Category Archives: Notices

10,000 Posts and Counting!

This, dear readers, is Naked Capitalism’s 10,000th post.

NC Fundraiser Coming Soon!

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

Readers contribute generously to this site in many ways, via sending links, antidotes, hanging out at our water cooler, um comments section, and last but not least, sending money.

Iberian Pain Only Getting Worse as Spanish Population Falls, Portugal Goes All in For More Failed Austerity

Yves here. Wolf Richter’s latest post may seem a bit breathless, but my assumption is that this rhetorical choice is an effort to try to penetrate Eurocrisis fatigue. The continuing decay, the ongoing last minute patch-ups, the Punch and Judy show between Germany and anyone who dares say anything bad about its perverse creditor moralism, is feeling so stale that it’s easy to tune out.

Yet even though the headlines all seem to be of a muchness, they mask an ongoing deterioration that at some point will produce a state change.

On Tech Woes

Yes, dear readers, we know the site is not performing well for some of you. I’m hoping you will bear this with some patience once I give you the background.

Announcing Investigative Series on the Private Equity Industry

In the coming weeks, Naked Capitalism will publish an investigative series on the private equity industry that will include articles written by current industry participants with considerable experience.

Reader Notice

Your humble blogger is taking a vacation.

Reader Notice

NC may be launching a research project on foreclosures in late January. We hope that some members of the NC community will be willing to lend a hand.

We Are Five Years Old

Actually, this blog was six old yesterday too, but we didn’t get around to telling you then.

NYC Holiday Get Together Friday December 9

Reader Alex Karpowitsch has suggested a Naked Capitalism holiday gathering, meaning drinks, near Zuccotti Park this Friday, December 9, at 7:00 PM. I’ve been slow to take him up on his idea because I needed to sort out my calendar.

Details on Plancast. Hope to see you there!

More Reader Queries

I’m a bit stymied in my desire to get moving on a site redesign. It is not the dearth of reader input in the comments section (you’ve been generous on that front) so much as quite a bit of the input is one-offish in nature. There are some feature changes that are clearly needed….

Yet More Reader Updates

We are on our new servers! There may be some issues with the caching which might make comments or other features temporarily a bit funky, but that should settle out quickly. You will hopefully see a modest, or maybe better than modest, improvement in loading speed.

Draft Versions of a Mobile Website, and the Question of Mobile Devices v. Blogs

Just to let you know I wasn’t kidding when I said I was going to start moving on site improvements, reader Sven has developed draft versions of a mobile website. These still need some refining, but I wanted to give you a look-see and the opportunity to comment.

YOU NEED TO LOAD THEM ON A MOBILE DEVICE. Loading them on your desktop might be entertaining, but we want comments from people using it in the intended manner.

Down to the Wire, Last Chance for 2011 Fundraiser!

We have less than two hours to go with our fundraiser. We were at 1104 donors officially tallied as of 11 PM EST. The donations I can track from my end spiked in the last two hours, with 44 more of you chipping in. James B, who is processing non-PayPal credit card donations, is behind (!) and estimates he has 25 more than he told me about as of his last update (6:30 PM). So we are somewhere between 1170 and 1175 donors, within striking distance of our final goal of 1200 donors.

I’m thrilled at the response.

Countdown!

Less than four hours remain in the Naked Capitalism fundraiser. Show your support of critical thinking, merciless evisceration of lame punditry, deep diving into turbid financial waters, and cute animal pictures. As our guest blogger, Michael Hudson, has said:

Naked Capitalism has quickly become my favorite and most informative site to see where the bodies are buried. Yves focuses on the all-important technical details that are beyond the competence of most sites to grasp, let alone walk the reader through the maze.