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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...Your humble blogger is taking a vacation.
Read more...Live stream, hat tip reader Deontos:
Read more...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.
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Actually, this blog was six old yesterday too, but we didn’t get around to telling you then.
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!
Read more...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….
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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:
Read more...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.
hanks so much for your generous contribution to our fundraiser. We’ve raised our target for the number of donations to 1200 and we are now at 1080 as of 9 PM EST. With our deadline of midnight PST (3:00 AM) we’ll just squeak if those of you who haven’t had time yet chip in, and those who’ve given earlier make an additional donation on behalf of those that are suffering financial hardships.
Join us and participate via our Tip Jar, another credit card portal or by check (see here for details). Yes, PayPal and Chrome do NOT get along, so if you use Chrome, try another browser for the Tip Jar, or use the portal, or send a check (be sure to send us a message, “Check is in the mail” so we can count your donation in the fundraiser total).
This effort has been very gratifying in demonstrating that many of you really do value having an alternative to the mainstream media that provides hard-hitting commentary.
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