~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Trump the heel, full of grievances; Counting electoral votes now a National Special Security Event; Boeing strike — today? ~
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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.
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!
The Rise of the Science Sleuths
When an Alzheimer’s paper came under scrutiny, correcting the scientific record meant battling much bigger problems.
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
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.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/11/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Kamala’s earrings; About those cats… ; Do Covid tests work for the latest variants? Not immediately; Boeing should be kicked out of the Dow ~
The Rev Kev: And Now for Something Completely Different
Some celebrities make special guest appearances to urge you to donate generously to Naked Capitalism.
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.
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.
No Solid Scientific Basis for Degrowth
Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.
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.
Hooray! Met Our Fourth Goal, On to Our Fifth: Karōshi Prevention
Please give generously to support this fundraiser, including keeping Yves in fighting form.
