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Is Your Pension Safe? | naked capitalism

Yves here. Even though the precepts that Richard Murphy covers below are well-known to most readers, some things cannot be said often enough. The biggie

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Defeat of the West – Michael Hudson and Lena Petrova on Davos Panic, Destruction of the EU & Economic Collapse

Yves here. Michael Hudson provided another one of his wide-ranging, informative discussions of the rapid shifts in the international economic and political. Here with Lena

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Creative Energy Diplomacy Might Avert Another American Attack On Iran

Yves here. I have seen claims (forgive me for not running them down) that the US contacted the Iranians and basically asked them to stand

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Geopolitics as a Monetary Shock: The ‘Silent Tightening’ in the European Banking System Due to Sanctions Against Russia

Yves here. This article has a very important finding even though it is bizarrely loath to depict the “shock and awe” sanctions as the cause

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Blue Monday Isn’t Real, but Sadness Is – And It Plays a Vital Role in Children’s Development

Conor here: It often feels like social policy in neoliberal society is intended to produce sadness that can be capitalized on. The following piece from

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Links 1/24/2026 | naked capitalism

Metal Fans Unlikely To Cheat, Jazz Fans Are Boning Everyone According To A Study Metal in Action (Micael T) Welcome to the wild world of

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Black Sites and Black Days

Yves here. Readers may know that some of the history of US black sites, as in torture sites, overseas has become public. I understand from

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USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues

Yves here. On one level, this story about the Administration intensifying its campaign against furriners, here academics, should come as no surprise. The Trump Team

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The Great AI Displacement: Fracturing Tomorrow’s Labor Market

Yves here. Please welcome Goran Lazarevski, who sent us an article of his on LinkedIn which he then revamped and expanded for publication here. Lazarevski,

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ICE Called Out by Minneapolis Police for Harassing Off-Duty Officers of Color as DOJ Targets Minnesota Officials Personally with Criminal Subpoenas

Yves here. The march towards a tyranny in the US continues apace. Below we feature a clip in which police chief in Minneapolis take the