We hope you are as excited as we are that this site is fit and feisty at nineteen years! It’s been a very busy time!
There are many many many to thank over these years. We were lucky enough to have a tech friend, Ed Wright, suggest that I start posting in December 2006. I took that up because it was clear then that most of the business press was not on top of looming signs of trouble in the credit markets, which a finance-literate person could detect via careful reading of the Financial Times and Bloomberg. Mark Thoma of Economist’s View, an important aggregator then, was not just encouraging but also helped us get some notice early on via linking to some of our posts. But this was in the heyday of a vibrant econoblogosphere, where many experts and commentators like Nouriel Roubini, Simon Johnson, James Kwak, Barry Ritholtz, Paul Krugman, Felix Salmon, Michael Shedlock, Tanta, Independent Accountant, Steve Waldman and Epicurean Dealmaker held forth. And just when it looked like we were falling short on the reader targets we had set to justify continuing to publish, yet another wheel fell off the financial system, with the silver lining of a boost in our traffic.
Sadly, there has been no shortage of incompetence and chicanery over these years. A partial list: Half-hearted post crisis reforms, which helped grease more increases in an already destructive level of inequality. Foreclosure and chain of title abuses. The Cyprus banking crisis, which we only much later realized was an early salvo against Russia. CalPERS. Private equity fee and reporting abuses, with our early warning that the strategy was not earning enough to compensate limited partners for its risks borne out. The Greek bailout crisis. The half-hearted efforts to combat climate change. Covid. And now the Trump whirlwind.
We’ve also been fortunate to have attracted many very skilled and often witty contributors, such as Ed Harrison, Marshall Auerback, Richard Smith, Andrew Dittmer, Nathan Tankus, Matt Stoller, Philip Pilkington, Gonzalo Lira, Satyajit Das, Rob Urie, IM Doc, and Michael Hudson, as well as terrific regular writers like Jerri-Lynn Scofield, Conor, KLG, and of course the much esteemed Lambert. And after many years of hair-tearing, we now have a stable tech platform thanks to the unobtrusive vigilance of our maven Dave.
But the big reason we have carried on with such dedication is our wonderful readership, confirmed every day through comments, e-mails, and (critically) financial support. We would not be here without you. And the high caliber of the comments section depends on the wrangling of moderators Katiebird and Semperloquitur. That is confirmed by our good fortune in attracting impressive new writers to fill Lambert’s yellow waders: Haig, Nat, and Curro, with KLG and Semperloquitur also stepping up to do double duty. They’ve said the reason they were keen to contribute and continue to enjoy the experience is the keen interest and regularly highly informed views of our truly global and worldly commentariat.
So wishing all of you a fun and festive holiday season and a wonderful 2026!
Happy Birthday To This Most Prestigious And Wonderful Family Blog!!
::Musical Tribute:: (via YouTube)
Happy 19th anniversary! This is quite a remarkable achievement.
Jeez. I remember NC when she was a Sweet Sixteen and now she is already nineteen years old. This site certainly seems to attract a lot of talented writers who know how to do their research. Lots of perceptive , articulate commenters as well. Will be looking forward to when NC hits the big one – twenty one years of age which is not far down the track.
In passing, I would dispute the term ‘Trump whirlwind.’ I would say that it is more like a Trump *hitstorm each and every day.
Read you first from Mongolia in 2007 and been faithfully following ever since! What a great site and what great contributors. Happy birthday!
I’ve learnt so much here. Thank you and happy birthday.
Seconded!
Congrats Yves and thank you for this wonderful site and community!
Happy birthday!
This site changed my life in so many ways. I often express deep feeling in musical equivalences, and what sprang to mind unbidden was expressed by the “T.S. Eliot of rock”, Pete Townshend in his rock opera “Tommy”
Listening to you, I get the music
Gazing at you, I get the heat
Following you, I climb the mountain
I get excitement at your feet
Right behind you, I see the millions
On you, I see the glory
From you, I get opinion
From you, I get the story
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Wow! I think I started actively following in ’09 or ’10… has it really been that long! Love the site and love all those who have contributed over the years.
Reader since I got a copy of Econned in 2012. Got to attend a few meet-ups, from Yves’ time in NYC. I don’t feel the need to post much because there is already so much great writing here. So…I wish you all a Happy Nineteenth!
Many thanks for a timely, educated, and entertaining blog. I started reading NC shortly after it got rolling, along with a number of the others mentioned in the econoblogosphere, and it rapidly furthered my education about my industry (finance) and politics, and refined my views on so many other topics. I’m forever grateful, happy to support the blog, and look forward to the next 19 years!
This is the season of gratitude, and I’m grateful for starting every day (since nearly the beginning) at 6am CST with you and the NC gang. No other place covers the world like Naked Capitalism.
Happy nineteeth! I’m trying to remember when I first came across NC – sometime just after 2009 I think. It was already well established at the time, I remember going through the old articles with gratitude that someone was finally explaining the world properly.
To think I saw your early podcasts before NC is one thing and then to see you kick off this blog with the people it gave voice too … wow … kudos … its been arduous at best … yet the idea of the 7 persists …
BTW sorry for being a pain in the A@@ sometimes … love you lass …