Category Archives: Notices

David Dayen: Naked Capitalism, the Cure for the Common Ignorance

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By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger, now a freelance writer based in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen

When the economy collapsed, I was your garden-variety liberal blogger. I obviously recognized that the causes of the recession represented one of the central concerns of our time, and I wanted to learn more of the details. But I had to build an education on these issues largely from scratch. I’ve heard it said that a few years of blogging is worth a master’s degree in public policy. If that’s so, Naked Capitalism is the 3rd-year class everyone wants to take.

Nathan Tankus: How Naked Capitalism Promotes Important Subversive Thinking

By Nathan Tankus, a student and research assistant at the University of Ottawa. You can follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus (https://twitter.com/NathanTankus).

If you’re reading this you probably already know a lot about Naked Capitalism. What you may not know is the crucial role it plays in a subculture I’m involved in–that of Heterodox Economics.

The Best Part of This Week

I’ve always been a big believer in the importance of the comments section,. You correct me, give ideas and information, catch typos (aiee!) and make my work and that of the other bloggers better. Your reactions this week took that up a level.

Thanks! Met Our Third Target, On to the Fourth!

Thanks to your generous and speedy responses, we’ve met our first three targets: upgrading site support and hosting (which should help us come up with better solutions to our ongoing war with spambots; we think we may have solved the problem that had us completely missing from Google searches for over a month), nice ex-post facto honoraria to our loyal guest bloggers, and travel/conference expenses and coverage. And we are more than half way towards our goal of 1000 contributors for this fundraiser.

Thanks! Met Our Second Target Quickly, On to Our Third!

Thanks to your speedy and generous responses, we’ve met our first target, which was an increased budget for hosting and IT support. We blew through our second target, that of funds for travel expenses and site support so yours truly and other regular writers can attend and speak at more conferences. We announced that early last evening and we met it as of this AM.

We are a bit over $1000 towards our goal of $15,500 for our guest bloggers.

Craazyman: I’m Thinking at Least $5 Million

By craazyman, long time Naked Capitalism reader, peanut gallery commenter, Yves Smith fanboy, and Profeser of Contemporary Analysis at the University of Magonia

You can unpack yer bags ‘cause we’re not going on a guilt trip. I’m way too lazy for that.

But I know a good deal when I see one….

Thanks! Met Our First Target, On to Our Second

Thanks to our loyal weekend readers and early risers! You’ve gotten us past our first target, which was $10,700 for hosting, ongoing battles with spambot and trying to minimize how that affects the comments section, and getting us out of Google hell (a recent change in Google’s algos has effectively blacklisted this site. I can put search strings from recent posts in the search field. I can find the post in Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, but all that comes up in Google is scraper sites that have ripped off our work, and not the original.)

As of 6:30 PM are over $1200 toward our second goal, which is $7800 for travel and conferences.

Launching the 2013 NC Fundraiser!

Now that fall is upon us, we are launching our annual fundraiser, the third in our seven-year history. I’m asking all of you to join me once again.

NC Fundraiser Coming Soon Plus Visit Alpha Version of Our Site Redesign

It’s that time of year…. The NC annual fundraiser will be starting soon, meaning the end of this week.

The Cat is Now Out!

Thanks for all your kind wishes and suggestions about my trapped cat. Without seeing the bookcase, it was hard appreciate the situation.

Why I Should Never Go on Vacation

I’ve had such a consistent run of a combination of non-vacations (as in working during my vacation; in 2009, for instance, I had to continue pretty much full on with my drafting of ECONNED while on a visit to Europe) and disasters during vacation to make me leery of the proposition, even when I desperately need a break.

This holiday has proven to be no exception.

Whinging in Comments

“Your roof, your rules” –George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones

Lambert here: I’m writing this so Yves doesn’t have to. Because all we want Yves writing two or three McKinsey-quality posts each night, and not wasting her time on administrivia, right? Barry Ritholz at Big Picture has what Yves considers to be the gold standard for commenting policy. It reads in relevant part:

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As readers may know, in addition to contributing here at Naked Capitalism, Lambert has his own blog, Corrente, which focuses on politics and policy.