Fundraiser Special! Come Get This Year’s Naked Capitalism Songbook!

Readers,

This has been a lively year, but an especially creative year for the Naked Capitalism songwriting commentariat. Thanks go to albrt, Antifa, Britzklieg, Camelotkidd , Caucus99percenter , Cgregory, ChrisFromGA , Daryl, Ewmayer, Flora, HenryMoonPie, Ignacio, JaburaBasaidai, LilD, MarkGisleson, Mrsyk, SteveH, ThirtyOne, and Wukchumni for this year’s edition of The Naked Capitalism Songbook, Volume Three. These songs are free gifts from the writers to the Naked Capitalism community. And you can give back to that community — and to the site that makes it possible — by going to the Tip Jar, placed conveniently to your right.

Making a 242-page Songbook, with indexes for song titles, song writers, and the performers who inspired the songs, is an enormous task. Bookwork, like American football, is a game of inches, where consistency and precision matter above all. Here I must give an enormous shoutout to reader Antifa, who handled the aggregation, production, and design work, and uncomplainingly updated the file with the corrections that moderator Katiebird discovered (“If you haven’t found an error, you haven’t proofread carefully enough!”). We must also thank John Zelnicker, who initiated what has become a continuing, yearly project. You can – you know what I’m going to say here – reward their efforts at the Tip Jar.

Again, the Songbook is free. We do not offer the Songbook as a premium to paid subscribers, or as a promotional tchotchke. In fact, that’s the whole point. The songwriters freely give the songs to the community, amd the commmunity in turn laughs, sings, and creates more songs. Naked Capitalism then creates the Songbook from their gifts, which returns the community’s work to the community in a virtuous cycle, so you can send this community’s work to friends, family, and colleagues, particularly fans of pop music or those with a sardonic sense of humor.

But we do hope that those who were planning to give but haven’t yet might take the Songbok as a reminder of the rich offerings in Naked Capitalism posts and in the comments section. If you haven’t yet gotten around to making a donation yet, please make a mini-detour to the Tip Jar and donate to support this community. Anything you can give, $5, $50, or $5,000, helps keep us fit and feisty.

Here it is!

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P.S. Last year’s Songbooks are here.