Monthly Archives: November 2013

November 30, 2013

• Links 11/30/13
  by Yves Smith 2:28 am

• Michael Hudson: Oligarchs Will Never Cancel Debts We Owe Them
  by Yves Smith 12:53 am

• Governments Will Struggle to Control Bitcoin
  by Yves Smith 12:43 am

November 29, 2013

• Links 11/29/13
  by Yves Smith 1:15 am

• Olivier Blanchard: Monetary Policy Will Never Be the Same
  by Yves Smith 12:23 am

• U.S. Student Homelessness Up 10% Since Last Year
  by Yves Smith 12:11 am

November 28, 2013

• Links Thanksgiving 2013
  by Yves Smith 3:56 am

• Wolf Richter: How Much Is My Private Data Worth? (Google Just Offered Me $$)
  by Yves Smith 1:18 am

• Michael Hoexter: Loathsome Wall Street Deficit Hysterics: ‘Blame the Old and Sick, Not Us’ – Part 2
  by Yves Smith 12:29 am

November 27, 2013

• Links 11/27/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Krugman, on ObamaCare, Gets the Wrong Worm
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• John Coffee on the SEC’s Bogus Enforcement Math
  by Yves Smith 2:03 am

• Michael Hoexter: Loathsome Wall Street Deficit Hysterics: ‘Blame the Old and Sick, Not Us’ – Part 1
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

• How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme — Again
  by Yves Smith 12:48 am

November 26, 2013

• Links 11/26/13
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• Identity Politics and the Stoking of Generational Warfare
  by Yves Smith 5:31 am

• Am I the Only One Who Thinks It’s Weird to Use Alcoholism as a Marketing Tool to Sell Health Insurance?
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Mario Seccareccia: Larry Summers, Secular Stagnation, and the Crisis of the New Consensus Model
  by Yves Smith 3:16 am

• Speculation About Whether the Fed Manipulates the Stock Market Becoming More Mainstream
  by Yves Smith 1:13 am

November 25, 2013

• Links 11/25/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Wolf Richter: French Megabank – “Germany Should Leave The Eurozone”
  by Yves Smith 1:19 am

• Bob Goodwin: Why Code is Law
  by Yves Smith 1:06 am

• How a British Carbon Credit Pusher Got a Listing on a Danish Stock Exchange, Brokered by a New Zealand Financial Company Run by an Australian Residing in Switzerland
  by Richard Smith 12:04 am

November 24, 2013

• Pettis: When Are Markets “Rational”?
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 11/24/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Fantasy Stocks for a Fantasy Market
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Bill Moyers with Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics (and Debate!)
  by Lambert Strether 2:41 am

November 23, 2013

• Links 11/23/12
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

• Why Should Banks be the Only Ones with Accounts at the Fed?
  by Yves Smith 1:19 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: The Emerald Isle Remains in Chains
  by Yves Smith 12:04 am

November 22, 2013

• Links 11/22/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare, TINA, Medical Ethics, and the Health Care Economist
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Growing Out of Corruption
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

• Bob Goodwin: What Can Be Done About the Software Engineering Crisis?
  by Yves Smith 12:49 am

November 21, 2013

• The Skunk Party Manifesto
  by Yves Smith 7:12 pm

• Links 11/21/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Bob Goodwin: Software Engineering in Crisis – Healthcare.gov is Just the Dead Canary
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

• Ilargi: QE, The People And The Damage Done
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

• “What Then Must We Do?” Gar Alperovitz at The New Economy Summit
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Everything I was Afraid to Ask about Bitcoin but Did
  by Lambert Strether 12:58 am

November 20, 2013

• Links 11/20/12
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• Wolf Richter: Use Bitcoin As A Currency, Get Wiped Out (The Government Likes It That Way)
  by Yves Smith 2:48 am

• Jackie Calmes’ “Dirty Secret” About the Opponents of Austerity is That They are Correct
  by Yves Smith 2:23 am

• Michael Olenick: Obamacare Pits the 50% Against the 49%
  by Yves Smith 1:35 am

• CNI (UK) and its Lawyers Complain to Blogs, But Appear to Shy Away From the Daily Mail
  by Richard Smith 12:04 am

November 19, 2013

• Links 11/19/13
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Another Lurking Obamacare Problem: Balance Billing
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• Managing Bureaucrats
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Welfare Queen Walmart Has Thanksgiving Food Drive for its Own Needy Employees
  by Yves Smith 3:16 am

• Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the Price of One’s Journalistic Soul
  by Yves Smith 2:50 am

• What Nobody Seems to Understand About Bitcoin
  by Yves Smith 1:04 am

November 18, 2013

• Link 11/18/13
  by Yves Smith 7:00 am

• Catalan Politician Does Unthinkable, Threatens Spain’s Creditors
  by Yves Smith 6:43 am

• Michael Klare: A Climate Change-Fueled Revolution?
  by Yves Smith 5:47 am

• Krugman, Following Summers, Endorses Asset Bubbles
  by Yves Smith 5:33 am

• David Dayen: IRS Confirms that $12 Billion in “Mortgage Relief” in National Mortgage Settlement Completely Worthless
  by David Dayen 12:00 am

November 17, 2013

• Links 11/17/13
  by Yves Smith 4:01 am

• Chronicles of a European Winter: “There is a Difference Between Saying Greeks Should Live With Less and Saying Greeks Should Live With Nothing”
  by Yves Smith 3:56 am

• Please Check Out the Latest Version of Our Redesign!
  by Yves Smith 1:06 am

November 16, 2013

• Links 11/16/13
  by Yves Smith 4:41 am

• CFTC’s Bart Chilton Takes it to the (Position) Limits One More Time
  by Yves Smith 3:50 am

• The Wall Street Code: HFT Whisteblower Haim Bodek on Algorithmic Trading
  by Yves Smith 3:27 am

November 15, 2013

• Links 11/15/13
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• Ilargi: Deflation, A Stock Market Crash And Then Christmas
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

• Wolf Richter: NSA Spying Crushes US Tech Companies in Emerging Markets (“An Industry Phenomenon,” Says Cisco’s Chambers)
  by Yves Smith 2:46 am

• Michael Pettis: Forget the Plenum
  by Yves Smith 2:09 am

• Bill Black:The Department of Justice’s Willful Blindness to the Willful Blindness of CEOs (Steve Cohen Edition)
  by Yves Smith 12:21 am

November 14, 2013

• Links 11/14/13
  by Yves Smith 7:00 am

• Wikileaks Disclosure of Trade Deal Chapter Shows It Will Kill People and Internet; House Opposition is Widespread
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• ObamaCare Rollout: Administration PR Tactics and the First Release of Enrollment Numbers
  by Lambert Strether 4:26 am

• Judge Rakoff Blasts Breuer, Prosecution of Companies Rather than Individuals in Bar Speech
  by Yves Smith 3:34 am

• Gemmax Solutions’ Belated Admission About Carbon Credits Bought by Retail Clients of Gemmax’s Brokers
  by Richard Smith 2:30 am

November 13, 2013

• House Pushing Back on Trade Deal; More Detail on How Secret Arbitration Panels Undermine Laws and Regulations
  by Yves Smith 7:37 am

• Links 11/13/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• IEA: Shale Boom is Only Temporary, We’ll Soon be Relying on the Middle East Again
  by Yves Smith 4:29 am

• Tom Engelhardt: Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence
  by Yves Smith 3:58 am

• Randy Wray: What If China Dumps US Treasury Bonds? Paul Krugman Inches Toward MMT
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

• Paul Seakens of Gemmax Solutions Limited Takes an Idiotic Pop at “Naked Capitalism” and “redd-monitor”
  by Richard Smith 2:00 am

November 12, 2013

• Links 11/12/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Michael Olenick: Comprehensive Review of ObamaCare Plans Reveals Not Only High Cost for Atrocious Coverage, but Also Apparent Violations of ACA Requirements
  by Yves Smith 6:03 am

• David Dayen: FHFA Will Secure Up to $28 Billion From Banks in Its MBS Lawsuit
  by David Dayen 4:00 am

• Egypt Marches to a Saudi Drummer
  by Yves Smith 3:46 am

• Wolf Richter: The Day The Bubble Became Official, And Everyone Was Happy (Except Twitter Casualties)
  by Yves Smith 2:57 am

November 11, 2013

• Healthcare.gov Enrollments to Date a Pathetic < 50,000
  by Yves Smith 4:46 pm

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

• The ObamaCare Rollout, Organizational Dysfunction, and Public Relations in the Administration
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Surely the Lotus F1 Team Isn’t Just Slinking Quietly Away From Its Embarrassing Team Partner, AGT?
  by Richard Smith 2:00 am

• Adam Hochschild: Veterans Day, 95 Years On: The Enduring Folly of the Battle of the Somme
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

• Richard Alford: On Grading the Bernanke Fed
  by Yves Smith 1:27 am

November 10, 2013

• Links 11/10/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The TPP, if Passed, Spells the End of Popular Sovereignty for The United States
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Shadow Banking and the Global Financial Ecosystem
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 am

November 9, 2013

• Links 11/9/13
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Ponzi Austerity – A Definition and an Example
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

• Is Google Assisting the NSA in Developing Psychological Profiles of Web Users?
  by Yves Smith 1:42 am

• The BLS Jobs Report Covering October 2013: Effects of the Shutdown Mostly Hidden But Still Large
  by Lambert Strether 12:31 am

November 8, 2013

• Links 11/8/13
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Student Debt is Crushing the Economic Future of the Young
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• Philip Pilkington: What Happened to Science and Research Funding?
  by Yves Smith 3:22 am

• Gaius Publius: Japanese Mafia Feared in Charge of Fukushima Cleanup
  by Yves Smith 3:19 am

• The UK Insolvency Service’s Oddly-Timed Carbon Scams Press Release Highlights Its Own Slow Response
  by Richard Smith 3:00 am

November 7, 2013

• Links 11/7/13
  by Yves Smith 5:35 am

• Michael Olenick: Obamacare Will Lead Me Either to Get Divorced or Leave the US
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

• Newcastle United FC, Bloodhound SSC, Glitz, Glam and Police Raids: a Last Look at the Remarkable Double Life of Carbon Neutral Investments Limited (CNI)
  by Richard Smith 3:08 am

• Obama Wants to Cut Social Security
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

• Ilargi: Sometimes Humor Is The Best Way To Tell A Tragic Story
  by Yves Smith 1:50 am

November 6, 2013

• Links 11/6/13
  by Yves Smith 6:38 am

• Your Humble Blogger Discusses the Pending Trade Deals and JP Morgan on Le Show!
  by Yves Smith 4:58 am

• Has QE Stimulated Credit?
  by Yves Smith 4:29 am

• Bob Dreyfuss: American Death Spiral in the Middle East
  by Yves Smith 2:32 am

• The Lotus Formula 1 Team, Its Embarrassing Partner, Advanced Global Trading of Dubai, and Carbon Neutral Investments
  by Richard Smith 2:00 am

November 5, 2013

• Links 11/5/13
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• Obamacare Bogus Numbers: Why Results Touted in West Virginia as Sign of Success Are Either Wrong or a Proof of Failure
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Bill Black: The U.S. Attorney Who Prosecutes JP Morgan Will Be Its First Witness
  by Yves Smith 4:07 am

• Mathew D. Rose: Germany’s Potential “Grand Coalition” – Bad for Germany and Europe
  by Yves Smith 2:39 am

• Why is Google Censoring Search Results to Nix Warnings Just Like Ones Issued by a UK Regulator?
  by Richard Smith 1:32 am

November 4, 2013

• Links 11/4/13
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Gaius Publius: The Rich – “A Class of People for Whom Humans are Disposable”
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

• Wolf Richter: Nobel Peace Prize, Asylum For Snowden – Germans Turn Up Heat
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Jamie Dimon, the Lance Armstrong of Finance
  by Yves Smith 3:13 am

• McLaren F1 & Jenson Button One Minute, Boiler Room Scams the Next: the Remarkable Double Life of Carbon Neutral Investments, Limited, (CNI)
  by Richard Smith 2:00 am

November 3, 2013

• Links 11/3/13
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Seeking Reader Comments on Latest Draft of Redesign
  by Yves Smith 3:49 am

• The Global Corporatocracy is Almost Fully Operational
  by Yves Smith 1:13 am

November 2, 2013

• Links 11/2/13
  by Yves Smith 5:03 am

• Your Humble Blogger and Dean Baker Speak with Bill Moyers About the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Budget Brinkmanship
  by Yves Smith 3:29 am

• Regulators Opening New Major Front With Banks on Foreign Exchange Trading Probe
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

November 1, 2013

• NSA Whistleblower: Government Failed to Stop Boston Bombing Because It Was Overwhelmed with Data from Mass Surveillance On Americans
  by George Washington 9:16 pm

• Robin Hood Tax: How Reformers Sabotage Themselves with Terrible Branding
  by Yves Smith 9:13 am

• Links 11/1/13
  by Yves Smith 7:05 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: The US Treasury is Right About Germany’s Eurozone Policies: Here is Why
  by Yves Smith 6:42 am

• US Infrastructure Spending Plunges
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am

• Carbon Neutral Investments’ Trail of Disaster: How Carbon Credit Con Artists use Google Adwords to Work the Recovery Scam
  by Richard Smith 2:00 am