Thanks to your steadfast support, we’ve succeeded in meeting our first two targets: funding our critical IT infrastructure and sustaining the comments section. Our tech maven Dave and our comments cat-herders katiebird and semper loquitur deeply appreciate that you have shown you value their crucial roles in keeping this site in top form.
Thanks to your great responses so far, we are already $560 towards our new goal! We’ve also hit 437 donors, and are making good progress towards our donor objective of 1100.
However…..we are falling a bit short of where we need to be. This year, we have seen many of our faithful fundraiser donors meaningfully increase their donations from recent year levels. This is concrete evidence that they recognize that (as they have said) Naked Capitalism has been going from strength to strength and has become an even more essential source of information and mutual support. We also have had a lot of new donations which are likely from recent or longer-standing readers chipping in for the first time. But the new donations, while they bode well for increased participation, means the average donation size is a bit down. It also means that more established contributors than in the past have yet to chip in. So please, dig deep to keep this vital resource punching above its weight!
Starting in 2025, we have had a new goal: funding the new Coffee Break feature. Many of you have said how much you value the depth and range of topics from our new Coffee Break writers. So if you are as excited about their contributions as we are, please go straight to the Tip Jar to express your appreciation.
>Although Lambert was difficult to replace, we are fortunate that such talented writers joined to fill his yellow waders. Getting them sorted was a difficult process, but we have five great new features after this transition.
We now have Haig Hoveaness’ Armed Madhouse exposing many not-well understood facets of military doctrine and procurement, from drone warfare to the many gaps between theoretical and actual preparedness, with the US Navy serving as a rich case study. Nat Wilson Turner has focuses on squillionaire influence, particularly with media acquisitions, the ongoing fecklessness of Team Dem, and has also ably backstopped Yves on Iran War posts. Curro Jimenez was early to question “Islamic NATO” (which failed to help Saudi Arabia in its conflict with Ansar Allah), and has also discussed “left-wing terrorists” as the new designated bad guys, and the movie Odyssey as a cultural Rorschach test. semper loquitur provides a remarkable range of well-received free movie and has recently added his bonus delights KLG was so brave as to take up a weekly slot on top of his every-other week long article, which given that he also has an important day job, is a very big commitment. Haig also performs the indispensable task of providing Links on Sundays.
So we hope that those of you who contributed to Water Cooler as well as those who have come to like and appreciate our deeply expert Coffee Break/Sunday movie writers will chip in for these exiting new in-depth pieces. We now have five individuals (including semper loquitur) bringing their considerable experience and learning to a new frontier of topics. And they have all said they appreciate and benefit from the intense engagement with readers, and the careful readings and additional information they routinely provide. This demonstrates how the commentariat has created a virtuous circle, of rigor about information and reasoning (and appreciation of acute phrasemaking) inspiring authors to produce even more top-notch articles.
So please toast their arrivals and help keep Curro well plied with cigars by going to the donation page and giving generously!
Readers have chimed in with notes of support:
From dandyandy
Great work Nat, thank you very much. NC has really grown in stature recently. A few years back it was my little secret source of information and now a ton of people, intelligent and honest people, are lifting it up. Thank you Yves and your fantastic Team!”
From Ben Panga
Thanks Nat, really good and coherent piece. You are NC’s heroic swamp-delver. I appreciate how you stay clear-eyed, funny and your decency/humanity shines through. You have a very strong stomach!
From Vicky Cookies:
Thank you for a thoughtful analysis, Curro. I think you put your finger on something important when you point out that a rollout of CDBC or stablecoins would place the technocratic class, as you call them, in an essential and crucial position, just when they’re starting to look not only superfluous, but downright malignant.
From Balakirev:
Fascinating statistics. Thanks, Curro Jimenez. I especially appreciate the way you use the questions asked to arrive at nuanced answers.
From islm:
Haig has a good grasp of logistics!
And .Tom
Idk this movie. And this time last week I didn’t know that feature either but now I do thanks to NC’s great Sunday Morning Movie and thanks to semper loquitur. Go donate to the fundraiser now if you haven’t already.
Goingnowhereslowly:
Yves and company, thank you, thank you, thank you for all your excellent and very difficult work! I can’t imagine my life without you and this community.
So to help support these great new writers (and KLG taking a bigger load), please give now. Whether it’s $10, $100, or $1,000, all help meet our goals.
We have set a target of $36,000 which frankly only partly covers the total cost of all of this high-quality content. So please do your part and chip in pronto! The Tip Jar tells you how to give by check, credit or debit card. And if you do send a check, please send an e-mail to yves@nakedcapitalism.com with “Check is in the mail” in the subject line so we can include it in our running tally.
Again, please tell these wonderful authors how much you value their work by going straight to the donation page and digging deep! As many have said, in an ever-crazier, more heavily propagandized world, we need even more sharp eyes focusing on what is really happening, and these new talents are doing a lot of informational heavy lifting to meet this challenge.
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