Hottest January in the History of Januaries | naked capitalism
Yves here. While many of you were busy losing your mind over Trump’s smashes and grabs, the world continued to cook. Tom Neuburger, who has kept his eye on the…
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/5/2025 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether. Readers, I awoke with an especially nasty head cold yesterday, which I am still fighting today, so this Water Cooler will end when I creep back to…
The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post by border Todd Miller corrects widespread misperceptions about what he calls the deportation industrial complex. The militarization of the southern border, including its infamous wall, goes…
Life After Lambert Update: KLG to Provide Weekly Health/Pandemic “Coffee Break”; Still Seeking Help in Finding New Site Contributor(s), Including for Other “Coffee Breaks” | naked capitalism
We very much appreciate the reader response to our post last month, Seeking Reader Help in Finding New Site Contributor(s) to Fill Lambert’s Yellow Waders, since Lambert is retiring at…
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Tariffs Could Cause Huge Global Crisis | naked capitalism
Yves here. Even though Trump has put a pause on tariffs against Mexico and Canada, his tariff increase against China is still on. And more generally, Trump has repeatedly described…
Rob Urir: To End Oligarchy, End Finance Capitalism | naked capitalism
Yves here. While I appreciate the purity of Rob Urie’s argument, the prevalence of financiers as oligarchs depends on whether the economy is financialized. By Rob Urie, author of Zen…
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/3/2025 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Guernsey–Fish Ponds and Platte River Trail, Platte, Wyoming, United States. Patient readers, there are many developments on the DOGE front,…
What Just Happened to UK TBTF Lender Barclays’ Online Banking Services, and What Could It Mean for the Wider World? | naked capitalism
“[W]e have this house of cards where you’ve got an awful lot of institutions working co-operatively with each other, but if one messes up the system, then the whole system…
New Filing Details How Crooked Attorney Ann Oldfather and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman Conspired to Sell Out Underwater Pension Funds and Taxpayers to the Tune of Hundreds of Millions, Even >$1 Billion, in Lost Recoveries | naked capitalism
We wrote recently about the latest chapter in the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems, now rebranded as Kentucky Public Pension Authority case, in More Kentucky Dirty Dealings: Attorney General Schemes to…
AI’s Impending Information Crisis | naked capitalism
Yves here. In the excitement over DeepSeek, this post put a needed reminder of an important AI issue front and center: that AI does not have enough original human content…