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Sunday, June 22, 2025
Emerging Economies Face Prospect of Worse Than 1970s-1980s Wave of Financial Crises
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Is Intellectual Property Turning into a Knowledge Monopoly?
How private capital has hijacked research and intellectual property practices, to the detriment of invention and society generally.
Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – Your Guide, Philosopher, and Friend in Times of Crisis
Michael Hudson explains why Naked Capitalism has earned his and hopefully your support.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/6/2023
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I Posed as a Private Jet Customer. This Is What I Was Told About Emissions
Private jet companies want us to believe in “guilt-free” and “carbon-neutral” flights despite their sky-high emissions
Income Share Agreements for Higher Education Get a Rebrand
Agreements in which students owe a percentage of post-graduate income are likely to lead to more peonage as Wall Street is eager to get in on the action.
Georgia RICO Filing Against 61 Stop Cop City Activists Criminalizes Protest
A sweeping indctment against Atlanta Stop Cop CIty activitsts, that a county DA withdrew from, looks intended to chill protests.
KLG: What Naked Capitalism Means to Me
Professor, scientist, and now Naked Capitalism writer KLG explains why the site and its community deserves your support.
Productive and Unproductive Crises
Making a case from past crises that we’ll muddle through our current set and thanks to technology, eventually come out better.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/5/2023
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BMW: Gasoline Car Ban Poses “Imminent Risk” To European Automakers
BMW warns that the 2035 EU mandate to end sales of new fossil fuel vehicles will be a mass death event for most EU car makers
Could Mexico Hold the Key to Hedging the Global Economy’s Dependence on the Panama Canal?
At the time of its construction, the Panama Canal was (and still is) a marvel of modern engineering. But it is also a single point of failure in a global mesh of tightly coupled supply chains.
