The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness

How the Anglo-American fad of mindfulness bolsters neoliberaism. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 4 years ago

Will the Uber/Lyft IPOs Finally Change the Public Narrative About Ridesharing?

A post-mortem of the Uber and Lyft IPOs. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 4 years ago

Why Everyone in the U.S. Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead

Keep your eye on what Assange's real offenses are in the minds of the officialdom. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 4 years ago

SEC to Relax Audit Req'ts for Small Firms, Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud

SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 4 years ago

Josh Hawley (R-MO) and How the Social Media Economy Addicts Users

Lambert gingerly enters the worlds of gaming and Republican politics. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 4 years ago

Four Industries Big Tech Has Ruined

Rather than confine themselves to operating systems and PC software like they did in the 1980s and 1990s, the tech industry has figured out that the real money lies in being a middleman. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 4 years ago

Understanding Uber's Bleak Operating Economics (2017)

Uber's financials statements and economics shows a complete lack of progress towards profit and no reason to expect significant improvement | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 Max Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks

Nader: "There is no need to wait for some long-drawn out, redundant inquiry. Management was criminally negligent, 346 lives of passengers and crew were lost." | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

What Would an American Trade ‘Victory’ Look Like?

Will Trump declare a win if his trade representative fails to negotiate a viable long-term solution with Beijing? | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Leaving NYC

Your humble blogger plans to leave NYC. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Uber’s IPO Prospectus Overstates Its 2018 Profit Improvement by $5B

Uber's financial data in its S-1 filing is misleading and even inconsistent. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Warren’s Antitrust Proposal: Break Up Big Tech or Just Regulate It Better?

While it is gratifying to see Senator and presidential contender Elizabeth Warren focusing on antitrust and the abuse of monopoly power, her $25 billlion fix looks too simplistic. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

The Collapse of Antiquity

Michael Hudson describes how, in antiquity in Greece and Rome, emerging oligarchs ended the practice of debt jubilees, impoverishing laborers. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Right to Repair Initiatives Gain Support in US

Minnesota may soon be the first state to adopt right to repair legislation, and measures are pending in a total of twenty states. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a national right to repair for farm equipment. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Biometric Privacy Law, Clearing Way for Lawsuits

Illinois Supreme Court hands down unanimous decision that an individual needn’t prove actual injury nor adverse effect to recover under the state’s bellwether biometric privacy statute. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

The Reason Stock Buybacks Are a Problem

Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders propose what are actually modest restrictions on corporate stock buybacks to force their to give workers higher priority. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Let’s Say I Wanted to Escape Climate Change. Where Should I Go?

One expert says he gets versions of this question almost daily -- usually from “people at big institutional real estate funds, rich people who want to buy land or already own land, or survivalist types.” | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion

Even relatively simple pricing algorithms systematically learn to play sophisticated collusive strategies. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Frail Seniors Find Ways to Live Independently

A short-term program to help poor seniors cope with their limitations appears to be very effective. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

Trump's neocon extremists are burning the US dollar house down. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Global Gains on Right to Repair

The right to repair movement is growing -- not just in the US, but in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand as well. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Brexit “Singapore on the Thames” Fantasies

A jaundiced look at "Singapore on the Thames," yet another barmy Brexit idea. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Teacher Strikes Are Exposing the Corrupt Charter School Agenda

Teachers are taking aim at the way charter schools drain resources from public schools. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Do Not Disturb: The Right to Disconnect

New York’s City Council has scheduled a hearing Thursday to debate a measure to enshrine a right to disconnect - which would bar firms from requiring workers to check e-mail or other electronic communications outside the normal workday unless their contracts specify otherwise. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Mortality, Medical Coding and the (Purported) Drop in Hospital Readmission Rates

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, patient mortality, and a medical coding debacle | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part III – Regulation

Andrew Dittmer continues his series on the world that some conservative libertarian thinkers would like to establish. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision

A dialogue about how a libertarian society would work. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Christmas Hucksterism: The Last Mile of the Supply Chain Is Safer Than You Think

A romp through surveys on "package thieves," as publicized by a recent viral piece of Youtubery. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

All of Our Bets on China Have Been Wrong

Due to Western misperceptions and China's rising authoritarianism, the current trade war is evolving dangerously into Cold War 2.0. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Short-Term Rentals and the Housing Market: Evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles

Confirming Airbnb's effects on rentals and home prices. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Is the Internet to Blame for the Rise of Authoritarianism?

Three perspectives on whether the internet is damaging democracy. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Overshadowed by Opioids, Meth Is Back and Hospitalizations Surge

An update on the meth epidemic. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Sears Bankruptcy Engineered to Benefit Executives and Stiff Workers

Another look at the ugly Sears bankruptcy. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Uber Releases Ugly 3Q 2018 Results: Losses Widen to $1.1B, Growth Slows

It''s getting hard to believe Uber's story. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Raising Minimum Wages Reduces Recidivism

Another benefit of higher minimum wages. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Apple Has an Early Case of GE’s Disease

Silicon Valley stars like Apple suffer from financialization—the same ailment that felled GE and Lucent. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Quick Thoughts on the Google Walkout

What the Google walkout says about the company's management and the Silicon Valley view of employee rights. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Facebook Erases Hundreds of Alternative Media Pages in Mass Purge

This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of  erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Brexit: EU-UK Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain

Bad Brexit news just got worse. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?

The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

“High End” Apt. Construction Dominates, Creates Mismatch of Supply and Demand

Urban apartment development all over the US has been heavily skewed towards luxury units, even though there isn't enough demand for all the supply. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Matt Taibbi on Facebook and Google Playing the Censor

Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

SEC Knifes Its Whistleblower Program

Just when you think the SEC can't possibly to more to demonstrate how toothless it is, it reinforces its sorry reputation in by gutting its Dodd-Frank mandated whistleblower, and worse, in a manner that Commission Kara Stein suggest is illegal. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Private Equity Kills Toys R Us, Workers Get No Severance

Toys R Us stores will shutter this month: private equity firms killed the company, and its workers are left with no severance. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Unsafe at Any Speed Redux, Self-Driving Cars, and Legal Liability

Senators seek information on testing protocols for self-driving cars; mandatory arbitration for further lawsuits involving such vehicles looms as a threat. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 5 years ago

Michael Hudson: Creating Wealth Through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road

Why debt is the great threat to modern China’s development. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 6 years ago

California Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Big Blow to Gig Economy Companies

Many gig economy firms will have to classify a big swathe of their workers as employees or radically change their business models. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 6 years ago

Want a More Equal Society? Universal Basic Income Might Not Be the Policy

Why a Universal Basic Income won't produce the benefits its boosters claim it will. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 6 years ago