Thursday, June 12, 2025

Clive: Naked Capitalism – Your Ammunition in the War for Information

What can we do to change the balance of power? Information is our best weapon.

Marshall Auerback: A Full Employment Economy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.

Money, the Shape of Law, MMT, and Aesthetics

How the evolution of Western metaphysics repressed chartalist ideas that are the foundation of MMT.

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: Smug liberals, socialists v liberals, Sanders in South Carolina, the Chicago Way, partisan consumer confidence, import/export, lithium, graphene, Dollar General, Tesla, robot cars, that hardware hacking story, Warren Mosler, PDAs

Brexit and the Age of Incoherence

How Brexit is triggering a major political crisis in the UK.

Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism – Your Weapon Against Strongmen and Strawmen

How Naked Capitalism works for you.

Links 10/12/18

Ending the Evil of Student Loans

A set of proposals on how to reduce the damage done by the overhang of student loans.

Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?

The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.

Mr. Market’s Hissy Fit May Be Over….For Now

Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.

Wow! Met Our First Fundraiser Goal With Record Speed! Next Is More Meetups and Travel

Thanks to generous and fast-acting donors, our fundraiser is going at a fast clip. Can you help us meet our second target?

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/11/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Democrat incrementalism, Senate races in AZ, ND, and TX, Latino votes, consumer prices, lumber, USPS, UPS and rail, Fed bashing, scooters, Jaron Lanier on BUMMER platforms, map of Amazon data centers, nocturnal mammals

J.D. Alt: Will the Democrats Change the Subject?

Will the Democrats get out of their own way?

Fundraiser 2018: Keeping the Heat On

How we plan to make Naked Capitalism bigger and better in the upcoming year.

Fundraiser 2018: What We Did for You in the Past Year

A thank you by way of explaining all the things we’ve accomplished since our last fundraiser.