How Money Actually Works
When the government hires private contractors to deliver welfare, often these companies essentially steal people’s benefits through a variety of mechanisms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpqejgnaB0
Trump appears to be single-handedly deciding to use an old aircraft carrier launch system over the Navy’s preference. He doesn’t seem to have a good reason to do this.
Trump appears to be single-handedly deciding to use an old aircraft carrier launch system over the Navy’s preference. He doesn’t seem to have a good reason to do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z53VOo7K3Rs
US sanctions have stopped Russia from rebuilding the Nord Stream pipeline.
US sanctions have stopped Russia from rebuilding the Nord Stream pipeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r06_2ooytHk
Different entities better survived the bronze age collapse than others. Does the United States have the planning and nimbleness to well-survive nearby challenges?
Different entities better survived the bronze age collapse than others. Does the United States have the planning and nimbleness to well-survive nearby challenges?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQa6yvIMuKQ
JD Vance Is Trying to Be Someone He’s Not (w/ Ben Rhodes) | Bulwark Daily
Trump’s bombastic behavior of threats, tariffs, and war are making the world more skeptical of the United States. China is taking advantage of that and arguing that they are the more reliable power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFNVYZMNMk
Bessent and Trump are going to war with the bond market, but the current interest rate is a bill to be paid, not an enemy to be fought.
Bessent and Trump are going to war with the bond market, but the current interest rate is a bill to be paid, not an enemy to be fought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZaYyNAXHK4
Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating
The post-covid inflation was caused roughly 2/3s by supply issues and 1/3 by demand.
The Fed recognizing that the drivers were temporary, meaning they did not need to raise interest rates to crushing levels, and making clear that they were sticking to a specific interest rate target, helped create the soft landing, although the plane didn’t 100% land and instead stayed hovering above the ground. The landing was likely prevented by Trump-driven shocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luudo28Mx5M
US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate
“The U.S. said on Wednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins and attempts on the Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and other sensitive government agencies.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/china-sponsored-hacking-platforms-seized-143227358.html
BREAKING: SCOTUS Lets Trump Move Ahead With Mail Voting Crackdown (w/ Richard Hasen & Steve Vladek)
The Supreme Court keeps seeing blatantly unlawful action by the Trump administration, and then ending injunctions and allowing it to go forward anyways while the case works its way through the process. It looks like the Supreme Court is making up doctrines in order to enable lawlessness. The Supreme Court did not act like this toward Biden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbmtZ23p74
The Stunning Rise of the Democratic Socialists of America
The DSA has shown that they can win some blue districts, but they haven’t shown that they can win elections that, without their supposed DSA advantages, would have been won by a Republican.
The socialist politician to have won the most support on a national level is Bernie Sanders, and he is not a member of the DSA.
Republicans love running against the DSA and right-wing media likes plastering Democrats as the DSA, but Democrats are not the DSA. We are talking about a handful of successful politicians, not most Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsJRddkWNY