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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Clive: Naked Capitalism – Your Ammunition in the War for Information
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:52 am | 16 Comments »
Marshall Auerback: A Full Employment Economy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Globalization, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 22 Comments »
Money, the Shape of Law, MMT, and Aesthetics
How the evolution of Western metaphysics repressed chartalist ideas that are the foundation of MMT.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Social values, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 44 Comments »
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
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 110 Comments »
Brexit and the Age of Incoherence
How Brexit is triggering a major political crisis in the UK.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 71 Comments »
Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism – Your Weapon Against Strongmen and Strawmen
How Naked Capitalism works for you.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 13 Comments »
Links 10/12/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 151 Comments »
Ending the Evil of Student Loans
A set of proposals on how to reduce the damage done by the overhang of student loans.
Topics: Credit markets, Guest Post, Income disparity, Student loans, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:01 am | 68 Comments »
Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?
The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 14 Comments »
Mr. Market’s Hissy Fit May Be Over….For Now
Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.
Topics: Banking industry, Brexit, Credit markets, Derivatives, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Investment outlook, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:54 am | 10 Comments »
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?
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:10 pm | 22 Comments »
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
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 186 Comments »
J.D. Alt: Will the Democrats Change the Subject?
Will the Democrats get out of their own way?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Global warming, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 58 Comments »
Fundraiser 2018: Keeping the Heat On
How we plan to make Naked Capitalism bigger and better in the upcoming year.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 10 Comments »
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.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:57 am | 10 Comments »