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Sunday, October 13, 2024
Links 9/10/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 240 Comments »
Fundraiser Special! Come Get Your Naked Capitalism Songbooks!
Enjoy this Naked Capitalism first! Our much beloved, reader-composed lyrics to popular songs now gathered into three songbooks!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:35 am | 16 Comments »
“Unrealized Losses” on Securities Held by Banks, Oh Dearie, the Whole Schmear: +8%, to $558 Billion
We now have to pay attention to unrealized losses in the banking system.
Topics: Banking industry, Doomsday scenarios, Market inefficiencies, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:30 am | 14 Comments »
Links 9/9/2023
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 219 Comments »
The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room
Ignoring the large role of the Pentagon in CO2 emissions is a huge omission in climate change remedies.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:33 am | 29 Comments »
WaPo Reported That Ukrainians Are Distrustful of the West & Flirting With a Ceasefire
The Post reports that Ukrainians are worried that the West might largely abandon them. But their ideas of what happens then are way too rosy.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:07 am | 35 Comments »
Stephen: Naked Capitalism – Your Torch Through the Media Murk
How Naked Capitalism helped one reader realize how much he wasn’t being told.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:47 am | 2 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 119 Comments »
Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges
While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Guest Post, Permaculture, Species loss
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 19 Comments »
Links 9/8/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 147 Comments »
IBM Reneges On Its Post-George Floyd Pledge to Abandon Facial Recognition Business
The US tech firm could not have found a better partner with whom to get back into the facial recognition market than the current UK government.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 9 Comments »
Will It Be Socialism or Barbarism for the Twenty-First Century?
How the end of policies supporting the material well-being of workers, aka socialism, has created widespread distress and political schisms.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 am | 53 Comments »
My Favorite Recession Indicator: The Next Recession Moves Further Out of Sight
There will be a recession, there’s always a recession eventually. But we’ll just have to keep watching for it.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment outlook
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:56 am | 12 Comments »
The Rev Kev: World Leaders Want You to Give to Naked Capitalism
Naked Capitalism’s friends in high places urge you to go to the Tip Jar and give generously.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:23 am | 8 Comments »
Kudos! Met Our Second Target! On to the Third: Continuing Expanded News Coverage
Please suppprt your daily news fix of our many. carefully selected, and often juicy daily links!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 3 Comments »