Monthly Archives: March 2014

March 31, 2014

• Links 3/31/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Was Marx Right?
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• Cokie Roberts Picked a Fight With Alan Grayson on the TransPacific Partnership. Guess Who Won?
  by Yves Smith 5:33 am

• Chris Whalen Goes Off the Deep End, Issues Error-Filled Screed in Defense of Mortgage Servicers
  by Yves Smith 1:29 am

• Gaius Publius: How Climate Change Could Cause an Ice Age in Europe
  by Lambert Strether 1:22 am

March 30, 2014

• Can Protests at the University of Southern Maine Be the Flashpoint That Reverses the Mallification of American Higher Education?
  by Lambert Strether 9:25 am

• Links 3/30/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Bengt-Ake Lundvall: The Portuguese Manifesto Sends a Message to Europe’s Elite That Austerity Has Failed and “Project Europe” Must be Rethought
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• Considering a Site Enhancement + NYC Meetup
  by Yves Smith 3:57 am

March 29, 2014

• Links 3/29/14
  by Yves Smith 5:26 am

• Michael Hudson on the Real Logic of the $14+ Billion Ukraine Rescue Package
  by Yves Smith 2:12 am

• Countries Rejecting Trade Deal Provisions that Let Investors Override National Regulation
  by Yves Smith 1:03 am

March 28, 2014

• Links 3/28/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Los Angeles Public Pension Fund Tells Us It Is a Happy, Trusting Victim of Investment Managers
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• China Rumored to be Shutting Down Bitcoin Sites; Why IRS Ruling that Bitcoin is Property is Fatal to Its Use in Commerce in the US
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am

• Philip Pilkington: How Krugman’s Addiction to the ISLM Model Has Led to Repeated Bad Forecasts
  by Yves Smith 3:05 am

• A U.S.-Saudi Move to Lower Oil Prices to Hurt Russia?
  by Yves Smith 1:48 am

March 27, 2014

• How Banks Fleece Heirs on Reverse Mortgages
  by Yves Smith 12:51 pm

• Links 3/27/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Wolf Richter: German Industry Goes To See Uncle Putin
  by Yves Smith 6:16 am

• Joe Firestone: Inequality – Envy or Honest Outrage?
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

• The Government Hack Trying to Squash Discussion of Government Corruption – Cass Sunstein – Doesn’t Understand BASIC Math Or Law
  by George Washington 3:19 am

• Is a Second Euro Crisis Possible?
  by Yves Smith 2:32 am

March 26, 2014

• CalPERS’ Private Equity Scandals and the Steptoe & Johnson Report Whitewash
  by Yves Smith 11:40 am

• Links 3/26/14
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

• Invasion of the Data Snatchers, Big Data and the Internet of Things Means the Surveillance of Everything
  by Yves Smith 3:57 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Think Big, Think Bold – A Green New Deal
  by Yves Smith 3:33 am

• As Predicted, IRS Deems Bitcoin to be Property, Limiting Its Usefulness in Commercial Transactions
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

March 25, 2014

• Links 3/25/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• ObamaCare Discriminates Against Poor People with Cancer (and Obama’s Lying Again)
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Has Anglo-American Capitalism Run Out of Strategies?
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

• The SEC Finally Takes an Interest in Collateralized Loan Obligations
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

• Delaware Chief Justice to Shareholders: Drop Dead
  by Yves Smith 12:03 am

March 24, 2014

• Joe Firestone: Progressives Need to Up Their Game Against Social Security’s Enemies
  by Yves Smith 9:54 am

• Links 3/24/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Patrick Durusau: Bipartisan Proposal to Eliminate Indexes for the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

• These Charts Show What is Wrong With American Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 2:43 am

• Google, Apple, and Other Tech Titans’ Wage-Suppression Conspiracy Estimated to Cover One Million Workers
  by Yves Smith 12:47 am

March 23, 2014

• Links 3/23/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Who In Ukraine Will Benefit From An IMF Bailout?
  by Yves Smith 3:52 am

• US University Science: The Shopping Mall Model
  by Lambert Strether 3:15 am

March 22, 2014

• Links 3/22/14
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• How Do the Powerful Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More? Lessons from the… Laboratory
  by Yves Smith 5:10 am

• Democracy Now Discusses Wells Fargo Foreclosure Document Fabrication Manual
  by Yves Smith 3:13 am

• Journalist Schools BBC on Russian Intervention in Crimea
  by Yves Smith 2:49 am

March 21, 2014

• Links 3/21/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Prominent Retiree Chides CalPERS for Repeating Conduct that Led to Past Private Equity Scandals
  by Yves Smith 6:21 am

• A New Wall Street Looting Scheme: Disaster Savings Accounts
  by Yves Smith 5:09 am

• Murdoch’s Other Hacking Scandal: A Review of “Murdoch’s Pirates” by Neil Chenoweth
  by Richard Smith 4:00 am

• Rent in a Warming World
  by Yves Smith 3:31 am

March 20, 2014

• Links 3/20/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Whistleblower Reveals Favoritism Toward the Rich, Robo-Signing at the IRS
  by David Dayen 6:45 am

• Cathy O’Neil: Optimizing for Einstein and Other Homo-Erotic Theories
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Mathew D. Rose: Hello European Deflation! Good-bye Periphery!
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

• Joe Firestone: Progressives Re-Arrange the Deck Chairs for Obama’s Austerity Budget
  by Yves Smith 1:17 am

March 19, 2014

• Links 3/19/14
  by David Dayen 3:30 am

• Just 83,000 Homeowners Get First-Lien Principal Reductions from National Mortgage Settlement, 90 Percent Less Than Promised
  by David Dayen 2:30 am

• New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Governments
  by David Dayen 1:45 am

• Philip Pilkington: Thinking Makes It So – The IMF Bailout of the UK in 1976 and the Rise of Monetarism
  by David Dayen 1:00 am

March 18, 2014

• CalPERS Sends Data With Errors in Response to Our Lawsuit, Pointing to Problems in Record-Keeping
  by Yves Smith 12:24 pm

• Links 3/18/14
  by David Dayen 4:15 am

• Lawsuit Against California’s Robbing Homeowners of National Mortgage Settlement Funds Has Very Good Chance of Success
  by David Dayen 3:30 am

• Russia Eyes Crimea’s Oil and Gas Reserves
  by David Dayen 2:30 am

• Why the Justice Department Inspector General Report on Mortgage Fraud Matters
  by David Dayen 2:00 am

• Banker Farce: Spanish Bank CEO Launches Moral Crusade Against Political Corruption
  by David Dayen 1:45 am

March 17, 2014

• Links 3/17/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Neo-liberalism Expressed as Simple Rules
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Seeking Reader Input on the Outlook for the Economy
  by Yves Smith 4:33 am

• Bill Black: The Most Dishonest Number in the World: LIBOR
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 am

• Jeffrey Sommers/Michael Hudson: Russia, Crimea and the Consequences of NATO Policy
  by Yves Smith 2:04 am

March 16, 2014

• Links 3/16/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The TPP Tries to Put a “No Exit” Sign on America’s Crapified Health Care System by Allowing Medical Procedures to be Patented World-wide
  by Lambert Strether 6:52 am

• Whither the Green Economy?
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

• Please Come to Our Washington, DC Meetup This Tuesday, March 18
  by Yves Smith 2:54 am

• More on Our Terrible Experience with Yoast SEO Review: Yoast Tries to Escalate (Updated)
  by Yves Smith 2:53 am

March 15, 2014

• Links 3/15/14: Ides of March
  by Yves Smith 6:56 am

• Wolf Richter: Kremlin – If The US Tries To Hurt Russia’s Economy, Russia Will Target The Dollar
  by Yves Smith 6:47 am

• Trying Some Modest Fixes on Comment Moderation
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Tony Benn – In Memoriam
  by Yves Smith 3:43 am

• Do Not Hire SEO Firm Yoast: Our Terrible Experience With Yoast SEO Review
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

March 14, 2014

• Links 3/14/14
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Columbia Tosses Out Star Faculty Researchers for Failing to Pay 80% of Their Own Way
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Obama Peddles Big Lie to Youth Demographic of “Between Two Ferns” — That ObamaCare Coverage Costs Less Than a Cellphone Bill
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 am

• Philip Pilkington: Bank of England Endorses Post-Keynesian Endogenous Money Theory
  by Yves Smith 2:12 am

March 13, 2014

• Links 3/13/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Is UCC Article 9 Going to Kill the Use of Bitcoin by US Businesses?
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• New Lawsuit Alleges That Wells Has a Manual for Mass Fabrication of Foreclosure Documents
  by Yves Smith 1:41 am

• Has CalPERS’ General Counsel Lied to Its Board About Our Suit?
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

• Bill Black at TED Explains How Insiders Rob Banks and Cause Crises
  by Yves Smith 12:10 am

March 12, 2014

• Links 3/12/14
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• Don Quijones: Round Two Of The Global Financial Sector’s Takeover Of Spain
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

• New In-Depth Study Shows How Debt Collectors Abuse Legal System and Borrowers
  by Yves Smith 5:36 am

• Bill Black Slams New York Times for Wink and Nod Endorsement of Criminal Conduct
  by Yves Smith 2:47 am

• Washington Does Not Have a Natural Gas Weapon Against Moscow
  by Yves Smith 1:29 am

March 11, 2014

• Links 3/11/14
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Trans-Pacific Partnership Reveals Deadly Cost of American Patents
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• Gaius Publius: Neoliberalism, “Just Desserts,” and the Post-Climate-Crisis Economy
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• 17 Million Reasons Rent Control is Efficient
  by Yves Smith 2:30 am

March 10, 2014

• Bitcoin is Not a Currency
  by Yves Smith 9:50 am

• Links 3/10/14
  by Yves Smith 5:41 am

• Ilargi: Big Oil and Gas Wars
  by Yves Smith 4:10 am

• Even the Chinese Can Tell the TransPacific Partnership is Unlikely to Get Done
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

• Philip Pilkington: Keynes and Loanable Funds
  by Yves Smith 12:54 am

March 9, 2014

• The Jobs Report Covering February 2014: Seasonal Signs of Life But Nowhere Near Full Employment
  by Lambert Strether 8:55 pm

• You Are Probably Gonna Be Mad at Me, But….
  by Yves Smith 9:00 am

• Links 3/9/14
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Ukraine – Three Awkward Questions for Western Liberals and a Comment on the EU’s Role
  by Yves Smith 3:22 am

• Joe Firestone: No, Virginia, the Austerity Era Is Not Over
  by Yves Smith 3:02 am

March 8, 2014

• DC Meetup on March 18?
  by Yves Smith 10:24 am

• Links 3/8/14
  by Yves Smith 6:28 am

• Bill Moyers and Ian Haney Lopez Discuss the Use of the Race Card in Politics
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

• Matt Stoller: Big Oil Hooked Americans on Credit Cards
  by Yves Smith 5:49 am

March 7, 2014

• When “Job Creators” Create Lousy Jobs
  by Yves Smith 7:26 am

• Links 3/7/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Chinese Bond Default Rattles Markets; Harbinger of More Credit Woes?
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• J.D. Alt: Forget the 1%
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

• Neoliberalism Dressing-Down: Australian Senator Ludlam on Prime Minister Tony Abbott
  by Yves Smith 2:25 am

March 6, 2014

• Links 3/6/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Tax Havens Make US and Europe Look Poorer than They Are, Exaggerate Size of “Global Imbalances”
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

• Reuters Writes About Our Suit Against CalPERS to Obtain Private Equity Data
  by Yves Smith 4:59 am

• Is Japan Playing Ball with the US on the TransPacific Partnership?
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

• Wolf Richter: Aid For The Ukraine “Will Be Stolen” – Former Ukrainian Minister Of Economy
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

March 5, 2014

• Links 3/5/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Randy Wray: When Will They Ever Learn – Uncle Sam is not Robin Hood
  by Yves Smith 6:13 am

• JP Morgan/Madoff Case Puts Spotlight on Use of Lawyers as Investigation-Blockers
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Ilargi: The Hubris Circus
  by Yves Smith 3:50 am

• Steve Keen: Godzilla Banks are Good for You?
  by Yves Smith 12:43 am

March 4, 2014

• Links 3/4/14
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Yes, Virginia, Banking Contributes a Lot Less Value Than You are Led to Believe
  by Yves Smith 5:18 am

• Matt Stoller: The Hippie Peaceniks Behind Corporate Global Trade Agreements
  by Yves Smith 4:44 am

• Philip Pilkington: Could a Russian Intervention in the Ukraine Burst the London Property Market?
  by Yves Smith 1:42 am

• What Good Are Children?
  by Yves Smith 12:49 am

March 3, 2014

• Links 3/3/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• What, Exactly, Is “Kicking Off Everywhere,” Whether in Venezuela, the Ukraine, or Thailand?
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Private Equity Industry Floats Trial Balloon For “Get Out of Decades of Flagrant SEC Abuses for Free” Card
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Hudson/Sommers: Ukraine: “Go West, Young Man” (or Dr. Strangelove’s Revenge)
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 am

• Teach For America’s Unspoken Alliance with the One Percent
  by Yves Smith 1:44 am

March 2, 2014

• Links 3/2/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• How Solid are the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers? (With an Addendum)
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: What You Should Know About Greece’s Present State of Affairs – An Update
  by Lambert Strether 4:05 am

March 1, 2014

• Are ObamaCare’s “Retroactive Advance Payments” for Buying Private Policies in States with Failed Exchanges Even Legal?
  by Lambert Strether 8:25 am

• Links 3/1/14
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Dan Kervick: Public Debt, Public Assets and Public Capacity
  by Lambert Strether 2:01 am