Monthly Archives: January 2014

January 31, 2014

• Links 1/31/14
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Ignacio Portes: How the Left Underestimates Chile’s Right-Wing Keynesians
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Former IMF Chief Economist, Now India’s Central Bank Governor Rajan Takes Shot at Bernanke’s Destabilizing Policies
  by Yves Smith 6:18 am

• Philip Pilkington: Abstraction, Language and Modelling in Economics
  by Yves Smith 4:01 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: War Spikes in the Eve Online Universe – A Political Economist’s Account
  by Yves Smith 1:32 am

January 30, 2014

• Links 1/30/14
  by Yves Smith 3:33 am

• George Mangus Warns of Broad Impact of Emerging Markets Turbulence
  by Yves Smith 2:57 am

• What Jobs Will Robots Take?
  by Yves Smith 2:14 am

• Mirabile Dictu! Reid Tells Off Obama on Fast Track, Killing Toxic Trade Deals for 2014
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

January 29, 2014

• Mr. Market is Getting Frazzled Over the Fed’s Neglect of Its Pet Wishes
  by Yves Smith 4:13 pm

• Links 1/29/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• How Tom Perkins Transgressed the Unwritten Law
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• The Real State of the Union
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

• Mirabile Dictu! Post Office Bank Concept Gets Big Boost
  by Yves Smith 2:15 am

January 28, 2014

• The Empire’s New Asian Clothes – America’s Strategic Rebalance As Covert Retreat
  by Yves Smith 9:00 pm

• Links 1/28/14
  by Yves Smith 4:28 am

• The Emerging Markets Rout Abates….for Now
  by Yves Smith 3:59 am

• Quelle Surprise! Bond Investors Notice that Servicers Let Houses Fall Apart
  by Yves Smith 2:18 am

• Will China Stop Taper?
  by Yves Smith 1:11 am

• Steve Keen: Bye Bye, Bernanke
  by Yves Smith 12:02 am

January 27, 2014

• Links 1/27/14
  by Yves Smith 3:11 am

• Are the Davos Men Getting a Bit Nervous?
  by Yves Smith 1:40 am

• Congressmen Call for Hearings on Risks of Rental Securtizations
  by Yves Smith 12:38 am

• Global Dollar-Based Financial Fragility in the 2000s (Part I)
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

• Gar Alperovitz on Mondragon and the Potential of Worker Owned Co-ops Economy
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

January 26, 2014

• Links 1/26/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Emerging Markets Rout: Blip, Correction, or Party Like It’s 1997?
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Joe Firestone: The “New Populists” Need To Understand This One Thing
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 am

January 25, 2014

• Links 1/25/14
  by Yves Smith 3:00 am

• Ann Pettifor on Combatting the Despotic Power of Finance
  by Yves Smith 2:44 am

• Another Obama Corporate Gimmie: Broadens Corporate R&D Tax Credits
  by Yves Smith 1:06 am

• Michael Hudson: The Insider’s Economics Dictionary – N is for Neo-Serfdom, O for Offshore Banking
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

January 24, 2014

• Links 1/24/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why George Lucas, Eric Schmidt, (and yes, Steve Jobs) Should Go to Jail: Conspiring to Reduce Wages of 100,000 Tech Pros
  by Yves Smith 5:38 am

• Bill Black: Dimon Does Davos, and His Board Gives Him a Raise
  by Yves Smith 4:41 am

• The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
  by Yves Smith 2:13 am

• Michael Hudson: The Insider’s Economics Dictionary – L is for Land, M is for Marginalism
  by Yves Smith 1:12 am

January 23, 2014

• Links 1/23/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• China Credit Worries Rise as Large Shadow Banking Default Looms
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

• Philip Pilkington: Behavioral Economics as Victorian Moralizing
  by Yves Smith 3:17 am

• Wolf Richter: Housing Bubble 2.0 Hits Messy Resistance In California
  by Yves Smith 1:30 am

• How Bitcoin Plays Into the Hands of Central Bankers and Will Facilitate the Use of Negative Interest Rates
  by Yves Smith 12:44 am

January 22, 2014

• Links 1/22/14
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• Michael Olenick: “Conversation with the Receptionists” – An Obamacare Skit
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• Why Germans Should Stop Mowing Their Own Lawn
  by Yves Smith 2:45 am

• Patronage Plowing and Class Warfare
  by Yves Smith 1:57 am

• Minimum Wages: The Effects on Employment and Labour-Force Turnover
  by Yves Smith 1:45 am

January 21, 2014

• Links 1/21/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Claire’s Stores: Private Equity Broker-Dealer Violations in Action
  by Yves Smith 5:57 am

• Philip Pillkington: Libertarian Paternalism is Clearly an Oxymoron
  by Yves Smith 3:43 am

• Alain Damasio on the NSA: “701,000 Hours in Custody”
  by Yves Smith 2:48 am

• Gaius Publius: `Wall Street & the Security Apparatus Want a Real SOB… Chris Christie`
  by Yves Smith 12:37 am

January 20, 2014

• Links 1/20/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Avoiding Simplistic Narratives About the Political Crisis in Thailand
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Japan to US: You Can’t Railroad the Trans-Pacific Partnership
  by Yves Smith 6:26 am

• Obama’s NSA Speech: Review Without Review, Reform Without Reform
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

• The Robots are Coming for White Collar Jobs
  by Yves Smith 1:14 am

January 19, 2014

• Links 1/19/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Blogs like Naked Capitalism Depend on Net Neutrality, So ISPs Should Be Common Carriers (or Their Pipes Turned Into Public Utilities)
  by Lambert Strether 6:52 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Sick Predators: How a Dying Regime Preyed Upon Women with HIV, Invested in Wholesale Racism, and Endangered Public Health
  by Lambert Strether 1:25 am

January 18, 2014

• Links 1/18/14
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• James Galbraith on the Predator State, Government Solvency
  by Yves Smith 2:37 am

• Obamacare Enrollments Show Low Uptake by Uninsured, Hoisting Insurers on Their Own Petard
  by Yves Smith 12:03 am

January 17, 2014

• Links 1/17/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Gail Tverberg: How the EIA, IEA, and Other Researchers Are Modeling the Wrong Growth Limit
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Your Humble Blogger Speaks on BBC Radio About Why Bankers Make So Much Money
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Wolf Richter: The Next Tire To Drop On The US Economy
  by Yves Smith 1:46 am

• Debunking the Idea that “Structural Reforms” Reduce Unemployment
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

January 16, 2014

• LInks 1/16/14
  by Yves Smith 6:47 am

• Wikileaks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Environment Chapter: “Toothless Public Relations Exercise”
  by Yves Smith 6:11 am

• On Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Against Using Credit Scores in Employment Screening
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• Why is the CDC Trying to Block an Accurate Lyme Disease Test?
  by Yves Smith 2:15 am

• Are Fracking Fluids to Blame for Rail Car Explosions?
  by Yves Smith 2:10 am

January 15, 2014

• Links 1/15/14
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Are Banks About to Win on Commodities Trading After Their Success in Watering Down Basel III Capital Rules?
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• Banks May Have Scored Hollow Victory on Volcker Rule/TRuPS CDO Compromise
  by Yves Smith 4:33 am

• Has the Developed World Hit “Peak Car Use”?
  by Yves Smith 1:14 am

• Why Paul Krugman is Wrong to Push Medicaid as the Remedy to Health Care Costs
  by Lambert Strether 12:05 am

January 14, 2014

• Links 1/14/14
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• In Echo of Runup to Crisis, Bond Investors Reaching for Yield
  by Yves Smith 6:19 am

• Wolf Richter: How the Fed’s “Wealth Effect” Quack Medicine Hurts Renters and With Them, Consumption
  by Yves Smith 4:23 am

• Philip Pilkington: A Short Note on a Connection Between Marginalist Economics and Folk Medicine
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

• How Big Money Keeps Populism at Bay
  by Yves Smith 12:46 am

January 13, 2014

• Links 1/13/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Target, Neiman Marcus Credit Card Hacking Reveals Third-World US Payment Systems
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

• Your Humble Blogger Speaks on RT: “Banks Are Still Getting Away With a Lot”
  by Yves Smith 4:34 am

• Marshall Auerback: When is a Bubble a Bubble?
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

• Can Chile Reform the Neoliberal Model?
  by Yves Smith 12:25 am

January 12, 2014

• Links 1/12/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Chris Hedges and William Binney on NSA Policy
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Randy Wray: The Greatest Myth Propagated About The FED: Central Bank Independence (Part 3)
  by Lambert Strether 2:13 am

January 11, 2014

• Links 1/11/14
  by Yves Smith 5:31 am

• Randy Wray: The Greatest Myth Propagated About The FED: Central Bank Independence (Part 2)
  by Yves Smith 4:33 am

• The BLS Report Covering December 2013: A Bad Report
  by Lambert Strether 4:16 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Greek Finance Minister Reveals Advanced Case of Stockholm Syndrome
  by Yves Smith 3:18 am

January 10, 2014

• Links 1/10/14
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

• Servaas Storm: Secular Stagnation, Green Shoots or What?
  by Yves Smith 5:27 am

• Obama Lame Duck Watch: House Democrats Stymieing Trade Deal “Fast Track;” Silicon Valley Surveillance Payoff Language Published
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• Randy Wray: The Greatest Myth Propagated About The FED – Central Bank Independence (Part 1)
  by Yves Smith 2:55 am

• Michael Klare: Have the Obits for Peak Oil Come Too Soon?
  by Yves Smith 12:55 am

January 9, 2014

• Links 1/9/14
  by David Dayen 6:59 am

• How Serious is China’s Shadow Banking/Wealth Management Products Problem?
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Wolf Richter: “This Chart Is A True Representation Of The Employment Crisis In This Country”
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• Chris Mayer: How Fiat Money Works
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

• David Dayen: Elizabeth Warren, Tom Coburn Introduce “Naked Capitalism Was Right About the Corruption of Financial Regulators Act” (Not Actually Called That)
  by David Dayen 1:00 am

January 8, 2014

• Frigid Weather Puts Homeless at Risk
  by Yves Smith 9:32 am

• Links 1/8/14
  by Yves Smith 4:57 am

• Foreclosures by Homeowners’ Associations Rising as Their Financial Condition Worsens
  by Yves Smith 3:39 am

• Diagrams and Dollars: Modern Money Illustrated (Part 1)
  by Yves Smith 12:30 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Why Reinhart and Rogoff are Wrong About the Eurozone’s Debt Structure and the Costs of Debt Mutualisation
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

January 7, 2014

• Bob Goodwin: Mainstream Medicine Capture of Wikipedia
  by Yves Smith 8:42 am

• Links 1/7/14
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• The Three Card Monte of Generational Warfare
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• Death By A Thousand Cuts: The Silent Assassination Of European Democracy
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

• Gambling for Resurrection in Iceland
  by Yves Smith 2:47 am

January 6, 2014

• Links 1/6/14
  by Yves Smith 7:00 am

• Administration Peddling Increasing Blatant Canards on Proposed “Trade” Deals
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• The Misdirected Outrage Over The Wolf of Wall Street
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Seven Economic Views on Christmas Presents
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• Satyajit Das: Strategy – The Idea of an Idea of an Idea
  by Yves Smith 12:13 am

January 5, 2014

• Links 1/5/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Transcript: Jacob Appelbaum at 30c3: To Protect And Infect, The Militarization of the Internet
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

• Ilargi: Debt Rattle Jan 3 2014 – Dr. Doom Is On Xanax
  by Lambert Strether 1:05 am

• Reminder: NYC Meetup This Wednesday, January 8, 6:00 PM. Be There!
  by Yves Smith 12:02 am

January 4, 2014

• Links 1/4/14
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Michael Sandel: The Moral Limits of Markets
  by Yves Smith 12:32 am

• Bill Moyers Talks with Thomas Cahill About the People’s Pope
  by Yves Smith 12:26 am

January 3, 2014

• Links 1/3/14
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

• Simon Johnson Reminds Us That the Banks’ Quiet Coup is Still Very Much in Place
  by Yves Smith 6:28 am

• Quelle Surprise! New Report Shows How Outsourcing State and Local Government Services is About Looting
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• Wolf Richter: Fizzing Optimism For Wild Financial Engineering In 2014
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

• How Beer Explains 20 Years of NAFTA’s Devastating Effects on Mexico
  by Yves Smith 2:28 am

January 2, 2014

• Links 1/2/14
  by Yves Smith 6:09 am

• The Student DebtCropper System: Even the Destitute Hounded by Debt Collectors
  by Yves Smith 5:32 am

• Should Taxpayers Subsidize Insuring Homeowners Against Climate-Change-Induced Flood Damage?
  by Yves Smith 4:36 am

• Ilargi: Everything Better Is Purchased At The Price Of Something Worse
  by Yves Smith 2:40 am

• NYC Meetup Next Wednesday 1/8 with Lambert
  by Yves Smith 1:27 am

January 1, 2014

• Links New Year’s Day 2014
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Naked Capitalism Top Ten 2013 Posts, Two Ways
  by Lambert Strether 12:48 am

• Bill Black: They’re Back: The Poltergeists in the Kansas Senate Renew their Attack on Education
  by Lambert Strether 12:18 am