙃
Is Mark Cuban Our 2024 SAVIOR?
Krystal explores the possibility of billionaire and media personality Mark Cuban running for President in 2024 after he announced the launch of a pharmaceutical company that will sell drugs for cheap
REJECT Davos Elites’ Great Narrative, Great Reset
Saagar details the new ‘Great Narrative’ being proposed by global elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos and why it should be rejected along with their ‘Great Reset’ idea
61% Of Americans Say Income NOT ENOUGH To Cover Expenses. DOOMSDAY Scenario For Biden & Democrats?
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to new polling showing that most Americans say their income is not enough to cover their cost of living.
Subway diary: Decay and depravity underground as system struggles to recover
By Kerry J. Byrne New York Post In the wake of the horrific subway shoving death of 40-year-old Upper West Sider Michelle Go last week in Times Square, The Post spent three days surveying the troubled transit system, where crimes have soared by 30% this year compared with […]
Today’s “Wayward Puritans” of the Academic “Elect”
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The American mentality is unabashedly elitist. Indeed, mediocrity is anathema to the American way of life. Much of the Americans’ ire toward communism has nothing to do with its tyranny, but with their animus toward equality. John Steinback had it right: Americans see […]
An inflation surge poses a growing threat
The Week Staff The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Economists are starting to question whether the Federal Reserve missed its chance to act on inflation, said Christopher Rugaber in The Associated Press. Consumer prices rose 7 percent in the past year, […]
Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition
By Alleen Brown The Intercept On a color-coded map, land belonging to Native tribes that opposed the Line 3 pipeline were marked in red — areas of “threat” to the bottom line. As part of its efforts to build and operate pipelines, the oil transport company Enbridge used […]
Jeff Bezos Startup Hires Top Scientist to Defeat Death
By Tony Tran, Futurism Amazon founder and Elon Musk’s favorite punching bag Jeff Bezos is assembling a team of top scientists to assist in his dream of developing immortality technology. The billionaire is funneling his money into an anti-aging startup dubbed Alto Labs, which formerly launched on Wednesday. […]
The Jews and Modern Capitalism
By Werner Sombart , Translated by Mordecai Epstein 2015 Reprint of Original 1913 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Werner Sombart (1863 -1941) was a German economist and sociologist and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first […]
Stock market has worst week since pandemic began
By Grayson Quay The Week Between Tuesday and Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,400 points, the market’s worst week since the COVID-19 pandemic began, The Washington Post reported. The S&P 500 fell by 5.1 percent and the Nasdaq by 6.2 percent during the same time period. “The […]
Millennials expect lifetime of rent as American dream evaporates
Home prices rose a record-breaking16.9 percent in 2021. Meanwhile, rent payments are surpassing mortgage costs in major US cities. Wall Street firms are buying up lower-income “starter homes” as an investment. But debt-saddled, low-earning millennials see the once-commonplace “American Dream” of homeownership receding ever further from their reach. […]
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