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Monday, November 17, 2025
Announcing Our 2025 “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:48 am | 7 Comments »
Thomas Neuburger: Naked Capitalism – Helping Navigate the Times That Try Men’s Souls
Naked Capitalism’s taleted writers work relentlessly to get at the truth in an ever-more-partisan and propgagandized world. Please chip in!
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:08 am | Comments Off on Thomas Neuburger: Naked Capitalism – Helping Navigate the Times That Try Men’s Souls
Ending Taxes on Home Sales Would Benefit the Wealthiest Households Most – Part of a Larger Pattern in Trump Tax Plans
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.
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 »


