Money supply not corporate profits the key driver of price increases

Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak

“Some commentators are of the view that an important driver in the increases of the prices of goods is businesses that push prices higher in order to secure higher profits. According to the Ground Work Collaborative think tank report, Prices are simply the sum of costs and corporate profits. While rising costs of inputs can drive up what Americans pay at the gas pump or the grocery store, corporate profits can just as easily. The report, found corporate profits accounted for about 53% of inflation during the second and the third quarter of 2023. But does it make any sense that profits cause price inflation? We suggest that businesses cannot raise prices to secure higher profits without the buyers’ agreement.” (10/14/25)

https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/10/money-supply-not-corporate-profits-the-key-driver-of-price-increases/

Trump has done the impossible in Gaza, and the media still sneer

Source: New York Post
by Andrea Peyser

“G-d bless President Trump. The leader of the free world has achieved the seemingly impossible. He has freed from the clutches of terrorists in Gaza the last remaining Jewish hostages who’ve endured more than two years of extreme physical and psychological torture. The president of the United States has brought to heel Hamas, a group of murderous madmen bent on destroying not only the captives’ beloved nation of Israel, but an entire people: innocent Jews. … There is joy throughout Israel and around the world, but also sorrow and excruciating pain. In exchange for the release of a few dozen people, including the remains of murdered hostages, Hamas ghouls are getting back some 2,000 of their own prisoners held in Israeli custody, some of them cold-blooded killers.” (10/13/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/10/13/opinion/trump-has-done-the-impossible-in-gaza-and-the-media-still-sneers/

Italy: Explosion kills three Carabinieri during raid

Source: Reuters

“An explosion at a farmhouse in northern Italy during a police raid killed three Carabinieri officers and injured 12 others, Italy’s fire service said on X on Tuesday. The explosion occurred in Castel d’Azzano, near the city of Verona, overnight and caused the farmhouse to collapse, firefighters said. A woman was also injured and seven firefighters were taken to hospital for checks, they added. Italian media reported that the officers were trying to carry out an eviction order and that the initial indications were that gas canisters had exploded in the building. … Corriere della Sera reported that three siblings lived in the building and had been resisting attempts to evict them for several years.” (10/14/25)

https://archive.is/cs47v

What happens when Chinese resolve meets American rent-seeking?

Source: Niskanen Center
by Dan Davies

“And as with science research grant administration, so with quite a lot of the modern regulatory state. It is a hard thing to accept that you might be part of a system that impedes overall prosperity, or that your primary income stream may come from acting as a type of bridge troll representing some legally privileged party that must be paid off to get out of people’s way. Rent extraction is, of course, what the other guy does; even hereditary landlords prefer to construct a story about themselves as custodians of the shared patrimony. But in the nicest and mildest possible terms, Klein and Thompson are trying to deliver the same message in 2025 as Teles and Lindsay were in 2017: The system isn’t working as intended. There are too few people rowing and too many pretending to steer.” (10/14/25)

https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/what-happens-when-chinese-resolve

Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought & Owned By The World’s Richest Israeli

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“It’s bizarre how little mainstream attention is given to the fact that the president of the United States has repeatedly confessed to being bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli, especially given how intensely fixated his political opposition was on the possibility that he was compromised by a foreign government during his first term. During a speech before the Israeli parliament on Monday, President Trump once again publicly admitted that he has implemented Israel-friendly policies at the behest of Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson and her late husband Sheldon, this time adding that he believes Adelson favors Israel over the United States. … Sheldon Adelson reportedly gave Trump and the Republicans over $424 million in campaign funding from 2016 up until his death in 2021. His widow Miriam continued her husband’s legacy and poured a further $100 million into Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.” (10/14/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/14/trump-keeps-admitting-that-he-is-bought-and-owned-by-the-worlds-richest-israeli/

Spacex launches successful Starship Flight 11

Source: USA Today

“In a year marked early on by a string of explosive failures, SpaceX’s Starship is on track to end 2025 on a high note. The commercial spaceflight company, founded in 2002 by billionaire Elon Musk, launched the gargantuan rocket on a second successful uncrewed test flight in a row …. The launch system vehicle’s lower stage, known as Super Heavy, ignited all of its 33 engines …. Starship’s upper stage, the vehicle where crew and cargo would one day ride, separated within a few minutes of liftoff to fire its own six Raptor engines and continue on its own flight …. the vehicle … deployed mock Starlink internet satellites for the second time in a row and relighted a Raptor engine in space for the third time ever in a necessary maneuver to one day bring a vehicle back to the ground.” (10/14/25)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/14/starship-launch-megarocket-spacex/86619615007/

Why Democrats are losing the culture war

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“The more Democrats and Republicans fight about trans people, the less we demand action on issues that actually materially impact most Americans. The great thing about the culture war for people in power is that no matter which party wins, everyday Americans lose.” (10/14/25)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/why-democrats-are-losing-the-culture