Category Archives: Notices

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.

Your humble blogger is taking a vacation.

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.

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!

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….

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Naked Capitalism community has spoken loudly and clearly. You’ve said you want this site to be more effective and you’ve been willing to provide tangible backing for your desire to have us demystify finance, call out chicanery in high places, parse propaganda, and in our small way, help promote the creation of a more just society.

I’ve always been a big believer in the comments section, because you correct me, give ideas and information, and make my work and that of the other bloggers better. What’s happened this week took that up a level. It’s always a bit lonely to throw out ideas into the void, to see if they resonate with others. Over the past few years, and especially over the past week, you have showed me that we are actually a community, a group of people who believe together in justice. Individually, you decided to put your resources on the line to make sure that we keep going, grow, and get better, that our words and ideas matter. This is essential, it’s the first part of creating a different society, where we assert our own collective dignity.