The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
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Conor Gallagher: Naked Capitalism – Journalism, the Good Old Fashioned Way
How modern journalism has gone into decline, and why Naked Capitalism stands apart. Your funding assures its independence.
Read more...Links 9/14/2023
The Walls Are Closing In on Joe Biden
Biden 2024 is now officially in trouble.
Read more...As More Patients E-mail Doctors, Health Systems Start Charging Fees (and Using AI for Responses)
Will doctors feeling the need to bill for e-mail service wind up having perverse side effects?
Read more...Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition
Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2023
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Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”
Read more...Links 9/13/2023
DJG, Reality Czar: Help Naked Capitalism Keep Spoiling You
Naked Capitalism does a lot for all of us. So time to donate to keep this good thing going.
Read more...On Not Thinking Like a Liberal in the 21st Century
“Liberalism is the solution to nothing we face in this changing world that Liberalism hath wrought.”
Read more...The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing
Looking at the logic of the Russian deal with North Korea.
Read more...The South China Sea’s Resource Wars
Taiwan is only a part of the ongoing conflict between Chana and America plus its Asian allies.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2023
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Read more...In Search of Safer Shelters: The Challenges of Replicating Nature
Human-made shelters don’t always keep creatures out of harm’s way. Can technology help design a better birdhouse?
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