Nonzero, 10/30/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Trump-Xi Truce, Gaza Ceasefire & Other Sketchy Deals | Robert Wright, Derek Davison, Daniel Bessner.” (10/30/25)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
The Anarchist Experience, episode 522
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich, Lori, and Riley discuss the absurdity of Trick-or-Treating on Not Halloween, how long can socialism work in a wealthy area before you eventually run out of other people’s money, and the Troll seems to have altered his position a bit, which I guess is a good thing.” (10/30/25)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/the-anarchist-experience-522-2/
Three Reasons Why Zohran Mamdani’s City-Run Grocery Stores Will Fail
Source: Reason
“Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open government-run grocery stores would waste taxpayer money solving a problem NYC doesn’t have..” (10/30/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/30/3-reasons-why-zohran-mamdanis-city-run-grocery-stores-will-fail/
Rate Cuts No Longer Create Jobs — They Eliminate Them
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Kyle Moran
“Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by another 25 basis points in a move The Wall Street Journal described as aimed at preventing ‘a recent slowdown in hiring from turning into something more serious.’ To their credit, they can at least see what’s going on in terms of hiring slowdowns and, more recently, layoffs. The day before this decision was announced, Amazon announced 14,000 white collar layoffs – the opening salvo that would ultimately scrap as many as 30,000 corporate positions. What the Fed is getting badly wrong is that the historic link between corporate expansion and hiring has been severed – permanently. For generations, an expanding economy generally meant rising living standards, wages, and so on. That transformation wasn’t always smooth, but generally speaking, a rising tide lifted all boats. That relationship no longer exists.” (10/30/25)
Politics Politics Politics, 10/30/25
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Is Trump’s China Trade Deal a Disappointment? Digging Into the Shutdown Stalemate (with Gabe Fleisher).” (10/30/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/is-trumps-china-trade-deal-a-disappointment
FIREHOSE FRIDAY ($1,000, Here We Come)
Hey, everyone …
It’s a FIREHOSE FRIDAY at the freedom movement’s daily newspaper. With FAR too much content to fit in a regular daily email edition — 111 news stories, opinion pieces, and audio/video links as I write this, maybe more by the time you read it — all of our content is only available at the web edition today.
As of 5:30am today, we are 1/3 of the way through our year-end fundraiser period (this is the ONLY fundraiser we run each year), and just a hair over 1/3 of the way to our goal. We’re at $922.34. The goal is $5,501, but once we’ve raised $2,750.50, supporter GL will “match funds” for the other half.
“Mini-goal”: Let’s make the $1,000 mark by tomorrow morning. We’re only $77.66 away. If you haven’t supported the freedom movement’s daily newspaper this year (maybe ever), help out at:
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
I’ll probably do a short “weekend special edition” tomorrow or Sunday, but I’ll go ahead and set a second “mini-goal” right now: $1,200 by Monday.
Why the “mini-goals?” The theory is that maybe they help create a little momentum. We seem to be having more “zero-dollar days” than usual this year, so I’m doing what I can.
Remember, the sooner we hit our goal, the sooner I stop talking about money ENTIRELY for the rest of the year and MOSTLY until next October. If you find the idea of me being silent kinda scary, no better day than Halloween to help make that happen at:
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Have a happy, healthy, and prosperous weekend, and enjoy any Halloween celebrations you partake of!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
So, Do You Truly Like Taylor Swift?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Agustina Sosa
“Long before the concept of ‘personal brand’ became mainstream in the age of social media — and before it turned into a buzzword among LinkedIn recruiters (and a commandment for anyone wanting to stand out in their field) — there was someone who had already mastered it naturally, instinctively, and with absolute control: Taylor Swift.” (10/30/25)
The Tom Woods Show, episode 2704
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Errors of Christian Zionism.” (10/30/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2704-the-errors-of-christian-zionism/
Why Journalism Needs Literature
Source: The Atlantic
by George Packer
“By now we’ve moved beyond a post-literature culture into what some are calling a post-literate age, taking us back several thousand years to communication by images and symbols. Over the past two decades, the number of Americans who read for pleasure on a daily basis has dropped from 28 percent to 16 percent, and the trend among children and teenagers is even worse. In 2023 almost half of Americans didn’t finish a single book. Surveys show that a big loser is fiction. Perhaps this plague of illiteracy has played a role in the disappearance of truth and, with it, liberal democracy.” (10/30/25)
Serbia: Youth Lead Thousands on March for Weekend Rally Marking Deadly Canopy Collapse Last Year
Source: US News & World Report
“Thousands of mainly young people in Serbia embarked on a two-day march from Belgrade on Thursday, aiming to join a major rally in the country’s north this weekend that will mark the anniversary of a deadly train station disaster. The concrete canopy collapse at the central train station in Novi Sad killed 16 people on Nov. 1. The tragedy has unleashed a youth-led protest movement against autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic. Protesters believe the victims died because government corruption led to sloppy renovation work at the station. They have been demanding accountability for the disaster, and an early parliamentary election that they hope will oust Vucic’s populist government from power.” (10/30/25)