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Saturday, June 14, 2025
Plastic Watch: Recycling Woes
Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.
Jeff Epstein: Naked Capitalism Led Me to MMT, and Its Commentariat Made Me a Better Writer
How Naked Capitalism and its readers provided political education.
Facebook Erases Hundreds of Alternative Media Pages in Mass Purge
This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter.
Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
Why Naked Capitalism is your weapon against Larry Summers.
Marshall Auerback: The Democrats’ Globalization Dilemma
It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Italy’s Debt Crisis Intensifies
Italy’s government debt yields are rising thanks to a budget standoff with Brussels, and Italian banks are looking more wobbly too.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/19/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, aircraft imports, Booker, Sanders, Clinton, Democrat consultants attack nurses, home sales, apparel, Mr. Market in his happy space, Uwe Reinhardt, Teamster contract, forgotten suffragettes, law and economics, the Makerphone
Why Are We Mostly Ignoring the Climate Crisis? The Message Is Wrong
Why is there so little urgency about combatting climate change? What can be done to reverse that?
Naked Capitalism: Ten Years After Lehman
Naked Capitalism got the last crisis right and why it will probably have the opportunity to get the next crisis right.
Brexit: Knives Out for Theresa May (Again) Over Extending Transition Period
The lay of the Brexit land is becoming clearer after the inconclusive October European Council summit.
Win for Students Having Loans From For–Profit Educational Institutions
Students get a rare break on the student debt front.
