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Sunday, October 13, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 34 Comments »
The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Derivatives, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment banks, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:30 am | 23 Comments »
Conor Gallagher: Naked Capitalism – Journalism, the Good Old Fashioned Way
How modern journalism has gone into decline, and why Naked Capitalism stands apart. Your funding assures its independence.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 7:40 am | 4 Comments »
Links 9/14/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 120 Comments »
The Walls Are Closing In on Joe Biden
Biden 2024 is now officially in trouble.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:22 am | 241 Comments »
As More Patients E-mail Doctors, Health Systems Start Charging Fees (and Using AI for Responses)
Will doctors feeling the need to bill for e-mail service wind up having perverse side effects?
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:17 am | 5 Comments »
Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition
Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:47 am | 19 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2023
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 59 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 27 Comments »
Links 9/13/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 140 Comments »
DJG, Reality Czar: Help Naked Capitalism Keep Spoiling You
Naked Capitalism does a lot for all of us. So time to donate to keep this good thing going.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:31 am | 3 Comments »
On Not Thinking Like a Liberal in the 21st Century
“Liberalism is the solution to nothing we face in this changing world that Liberalism hath wrought.”
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 38 Comments »
The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing
Looking at the logic of the Russian deal with North Korea.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:53 am | 48 Comments »
The South China Sea’s Resource Wars
Taiwan is only a part of the ongoing conflict between Chana and America plus its Asian allies.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Globalization, Guest Post, Japan
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 2 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2023
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 93 Comments »