Sunday, September 15, 2024

Harris Can’t Embrace Billionaires if She Wants to Win

But has she already embraced them?

Kudos! Met Our Fifth Goal, and on to the Sixth: Expanding Our Reach

In this hostile media environment, getting the word out about Naked Capitalism is ever more important! Please help fund promoting the site!

Fundraiser Special! Come Get This Year’s Naked Capitalism Songbook!

242 pages of community inspiration

Links 9/14/2024

Announcing Our New Small Donation “Double Your Donations” Challenge

Two readers have teamed up to turbocharge small donations!

Is US Policy Saving the Dollar or Destroying It?

How the global economy is being restructured, in no small measure due to inept, self-destructive policy moves that undermine dollar use in trade.

Compost Co-Op: Recycling the Discarded

Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; new polling averages (it’s a tie) and new Covid tables (some encouragement); Taibbi roasts mainstream debate coverage; Boeing strikes, could lead to ratings downgrade ~

Ambrit: Zeitgeist Report from the Heartland

How Naked Capitalism helps you rise above the sterile wastelands of the mainstream media.

The First Year of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Is Mired in Red Tape

How Georgia’s Medicaid work rules are operating as planned.

Links 9/13/2024

No Country for Old Men (or Women): Pensioners in Argentina Bear Brunt of Milei’s Hardcore Austerity

Cloaked in a flimsy veil of libertarianism, neoliberalism is not just alive and well in Argentina; it’s more virulent than ever.

Can We Afford the Welfare State?

Unpacking why the obstacle to preserving the welfare state is not national income or demographics but rentiers increasing their take.

Rajiv Sethi: On Models, Markets, and Disagreement

A look at prediction market reactions to the Harris-Trump debate, and why they need to be taken with at least a bit of salt.

Why Must Humans Compete for Electric Power with AI Bullshit Generators Programmed by Ritual Incantations?

A takedown of AI so-called “prompt engineering.”