Broken since Egypt’s 2013 coup, the Muslim Brotherhood poses no threat to the West—yet Israel and the UAE keep its phantom image alive
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Thursday, November 12, 2026
El-Sayed Laughs at the Muslim Brotherhood Because It’s Mostly Dead, Despite the Propaganda
Topics: Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | No Comments »
Why Is Work Getting Worse?
Employees in the UK are much less happy with work than in the early 1990s, despite their positive views about having a job. What gives?
Topics: Corporate governance, Guest Post, Social values, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:09 am | 11 Comments »
Links 11/12/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 89 Comments »
‘A Mobilization That No One Imagined’: Furious Over Housing Costs, Millions Join General Strike in Spain
The so-called 11N protest Spain is a general strike for housing and against the cost of living.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:34 am | 27 Comments »
A Plea for Reason from a Recovering Extrovert
Is it possible to push back against the decline in the ability to reason and even read in much of the population, particularly the young?
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:44 am | 58 Comments »
Satyajit Das: Chronicle of A Financial Crisis Foretold – Part 1
An important precis from Satyajit Das’ forthcoming book, The Everything Bubble, setting forth why a crisis looks way too likely.
Topics: Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:00 am | 4 Comments »
Coffee Break: Who Benefits From the Nvidia Spy Sex Scandal Allegations?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy has some questioning the timing and agenda behind those allegations.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 38 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Hilarious IMF Demand on Ukraine
Is the IMF as stupid as it looks in pretending Ukraine loans can be repaid, or is it hostage to political pieties?
Topics: Commodities, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 34 Comments »
Links 11/11/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 127 Comments »
The Spook Wave: Elections Usher in More Democrat Military-Intelligence Vets
The party continues to align with CIA and woo military-industrial complex cash as it recruits imperial soldiers to run for Congress.
Topics: Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 21 Comments »
Announcing Legal Defense Fund as Charles Asubonten Threatens to Escalate His Meritless Attempt to Censor Our Reporting via Yet Another Lawsuit
As you will see below, former CalPERS Chief Financial Officer Charles Asubonten is trying to silence our documentation of his vexatious legal campaign against Naked Capitalism. He is seeking the retraction of our publication of the filings in his new lawsuit in Federal Court in the Northern District of Alabama, along with some limited commentary. […]
Topics: Legal, Media watch, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:25 am | Comments Off on Announcing Legal Defense Fund as Charles Asubonten Threatens to Escalate His Meritless Attempt to Censor Our Reporting via Yet Another Lawsuit
Big Tech’s Political Headache and the Fight for America’s Future
US voters rejected AI and Big Tech power. Which Dems are poseurs who will make only Potemkin reforms?
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social values, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:38 am | 14 Comments »
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Fail-Safe Fallacy: The Hidden Danger of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons depend on elaborate safeguards intended to prevent unauthorized use while ensuring retaliation remains possible. But safeguards against one kind of failure can create vulnerabilities to another. Can the world’s nuclear command systems be trusted to prevent catastrophe when their collective reliability cannot be established?
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 19 Comments »
Why Sudan’s Civil War Is Becoming a U.S. National Security Threat
Why the civil war in Sudan has much bigger implications for the region and the US than is generally acknowledged.
Topics: Africa, Commodities, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:18 pm | 9 Comments »



