Monthly Archives: September 2013

September 30, 2013

• Fall Colors, Climate Change, and Planetary Governance
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 am

• Links 9/30/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Obama, ObamaCare, and Health Care as a Right
  by Lambert Strether 5:40 am

• The Emerging Left in the “Emerging” World: More Threads
  by Lambert Strether 12:13 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: What Merkel’s Third Term Means for Europe
  by Yves Smith 12:06 am

September 29, 2013

• Links 9/29/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare’s Shameful and Lethal Three-Year History — and Future
  by Lambert Strether 5:09 am

• Where unethical corporate culture comes from
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

September 28, 2013

• Links 9/28/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Anat Admati: The Failure of Financial Regulation
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

September 27, 2013

• The Regressive Politics of Quantitative Easing
  by Lambert Strether 10:48 pm

• Links 9/27/13
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

• So Why is Dimon Getting to Plead His Case for JP Morgan (and Maybe Himself) Directly with Holder?
  by Yves Smith 4:57 am

• Taibbi on How Wall Street is Looting Public Pension Funds
  by Yves Smith 4:51 am

• Tom Engelhardt: Bragging Rights – Eight Exceptional(ly dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
  by Yves Smith 1:09 am

• The Incredible Shrinking Internet
  by Yves Smith 12:52 am

September 26, 2013

• Links 9/26/13
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• The Fat Lady Has Yet to Sing for Dimon and JP Morgan
  by Yves Smith 5:49 am

• ObamaCare Staggers Toward the October 1 Finish Line (6)
  by Lambert Strether 5:15 am

• Gaius Publius: Climate Crisis: Why We’re on Track for 7°C Warming or Greater by 2100
  by Yves Smith 12:42 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: No Signal – An Intimate, Personal History of ERT
  by Yves Smith 12:14 am

September 25, 2013

• Links 9/25/13
  by Yves Smith 6:44 am

• Robert Reich, Inequality’s Intellectual Fraudster
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Ilargi: From Tragedy To Travesty – Selling Off The Cradle Of Democracy
  by Yves Smith 2:39 am

• Was Money Created to Overcome Barter?
  by Yves Smith 12:57 am

• Mathew D. Rose: Good News for Merkel is Not Necessarily Good News for Europe
  by Yves Smith 12:10 am

September 24, 2013

• Links 9/24/13
  by Yves Smith 7:01 am

• Quelle Surprise! More Proof that the FCIC was a Whitewash, Thanks to Angelides and Born
  by Yves Smith 6:31 am

• Why You Should Not Trust the Financials of Private Equity Owned Companies
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Will the Fed Ever Taper?
  by Yves Smith 4:26 am

• Rajiv Sethi: Information, Beliefs, and Trading
  by Yves Smith 3:07 am

September 23, 2013

• China’s Ultimate Debt Holders—Not the Borrowers
  by Yves Smith 2:40 pm

• Links 9/23/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Joe Firestone: Stop the Kabuki: It’s About “the Great Betrayal”
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• How Private Equity Executives Like Blackstone’s Tony James Engage in Dubious Side Deals
  by Yves Smith 1:26 am

• OWS’s Rolling Jubilee Has Yet to Explain What They’ve Done With $590,000 Despite Promises of “Full Transparency”
  by Yves Smith 1:26 am

September 22, 2013

• Links 9/22/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Permaculture Blitz with the Micmacs up in the County
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Income, Poverty, and Healthcare 2012: The Patient Did Not Get Worse But Remains Seriously Ill
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 21, 2013

• Links 9/21/13
  by Yves Smith 4:12 am

• Why Louis CK Hates Cell Phones
  by Yves Smith 3:14 am

• Robert Prasch: The “Lessons” that Wall Street, Treasury, and the White House Need You to Believe About the Lehman Collapse
  by Yves Smith 2:43 am

• How to Put a Stop to Sweatshop Abuse
  by Yves Smith 2:27 am

September 20, 2013

• Budget Brinksmanship is Baaack!
  by Yves Smith 8:02 am

• Links 9/20/13
  by Yves Smith 6:56 am

• Senator Diane Feinstein’s Husband Selling Post Offices to Cronies on the Cheap
  by Yves Smith 6:27 am

• When Too Much Housing is Bad for Our Health
  by Yves Smith 4:39 am

• Beating Swords Into Solar Panels
  by Yves Smith 2:29 am

September 19, 2013

• TD Bank: “We Don’t Have to Obey the Law” on Check Processing
  by Yves Smith 7:57 am

• Why Didn’t OWS Transform Into a Political Movement?
  by Yves Smith 7:27 am

• Links 9/19/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• The Emerging Left in the “Emerging” World: Seven Common Threads
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Satyajit Das: The Suzerainty of Central Bankers
  by Yves Smith 4:53 am

September 18, 2013

• Matryoshka Doll, Private Equity Edition
  by Yves Smith 7:12 pm

• Links 9/18/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Why You Should Not Be Enthusiastic About Janet Yellen as Fed Chairman
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• All Eyes on the Fed Taper
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Pending JP Morgan Settlement on Whale Trades Leaves Criminal Investigation Open
  by Yves Smith 3:23 am

• Wolf Richter: Why IBM Throws Another Billion At Linux (With NSA-Designed Backdoor)
  by Yves Smith 2:30 am

September 17, 2013

• NYPD Undercover Spying Unit Revealed As Extensive, Far-Reaching
  by Yves Smith 11:15 am

• Links 9/17/13
  by Yves Smith 5:43 am

• Treasury Department’s Disingenuous Answers to Elizabeth Warren on Dodd Frank, Too Big to Fail
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• Third World Watch: Deadly Brain Amoeba Found in US Tap Water
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

• Bill Black: Higher Bank Capital Requirements are Necessary but not Sufficient to Prevent the Next Crisis
  by Yves Smith 12:11 am

September 16, 2013

• What the Orgy of “Lehman Five Years On” Stories Missed
  by Yves Smith 11:34 am

• Links 9/16/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare Staggers Toward the October 1 Finish Line (5)
  by Lambert Strether 5:15 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Why Asymmetrical Monetary Unions Are Bound to Fail
  by Yves Smith 12:23 am

September 15, 2013

• Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead, Summers Withdraws Name from Fed Chair Race (Updated)
  by Yves Smith 4:52 pm

• Links 9/15/13
  by Yves Smith 2:23 am

• Do the Democrats Really Want to Bear the Blame for a Crash that Wall Street Will Cause?
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 14, 2013

• Can Politics Make a Stone That’s Too Heavy to Lift?
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 9/14/13
  by Yves Smith 2:49 am

• James Galbraith, Neil Barofsky, and John Coffee Discuss Lessons from Lehman Meltdown
  by Yves Smith 2:39 am

• The G20 St. Petersburg Summit: Bubbles, Casinos, and Inactivity
  by Yves Smith 12:50 am

September 13, 2013

• Links 9/13/13
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• Obama’s Exceptionally Weird Speech on Syria
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Why You Should Learn to Love the Brave New World of Low Liquidity
  by Yves Smith 2:40 am

• Egypt for Sale
  by Yves Smith 1:09 am

September 12, 2013

• RJ Eskow: 11 Questions to Ask Libertarians to See if They Are Hypocrites
  by Yves Smith 7:20 pm

• Links 9/12/13
  by Yves Smith 4:01 am

• Harvard Business School’s Bizarre Rich Kids Problem
  by Yves Smith 2:53 am

• Wolf Richter: Housing Bubble In Full Bloom, Zany Price Increases, And Now A Sudden Slowdown
  by Yves Smith 1:15 am

• Bill Black: SEC Flacks Paint Lehman’s Looters as the Victims of a “Political” SEC
  by Yves Smith 12:09 am

September 11, 2013

• Money as a Hierarchical System: Legal and Economic Perspectives
  by Nathan Tankus 9:37 pm

• Links 9/11/13
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

• Larry Summers versus Dodd Frank
  by Nathan Tankus 3:50 am

• Ilargi: No Vigilantes Or Vultures Need Apply
  by Yves Smith 2:08 am

• Why Does John Kerry Still Have a Job?
  by Yves Smith 1:54 am

• Michael Klare: DoE Forecasts No Meaningful Change in Fossil Fuel Use by 2040
  by Yves Smith 12:26 am

September 10, 2013

• Help Kickstart World War III!
  by Yves Smith 12:14 pm

• Links 9/10/13
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Gaius Publius: Are We Having “Bank Deregulation” Crises or “Unrestricted Capital Flow” Crises?
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Obama Blinks on Syria. Who Won and Lost?
  by Yves Smith 12:35 am

September 9, 2013

• Bill Black: Not with a Bang but a Whimper – the SEC Enforcement Team’s Propaganda Campaign
  by Yves Smith 11:45 pm

• The Cat is Now Out!
  by Yves Smith 3:07 pm

• Obama Face-Saving Solution on Syria Emerging (Updated)
  by Yves Smith 12:31 pm

• Links 9/9/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare Staggers Toward the October 1 Finish Line (4)
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Andrew Bacevich: The Hill to the Rescue on Syria? Don’t Hold Your Breath
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

• Michael Hoexter: The Only Way Forward: A Pedal-to-the-Metal Plan for Energy System Transformation — (Pt. 3 of 3)
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 8, 2013

• Why I Should Never Go on Vacation
  by Yves Smith 7:15 pm

• Links 9/8/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare Staggers Toward the October 1 Finish Line (3)
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Michael Hoexter: The Only Way Forward: A Pedal-to-the-Metal Plan for Energy System Transformation — (Pt. 2 of 3)
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 7, 2013

• Links 9/7/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The BLS Jobs Report Covering August 2013: School, Crappy Jobs, and Earnings Gains All at the Top End
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 6, 2013

• Michael Hoexter: The Only Way Forward: A Pedal-to-the-Metal Plan for Energy System Transformation – (Pt. 1 of 3)
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 9/6/13
  by David Dayen 5:00 am

• David Dayen: BofA/Merrill Lynch Analyst Says QE and Housing Policy Boosting Inequality
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• Wolf Richter – Bonds Bleed: Largest Bubble In History Unwinds, But The “Great Rotation” Into Stocks Is Deceptive Wall Street Hype
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• Thinking Like Coase, Not an Economist
  by David Dayen 2:30 am

• David Dayen: Character Attack on Spitzer Veiling Wall Street-Led Establishment Assault on His Comptroller Candidacy
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

September 5, 2013

• Links 9/5/13
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• David Dayen: Jack Lew Shows His True Colors By Forcing Deregulation of Derivatives on the CFTC
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• As Austerity Lifts, So Does Europe
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

• Obama on the Verge of Being Handed a Major Defeat on Syria
  by Yves Smith 12:27 am

• Lynn Parramore: Seven Reasons to Fight Obama on Picking Out-of-Touch Crony Capitalist Larry Summers as Fed Chair
  by Yves Smith 12:11 am

September 4, 2013

• Dear Landlord: Please Heed These Words That I Speak
  by Lambert Strether 10:55 am

• Links 9/4/13
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• David Dayen: Student Loan Servicers, Like Mortgage Servicers, Failing to Inform Borrowers of Cheaper Payment Modifications
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• Bill Black: The New York Times is Wowed that Obama’s Six Rubinites Support Larry Summers
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Was Chancellor Merkel right (about Greece)?
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

September 3, 2013

• Links 9/3/13
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• Internalization of the Death of the American Dream: A Maine Microcosm
  by Yves Smith 3:04 am

• David Dayen: Arm-Twisting Season in Washington Before Syria Strike Vote
  by David Dayen 3:00 am

• Cathy O’Neil: Short Your Kids, Go Long Your Neighbor: Betting on People Is Coming Soon
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

• Stoneleigh: Promises, Promises … Detroit, Pensions, Bondholders And Super-Priority Derivatives
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

September 2, 2013

• Links 9/2/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• My Favorite Job
  by Lambert Strether 3:32 am

• Pavlina Tcherneva: The Long Battle For A Living Wage Goes On
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

September 1, 2013

• Links 9/1/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Nous pouvons cultiver nos jardins
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Joe Firestone: Declaring the Grand Bargain Dead Is Premature
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am