The fight over shutting down Line 5, a major oil pipeline, could set an important precedent.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
The Climate Fight Over Line 5, or the Upper Peninsula and Canada Versus Greenhouse Gas Absolutism
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:40 am | 44 Comments »
Why Naked Capitalism Is Such a Precious Place for Writers
Naked Capitalism gives its writers an unusal degree of freedom, and its sharp-eyed, well-informed commentariat holds them to high standards.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:24 am | 10 Comments »
Medicare’s Open Enrollment Is Open Season for Scammers
Seniors be warned: This Medicare open enrollment season is setting up to be more treacherous than ever.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:11 am | 49 Comments »
3 Ways Congress Could Hold Facebook Accountable for Its Actions
Zuckerberg benefits from the lack of consensus on what to do about Facebook.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Media watch, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:42 am | 4 Comments »
Bravo! Hit Third Fundraiser Target, Well on Our Way to the Fourth: Guest Bloggers
Dig deep to help meet our fourth target: rewarding Lambert, Jerri-Lynn, and Nick.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 8:41 pm | 9 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/10/2021
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 92 Comments »
McKinsey, the Force Multiplier for the Opioid Crisis, Goes All in With Anti-Public-Health Messaging on Covid
This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 612 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. Please join us and participate via our donation page, which shows how to give via check, credit card, debit card, or PayPal. Read about why we’re doing this fundraiser,, what […]
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Income disparity, Moral hazard, Pandemic, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 70 Comments »
Links 11/10/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 116 Comments »
Naked Capitalism: Your No-Bullshit, Prescient Answer to Journalism of Attachment
How Naked Capitalism and its well- informed commentariat run rings around the legacy media.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:18 am | 9 Comments »
General Electric Breaks Up, Symbolizing Decline of American Manufacturing and the High Price of Financialization
How stock price fixated management and a big expansion into financial services under Jack Welch did in the once-esteemed General Electric.
Topics: Banking industry, Corporate governance, Credit markets, Federal Reserve, Investment outlook, Market inefficiencies, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 52 Comments »
‘This Must Not Happen’: If Unhalted, Permian Basin Fracking Will Unleash 40 Billion Tons of CO2 by 2050
Climate change activists have new oil and gas wells in their crosshairs, starting with the potential carbon bomb of the Permian Basin.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:43 am | 18 Comments »
Why the California Shipping Bottleneck Reflects a Threat to U.S. Security
The intensifying supply chain crisis should be a wake up call to US leaders about how dependence on imports hurts our security. But no….
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 27 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/9/2021
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 83 Comments »
Medicare Enrollment Blitz Doesn’t Include Options to Move Into Medigap
How Medicare enrollees are kept ignorant about important options.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 55 Comments »
Links 11/9/2021
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 169 Comments »


