GameStop is attempting to pull off a hostile takeover of eBay.
We know GameStop’s CEO Ryan Cohen currently owns about 10 percent of eBay. The only question? Does he have the means to acquire majority shares of eBay on his own?
Or does he have well-heeled, silent partners, say in the Middle East? Here’s more from Clownfish TV.
‘The Days of America Being Played are Over…” says an op-ed in the New York Times.
Wait — what? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that the purpose of the Treasury Department is to grow and protect America’s economic might throughout the world.
Manage your own decline, Euroweenies! Here’s a new edition of The Right Angle. Scott Ott leads the discussion, joined by Bill Whittle and Steve Green.
On America’s 250th Independence anniversary, Susan Kokinda argues that this moment is more profound because Donald Trump and his administration are reviving the “American System” of political economy—tariffs to promote domestic industry, manufacturing, and internal improvements—after it was suppressed following President William McKinley’s assassination in 1901.
She contrasts the American System with the “British System,” citing Henry Carey’s warning of two opposing systems, and says the nation’s economic heritage was replaced by free trade, consumerism, and institutions like the Federal Reserve.
Kokinda connects the Declaration’s appeal to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God to economics, quoting Lyndon LaRouche on a state shaping a nation’s relationship to the physical universe. She highlights speeches by Jamieson Greer and Scott Bessent on production over consumption, and J.D. Vance’s call for a Hamiltonian approach grounded in human dignity, linking it to the Declaration’s “pursuit of happiness” over “property.” Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
$122 for Thai takeout?
That’s what’s happened in Seattle, after politicians forced a high minimum wage for DoorDashers.
Now customers order less food, and drivers get less work.
Government wage controls ALWAYS fail. Here’s more from John Stossel, describing how government regulations broke the gig work economy.
Politicians say they can “improve” the economy.
They impose minimum wages, wealth taxes, more spending on the needy.
But their social engineering makes things worse.
Here economist Don Boudreaux explains why “…we prosper more, the more economically free we are.” Boudreaux is co-director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Here’s more from John Stossel.
Susan Kokinda argues that President Donald Trump’s recent comments, praising overlap with Bernie Sanders, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s critique of “slavish devotion to free markets” signal not a change of sides but a shift to a different economic system. It frames Trump’s “new economic plan” as an industrial policy that uses tariffs, tax policy, directed investment, and potential public-private stakes in major AI firms, while also challenging Federal Reserve practices and Wall Street forecasting.
Citing the latest jobs report (172,000 jobs versus a 105,000 forecast, with prior months revised upward), it claims the plan is working, though manufacturing hiring is still early, following a sequence of orders, production, investment, then jobs described by Peter Navarro. Kokinda says this approach revives Henry Clay’s “American System,” presented as distinct from free markets, free trade, or socialism. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
The New York Times runs yet another long-winded article ripping into President Donald Trump over his policies pushing the deportation of illegal aliens. The article cites cases where illegals have flourished for thirty or more years without obtaining proper entry documents.
Looking through the information given, it’s apparent two driving forces brought these illegals here: Available jobs and government handouts. Now more jobs are going to American-born civilians.
And handouts are dwindling under Trump, so more illegals are returning home. Some are self-deporting, while others are being captured and processed, before being sent home.
Is cruelty behind the change, or simply a changing economic cycle? Here’s more from Matt Morse TV.
