Yearly Archives: 2023

Fundraiser Special! Come Get Your Naked Capitalism Songbooks!

Enjoy this Naked Capitalism first! Our much beloved, reader-composed lyrics to popular songs now gathered into three songbooks!

“Unrealized Losses” on Securities Held by Banks, Oh Dearie, the Whole Schmear: +8%, to $558 Billion

We now have to pay attention to unrealized losses in the banking system.

Links 9/9/2023

The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room

Ignoring the large role of the Pentagon in CO2 emissions is a huge omission in climate change remedies.

WaPo Reported That Ukrainians Are Distrustful of the West & Flirting With a Ceasefire

The Post reports that Ukrainians are worried that the West might largely abandon them. But their ideas of what happens then are way too rosy.

Stephen: Naked Capitalism – Your Torch Through the Media Murk

How Naked Capitalism helped one reader realize how much he wasn’t being told.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2023

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Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges

While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.

Links 9/8/2023

IBM Reneges On Its Post-George Floyd Pledge to Abandon Facial Recognition Business

The US tech firm could not have found a better partner with whom to get back into the facial recognition market than the current UK government.

Will It Be Socialism or Barbarism for the Twenty-First Century?

How the end of policies supporting the material well-being of workers, aka socialism, has created widespread distress and political schisms.

My Favorite Recession Indicator: The Next Recession Moves Further Out of Sight

There will be a recession, there’s always a recession eventually. But we’ll just have to keep watching for it.

The Rev Kev: World Leaders Want You to Give to Naked Capitalism

Naked Capitalism’s friends in high places urge you to go to the Tip Jar and give generously.

Kudos! Met Our Second Target! On to the Third: Continuing Expanded News Coverage

Please suppprt your daily news fix of our many. carefully selected, and often juicy daily links!

After Much Effort, New Naked Capitalism Payment Option: Clover, in Addition to PayPal

Naked Capitalism finally has a new payment option, Clover. We hope you are chuffed! But it was unreasonably hard to get to this point.