tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post966603355912519033..comments2023-08-28T11:48:39.554-07:00Comments on Reserved Place: Naked Hypocrisy?RebelEconomisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13241098878248190971noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-30788636947841634172017-01-05T11:10:45.663-08:002017-01-05T11:10:45.663-08:00Hello Everybody,
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Perhaps what was worrying Yves was that she was planning the fundraiser she ran in November ( http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/launching-the-nc-fundraiser.html ) and really did not want this issue raised ahead of that.<br /><br />On the subject of payday loans in particular, they were headline news in the UK again only yesterday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16063271RebelEconomisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241098878248190971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-62938507124920928482011-12-08T10:15:44.412-08:002011-12-08T10:15:44.412-08:00Anonymous 1: I'm not sure I follow your argume...Anonymous 1: I'm not sure I follow your argument. <br /><br />RebelEconomist didn't imply that Smith is a bigger hypocrite than Hayek or Koch at all; his account is a little too kind on Smith if anything. <br /><br />Any blogger who tries to block commenters who don't have a prior track record of being libellous, hitting below the belt, or otherwise irrelevant is obviously worried about <i>something.</i>RJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-28278822068981322772011-10-07T05:47:56.761-07:002011-10-07T05:47:56.761-07:00Further ... I have no problem with the adverts bec...Further ... I have no problem with the adverts because I can ignore them. But the blog is shrill because the blogger is shrill. As well, the writing is poor, and there is nothing more pungent than mediocrity wrapped in hubris. So I tend to ignore it all. BTW, the blogger has a consulting business, quite apart from the blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-1329955791550951402011-10-04T04:29:22.857-07:002011-10-04T04:29:22.857-07:00Anonymous on 2 October 2011 15:28, I think I detec...Anonymous on 2 October 2011 15:28, I think I detect a little sarcasm in your reply! I am sorry your comment got spammed at first – I don't know why.<br /><br />As the story I tell describes, I never thought that this was a big deal. When I first alerted Yves to the kind of sleazy finance adverts I was seeing from the UK, I was trying to be helpful; I expected her to be horrified and to fix it, and Yves' initial reaction suggested that she intended to do so. However, during the three years since, in which the blog has become shriller and the adverts have, if anything, been drawn from even more sleazy financial activity (payday loans, tax haven guides, personal debt managers etc – and, for the first time yesterday, ambulance-chasing compensation claims lawyers), the blog sank in my estimation and I became increasingly sceptical.<br /><br />Of course I do not think that Yves secretly supports ruthless and exploitative finance while condemning it in public, but I do see links between her approach to blogging and the financial crisis. First, Naked Capitalism is obviously a business that Yves expects to provide her with a living, and judging by what she occasionally reveals on the blog, by ordinary peoples' standards, Manhattan living is not cheap. And the adverts suggest that Yves is prepared to tolerate a little association with some dubious finance in pursuit of that living. In that, I see parallels with the Kensington-living bankers I knew in the pre-crisis era, many of whom had qualms about the business, but considered themselves to be relatively uninfluential, blameless participants, paid no more than they were worth. Second, as I have occasionally remarked in comments on the blog (eg <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/04/magnetar-goldman-press-flurry-still-misses-the-biggest-point-of-all.html#comment-106525" rel="nofollow"> here</a> and <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/a-better-way-to-make-bankers-pay-for-crises.html#comment-400261" rel="nofollow"> here</a>), I fear that the prejudiced, simplistic and sometimes vitriolic tone of Naked Capitalism discussions that Yves has allowed to develop inhibits the kind of objective and informative discussion that is most likely to resolve the causes of the financial crisis, and, being easy to dismiss, detracts from the blog's influence to avoid a repetition of the crisis.RebelEconomisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241098878248190971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-55491036189786333572011-10-02T16:29:57.978-07:002011-10-02T16:29:57.978-07:00“Naked Capitalism seems to have become increasingl...“Naked Capitalism seems to have become increasingly polemical and less analytical, with a bias against bankers, advocates of conservative economic policy and creditors in general. Perhaps encouraged by this tone, Naked Capitalism's commentary has become more vitriolic and dominated by prejudiced, fixated, irrational and often long-winded ranters, with many of whom it is impossible to have a civil, constructive debate of referenced facts and counter-facts, logical arguments and counter-arguments.” <br /><br />It’s the problem with the whole shooting match (i.e. the economic blogosphere).<br /><br />It’s a disease - there’s no such thing as unbiased analysis in this medium.<br /><br />Who among bloggers can you say is truly, analytically objective and without material ideological bias?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-5221770036281442072011-10-02T15:28:09.718-07:002011-10-02T15:28:09.718-07:00Awesome post! You are brave and courageous RebelEc...Awesome post! You are brave and courageous RebelEconomist. You totally showed Yves Smith who's the REAL hypocrite! Seriously, if a google ad appears in her blog promoting penny stocks or gold, that is even BIGGER hypocrisy than Friedrich Hayek writing tome after tome denouncing Medicare and Social Security while secretly paying into them, or Koch spending hundreds of millions to kill Social Security and Medicare while privately championing the program to Hayek. What Koch and Hayek did doesn't even come CLOSE to what Yves has done, where google ads display small ads for penny stocks and stuff. <br /><br />Think of the damage Yves Smith has done, hurting the reputations of good decent bankers and insurance executives. Who does she think she is? Doesn't she know that these people are the job creators? Some of them even endow university department chairs, and it's not like they have strings attached. Frankly, I'm starting to believe that Yves Smith may be responsible for bringing on the entire financial crisis herself, maybe not alone but I think we can agree that Ms. Smith had at least partial responsibility for creating the crisis. And all the while she's writing a blog criticizing the financial crisis players. How's that for hypocrisy? <br /><br />That's a real scoop you should write up, RebelEconomist: Yves Smith helped to actually destroy the global financial system while blogging criticism of it publicly--you'll become HUGE if you have the guts to write that up. If the people find out that Yves Smith caused the financial crisis while blogging criticism of it, you will become an even bigger hero among the beleaguered folks in the financial industry than you already are. You are brave and courageous and don't let anyone tell you whom to shill for, keep up the good fight!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-65589171376666174132011-10-02T08:52:17.485-07:002011-10-02T08:52:17.485-07:00Setser was how it was supposed to work. Consider f...Setser was how it was supposed to work. Consider for a moment the possibility that the incentives provided by the Google algorithm ended up destroying web 2. The survivors are the successful hit seeking devices.<br /><br />She was brilliant through 2008 or 9. But the binary populism that everything devolves into over there just can't compete with the infinite dramatic possibilities offered by Europe.Charles Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00486529931043507880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-91128592401621619122011-10-02T03:55:49.836-07:002011-10-02T03:55:49.836-07:00Thanks for your support Charles. It sounds like y...Thanks for your support Charles. It sounds like you see similar adverts on Naked Capitalism from Spain - if you ever look of course. I am afraid that we may have been spoilt by Brad Setser's blog!RebelEconomisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241098878248190971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970611666708740586.post-33487290257899344682011-10-02T03:33:07.128-07:002011-10-02T03:33:07.128-07:00You were banned?
Her reaction seems a touch extre...You were banned?<br /><br />Her reaction seems a touch extreme. Most of these hight traffic places will publish a comment pointing out obvious inconsistencies in an argument and merely fail to answer.<br /><br />It's all a question of positioning, in any regard. A writer attains a certain weight in the noise-o-sphere (and some economic/emotional dependence on same) and the task becomes one of defending editorial and ideological turf rather than actually providing useful insights or information - and certainly not one of engaging in debate or brooking dissent in the ranks.<br /><br />As for the ads themselves, they are always of the payday loan and buy gold and penny stocks ilk. If she is making enough money from this trailer trash stuff (which is obviously the only type that shows a good return to advertisers) to make it worth the risk of being thrown in the heap with a zillion disreputable sources, then you can easily draw conclusions concerning the market position that she strives to maintain. 'Lowest common denominator' comes to mind.<br /><br />She is not addressing you... and she certainly isn't Brad Setser.<br /><br />Congratulations. Good piece.Charles Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00486529931043507880noreply@blogger.com