Trump Adds His Newly Appointed Fed Chair to His Enemies List | naked capitalism
Trump's venomous attack against a Fed rate hike Mr. Market demanded provides yet more evidence of his escalating grandiosity and paranoia.
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The New York Fed DSGE Model Forecast—September 2026
A look at the economic forecasts generated by the New York Fed’s dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model and its change since June 2026.
Will the Trump-Xi summit make limited progress on AI?
Expectations for the upcoming September 24 summit meeting in Washington between Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Donald Trump are not high. That is not to say that the outcome will be insignificant, but no great change...
Links 9/18/2026 | naked capitalism
Our finely-tuned links: DOGE is back, public robotoilets, warfare on the moon, drug dealers on Google Maps, and the 'largest theft of labor in history.'
Nice Timing: US Removes Venezuela from List of Countries Failing to Combat Drug Trafficking Two Weeks After Historic Oil "Deal" | naked capitalism
Smoke and mirrors on a Trumpian scale.
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Rob Urie: Hack-Bots Gone Wild – Agentic AI Does What it Was Created to Do (and Revisiting the Fake Bond Market Panic) | naked capitalism
Some badly-needed sanity-checks on much-hyped stories: the agentic AI breakout and the (nowhere to be found) bond market freakout.
Money Creation Does Not Cause Inflation | naked capitalism
An apparently needed debunking of well-disproven theories that assert that money supply growth generates inflation.
Links 9/17/2026 | naked capitalism
Our street-legal daily links: Hormuz drops global emissions, increases protests over fuel costs, EU bunker state, and billionaires bankrolling midterms.
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Iran War: Saudi Transits Out of Strait of Hormuz Up Markedly But Diesel Crunch Acute as US Weighs Export Ban | naked capitalism
Today's Iran war news: More oil is exiting the Gulf than before, but diesel and food supplies are in a global crunch.
Professor Michael Hudson interview with Lena Petrova on BRICS and the Global Economy | naked capitalism
Michael Hudson discusses BRICS, the posture of India, the energy crisis and the evolution to a new monetary order.
Fed Delivers First Rate Hike in Years With Unanimous Vote
Most officials penciled in one more increase this year. An energy shock and a surge of AI investment have reshaped the inflation outlook.
Review: A Vision of a Future Where Machines Fight Wars | naked capitalism
Former Defense official Frank Kendall envisions wars where vehicles and weapons operate largely on their own.