Dear patient readers,
We at Naked Capitalism trust you have a festive or at least a restful holiday season in store. The members of this team, as we customarily do, will try to take a mini-break via a lighter posting schedule. Starting today, through and including January 1, we will have only three posts a day, Links plus two others. Lambert has not set his Water Cooler plans. He will probably have a full version on the 23rd and likely Christmas eve, and after that, odds favor a mix of full featured ones versus conversation-starter variants.
Our moderators will be off starting December 24 through and including January 1. In distant past years, we would turn comments off. Instead, we will leave them on and Yves will be moderating. That means if you comment between noon EST and midnight and it goes into moderation, your comment won’t be freed before midnight. Abject apologies. Please be patient.
Have a very good winter respite. Hopefully you will get some good grub and rewarding time with friends and family. If you are having a quiet week, I hope you have some good books or movies or music lined up.
Wishing all of you a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2025!
PS It is going down to a chilly 71F here overnight.
Thank you NC team for everything you do and I hope you all get the “west and wewaxation” (to quote Elmer Fudd) you richly deserve and likely need.
I’ve no words to describe how much your work has helped me and enriched my knowledge, I really don’t.
I feel blessed to enjoy ALL the talent and energy that is Naked Capitalism.
To All a Merry Christmas. . . and to All a Goodnight!
When I come here I have the impression people are trying to tell me the truth as they perceive it, and that they have put some effort into it. That makes a big difference. Holiday wishes to all who read these words, and their friends and relations too.
Thanks so much for all the work you do running this site and I hope you have a great Christmas and New Year!
Many thanks to Yves, Lambert and the whole Naked Capitalism team for getting us, somehow, through another year. And to every member of the Commentariat, thank you for being exactly who you are. A humble heathen’s greetings to each of you.
merry christmas! im so grateful that i found NC. it has allowed me to learn so much and is one of the few spaces on the internet i have been able to enjoy. thank you so much to the team for keeping this site up and running. :D
I hereby swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
– I will respect the hard-won gains of the moderators and build on the atmosphere of general respect
– I will remember that there is art as well as science to a good discussion and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding shall outweigh any “scoring of points”
– I will extend kindness to all others, even when they don’t extend it to me
– I will respect differences of opinion by acknowledging the other person’s stance and not pushing their acceptance of mine
– I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to submit to my co-commetariat when the knowledge of others surpasses mine
for we all, NC team and commentariat both, indeed deserve a restful holiday season. Merry Christmas and many thanks to one and all!
Happy Holidays Yves, Lambert Conor, Nick and the rest of the crew. I forget how long I’ve been reading here, but it’s been a long, interesting time, and the more interesting it gets, the more we need NC. PS: 17 degrees F here at 3 pm in the Happy Valley.
Merry Christmas to everyone at NC and to all you love. I hope you enjoy your well-deserved break and, since 2025 looks like a clu^%(&f you get lots of extra protein.
I’m so thankful for all of you and the work you do here!
Happy Holidays Yves, Lambert, Nick and Conor, and all the secret moderator elves. I’m grateful for all you do, this precious rare gem of a site is the lighthouse in the storm. Thank you.
Second Es s Ce Tera – Have nice holidays and happy new year too.
Gonna be in the low _ negative _ numbers (Fahrenheit!) here tonight. Just got back from lunch with children and grandchildren and rekindled the fire. Brrrrrr.
Merry Winter Solstice to all.
Thanks all (and commentariat) for continuing to make NC the best site around.
Happy Holidays,
BP