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Friday, July 25, 2025
Links 10/15/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 206 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – The Best Daily Paper
Naked Capitalism is the best news source….for independent thinkers.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 12 Comments »
How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’
contemporary American business and economic culture has a moral framework: neoliberalism. This framework is dependably orthogonal to the last 50,000 years of moral norms and traditions.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Social policy, Social values, The dismal science
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 am | 46 Comments »
Brexit: EU-UK Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain
Bad Brexit news just got worse.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Globalization, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:43 am | 79 Comments »
Rethinking AI Through the Politics of 1968
All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Moral hazard, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:43 am | 22 Comments »
Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center Shuts Down Prison Debate Program
Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 12 Comments »
Links 10/14/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 247 Comments »
Ode to the Commentariat: Why Naked Capitalism Matters
Donate to Naked Capitalism so that the commentariat can continue to educate ME and every other regular reader of this marvelous, unique site.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:45 am | 19 Comments »
The Effectiveness of Large-Scale Asset Purchases
This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 551 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 and […]
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:25 am | 6 Comments »
Hooray! Met Our Second Fundraising Target Pronto, on to the Third: Supporting the Comments Section
On to the next critical goal of our fundraiser: support for maintaining the high quality of the comments section.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:36 pm | 7 Comments »
Links 10/13/18
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 196 Comments »
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.
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 »