Saturday, June 21, 2025
Announcing the 2023 Harry Shearer and Friends “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
Harry Shearer and two anonymous donors are making a big reader challenge! Will you take them up on it?
Good News in War FOR Cash: Use of Cash in UK Grows for First Time in 10 years
The long-term decline in cash use in the UK appears to have reached its limit, at least for now.
Davos Man Says ‘Total Transparency’ For You
The word transparency is being defined in an effort to further prevent citizens from demanding it of governments, NGOs, and major companies.
The Rise and Fall of Signaling and Performativity
On the role of signaling and performativity in our increasing elite dysfunction.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2023
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The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
Conor Gallagher: Naked Capitalism – Journalism, the Good Old Fashioned Way
How modern journalism has gone into decline, and why Naked Capitalism stands apart. Your funding assures its independence.
The Walls Are Closing In on Joe Biden
Biden 2024 is now officially in trouble.
As More Patients E-mail Doctors, Health Systems Start Charging Fees (and Using AI for Responses)
Will doctors feeling the need to bill for e-mail service wind up having perverse side effects?
Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition
Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2023
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Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”
