Thursday, January 22, 2026

7 Reasons Why Naked Capitalism Deserves Your Money

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Hooray! Met Our Second Target Handily! On to the Third: Continuing Expanded News Coverage and Maybe Meetups

Please suppprt your daily news fix, most importantly all our juicy daily links!

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/7/2022

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The US Army Special Operations Command Weaponizes Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Telegram

Since the Army gets very little bang for its buck, presumably by design, why should its social media campaigns be any better?

Links 9/7/2022

NATO, Russia, Energy Put Balkans on Edge 

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Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – Your and My Informational Necessity

Four reasons why Naked Capitalism is indispensable.

“Lehman Event” Looms For Europe As Energy Companies Face $1.5 Trillion in Margin Calls

Why energy price spikes are threatening the financial system. And any derivatives bailout will take prescedence over businesses and housholds.

Please, Vote for Somebody in the CalPERS Board Election. Your Money Is at Stake.

If you are a CalPERS retiree, please be sure to vote in the board election now underway. You deserve to be properly represented.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/6/2022

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1980s Redux? Developing Countries See New Context, Old Threats

s rich countries raise interest rates, developing countries face slowdowns, inflation, higher interest rates, more costs and debt distress.

Links 9/6/2022

The Race for Lithium is Heating Up in Latin America

As the US remains “grossly unprepared” to meet the exponential increase in demand for lithium, it stakes a claim to Argentina’s massive deposits of “white gold.” For Argentina’s benefit, of course. 

Europe’s Economic Controlled Flight Into Terrain

More on Europe’s economic suicide.

Wow! Met First Goal Pronto. On to the Second: Supporting the Commentariat

Thanks for getting the fundraiser off to such a good start! We are already on to our second target, investing in the commentatriat.