Big Tech Fighting Back INSIDE Biden Admin, Wall Street STIFLING Push To Check Monopolies
Ryan Grim details the next steps in the fight against big tech and the potential obstacles in the government’s way.
Donziger RELEASED After Breaking Points Pressure
Krystal and Saagar cover the news that Steven Donziger has been released from prison and sent back home to serve out the rest of his sentence after unrelenting pressure from independent media
Freddie DeBoer: Why I Stopped Fighting ‘Class First’ Label
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski talk with substack journalist Freddie DeBoer about class politics
Dems Take Victory Lap Over 2 PENNY Drop In Price Of Gas
Krystal and Saagar cover the hilarious messaging failure from Democratic party communications staff who celebrated a two cent decline in gas prices on social media
Sorry, Ancaps, but An-Coms and An-Syns are Anarchists
A reader writes: I get so annoyed by anarcho-sectarianism. I have always thought anSyndics are anarchists. I love Sorel. Mises calls it pseudo socialism and worker’s capitalism, so I don’t know why it triggers so many libertarians, except that they haven’t read Mises and are wedded to defending […]
Important Non-Austrian Contributions to Economic Thought
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations The world of academia has long been plagued by an unfortunate tendency of overspecialization. For example, economists tend to stick strictly to their discipline and know next to nothing about history. Conversely, it’s mostly true of historians that they know next to […]
Stirner Wasn’t a Communist You Freaking Idiot
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations Communism is the economic system characterized by “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Bizarrely, it has become increasingly popular in recent years to claim that the champion of Egoism, Max Stirner, supported this system or at […]
Strong demand and likely the holidays pushed inflation to a ‘nearly four-decade high’ last month
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Inflation surged 6.8 percent from a year ago in November, coming in slightly above estimates, CNBC reports, per the latest consumer price index released Friday. After removing volatile food and energy prices, the CPI (which measures what consumers pay for goods and services) […]
52% Say They Plan To Spend About The Same Amount On Holiday Spending As Last Year
On today’s What America’s Thinking, 52 percent of voters said they plan to spend about the same amount as last year on holiday spending.
Progressives Introduce FOUR-DAY Work Week Bill, Is This The Answer To The Great Resignation?
Team Rising discusses the possibility for a four-day work week in the U.S.
Marco Rubio LAMBASTS US’ Economic Love Affair With China, Calls For Working Family-First Capitalism
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky react to a speech given by Marco Rubio on reorienting the country’s economy away from reliance on China.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Developing Brain MICROCHIP, Records & Stimulates Activity. Ready NEXT YEAR?
Team RIsing reacts to a new announcement from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink. They hope to start implanting its brain chips in humans in 2022.
Appetite For Truth Social? Trump’s Platform Receives $1B Investment From “Diverse Backers”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the alleged one billion dollar investment in Trump Social.
Long covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake
By Christopher Rowland Washington Post Before the coronavirus ruined her plans, Tiffany Patino expected to be back at work by now. She and her boyfriend intended to move out of a basement in suburban Maryland, where his grandmother lets them stay for free, so they could raise their […]
6 LIES Media Is Telling On Inflation
Krystal and Saagar talk to Daily Poster journalist Julia Rock about 6 myths being told to the public by the media about inflation as part of an ongoing collaboration
Squatters busted at empty multi-million dollar Manhattan townhouse
By Oumou Fofana, Ben Kesslen and Craig McCarthy New York Post Three squatters were busted Friday inside an empty multi-million dollar Manhattan townhouse owned by a designer to the stars. Cops raided the Upper East Side home owned by Richard Stark, co-founder of Chrome Hearts, a luxury retail […]
Inflation Jumps to Highest Level in Nearly 40 Years
By Tom Ozimek Epoch Times Consumer prices accelerated in the year through November at their fastest pace in 39 years, new government data shows, marking the sixth straight month of inflation running above 5 percent and delivering a fresh sign that inflationary woes continue to bedevil the U.S. […]
Why Anarchists Can’t Be Absent From the New Wave of Labor Militancy
It’s Going Down Anarchists must push for self-organization, direct action and mutual aid in the midst of a wave of mass strikes, workers walking off the job, and growing anger at rising inequality. The month of October was the start of what has been called “Striketober” a massive […]
Most Partisan Industries
This is incomplete but it’s a decent overview of the present alignments of ruling class faction. Open Secrets The most partisan industries are determined by calculating the amount of money given to Democratic or Republican candidates and party committees compared to all the money given, including money going […]
Tom Cotton Blocks ALL US Attorney Nominees Over Hurt Feelings
Cotton is by far the most dangerous federal elected official. He far exceeds Trump on the “narcissistic sociopath” scale but he is also more highly functioning, shrewder and less impulsive, and more intelligent and educated. The real danger of the Trumpian efforts to stack state governments so they […]
The Old Anarchism and the New
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations In a previous video “Yes, Anarcho-Capitalists are Anarchists,” the case was made that anarcho-capitalism is a continuation of the historical anarchist tradition of Proudhon, Bellaguerrigue, Tucker and the rest, contrary to claims by ancoms that anarcho-capitalism has nothing to do with historical […]
Capitalism is for Big Babies
By Marc Barnes, New Polity I used to think that the capitalist was wrong about human nature. Now, I think he is right about human nature—for the first two or three years of its development. When I say capitalism is for big babies, I don’t want to be […]
Make this group of people pay for California homelessness relief
By Anthony Carrasco, SF Gate A founding member of Berkeley’s Homeless Services Panel of Experts argues one specific group of people should pay for homelessness relief. In one California city, the end of homelessness could be close at hand as Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has proposed a “right […]
Courtney Love says she has Elon Musk’s private emails
By Kim Lyons The Verge Courtney Love Cobain, Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, and Kendall Roy are all in the running to be Friday’s Main Character on Twitter after a single tweet where the queen of ’90s grunge music Twitter-scolded the Tesla CEO for his mean reply to the […]
White Millennials: America’s Sacrificial Lamb
By Robert Stark The racial wealth gap has become a heated issue as part of the ongoing woke crusade, but rather than the economic elite, it is average, workaday White Americans who are the scapegoat. White millennials in particular—ironically given their role as some of the most vocal […]
US Financial Institutions SUPPORT Corruption From Foreign Kleptocrats & Oligarchs
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse breaks down how he believes the U.S. government should fight financial corruption.
28 Years Of NAFTA: How It DESTROYED Dems, Elected Trump
Krystal and Saagar look back on the disastrous economic results from NAFTA in middle America that lead to Trump getting elected and Dems eroding working class support
DAOs Are Better Than Companies
By 0xjim Why DAOs are superior businesses and investments than traditional companies If you’ve been following my blog for the past few months, you know that I’m incredibly bullish on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, DAOs for short. These organizations are formed by groups that have a common mission/objective that […]
Dawn Of The DAO: What Happens When The Crowd Holds The Power Of A Corporation?
By Alison McCauley Forbes A week ago, about a dozen people hopped on Zoom to explore an idea: What if we got a community to bid together on a rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution offered at Sotheby’s auction? By Monday, over 2,000 people—many strangers—had contributed over […]
Latinx FAIL? Hispanic Voters OFFENDED At Democrats’ Emphasis On The Term Vs. Working Class Policies
Dr. Xavier Bonilla discusses how the term “LatinX” reveals Democrats’ bigger problem connecting with working-class voters.
Psaki MOCKS Notion Of Sending Every American A COVID Test, Neoliberal Elitism On FULL Display
Host of Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, reacts to viral video out of the White House press briefing room.
Holiday Travel Restrictions RAMP UP As Early Data Shows Omicron Variant MORE Contagious, Less Severe
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals almost half of all voters believe pandemic restrictions should increase in their area if Covid-19 hospitalizations tick up.
Protestors Spend 7+ Nights Sleeping Outside RI State House, Demanding IMMEDIATE Relief For Homeless
Rhode Island state senator, Cynthia Mendes, explains the mission behind the #SleepOutRI protest.
Elon Musk, Tesla Have A BIG China Problem
Saagar Enjeti uncovers how Elon Musk and Tesla have been forced to cave to the demands of the Chinese Communist Party like many corporations looking to profit off China’s market
Schools Get BILLIONS In Covid Relief, Some Funds Spent On Tennis Courts, Vape Detectors
Robby Soave makes the case that schools should spend their COVID relief funding on measures that will kelp kids immediately, not in the abstract long term.
Teamsters Embrace MILITANCY, Prepare for WAR with AMAZON
Krystal and Saagar talk to union organizer David Levin about the election of militant leadership to the Teamsters Union and what that could mean for the future of organized labor
SEC To INVESTIGATE New Trump Media Company
Krystal and Saagar examine the growth of conservative media alternatives now that Trump’s new media organization has launched and is getting investigated by regulators
What the DISASTER Jobs Report Means For Joe Biden
Krystal and Saagar break down the key statistics from the underwhelming November jobs report and what they could mean for President Biden going forward
Americans Think The Economy Is Doing Poorly Because We’ve Become Consumers First
Ryan Grim questions why Americans have such poor opinions about the current economy.
Pro-Trump, America-First Republican Supports Public Healthcare Option. Now He’s Running For Congress
Candidate for New York’s 23rd congressional district, Andrew McCarthy, breaks down his campaign.
Rent Inflation Hits THIRTY YEAR HIGH
Krystal and Saagar cover the latest price hikes happening in the rental market as the impact of inflation on the economy grows
The Real Wealth Gap
By Robert Stark The intergenerational wealth gap, the housing crisis, and how “BLM vs. MAGA” poisons the discussion on every issue that matters. Recent events have made it harder but more necessary than ever to eschew the reactive tribalism encapsulated currently by “BLM vs. MAGA” in favor of […]
Lyceum Round-Table #46 Great Resignation
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Terminal Philosophy and Swithun Dobson to discuss the Great Resignation.
The Reshoring Imperative
By Joel Kotkin and Michael Lind The COVID-19 pandemic brought tragedy and disruption to America. But it has also provided another stark warning concerning the country’s disastrous over reliance on overseas production. It has demonstrated that without a strong, self-reliant industrial base, this country’s ability to forge a […]
Omicron could pose ‘significant’ threat to global economy, Yellen says
By Alessandra Galloni, Reuters Dec 2 (Reuters) – The Omicron variant of COVID-19 could slow global economic growth by exacerbating supply chain problems and depressing demand, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the Reuters Next conference on Thursday. Yellen cited a great deal of uncertainty about the impact […]
Own Nothing and Love It
By Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox From the ancient world to modern times, the class of small property owners have constituted the sine qua non of democratic self-government. But today this class is under attack by what Aristotle described as an oligarchia, an unelected power elite that controls […]
The Socialism America Needs
By Joel Kotkin Clobbered from all sides by the pandemic, climate change and disruptions in virtually every industry by the rise of artificial intelligence, the capitalist dream is dying — and a new, mutant form of socialism is growing in its place. In the US, perhaps it’s no […]
The Roots of Inflation Go Far Beyond the Supply Chain
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa, The Hill We keep hearing that supply-chain disruptions are causing the “temporary” price inflation that has become the hot topic of conversation. All sorts of public enemies are being blamed for the disruptions, including, according to President Biden, those who are manipulating the markets […]
Third Worldizing America
The weakening of the American regime provides many opportunities for anti-imperialist struggles and the creation of startup societies now that the global hegemon is in decline, and the domestic regime is experiencing decline as well. Meanwhile, I suspect the long-term effect of recent anti-police uprisings will be a […]
Pfizer Lobbies To BLOCK Anti-Corporate Fraud Law After It Cost Them $2.3 BILLION In 2009
Team Rising discusses reporting from The Intercept about Pfizer’s efforts to kill a law making it easier for corporate whistleblowers to come forward.
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