With Trump chaos-making and zone-flooding, some gimmies to the well-f, like a proposed tax break on home sales, are going under the radar.
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Friday, October 24, 2025
Ending Taxes on Home Sales Would Benefit the Wealthiest Households Most – Part of a Larger Pattern in Trump Tax Plans
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:57 am | 11 Comments »
Links 9/29/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 150 Comments »
War on Labor Accelerates: Administration Predictably Embraces Guest Workers and “Anti-Capitalism” Is Labeled Terrorism
A look at who is being deported and who is being ushered in shows that what’s happening is a trading out of people for exploitable workers. And fighting back just got harder with Trump’s new security directive.
Topics: Macroeconomic policy, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 12 Comments »
Patrick Baab on Europe’s March to War with Russia
Why the risk of a hot war between some NATO states and Russia may be more imminent than many believe.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 63 Comments »
Trump’s Dip Into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict – In Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples
Examining one case of how US-sponsored peace deals spread more chaos. Is it simply Trump or a State Department feature, not a bug?
Topics: Africa, Guest Post, Middle East
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 7 Comments »
Haig Hovaness: Why Naked Capitalism Matters
NC Is an oasis of intelligence and reason in a desert of manipulated media.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 11:10 am | 4 Comments »
Links 9/28/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 220 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Hopscotch (1980) Run Time: 1H 45M
Hopscotch is a light-hearted Cold War comedy about a rogue CIA agent and his pursuers.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 7 Comments »
Charlie Kirk and the Making of an AI-Generated Martyr
In the US, death and mythmaking are useful tools weilded to dictate the terms of public life.
Topics: Curiousities, Media watch, Politics, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 29 Comments »
Curro Jimenez: Naked Capitalism – Your Escape from Propaganda
Naked Capitalism is dedicated to telling the best approximation of truth it can find and its expert commentariat keeps us on our toes.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:11 am | 11 Comments »
Links 9/27/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 144 Comments »
The Milton Friedman Question
A critical look at the anarcho-libertarian (per his son) propagandist Milton Friedman.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:57 am | 42 Comments »
The Warning Signs Are Clear: We’re Heading Toward a Digital Crisis
Quelle surprise! No one would dare bulld a car to the standards used for digital systems and products, and a crash seems baked in.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Risk and risk management, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:45 am | 31 Comments »
Bravo! Met First Goal Quickly, Now on to the Second: Supporting the Commentariat
Congrats! We are advancing at a healthy pace towards our fundraiser goals. Now on to our second, supporting the comments section.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:00 am | 4 Comments »
Coffee Break: Autism, Universities, Gene Therapy for HD That Works, More Anti-Vax Nonsense, and Making America Greater, or Not.
This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 139 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. Please join us and participate via our donation page, which shows how to give via check, credit card, debit card, PayPal. Clover, or Wise. Read about why we’re doing this […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Dubious statistics, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Technology and innovation
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 21 Comments »


