Rajiv Sethi: On Models, Markets, and Disagreement
A look at prediction market reactions to the Harris-Trump debate, and why they need to be taken with at least a bit of salt.
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Albrt: Naked Capitalism – a Home for the Heterodox
How Naked Capitalism is doing the work virtually no other site does and also provides a refuge for independent thinkers.
Read more...Announcing a Second 2024 “Double Your Donations” Challenge!
A new donor steps up with a “Double Your Donations” challenge! Make this fundraiser a big success by taking advantage of it!
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Battle With Yet More Efforts by KKR and Blackstone to Delay or Prevent Discovery
An update on the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems pension case, with KKR and Blackstone and their execs still fighting discovery
Read more...Putin Calls for Sanctions Revenge, Threatens to Cap Uranium Exports
Russia is considering restricting commodities exports such as uranium to what it has called “unfriendly” countries.
Read more...The Rev Kev: And Now for Something Completely Different
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Read more...Official US Poverty Rate Declined in 2023, but More People Faced Economic Hardship
The arguably better official measure of US poverty says the poor are getting poorer.
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How Extensive is the Privatization of Security?
A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.
Read more...No Solid Scientific Basis for Degrowth
Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.
Read more...A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)
A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.
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Read more...Thomas Neuburger: 5G War, or Why You Need Naked Capitalism
Support Naked Capitalism as a key part of your defense against the war to control your information and ultimately, how you see the world.
Read more...First Russia-China Barter Trade May Come This Autumn, Sources Say
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