Joanna-Maria Myers

UAW escalates strike but with an exception

GM and Stellantis are to be pressured while Ford is to be left alone as they seem “serious about reaching a deal”. On Friday, September 22nd, UAW President Shawn Fain revealed that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is escalating its…

End of an era: Rupert Murdoch retires, his eldest son Lachlan takes his place

Murdoch – controlled media shaped the opinions of millions but in the 21st century his “conservatism” was ultimately a rearguard action. STEPPING DOWN… Rupert Murdoch, the longstanding leader of News Corp. and Fox, has announced his decision to step down…

Twitter/X for subscribers only: What is Elon Musk doing?

Conventional wisdom, based on the first years of the Social Media revolution, suggests making everyone pay to participate in social media is suicidal. Since there’s no inelastic demand for social media services (or Musk known something we don’t know), only…

Early warning system: Trump as a favourite against Biden

What’s surprising is not the fact itself but whom the Democrats will use to try to avoid defeat. Biden cannot do it, end of story. In a potential 2024 presidential election showdown, former President Donald Trump is ahead of President…

Hunter Biden breaking ranks?

Nobody likes IRS but a lawsuit against them by the Golden Son himself might just produce the first IRS sympathizers ever. On Monday, September 18th, Hunter Biden initiated a lawsuit against the IRS, accusing IRS whistleblowers of inappropriately revealing information…

A grim reminder of what happened 100 years ago: The great depression, (over)simplified

Watch the video to be depressed. But hey, there is still hope: Biden is not Roosevelt… At the start of 1929, the end of the Roaring Twenties, the economy in the United States was sitting pretty with further progress on…

Historic mass auto workers strike

We don’t need communists to disrupt national production. We can make a mess of thing all by ourselves! Corporate greed, state neglect (“deplorables” and “globalization losers” are still very much alive and kicking), and inflation (aka economic cancer) are more…

Huge Google trial: the latest news

Our view: Cornering a market and keeping it cornered are two fundamentally different things: the former occurs because of a product’s superior quality but the latter occurs because of a producer’s superior lobbying. In the ongoing Google antitrust trial, experts…

Japan sees potential end to 25-year-old deflation

Because of its unique characteristics (extremely large but largely domestic debt per capita, persistent deflation etc), the Japanese economy may benefit from the global inflation Japan is potentially entering a significant phase in its 25-year struggle against deflation, as both…

There are no “women”, only bylaws

At least, that’s what Judge Johnson of Wyoming believes A legal case filed in March 2023 by six University of Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority members to prevent a transgender-identifying individual from joining was been dismissed in court this week.…