Monthly Archives: February 2014

February 28, 2014

• Hillary Clinton, Pre-2016, Gingerly Addresses ObamaCare Debacle, Supports “Evidence-Based” Changes
  by Lambert Strether 11:30 am

• Links 2/28/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:57 am

• Obama Administration May Open Up Atlantic to Seismic Testing
  by Yves Smith 3:06 am

• We Sue CalPERS Over Denial of Our Private Equity Public Records Act Request
  by Yves Smith 1:33 am

• Vermont Citizens Push to Form a State Bank, But Will Ratings Agencies Kill the Idea?
  by Yves Smith 12:17 am

February 27, 2014

• Links 2/27/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Don’t Try This at Home! Greek Austerity
  by Lambert Strether 5:10 am

• Wolf Richter: The Smart Money Quietly Abandons The Housing Market
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• Gaius Publius: Are Democrats who Propose Cuts to Social Security “Stupid” or Just Doing Risk-Analysis?
  by Yves Smith 4:10 am

• Political Connections in Turbulent Times
  by Lambert Strether 1:25 am

February 26, 2014

• Links 2/26/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Your Humble Blogger is the Probable Target of Penny-Ante Cyber Predation
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Philip Pilkington: James Galbraith’s ‘The Predator State’ – A Testament to Our Turbulent and Troubled Era
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• Jeff Madrick: Why the CBO Can’t Be Trusted
  by Yves Smith 3:23 am

• Quelle Surprise! Banks Are Opposed to More Liquid Markets When They Don’t Make Enough From Them
  by Yves Smith 1:15 am

February 25, 2014

• Links 2/25/14
  by Yves Smith 6:27 am

• Why So Little Media Coverage of How the Rich Are Becoming Richer and the Middle Class Wages are Being Squeezed?
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• Don Quijones: Corporate Colonialism – Winners and Losers of Global ‘Free’ Trade
  by Yves Smith 4:53 am

• Randy Wray: MMT and External Constraints
  by Yves Smith 4:40 am

• Hudson/Sommers: Western Media Predictably Minimizes Russia’s Sochi Accomplishments
  by Yves Smith 2:09 am

February 24, 2014

• Links 2/24/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Wage Shares Fall in the US, Germany and Many Other Countries While Financial Shocks Hit Emerging Economies
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

• Determined Ignorance on Climate Change: Still Impervious to Facts
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• What the Modern World Owes Slavery (It’s More Than Back Wages)
  by Yves Smith 4:40 am

• Philip Pilkington: Keynes’ Liquidity Preference Trumps Debt Deflation in 1931 and 2008
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

February 23, 2014

• Links 2/23/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Private Equity and the Crapification of Rental Housing: Questions from a Newbie
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• European Banks: Between a Rock (Need of More Capital) and a Hard Place (Low Profitability)
  by Lambert Strether 3:44 am

February 22, 2014

• Links 2/22/14
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Can the Internet Democratize Capitalism?
  by Yves Smith 2:13 am

• Will a $10 Minimum Wage Get All Working Americans Out of Poverty?
  by Yves Smith 1:25 am

February 21, 2014

• Links 2/21/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Matt Stoller: “Free Trade” Pacts Were Always About Weakening Nation-States to Promote Rule by Multinationals
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• New Mexico Supreme Court Issues Important Pro-Homeowner Ruling Based on Standing, State Home Loan Protection Act
  by Yves Smith 5:07 am

• Correcting the Poor: The Civilizing Impulses of Homo Corporatus and Private Charities
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• Positive Thinking is Bad for You
  by Yves Smith 12:17 am

February 20, 2014

• Links 2/20/14
  by Yves Smith 3:52 am

• Will the U.S. Follow the U.K. Into Power Shortages?
  by Yves Smith 3:01 am

• NC Reader Smacks Down Consumer Reports on Medicaid Clawback Advice
  by Yves Smith 2:29 am

• Undoing the Damage in Chile
  by Yves Smith 1:47 am

• Rental Income Falls 7.6% in Three Months in Blackstone’s First Home Lease Securitization
  by Yves Smith 1:03 am

February 19, 2014

• Links 2/19/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Stay Classy, Greg: Mankiw on What the Rich Deserve, and Why They Deserve It
  by Lambert Strether 6:52 am

• Wolf Richter: The Young Subprime Debt-Slave Generation
  by Yves Smith 4:18 am

• Open Borders: A Morality Play by the 1%
  by Yves Smith 3:50 am

• Yes, Virginia, You Pay Subsidies Not Just to Banks but to Flood-Prone Homes of the Rich
  by Yves Smith 2:31 am

February 18, 2014

• Links 2/18/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Continuing Saga of Naked Capitalism’s Web-Hosting Solutions: New Twists and a Solicitation
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Businesses Going Into “All Surveillance All the Time” Mode in Pursuit of More Productivity
  by Yves Smith 3:39 am

• Measuring Economic Progress
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

• Matt Stoller: Greta Krippner’s “Capitalizing on Crisis” Describes Real Origins of Financial Deregulation
  by Yves Smith 12:42 am

February 17, 2014

• Skunk Party and the Barriers to Entry to Effecting Social/Political Change
  by Yves Smith 9:18 am

• Links 2/17/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Consumer Reports Shills for ObamaCare, Pooh-Poohs Medicaid Clawbacks on Bizarre Assumption They’ll be Waived
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• The Rich Aren’t Rich Because They Work Harder. They Work Harder Because They’re Rich!
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Ireland, Europe, and the U.S. and the Financial Crooks: Interview with Michael Hudson
  by Yves Smith 2:40 am

February 16, 2014

• Links 2/16/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Elinor Ostrom on the Prisoner’s Dilemma (Which You Should Approach with a Hermeneutic of Suspicion)
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: BITCOIN: A Flawed Currency Blueprint with a Potentially Useful Application for the Eurozone
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

February 15, 2014

• Links 2/15/14
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Gaius Publius: Rising Inequality – Recovery Occurring Almost Exclusively Among the Wealthy
  by Yves Smith 6:09 am

• How To Make Higher Education Free Without New Taxes Or More Government Spending
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am

February 14, 2014

• Links 2/14/14
  by Yves Smith 7:01 am

• Focus on TBTF Banks Misses How Even More Powerful Private Equity Kingpins Are Moving More into Unregulated Parts of Banking
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• 20% of Obamacare Enrollees Failed to Make First Payment
  by Yves Smith 5:24 am

• Michael Klare: In the Carbon Wars, Big Oil Is Winning
  by Yves Smith 2:19 am

• Joe Firestone: Dear Dr. Krugman – Please Let Me Explain
  by Yves Smith 1:48 am

February 13, 2014

• Links 2/13/14
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• PBS Pimps Itself Out to Billionaire Who Campaigns Against Pensions for Gov’t Employees to Produce Scaremongering Series About Government Pensions
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• Money Makes People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian
  by Yves Smith 5:27 am

• Economics is Applied Morality
  by Yves Smith 3:34 am

• Obama Lame Duck Watch: Pelosi Puts Another Nail in Toxic Trade Deal Coffin, Says She Opposes Giving Administration “Fast Track” Authority
  by Yves Smith 1:56 am

February 12, 2014

• Links 2/12/14
  by Yves Smith 6:11 am

• Versailles Watch: John Mack Whines About How Badly Wall Street CEOs are Treated
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Pimco, Blackrock Mulling Suing Ocwen Over Abusive Servicing
  by Yves Smith 5:39 am

• Money and Elections in Washington: Pro Wrestling, but With More Respectable Clothes
  by Yves Smith 2:10 am

• Governments and Activists are Fighting the Corporate “Right” to Sue Governments
  by Yves Smith 12:49 am

February 11, 2014

• Links 2/11/14
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

• How Obamacare Raids the Assets of Low-Income Older Americans
  by Yves Smith 6:13 am

• The Debt Crisis in Puerto Rico: Why Is It Not More Newsworthy?
  by Yves Smith 5:04 am

• The Economics of the 1%: Neoliberal Lies About Government
  by Yves Smith 3:58 am

• Better Markets Sues Department of Justice and Eric Holder Over JP Morgan Settlement
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

February 10, 2014

• Links 2/10/14
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Whatever You Do, Don’t Pay Attention to the Rising Eurozone Stresses
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• James Surowiecki Promotes Myth of Consumer Empowerment in the Face of the Crapification of Almost Everything
  by Yves Smith 6:46 am

• Wolf Richter: Stinking Corporate Revenues, Desperately Doctored Earnings-Per-Share
  by Yves Smith 4:21 am

• Washington’s Military Aid to Israel: Fake Peace Process, Real War Process
  by Yves Smith 1:12 am

February 9, 2014

• Links 2/9/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare: “Per Beneficiary” Limits a Loophole Insurance Companies Can Drive a Truck Through?
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Job Polarisation and The Decline of Middle-Class Workers’ Wages
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

February 8, 2014

• Links 2/8/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The BLS Jobs Report Covering January 2014: Revisions and Seasonal Lows
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Twitter 2, JP Morgan, 0: Bythe Masters Withdraws After One Day Appointment as CFTC Advisor
  by Yves Smith 2:26 am

• The Embattled Climate Scientist Who Fought Back
  by Yves Smith 12:41 am

February 7, 2014

• Links 2/7/14
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• New York’s Benjamin Lawsky Rattling Banks With Currency, Servicing Probes
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• Wolf Richter: Cracks In The Tech Bubble (That Doesn’t Exist)
  by Yves Smith 2:44 am

• Can Democracy Help With Inequality?
  by Yves Smith 2:11 am

• As Drought Hits, Fracking Poses Threat to Water Supply
  by Yves Smith 1:55 am

February 6, 2014

• Links 2/6/14
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Jealous The New Republic Takes Potshot at The Onion for Being….Marxist!
  by Yves Smith 5:49 am

• Over 1 in 6 Men in Prime Working Years Don’t Have a Job
  by Yves Smith 5:44 am

• US Sours on its Own Secretive Trade Shocker
  by Yves Smith 4:51 am

• Philip Pilkington: Paul Krugman Pushes Factually Inaccurate Arguments About Argentina to Support Discredited Monetarist Ideas
  by Yves Smith 4:32 am

February 5, 2014

• Links 2/5/14
  by Yves Smith 6:48 am

• Martin Wolf Sounds Cautionary Note on Rise of Robots
  by Yves Smith 6:17 am

• The Supreme Position of the U.S. Dollar in New Financial Innovations and Instruments
  by Yves Smith 3:47 am

• Danger of Global Recession After 30 Years of Neoliberal Counterrevolution
  by Yves Smith 1:43 am

• Gaius Publius: Obama Got $20 Million from Healthcare Industry in 2008. Was Killing Single Payer Part of the Deal?
  by Yves Smith 1:26 am

February 4, 2014

• Links 2/4/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Wall Street Journal Exposes Entirely New Private Equity Tax Scam
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Bill Black: Jamie Dimon’s $10 Million Raise is a “Common Sense” Fraud Reward
  by Yves Smith 6:43 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Germany’s Choice: Authoritarianism or Hegemony? (*)
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

• Market Rout Continues, Proving Abject Failure of Fed’s Forecasts and Policies (Updated)
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

February 3, 2014

• Emerging Markets Contagion Starting to Hit Eurozone
  by Yves Smith 7:01 am

• Links 2/3/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Blogroll Amnesty Day!
  by Yves Smith 5:22 am

• Tom Engelhardt: Ending the World the Human Way – Climate Change as the Anti-News
  by Yves Smith 12:45 am

February 2, 2014

• Nate Heckmann: Peter Schiff is Wrong About Everything
  by Yves Smith 11:50 pm

• Links 2/2/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• How Many Kinds of Property are There? Two? Or Three?
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Ilargi: Risk Times Risk Equals Fear
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Don Quijones: New Model Of Governance in Bailout Europe: Silence, Lies, and Evasion
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 am

February 1, 2014

• Links 2/1/14
  by Yves Smith 4:42 am

• Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Advice to Plutocrat Perkins – Shut Up!
  by Yves Smith 2:24 am

• Wolf Richter: No Wonder German Workers Drag Down Retail Sales – And Much Of The Economy
  by Yves Smith 1:17 am

• Republican State Lawmakers’ Refusal to Expand Medicaid Will Result in Thousands of Deaths
  by Yves Smith 12:17 am