McDonalds Workers Epic WALK OUT For Higher Wages
Krystal and Saagar cover the worker activity happening across America, including at a McDonald’s location where workers staged a walkout for higher wages.
The Populist Case For Inflation: Banks And The Super Rich Get Hit the Most
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm discuss what the Biden administration can do to address soaring inflation.
Part II: Supply Chains No More
By Peter Zeihan Anyone try to buy anything recently? Like, anything? Throughout northern Mexico, parking lots full of finished automobiles (that are just waiting for a few semiconductors) have become common. Year-on-year prices for used cars are up 25 percent — a hands-down record. New models of televisions […]
The Culture War Is Not A Proxy For Race, It’s A Proxy For Class
I tend to disagree with Ryan’s analysis of this. I’d say the culture war is first and foremost a quasi-religious conflict over existential values. Class conflict and race conflict are both real, but they appear to be subordinated to the wider existential conflict. Ryan Grim argues that if […]
BREAKING: US Inflation Reaches 30 YEAR HIGH, Up 6.2% Over 12 Months
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to shocking new data on the state of the U.S. economy.
A Bungle of Boomers
By Peter Zeihan Today, the United States faces its tightest-ever labor force. It is about to get substantially worse. Every country has its own demographic profile, a balance across its entire population structure from children all the way up to retirees. Learn to read that profile and you […]
New DEEP DIVE Into Pandora Papers, NETWORK Of Offshore Tax Havens For The Rich
Producer Evan Williams and ICIJ Reporter Will Fitzgibbon preview their new documentary, “Pandora Papers,’ airing on PBS.
Bari Weiss, Steven Pinker Start NEW Anti-Censorship, Anti-Woke University
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the new University of Austin, and debate whether it will succeed.
Here’s The REAL Reason Elon Musk Is Selling TESLA Stock
Krystal and Saagar help viewers understand the tax avoidance reasons behind why Elon Musk is selling a significant share of his Tesla stock
US Faces Heating Bill ‘ARMAGEDDON’ As Biden Does NOTHING
Saagar breaks down the coming heating prices surge that will hit Americans this winter, especially those in rural areas, as the Biden administration allows it to unfold and does nothing
Biden Official CACKLES As Gas Prices Surge For Everyday Workers
Saagar issues a sharp critique of how the Biden administration has responded to surging gas prices being felt by Americans across the country
Elon Musk Tells Twitter He’ll SELL 10% Of Personal Stock, Will Still Be Richest Person In The World
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Elon Musk’s pledge to sell ten percent of his ownership in Tesla.
Biden Official CACKLES As Gas Prices Surge For Everyday Workers
Saagar issues a sharp critique of how the Biden administration has responded to surging gas prices being felt by Americans across the country
Progressives Make FOOLS Of Themselves In Biden Bill Cave
Krystal and Saagar explain how the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the house of representatives without any attachment to the budget reconciliation as progressives caved to Biden
The FATAL Flaw In Amy Klobuchar And Tom Cotton’s Big Tech Anti-Monopoly Bill
Robby Soave breaks down the Big Tech bill bringing Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tom Cotton together in an unlikely alliance.
AOC Says She Couldn’t Trust Holdout Dems To Keep Their Word, Manchin To Decide BBB’s Fate
Ryan Grim makes the case that even though its fate rests in Senator Joe Manchin’s hands, President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ bill will still pass.
THOUSANDS Of Health Care Workers Prepare To Strike
Krystal and Saagar look at the newest wave of strikes taking place as thousands of Kaiser workers prepare to fight for better wages against a healthcare company that made record profits in 2020
Biden Touts Infrastructure VICTORY. BIF Passes WITHOUT $1.75T Medicare Expansion, Paid Family Leave
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and co-founder of Justice Democrats and No Excuses PAC, Corbin Trent, discuss what’s next for President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda after Democrats passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Friday.
Hundreds of Thousands to Go on Four-Day Nationwide Strike Over Vaccine Mandates
By Enrico Trigoso Epoch Times A nationwide strike against vaccine mandates will take place from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, according to the main organizer for the walkout, Leigh Dundas, a human rights attorney and public speaker. The event will kick off in Los Angeles on Monday. The locations of the […]
Part I: Wither the Workforce
By Peter Zeihan If in recent weeks you’ve gone to a restaurant or boarded a plane of shopped in a store or remodeled your house or been in a hospital or done anything that requires a degree of assistance from a warm body, you’ve noticed it. Where are […]
DEBATE NIGHT: Charlie Kirk Vs. Atheist, Marxist Professor Ben Burgis
I generally view debates between “social democrats” and “free-market conservatives” the same way I would view a debate between a geo-centrist and a flat-earther. But anyone in a position where they are forced to have a conversation with someone as stupid as Charlie Kirk has my sympathy. In […]
Right-Wing Anti-Capitalism? (Ft. Todd Lewis of the Praise of Folly Podcast)
My approach to economics amounts to “cut welfare and protection from the top-down, cut taxes and regulation from the bottom up.” Virtually no one agrees with me. For most liberals and leftists, the state is their religion. And most “limited government conservatives” and not a few “free market […]
The Democrats’ deception on critical race theory
W. James Antle III, The Week After Republicans swept all the statewide offices in bluish Virginia with a successful campaign that partially turned on critical race theory in public schools, Democrats are gravitating toward a response: There is either no such thing as critical race theory or it’s […]
GIGANTIC Pentagon Budget & GUTTED Social Spending EXPOSES Where Politicians’ TRUE Loyalties Lie
Author of the Speaking Security newsletter, Stephen Semler, breaks down his reporting on Congress’s budget priorities.
Elite Greed On DISPLAY, Dems Pushing For SALT Repeal Could Score $75K In Tax Breaks
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, details ongoing negotiations to repeal, or amend, the SALT cap.
Working Mothers BURNT OUT Due To Pandemic, Nearly 1 In 4 Considering QUITTING Their Jobs
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen. and Robby Soave debate how the pandemic affected men and women differently.
Stephen Sweeney, N.J. Senate President, Loses to Republican Truck Driver
The main lesson I would take from recent elections is that normies dislike establishment politicians, and outsiders are guaranteed at least some kind of audience, but normies don’t like perceived extremists, either. By Nick Corasaniti and Tracey Tully Mr. Sweeney, the second most powerful lawmaker in New Jersey […]
Food Prices Vault to Highest Level in a Decade
By Tom Ozimek Food prices across the world have risen to their highest levels in a decade on the back of tightening supply conditions coupled with robust demand, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO’s food price index, which measures world […]
Hell of Presidents
A reader offers an interesting description of this program: In the latter third or so of this episode from the “Hell of Presidents” podcast (by Matt Christman and Chris Wade of the Chapo Trap House gang), they talk about the current moment in American electoral politics and where […]
Fed Admits Failure on Price Stability, Doesn’t Care
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Precious metals markets reacted this week to news of the Federal Reserve’s tapering plans. The Fed didn’t deliver any real surprises, though. It left interest rates unchanged as expected and confirmed that it would gradually cut back on monthly asset […]
Serfing the Planet
By Joel Kotkin Like its global predecessors, the COP26 Glasgow conference will usher in a new wave of apocalyptic warnings about climate change. It will also likely prove no more successful, in terms of actually addressing the issue, than its predecessors, particularly as China, India and other developing […]
Dems Plan MASSIVE TAX CUT For Millionaires, Billionaires
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff break down how the Dem plan to lift the SALT cap as part of the budget bill will lead to a huge tax cut for the wealthy, especially those in blue states
Congress Might FINALLY Pass Build Back Better, Does Dem’s CRUSHING VA Loss Change Things?
Team Rising debates whether the Build Back Better budget reconciliation package will really reach a vote this week.
Here’s What Workers REALLY Want From Unions
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff are joined by public policy expert Oren Cass to better understand what workers want from unions that they are currently not receiving
Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse
Some interesting economic analysis from Yanis Varoufakis. I think at least his basic argument is correct. The tech revolution, digital capitalism, the debt economy, financialization, globalization, the expansion of the professional-managerial class, and neoliberalism, along with other forces, have converged to create a new kind of economy.
Elon Musk Could Save 42M From STARVING To Death, Will He & Other Billionaires Sign Up?
Kim Iversen breaks down the controversy surrounding Elon Musk and the head of the UN’s World Food Programme.
Sinema Supports TRIMMED DOWN Drug Pricing Deal, Sanders BLASTS Dem’s Tax Giveaway To The Rich
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave detail the prescription drug pricing deal Democrats reached as part of their effort to pass President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda.
Neofascist seizure of America’s state governments
There is a lot of wild hyperbole in this. What Hedges is describing in this is not “fascism” but good old-fashioned American Protestant bourgeois-liberal know-nothing populism. Nothing new under the sun. This guy Paul Street being interviewed by Hedges is a perfect illustration of what I call a […]
Best Places I Would Live with $1,000 per Month
https://nomadcapitalist.com/internati… Where are affordable places for new nomads to live? In this video, Andrew discusses the top cities for new nomads to live for just $1,000 a month. 0:00 Start 1:31 Tbilisi, Georgia 4:44 Istanbul, Turkey 5:25 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 6:37 Phnom Penh, Cambodia 7:19 Antalya, Turkey 7:49 […]
Path to Extinction or Path to a Livable Future?
by Don Fitz As climate change leads humanity’s march to Armageddon, data surfacing during late 2021 suggests that the march could be much briefer than previously thought. “Nature is starting to emit greenhouse gases in competition with cars, planes, trains, and factories,” asserts Robert Hunziker. The Amazon has […]
NYC Taxi Drivers’ HUNGER STRIKE: Officials Join, DEMAND City-Backed Guarantee on Medallion Debt
New York State Assembly Member, Zohran Mamdani, explains his support of the hunger strike to #EndCabbieDebt.
Are Unvaxxed MORE DANGEROUS Than A FIRE? 9k+ NYC Public Workers CALL OUT Over Mandate
Kim Iversen expands her case against vaccine mandates.
Squad, Congressional Progressives FLINCH In Showdown With Manchin & CONCEDE On Infrastructure Bill
Team Rising discusses new developments in the negotiations to pass President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda.
Jon Stewart EXPOSES Wall Street CEO’s Lies To His Face
Krystal and Saagar review the hard hitting interview Jon Stewart did on his new Apple show with JP Morgan Chase CEO, Democratic party Donor, and general wall street tycoon Jamie Dimon
Progressives Show They’re A Total JOKE, Fold To Manchin
Krystal and Saagar respond to the demands made by Joe Manchin for the Build Back Better bill and the decision progressives made to fold on the congressional negotiations
Elites are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class
By Joel Kotkin Few things in life are as predictable as the rhetoric of climate change summits like this coming week’s in Glasgow. Over the next week, you will hear again and again that the planet is dying and that climate change will cause mass dislocations and starvation. […]
Why Ending Tenure Is Only a Start
By Michael Lind, Tablet It would be a step in the right direction. But more is needed to replace America’s antiquated academic sweatshops with a modern enterprise. Even if states like Georgia and Iowa succeed in their efforts to curtail or ban faculty tenure from public universities, how […]
Pete Buttigieg CALLED Out LIVE For Paid Leave Hypocrisy
Krystal and Saagar respond to a CNN segment where transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was confronted about taking paid family leave and then letting it get taken out of Biden’s budget bill
Inside The Corporate TAKEOVER Of Medicare Prescription Drug Pricing
Ryan Grim details the history behind the drug pricing reform currently up for debate in Congress.
Amazon CAUGHT Firing Workers After Crises
Krystal and Saagar talk with NYT investigative journalist Jodi Kantor about how Amazon has been firing blue and white collar workers after family issues or other personal problems
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