A new donor has stepped up to kick this fundraiser.into high gear So if you haven’t taken the time to donate yet, please take advantage of this “double your donations” challenge!
This sponsor has issued a challenge for this fundraiser. He will match the next 50 donations of $100 (and multiples of $100 like $300) up to their match total. Make this magnimous offer a sparkling success by going to our donation page now!
Readers have been sending fan mail, and we thought we’d share some of them: From JLE:
There are many things I like about N.C., but I’ll mention just one here.
In Tucson the local paper, though very politically correct and serving a metro area that is one-third Mexican-American, can hardly be bothered to cover Mexico. You would be basically unaware that the term of a historically-important president is coming to an end.
Nick Corbishley’s articles are a great antidote to this, due to his reporting and analysis on AMLO’s efforts regarding public health, the environment, and soverignty over natural resources.
And Ignacio:
How difficult is now to have or find truly independent sites. NC is an important one. NC plays a very basic and important role in this increasingly difficult environment.
And Mike M:
Thanks for making this place. It’s special.
And Richard V:
You are a truly important and absolutely original voice. Thanks for all you do
[Yves blushes modestly]
You can make your contribution here, via check, debit or credit card, or PayPal. If you give by check (we like checks!), be sure to let us know by e-mailing us at yves@nakedcapitalism.com with “Dynamic Duo Challenge” in the subject line.
Thanks our benefactor for his generosity, and I hope readers will respond in kind.
And if $100 is a stretch for you, don’t let that stop you from making a donation if you’ve been planning to but haven’t had time yet. Every contribution helps us meet our goals. And the other important way to help is by telling others about our work, whether in person to friends, family, and colleagues, or in social media like Facebook and Twitter. So I hope you’ll take him up on his fundraiser challenge in whatever way you can!
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What just amazes me about NC is that it keeps getting better. Nick and Conor bring us ever more news of what we do to the world with the precious gift of thinking and writing clearly about our thrashing imperium. Plus Michael Hudson, whose perspectives of the last 5000 years keep us up to the minute on the fate of debt empires. On top of what Yves and Lambert et al have done for us for so long–I am eternally grateful, even though time-challenged from so much offered here to learn. Thank you all, for everything. You’re worth more than money.
Nippersdad and I don’t know what we’d do without the propaganda-free reporting and insightful commentary we consistently find here on NC. Just sent in our donation via Paypal to be matched by the generous donor.
Done!
$100 donated.
But I don’t think of it as a donation – I think of it as a contribution.
Naked Capitalism gives me sanity – and I contribute money to continue to have a source of sanity in an increasingly weird world!
Thank you!
Please check your email, Yves, for confirmation that Aurora Advisors will receive my bank-issued check within ~10 days.
Echoing Jason Boxman in yesterday’s post, along with my annual participation in the NC fundraiser is my now annual statement of gratitude to NC for helping me stay alive in the face of COVID-19 these last several years. In the pre-plague years NC was no less valuable a resource. Can’t imagine life without Naked Capitalism, plain and simple.
Couldn’t turn down the match – so after my initial $100 a couple days ago I just sent you another $200.
In a way, I’m ashamed: $300 is “bupkiss” when I consider the blood, sweat and tears – not to mention the wisdom, humor and real community/solidarity feeling – that NC gives us all.
That said, it’s impossible for me to put a price on “What NC Gives”.
I encourage everyone to give whatever they’re comfortable with!
NC is priceless.
Son of a…
And I JUST donated this weekend. No regrets, but now I wish I had waited just a hair. Keep it up, everyone!
As sporble says, too good to pass up.
Thanks for keeping me sane in an increasingly insane world.
hope i made the donation before the offer was up–turning 100$ into 200$ really fits my budget.
Thank you, generous donor, for your enabling offer…may it come back to you in doubles also.
Just what I was waiting for!
Heartily endorsing above words of well-deserved praise from all.
We’re kind of back in the USSR, when we knew in the west that Pravda & TASS would lie if telling the truth was easier, and now you can’t mistake that we’ve become them in yet another fashion.
During the American & French Revolution pamphleteers would have filled NC’s role and limited in scope, but look at the reach we’ve got-merely the entire world.
Always tell the truth to people who are worthy of it~
Another check is in the mail…
Check is in the mail for you and hope its part of the doubling the ducats. Thank you generous donors, and thank you Naked Capitalism!
Done. And repeated thanks to the donor!
Yves, I’ve just sent this in an email to you, but am also posting here:
Steve and I remain so deeply grateful and thankful for, and supportive of, the uniquely brilliant online gathering place and community that is Naked Capitalism.
I hope we are able to add your new donor’s match to ours, though there may well have already been a scramble by others to utilize that lovely offer. *Deep* thanks to them.
Yves. Lambert. Conor. Nick. IM Doc. KLG. Aurelian. All the guest authors, who I can’t remember off the top of my head (who are also part of the commentariat which is unlike anywhere else, as others have said). Jason, your guest post yesterday spoke for me, and for many, I’m sure.
Deep appreciation here, on the daily.
(And, occurring to me as I post, deep thanks to all of the nameless *but essential!* moderators, who do so much to maintain the culture and clear boundaries found here. I know there have been some who have had to stop due to stress. Please, somewhere during the fundraiser, note how many of them there are, so that we can cheer for those unsung heroes.)
And for all the long-time readers/commenters, who are just as much a part of the importance of NC to us, I’m thankful — ambrit, and Wukchumni, and Rev Kev, and DJG, and Susan the other, and flora, and Antifa, please keep your songs coming! You’re all like long-time acquaintances that we’ve just never met in person.
Many other names and voices have been here over the years, since Steve came across NC, that just don’t instantly leap to mind, but thinkers, readers, and writers, all.
Kudos and thanks to all, long-timers and newcomers. I can only echo what others have said, in remaining everlastingly appreciative of this important and unique place.
Hope to have made it in time, $200 (paypal), I would email but have been getting emails of links to nc sent back lately.
Thanks for all your efforts!
Done!
“ In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I will tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar
done! just $100 this year but very encouraged that a NEW donor is being so generous—hope this makes the challenge and doubles my donation.
I echo the comments of everyone above—NC is a daily must read for me including the conversation amongst the commentariat and though I can’t keep up with all of it I am immeasurably the richer for what I do manage.
a thousand thanks 🙏🏽
I am in agreement with so many posts and comments on NC. I am also in disagreement with many posts and comments on NC. Isn’t that the entire point of free speech? Thanks so much for a heterodox, or even unorthodox site where differing viewpoints can be expressed. The check is in the mail, as they say.
$100 is in the mail.
While almost all of my friends (and family) continue to gaslight themselves on a rather wide range of topics, Naked Capitalism reinforces my belief in a “sanity clause.”
Critical thinking, where still allowed, reveals permutations that suggest the truth is somewhere other than where loudly pro-claimed. That’s what Naked Capitalism offers.
Invaluable.
Thank you.
I must love a challenge—as loyally coming to your site near daily for close to 15 years must attest to! Learning so mush and sharing widely, all takes time and effort that so many people don’t have with their daily survival grinds. All of your efforts remind me what I have to be grateful for, to watch out for and to defend. It’s exhausting for me and I am so grateful that you all work diligently to keep us informed and relatively sane. And I too love the commentariat—wish everyone was my neighbor and available for chats! Donation coming through PayPal this time. Hope I’ve hit the match!
Just donated $150. Sorry that I screwed up and didn’t make it a multiple of $100! Next time. I’ll run this past my health insurance, as a mental health expense, but I won’t get my hopes up.
Done, thanks! Always like to catch these doublers.
I dropped $X00. Not going to say the exact amount and when, and I used a different email address.