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Friday, January 9, 2026
I Posed as a Private Jet Customer. This Is What I Was Told About Emissions
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:18 am | 18 Comments »
Links 9/6/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 178 Comments »
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.
Topics: Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Student loans, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:45 am | 9 Comments »
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.
Topics: Banana republic, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:40 am | 23 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:50 am | 20 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Technology and innovation, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:39 am | 8 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/5/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 141 Comments »
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
Topics: Auto industry, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:00 am | 39 Comments »
Links 9/5/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 126 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 14 Comments »
Global Biodiversity Panel Warns Humans’ Introduction of Invasive Species Threatens Nature, Food Security
With major drivers of change set to worsen. increases of invasive alien species and their negative impacts are likely to intensify.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method, Species loss
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:35 am | 6 Comments »
End of the War, End of US Exceptionalism
John Helmer providesan epic shellacking of a new book on the Ukraine war.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Media watch, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:36 am | 57 Comments »
Naked Capitalism Fundraiser 2023: Finding New Footholds as the Fissures Widen
Our annual fundraiser begin, with some special features coming! Please give genrously to keep us in top form.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 7:35 pm | 23 Comments »
Fundraiser 2023: What We Did for You in the Past Year
We are proud of what we did since our last fundraiser. Please support our work so the upcoming year will be even better!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 7:32 pm | 1 Comment »
Links 9/4/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 164 Comments »



