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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Announcing a Surprise “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:03 am | 8 Comments »
“AI Makes Past Hype Cycles Look Tame”: PitchBook on the Stunning Venture Capital Mania for AI
At these venture capital AI valuations, “exit hurdles become exceptionally large.” That translates into “Look out below!”
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 11 Comments »
Links 10/1/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 151 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – Your Source for Unique, Unsparing Coverage of Late-State Barbarism
Michael Hudson explains how Naked Capitalism is your information force multiplier. So please give so it can keep working for all of us!
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 6 Comments »
What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Legal, Macroeconomic policy, Market inefficiencies, Private equity, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 3 Comments »
Chasing Down Old Nazis in New York Court: Suit Against Volkswagen Controlling Shareholders and Key Managers Over Massive Clean Diesel Fraud
A running battle in New York sees to hold Volkswagen controlling shareholders and key execs accountable for the flagrant “dieselgate” scam
Topics: Auto industry, Environment, Global warming, Legal, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:48 am | 1 Comment »
Exploring the High Rates of Social Violence in the Americas
For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Solutions remain difficult to achieve
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:54 am | 21 Comments »
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Stopping START
For the first time in over half a century, the United States and Russia operate without a single binding limit on their nuclear arsenals. As New START approaches expiration in 2026, the collapse of strategic arms control threatens a new arms race, erodes global trust, and invites a perilous era of nuclear instability.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 8 Comments »
The Rev Kev: Naked Capitalism – Bringing You Next Year’s News Today
No kidding, we do have stories from next year for your delectation.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:06 am | 9 Comments »
Trump’s Desire to Seize Bagram Airfield Will End in Disaster
A terse takedown of the latest Trump bright idea, of trying to retake the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 9/30/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 131 Comments »
Censorship, Surveillance, and Spin: EU, UK, and Ukraine Try to Drive the Narrative
The EU, UK, and Ukraine are using a mix of expanded surveillance, censorship, and spin in an attempt to influence the narrative in their homeland and in the U.S.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 6:54 am | 21 Comments »
Tony Blair and Larry Ellison Make One HELL of a Partnership
Blair and Ellison have a shared vision for the future, and it is one that most of us would never vote for if given the chance (which, of course, we won’t be)
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 16 Comments »
Quelle Surprise! Advanced Nations Stymie Governance Reforms at World Bank Intended to Increase Influence of Global Majority
More than a decade of stalled Wrold Bank shareholding reforms illustrate how geopolitical rivalries undermine the push for multipolarity
Topics: Africa, Banana republic, Banking industry, China, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:49 am | 1 Comment »
Coffee Break: Delusion, Deception and Dipshittery: Hasbara on the 8th Front
Israel and its billionaire ally Larry Ellison are engaged in a desperate mix of deception, delusion, & dipshittery to hold narrative control.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 41 Comments »