Is the IMF as stupid as it looks in pretending Ukraine loans can be repaid, or is it hostage to political pieties?
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Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Michael Hudson: Hilarious IMF Demand on Ukraine
Topics: Commodities, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 8 Comments »
Links 11/11/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 65 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 | 11 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 | 11 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 »
China Just Upgraded Its Trade Agreement With Peru in Fresh Setback for Washington’s Donroe Doctrine
While the US has been largely successful in imposing its security doctrine on vassal states in Latin America, it cannot replace the trade or investment it seeks to destroy.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 8 Comments »
Representative Thomas Massie Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Pete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth, who celebrates maximum lethality, will soon be on the receiving end of a beating. Can he take it as well as he dishes it out?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Links, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:45 am | 65 Comments »
Another French Revolution
The protests in France are part of the French Revolution tradition. But how much fundamental change is likely?
Topics: Europe, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:20 am | 32 Comments »
Coffee Break: Election Aftermath Sees Dems Battle Over Schumer & Jeffries
The Democrats are divided over their congressional leadership with both Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries drawing popular opposition.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 26 Comments »
10 Reasons Hakeem Jeffries Should Not Be the Next Speaker of the House
Elections have consequences. One should be keeping an AIPAC-backed war-mongerer like Hakeem Jeffries from becoming Speaker of the House.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Middle East, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:54 am | 51 Comments »
Links 11/9/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 85 Comments »
Iran War: Trump Signals No Big Attack in CBS Interview; Barmy CENTCOM “Iron Gate” Plan Proof of Weakness or Perhaps Cover for Iraq Ground Operation?
Today’s Iran war news: Is post-election fallout already starting to curb Trump’s maneuver room?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:20 am | 52 Comments »



