Monthly Archives: August 2013

August 31, 2013

• Links 8/31/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Wheels Falling Off the Imperial Reality-Creating Machine
  by Lambert Strether 3:43 am

• Dan Kervick: Hyper-Endogeneity
  by Lambert Strether 1:09 am

August 30, 2013

• Links 8/30/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Barbarians at the Gates of the New York Public Library
  by Lambert Strether 6:35 am

• ObamaCare Staggers Toward the October 1 Finish Line (2)
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

• Gaius Publius: Deep State — Is the Upper Echelon of the Intelligence Community Running America?
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

• Bill Black: Zero Prosecutions of Elite Banksters is Too Many for the Wall Street Journal
  by Yves Smith 12:03 am

August 29, 2013

• Links 8/29/13
  by David Dayen 5:00 am

• David Dayen: Regulatory Apparatus To Provide Full Employment For Chroniclers of Future Bailouts, as Useless Mortgage Origination Rules Introduced
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• Wolf Richter: German Election Finally Gets Messy: “Euro Is More Than A Currency” And Greece “Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed In”
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• Jayati Ghosh: None of the Experts Saw India’s Debt Bubble Coming. Sound Familiar?
  by David Dayen 2:30 am

• David Dayen: Fast Food, Retail Worker Strikes Actually Honor King Legacy
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

August 28, 2013

• Links 8/28/13
  by David Dayen 5:00 am

• David Dayen: Could the White House Want to Confirm Larry Summers With Republican Votes?
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• J.D. Alt: Mobilization and Money
  by David Dayen 3:30 am

• Has the Shale Bubble Already Burst?
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• David Dayen: Administration Outside Review Group on NSA Includes Co-Designer of HAMP Peter Swire
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

August 27, 2013

• Links 8/27/13
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• Cathy O’Neil: College Ranking Models
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• David Dayen: Click-Bait Law Enforcement as Schneiderman Ignores Systemic Wall Street Fraud, Sues Trump University
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

• Why the US Economy Won’t Fully Recover
  by Yves Smith 12:23 am

• The US Wastes Enough Energy Each Year to Power the UK for Seven Years
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

August 26, 2013

• Links 8/26/13
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• Stephanie Kelton: The Good Society: Lessons Not (Yet) Learned
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• David Dayen: Productivity Rose 7.7% Post-Great Recession; Workers Have Seen None of It
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

• Fed’s Jackson Hole Participants to QE-Exit Whacked Emerging Economies: Drop Dead
  by Yves Smith 1:31 am

• How Milton Friedman’s NAIRU Has Increased Inequality, Damaging Innovation and Growth
  by Yves Smith 12:08 am

August 25, 2013

• Links 8/25/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare Staggers Toward the October 1 Finish Line
  by Lambert Strether 3:09 am

• Col. Morris Davis Interviewed about Manning Trial: “We talk about the war on terrorism, and it seems more like a war on information.”
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 24, 2013

• Links 8/24/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• “The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History”
  by Lambert Strether 3:34 am

• US Households Continue to Bleed
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 23, 2013

• Links 8/23/13
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• A Very Profitable Part Of Banking Goes Totally To Heck
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• What is Shadow Banking?
  by Yves Smith 2:01 am

• CFPB Examiners Find Mortgage Servicing Business Remains a Sewer
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

August 22, 2013

• NASDAQ Trading Halt Open Thread
  by Lambert Strether 2:10 pm

• Greg Gordon Speaks about Singing Every Day at The Wisconsin State Capitol for Solidarity Singalong (and Getting Arrested)
  by Jessica Ferrer 1:37 pm

• Links 8/22/13
  by Yves Smith 6:38 am

• The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Ilargi: The Darker Shades Of Shale
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

• Patrick Durusau: Groklaw Goes Dark
  by Yves Smith 5:21 am

August 21, 2013

• Links 8/21/13
  by Yves Smith 4:46 am

• Why Progressives Are Lame
  by Yves Smith 3:45 am

• What Paul Krugman Should Have Learned from James Tobin but Didn’t
  by Nathan Tankus 3:00 am

• Barbara Garson: How to Become a Part-Time Worker Without Really Trying
  by Yves Smith 2:14 am

• Bill Black: The Banksters Master Irony – Push Summers & Geithner for Fed Due to Their Regulatory Zeal
  by Yves Smith 1:38 am

August 20, 2013

• Links 8/20/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Mr. Market is Having Another Fit Over the Fed’s Taper
  by Yves Smith 5:11 am

• ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (6)
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Taking the Rhetorical Bias Out of Economists’ Discussions of Income Taxation and Public Spending
  by Yves Smith 4:26 am

• China Prepares to Bail Itself Out
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 19, 2013

• Links 8/19/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Bill McKibben: Movements Without Leaders
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am

• “We’re Building a Domestic Army” – Marine Corps Colonel Peter Martino Before Concord, NH Town Council
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

• Bill Black: Obama’s FBI Channels the Tea Party – Partner with the Banks and Blame the Poor for the Crisis
  by Yves Smith 2:35 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Looking Back on the Global, European and Greek (post-2008) Crises: Interview with D. Polymenopoulos
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 18, 2013

• Links 8/18/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Global Political Risk, ASEAN Part II: Palm Oil, Islam, and Insurgencies
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

• Dan Kervick: Krugman’s Flawed Model of Open Market Operations
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 17, 2013

• Links 8/17/13
  by Yves Smith 4:23 am

• Bill Black: The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI
  by Yves Smith 3:02 am

August 16, 2013

• Copyright Infringement Is Being Treated as Terrorism
  by George Washington 2:28 pm

• Links 8/16/13
  by Yves Smith 4:57 am

• A Disturbance in the Force?
  by Yves Smith 4:42 am

• Wolf Richter: Cisco CEO Reports Record Sales And “Lumpy” Demand, Just Like In November 2007, A Month Before Stocks Began To Crash
  by Yves Smith 2:54 am

• How the Pending Trans-Pacific Partnership and EU-US Trade Deals Will Gut National Regulations, Hurt Budgets, and Undermine Sovereignity
  by Yves Smith 12:30 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Three Tales of Greeks Coping With Breakdown
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

August 15, 2013

• Links 8/15/13
  by Yves Smith 6:34 am

• US Mortgage Lending is Tumbling
  by Yves Smith 4:52 am

• Bill Black: The FBI’s 2010 Mortgage Fraud Report Reveals Why the Banksters Love Holder
  by Yves Smith 3:16 am

• ObamaCare Rollout: Kaiser Explains to Poor People in Non-Medicaid Expansion States How to Game the System by Lying
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

• Fixing Old Markets With New Markets: the Origins and Practice of Neoliberalism
  by Nathan Tankus 1:37 am

August 14, 2013

• Links 8/14/13
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• The Real Foreclosure Scandal: Why Have Virtually No Lawyers Been Disbarred?
  by Yves Smith 6:56 am

• Bill Black: Rajan Calls Krugman “Paranoid” for Criticizing Reinhart’s and Rogoff’s Research
  by Yves Smith 3:23 am

• Why is Obama So Keen to Appoint Larry Summers to the Fed?
  by Yves Smith 2:54 am

• Whinging in Comments
  by Lambert Strether 2:07 am

August 13, 2013

• Links 8/13/13
  by Yves Smith 4:47 am

• Municipal Workers in Bankrupt Cities Facing Financial Nightmare
  by Yves Smith 4:08 am

• Quelle Surprise! Administration Lied About Mortgage Fraud Results, Numbers 4 to 10 Times Too High
  by Yves Smith 2:59 am

• Ilargi: London Is Fracking, And I Live By The River
  by Yves Smith 2:19 am

• Five Reasons Congress Should Be Deeply Ashamed About Jobs
  by Yves Smith 1:36 am

August 12, 2013

• Links 8/12/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Global Political Risk, ASEAN Part I: Water, Land, and the Question of the State
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• “Profitless” Stocks, Underinvestment, the Cannibalization of Labor, and Levitating Stock Prices
  by Yves Smith 3:51 am

• Monday DataDive: The MBA & LPS on Delinquent Mortgages & Foreclosure Inventories at Mid-Year; June’s Trade Deficit
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

• U.S. Energy Independence Doesn’t Mean a Thing
  by Yves Smith 12:22 am

August 11, 2013

• Links 8/11/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Opposition to ObamaCare Considered Rational on Grounds of Equity
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Michael Hudson: C is for Camouflage
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 10, 2013

• Links 8/10/12
  by Yves Smith 3:22 am

• Gaius Publius: IRS is Using NSA Data Too. Who in Town Isn’t?
  by Yves Smith 2:17 am

• Bill Moyers with Richard Wolff on Inequality, Wage Slavery, and Economic Justice
  by Yves Smith 1:47 am

August 9, 2013

• Links 8/9/13
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Are New York City “Feminist” Organizations Sock-Puppeting for Wall Street in Attacking Spitzer?
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Michael Klare: The Third Carbon Age – Drop the Fantasy of a Coming Era of Renewable Energy
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is “Off the Table”
  by Yves Smith 5:06 am

• Do You Trust the Police?
  by Yves Smith 4:07 am

August 8, 2013

• Links 8/8/13
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• So Why is the Administration Trying to Look a Smidge More Aggressive About Going After Banks?
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

• Calling All California Lawyers (and Others Who Want to Help Abused Homeowners)! Please Ask California Court of Appeal to Publish an Important Pro-Borrower Chain of Title Ruling
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Beware Private Equity Guys Bearing Gifts: Eminent Domain Mortgage Scam Hit with Well-Deserved Lawsuit
  by Yves Smith 2:12 am

• Obama’s Own Party Wages War on Energy Plans
  by Yves Smith 12:01 am

August 7, 2013

• Links 8/7/13
  by Yves Smith 4:27 am

• Stephanie Kelton: Reading Between the Lines – A Memo from Fed Chairman Marriner Eccles
  by Yves Smith 3:41 am

• A Killer App for Google Glass?
  by Yves Smith 3:09 am

• Lynn Parramore: Boomerang Babies – Record Numbers of Young Adults Live with Parents at Terrible Cost
  by Yves Smith 1:19 am

• Wolf Richter: NSA Pricked The “Cloud” Bubble For US Tech Companies
  by Yves Smith 12:04 am

August 6, 2013

• Links 8/6/13
  by Yves Smith 6:56 am

• More American Stasi: US Drug Agency Fabricates Cover Stories for Data Collection, Including from “Intelligence Intercepts”
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• How Police All Over the US Grab Cash, Cars, Even Homes from the Innocent
  by Yves Smith 5:36 am

• To End the Eurozone Crisis, Bury the Debt Forever
  by Yves Smith 3:41 am

• Austerity Claims Victory in Europe
  by Yves Smith 2:46 am

August 5, 2013

• Links 8/5/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• On the SEC’s Too Little, Too Late “Fabulous Fab” CDO Victory
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (5)
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Peter Van Buren: Bradley Manning, Surveillance State Creep, and the Emergence of Post-Constitutional America
  by Yves Smith 2:10 am

• Monday DataDive: Second Quarter GDP and Revisions, June Income and Outlays
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

August 4, 2013

• Links 8/4/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Global Political Risk: Surveying the GIPSI
  by Lambert Strether 5:00 am

• Rajiv Sethi: The Spider and the Fly
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 3, 2013

• Links 8/3/13
  by Yves Smith 3:27 am

• European Pundits Starting to Give Up on the Eurozone
  by Yves Smith 2:06 am

• The BLS Jobs Report Covering July 2013: Slow Build But In Poor Quality Jobs
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

August 2, 2013

• Links 8/2/13
  by Yves Smith 6:28 am

• Trader Describes How Dishonesty Pays in Finance, Big Time
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• Congressional Student Debt Deal Perpetuates Predatory Practices, Higher Education Cost Inflation
  by Yves Smith 4:03 am

• More Good News from Europe
  by Yves Smith 3:38 am

August 1, 2013

• Dan Kervick: The Fed is the Central Bank, and President Obama Should Treat It That Way
  by Yves Smith 1:13 pm

• Links 8/1/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Obama Starting to Lose It Over Snowden
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• Ilargi: Capitalism, A Norwegian Rat And Some Cockroaches
  by Yves Smith 4:10 am

• “The Media Just Won’t Report on This Crappy Economy,” Such As 80% of US Adults Near Poverty, GDP Funny Business
  by Yves Smith 2:44 am