After long resistance by rich nations, African governments successfully pushed for the UN to lead on international tax cooperation.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Six Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep
Yes, there are six!
Fundraiser Special! Come Get Your Naked Capitalism Songbooks!
Enjoy this Naked Capitalism first! Our much beloved, reader-composed lyrics to popular songs now gathered into three songbooks!
“Unrealized Losses” on Securities Held by Banks, Oh Dearie, the Whole Schmear: +8%, to $558 Billion
We now have to pay attention to unrealized losses in the banking system.
The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room
Ignoring the large role of the Pentagon in CO2 emissions is a huge omission in climate change remedies.
WaPo Reported That Ukrainians Are Distrustful of the West & Flirting With a Ceasefire
The Post reports that Ukrainians are worried that the West might largely abandon them. But their ideas of what happens then are way too rosy.
Stephen: Naked Capitalism – Your Torch Through the Media Murk
How Naked Capitalism helped one reader realize how much he wasn’t being told.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2023
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Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges
While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.
IBM Reneges On Its Post-George Floyd Pledge to Abandon Facial Recognition Business
The US tech firm could not have found a better partner with whom to get back into the facial recognition market than the current UK government.
Will It Be Socialism or Barbarism for the Twenty-First Century?
How the end of policies supporting the material well-being of workers, aka socialism, has created widespread distress and political schisms.
My Favorite Recession Indicator: The Next Recession Moves Further Out of Sight
There will be a recession, there’s always a recession eventually. But we’ll just have to keep watching for it.
