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.
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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
My sentiments exactly.
Thank you to the NC team and NC Nation.
May happiness find you and yours this holiday season, and peace and prosperity throughout 2025.
Be well.
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.
Not to be more of an a$$ but it’s 65 in San Luis Obispo (with a wind chill of 64). Not like childhood in Connecticut at all…
Thanks all (and commentariat) for continuing to make NC the best site around.
Happy Holidays,
BP
Merry Christmas and thank you for all the work all of you do every day.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, whatever people do – have a great time doing it, or not. It’s also a good time to do nothing, if you can. Moderators, have a relaxing time not moderating. I’ll moderate myself for you. Happy Solstice today and it’s only gonna get brighter (if you’re in the northern half).
Peace!
Merry Christmas to everyone here, especially to Yves, Lambert and the rest of the NC crew. I hope that everyone has a great break for Christmas because when you get down to it, you only ever get so many of them in your lifetime. Weather forecast says that it will hit 32 Celsius on Xmas day – about 90 Fahrenheit – but no matter as it will still be Christmas. I thought that this year instead of linking to beach Christmas scenes, that I would link instead to a very useful tutorial that might come in handy for some. It certainly is innovative though perhaps harder to do in real life-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm3dm5J5r0A (1:43 mins)
Merry Christmas and Peace to Men of Goodwill
Here too.
(couldn’t put it better)
Merry Christmas!
Compliments Of The Season To All!
Hope everyone has a chance to rest, relax and enjoy the company of people they love!
Thanks to Yves, Lambert, Conor and the entire NC Crew for the content! And thank to the amazing and engaging commentariat!
Thanks NC for helping me get through another year. I’m thankful and appreciative for all the thought and work that goes into this site.
Wishing you all a peaceful New Year.
Echoing and amplifying all the responses here and endorsing Polar Socialist’s New Year’s resolutions.
May good wishes and good will survive the turbulence and holidays be holidays for all.
Many thanks to NK and merry Christmas from Germany
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the NC crew and all the NC brethren.
Ho Ho Ho from just the other side of nowhere…
The shortest day has past us by, and may 2025 be as fun as 2024, where you couldn’t have believed what went down in retrospect, if asked on January 1st.
Thanks to the NC gang for all you do, it really brings the room together.
Thanks NC crew! Happy holidaze!
Thanks Yves and Lambert, and the rest of the NC brain trust.
This site has been a real lifesaver in difficult times.
Y’all take a much deserved rest. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Happy holidays and thanks for all the work you put in to make sure this is an excellent source of news, discussion, and like minded peers! :)