As you will note from a companion put up, we’re saddened to announce that Lambert is retiring, however he has thrilling tasks beckoning. He has given us a really beneficiant discover however we need to respect his departure plans and thus should get cracking on discovering some new voices. Although Conor has graciously supplied to take up most of Lambert’s open slots, and I may tackle extra too, it could be a tricky carry on an ongoing foundation. Plus the positioning will profit from having some contemporary views and pursuits.
The conundrum we face is that Hyperlinks has turn into Bare Capitalism’s flagship. A lot of you say at fundraiser time that you simply get up within the morning with Hyperlinks. However it does take extra “manufacturing” than an everyday put up. That plus having to turn into an informational whale filtering the ocean for krill can be not essentially for everybody.
Be aware we may divide the work between contributors who do solely Hyperlinks and ones who do solely commentary. However there are advantages to preserving the broad view that Hyperlinks requires, each by way of deeper mining of necessary tales and discovering connections between seemingly distant ones.
So we hope you’ll be able to assist us discover gifted, energetic, and tough-minded candidates.
As a lot as we’d like a contributor to have a protracted and completely satisfied tenure right here, previous web site writers have used Bare Capitalism as a stepping-stone to even larger and higher issues. Our scammer-buster Richard Smith went on to extra systematic monitoring of worldwide con artists, which included amongst different issues occasional items as Herald Scotland (he may have taken a better profile however selected as an alternative to work primarily with different investigators). Philip Pilkington is now fortunately ensconced on the storied asset supervisor GMO. Nathan Tankus is now a acknowledged economics commentator, each on Substack and Twitter.
Having mentioned that, outdated graybeards (yours actually should confess to being lengthy in tooth) are welcome too!
We anticipate {that a} new contributor can have written typically on an expert foundation, say as journalist, commentator, analyst, and even an old-school blogger, would love an everyday part-time gig and/or would additionally like publicity to Bare Capitalism’s engaged readership. Being unphased by deadlines is necessary. Being prepared to have a viewpoint can be crucial.
Lambert has ready an in depth manufacturing information, and Bare Capitalism isn’t large on fussy formatting. So whereas there’s a studying curve for a way we do issues, it isn’t very steep.
In case you have somebody to advocate, please write Yves at yves-at-nakedcapitalism-dot-com and put “Website Author” within the topic line. Thanks!
