Category Archives: Notices

I’ve noticed in the last six to nine months a marked increase in new folks showing up in comments who don’t look, for want of a better word, organic. No, I don’t mean Berkeley-Bikrenstock-wearing-save-the-whales-and-wolves-and-frogs-granolaheads. I mean people who found the blog out of curiosity and decided to pipe up versus ones who look to be here strictly to pursue a narrow agenda.

Why don’t I think this change is random?

Dealing with sites that rip off Naked Capitalism content feels like dealing with a persistent infestation: you go an exterminate a few and they just keep coming back. Per my last comment on this sorry matter in December:

Another thing I have too often been slow to address is people stealing my work. The last time I found I had a site scraper (meaning someone who rips off entire posts, no permission, and often no atttribution) it took me over half a year to get around to it, and readers were enormously helpful in getting the offender to cease.

Dear patient readers,

I will be largely off the grid from Friday AM till Tuesday AM (I wish this was a holiday, but it should at least be interesting). Richard Smith will be ably minding the store. Please be nice to him.

There is actually a very big development in the UK on Monday which Richard will cover, namely, the publication of the preliminary version of the Independent Banking Commission report. It is expected to endorse either a partial or full split of retail banking from other bank operations. Given the size and importance of financial services to the UK, it may raise the obvious question: why have US reforms been so limited?

I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday season. I’m off to hang out with sinners in New Orleans and will be off the grid completely through the 28th. I will probably be back to a light version of normal programming on the 29th, but it might not be on the normal early AM schedule.

I have scheduled some “‘Summer’ Reruns,” which are a selection from the earlier work on this blog. We are now up to vintage 2008. You will still get a daily antidote, and Richard Smith may also be graciously providing his own material, as well as any good sightings from the web.

I wanted to thank readers for their generous and helpful input on the problems I’ve been having with sites ripping off Naked Capitalism content by putting up entire posts in full without permission, and often without attribution. Even with reader help, however, the process of dealing with this takes effort, and any time I devote […]

If you are one of those readers who only looks at posts, you are missing out on half the value of Naked Capitalism, since we have a lively and (for the most part) civil and intelligent group of commentators. Having said that, I try to be as non-interventionist as possible, but as I have also […]

Some readers who were unable to come to the Manhattan bookstore event earlier this year asked for a rain date. Unfortunately, bookstores don’t work that way (despite the fact that the session was standing room only) and given the vagaries of my schedule, the best fallback is a meeting in a public venue. So if […]

I’m promised readers an informal gathering in a public spot (as in come on by and join me for a drink), and I now have a date and venue. Cafe Centro, 45th Street between Lex and Vanderbilt, south side of the street (this is the north side of Grand Central Terminal). If the weather doesn’t […]

Your humble blogger is back and very much behind the eight ball (relative still in town, a missed flight followed by cancellation of the rebooked departure, which means I have competing demands on top of more acute phase of my chronic behind-the-eight-ballness). So while I will endeavor to provide roughly the normal number of daily […]

Dear patient readers, Your correspondent is taking a HOLIDAY. Well sort of a holiday, you’d be amused to see the books I am schlepping with me. But I am serious re not blogging, a vacation is in order. I will probably be reading some news daily, but am trying to keep that down, although I […]

Dear patient readers, I know it has been really hot in the East. I know a lot of people are cranky about the state of affairs, such as the failure to take measures to stop employees of major capital markets firms from blowing up the global economy for fun and profit again, the ongoing horrorshow […]

Dear patient readers, I will be largely off the grid from July 17 to July 29, inclusive. First, I really need a break, second, most of that time I will be on a ship with catastrophically expensive Internet service. And shipboard satellite connections are usually very slow too, typically ISDN type speeds, so waiting for […]