While working stiffs worry about rampant inflation outpacing wages, corporations see profits hit a record high regardless. RT’s Brent Jabbour discusses the widening wealth gap, which is minting new billionaires by the day.
Former senior White House adviser Stephen Miller slams Biden’s first press conference of 2022 on ‘Kudlow.’
By Abha Bhattarai Washington Post Ty Stehlik, who works the front desk at a hotel in Milwaukee, pleaded for a raise all through the pandemic — and finally got an extra $1 an hour in the fall to make $15. But higher prices for rent and food have […]
It’s interesting how universities have become predatory capitalist corporations in terms of their business model, but Stalinist/fascist/fundamentalist regimes in terms of ideological conformity. By Katherine Frank, The Nation The Ivy League institution’s approach to the contract negotiations with its grad student workers reveals how it has evolved into […]
Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli BANNED From Industry. Feds Do Nothing To ACTUALLY Solve Price Gouging Shrkreli: “I’m going to illegal inflate the cost of this life-saving medicine and profit from the people’s sickness.” Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Anthony Fauci, and House Democrat shareholders: […]
Why no mention of Anand Giridharadas? His book “Winners Take All” does a great job of analyzing this class.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist David Sirota for the weekly collaboration to talk about how BlackRock is greenwashing polluters and the failure of Democratic Party leadership.
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange This week is shaping up to be a pivotal one for precious metals markets with some breakout price action on the board. As the U.S. stock market got pounded, hard assets perked up on safe-haven buying. These are the times that prove […]
(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — January 21, 2022) – An Oklahoma state representative introduced legislation this week that would enable the State Treasurer to protect Sooner State funds from inflation and financial risk by holding physical gold and silver. Introduced by Rep. Sean Roberts, HB 3681 would include physical […]
By Nani Sahra Walker Los Angeles The California State University announced it has added caste as a protected category in its systemwide anti-discrimination policy, a hard-fought policy deeply meaningful to Dalit students of South Asian descent. The Cal State policy came after years of activism from Dalit students and […]
Kim Iversen details the state of workplace vaccine mandates, now that the Biden administration’s influence is gone.
Krystal and Saagar talk with policy expert Matt Stoller about Microsoft’s decision to buy gaming giant Activision Blizzard and how it could affect the video game industry
Missouri candidate for Senate, Lucas Kunce, details why stopping members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks doesn’t go far enough.
Saagar details how Wall Street firms such as BlackRock and BlackStone have begun taking over the housing market in an effort to destroy the American Dream of buying a home and raising a family
Excellent news. Business leaders, government leaders and journalists are basically the same group of people these days. The interconnectedness of them is insane.
The author of the new book “San Fransicko,” says the homelessness crisis is an addiction and mental health crisis enabled by policies that permit open-air drug scenes on public property and prevent police from enforcing laws Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2022/01/19/h… —————— Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_… […]
By Michael Brendan Dougherty National Review The white upper middle class is deranging American politics. We should have seen it coming. In 2010, America’s last famous novelist, Jonathan Franzen, launched on the reading public Freedom, his tale of a striving family headed by Walter and Patty Berglund. They […]
By Amanda Lee in Beijing and Orange Wang South China Morning Press China’s Ministry of Commerce has insisted that tariffs on its goods be removed, after US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was not ready to lift the Trump-era taxes because Beijing had failed to […]
By Ankush Khardori The Week n early December, while Elizabeth Holmes was testifying in her own defense in the most heavily covered white-collar criminal trial in recent memory, an entirely different criminal proceeding involving the health-care industry was taking place across the country. Thomas Whitten, a 71-year-old former […]
Krystal and Saagar review the polling data showing overwhelming support from the American people for legislation banning members of congress from trading stocks on inside information
Saagar issues a scathing critique of the Warriors co-owner and tech billionaire who downplayed China’s Uighur genocide in what represents the total loyalty to China held by the billionaire class
Krystal takes a detailed look at how the Starbucks workers unionization efforts in Buffalo are causing ripple effects in stores across the country as the American labor movement comes back to life
Robby Soave breaks down the potential pitfalls of Democrats’ SHOP SAFE Act.
This article is interesting because it foreshadows what mainstream political debate is going to look like in the future, at least in heavily populated areas. Today’s moderates are tomorrow’s conservatives. Today’s far-left are tomorrow’s liberals. Over time, today’s conservatives (e.g. FOX fans) are going to be increasingly small […]
Firms like Black Rock and Vanguard are like the Rockefellers at their apex. As the top of the heap within capitalism, they’re hated by both the left and right. By Ben Zeisloft Daily Wire BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said that being “woke” has no place in his […]
By Peter Cole, Yves Magazine If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood that racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you […]
Joy Reid “corporations are the most vulnerable in our society”
Glenn Hubbard, author of The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, dean emeritus at Columbia Business School, and former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, joins The Realignment to discuss why populist “walls” aren’t the right responses to critiques of capitalism and […]
It’s going to be hilarious if the crystal lady ends up replacing Sanders as the left’s leading politician.
By Peter Weber The Week The wealth of the world’s 10 richest people, as measured by Forbes, more than doubled between March 2020 and November 2021, advocacy group Oxfam reported Monday, rising to $1.5 trillion from about $700 billion. Meanwhile, the incomes of 99 percent of people in […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic As many Americans sit in a weird pandemic limbo, one group of workers bears the brunt of the Omicron surge. Then: Our happiness columnist offers advice for navigating failure. The Coronavirus Outbreak (The Atlantic) As my colleague Katherine J. Wu reported late […]
By Jp Cortez, Sound Money Defense League Money Metals Last year was a good year for state-level sound money legislation across the United States. 2022 could be even better. Building on the success enjoyed by sound money advocates in Arkansas and Ohio last year, more than a half […]
By Joel Kotkin Everyone seems to be California dreaming these days. Much of America, particularly its red parts, see California as a hopeless dystopia best understood as everything the nation should avoid. Meanwhile, for the progressive Left and many around Joe Biden, California is the Mecca, a great […]
By Joel Kotkin With the seeming deconstruction of the Biden Administration proceeding at a rapid clip, many on the right hope for an end to the conscious stoking of class resentments that has characterized progressive politics. Yet despite the political meltdown, America’s class divides have become so wide, […]
By Joel Kotkin We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian trend in the West. Don’t expect a crudely effective dictatorship out of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: we may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic, but […]
Kevin Carson is by far the best contemporary left-anarchist economist. His ideas on economics are more or less what I think the dominant mode of production would look like in a world where anarchist movements achieved political hegemony on a cultural and intellectual level. Although, like Noam Chomsky, […]
The thing a lot of people don’t understand is you can gain the largest coalition in history on economics. The reason radicalism exists is because there are desperate people who feel there is no alternative. If people felt more financially secure and that they had more control of […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the Biden administration’s new COVID-19 test distribution website.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit “Experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other” -Frederick Douglass “A worker is a part time […]
The Week Staff ‘Omicron absenteeism’ poses a new threat to business. The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Widespread “Omicron absenteeism” poses a new threat to the country’s economic recovery, said Shawn Donnan in Bloomberg. An estimated 5 million workers were […]
Team Rising discusses whether Democrats’ focus on Covid is a faulty strategy for the 2022 midterms.
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez expands on his reporting about the dark money contributions to Pete Buttigieg’s political advocacy group.
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Another set of bombshell inflation reports rattled markets this week. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing consumer prices continue to rise at the fastest rate since 1982. The all-items index has risen 7% for the past 12 months […]
Ryan Grim and Kim Iversen discuss the rising cost of consumer goods and the debt crisis currently facing some American families.
Saagar details Elon Musks’s most recent capitulation to the Chinese Communist Party and how it contrasts with his public disdain for prominent lawmakers in American politics
Krystal and Saagar look through the data on stock trading by members of Congress in 2021 that shows how many of them over performed the stock market due to inside information
Journalist Judd Legum details his reporting on Red Lobster employees who are forced to work sick.
Krystal takes an in depth look at policy decisions by the federal reserve that could generate another major recession for suffering Americans and those winning in the stock market right now
Krystal and Saagar review the inflation numbers for 2021 on a range of vital household items and how Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed Fed Chair Jerome Powell on what has caused inflation
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Last year saw the highest inflation in almost 40 years, with the Consumer Price Index up 7 percent. “Core” inflation, which leaves out food and energy costs, was a still-high 5.5 percent. The Federal Reserve is now expected to start hiking interest rates in […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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