Monthly Archives: September 2017

September 30, 2017

• Links 9/30/17
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Gaius Publius: The American Flag and What It Stands For
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

September 29, 2017

• CalPERS Doubles Down on Its Illegal Election, Makes “Absurd” Claim That It Is Above the Law
  by Yves Smith 3:52 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/29/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Employment in Europe and the US: Debunking the Story of EU Weakness and US Strength
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/29/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Tax Sausage Making Begins, But Will Republicans Be Happy With the Result?
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• CalPERS Can’t Even Figure Out How to Count Ballots in Accordance With Its Own Election Regulation, Let Alone Comply With California Law
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Schäuble Leaves but Schäuble-ism Lives On
  by Yves Smith 2:02 am

September 28, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/28/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Silicon Valley Rejects Shareholder Value Theory: Disrupting the IPO
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/28/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico?
  by Yves Smith 5:09 am

• Prosecution Futures? Multibillion Dollar Orders in Coinbase Trading Platform
  by Yves Smith 3:12 am

• Wall Street and City of London Getting Nervous About Catalonia
  by Yves Smith 12:12 am

September 27, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/27/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Health Care Debate: Sanders vs. Graham, Cassidy, and Klobuchar
  by Lambert Strether 1:57 pm

• Links 9/27/17
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Jared Bernstein Shows the Costs of Not Understanding Sovereign Currencies
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• The Climate Change Land Rush: When Will People Start Leaving Coastal Cities?
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

• Amazon’s Inhuman Customer Service Issues Death Sentence to Local Library Fundraising
  by Yves Smith 3:04 am

September 26, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/26/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Fast Fashion: Magical Shift in Consumption Patterns Will Save the Planet?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/26/17
  by Outis Philalithopoulos 6:55 am

• The Fed’s Unwinding
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

• EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
  by Yves Smith 4:24 am

• Gentrification
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

September 25, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/25/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• UN Calls for Crackdown on Illicit Wildlife Trafficking
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/25/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• CalPERS Board Candidate Margaret Brown Objects to Unconstitutional, Non-Secret, Insecure, Unauditable Election; Vendor Handling Phone and Internet Voting Criticized for Incompetence, Exaggerating Security of On-Line Voting
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Don Quijones: The Steep Price of Disaster in Mexico
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:15 am

• John Helmer: Washington Post Misses Manafort’s Real Crimes
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

September 24, 2017

• Occupy the SEC Calls Out Regulator’s Absurd Push to Neuter Volcker Rule
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/24/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Taxcast: Hurricanes, Disaster Capitalism, Bitcoin and Over-Reliance on Unhelpful Economic Measures
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 2:55 am

September 23, 2017

• Planet of Introverts
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Limited Art of Interpretation
  by Yves Smith 8:21 am

• Links 9/23/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

September 22, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/22/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Cybersecurity Ain’t the Only Game in Town: The Scams Multiply
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at US Border
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 7:25 am

• Links 9/22/17
  by Outis Philalithopoulos 6:55 am

• Don Quijones: It Gets Ugly in Catalonia
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• Gaius Publius: Obama Follows Clinton, Boards the Millionaire Speech Train to Wall Street
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 12:55 am

September 21, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/21/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Toys R Us: Another Private Equity Casualty
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/21/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Hack of SEC May Have Yielded Illicit Trading Gains
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• California Rewrites the GOP’s Climate Playbook
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

• Bill Black: Massachusetts First to Sue Equifax Over Massive Hack
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:25 am

September 20, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Insanely Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Our Prosperity
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/20/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Brexit Denialism: The Customs/Border Problem and the Curious Case of the Pallets
  by Yves Smith 6:03 am

• Out of Africa: Why the Migration Wave?
  by Yves Smith 4:18 am

• The Boring Story of the 2016 Election
  by Yves Smith 4:02 am

• Reminder: Kansas City Meetup This Friday, September 22
  by Yves Smith 12:18 am

September 19, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/19/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Sickness of American Healthcare
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/19/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Too Big To Fail Banks: “The Robotics Are Coming!” Really?
  by Clive 6:50 am

• Google Betting Big on Being Able to Overturn EU Antitrust Decision; Effectively Thumbs Its Nose at Compliance
  by Yves Smith 4:43 am

• Catalonia’s Defiance of Spanish Authority Turns into Rebellion
  by Yves Smith 1:22 am

September 18, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/18/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Medicare for All Act of 2017: The Policies
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 pm

• Links 9/18/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• When Wall Street Owns Main Street — Literally
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Climate Change Enabling US Military to Play Greatly Enlarged Domestic Role
  by Yves Smith 1:17 am

• CalPERS Illegally Trying to Hide Its Scheming to Hand Over Private Equity to BlackRock
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

September 17, 2017

• The Medicare for All Act of 2017: The Politics
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 9/17/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• California Has a System That Punishes the Poor Through Traffic Violations—Civil Rights Groups Are Starting to Change That
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 16, 2017

• Links 9/16/17
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Midlife Low in Human Beings
  by Yves Smith 4:26 am

• Rumors of Japan’s Imminent Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
  by Yves Smith 3:42 am

September 15, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/15/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Ripping up the Yellow Pages
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/15/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Corporate Contractors: The High End of the Precariat (Updated)
  by Yves Smith 6:02 am

• Wall Street Journal Reports on SoftBank Offer for Uber….Yet No Other Press Outlet is Picking the Story Up
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

• Confirming a Kansas City Meetup Next Friday, September 22
  by Yves Smith 12:51 am

September 14, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Who Is Behind FDA-Weakening Bill Based on False Premise That It Restricts Access to Experimental Drugs for the Terminally Ill?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/14/17
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Brexit Talks Stall, Making Hard Brexit Even More Likely
  by Yves Smith 6:26 am

• Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

• Disasters and Price Gouging
  by Yves Smith 12:50 am

September 13, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Is “Islamic Finance” Islamic?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• We Are Reopening Comments
  by Yves Smith 9:00 am

• Links 9/13/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Dow Jones Sent Mother of All Nastygrams to CalPERS Over Its Massive Copyright Infringement; New York Times Called It Outrageous, Brazen, Possibly Unprecedented
  by Yves Smith 3:02 am

• CalPERS Runs Unconstitutional, Tamper-Friendly Election With Non-Secret Ballots
  by Yves Smith 3:01 am

• North Korea: Are Sanctions Working?
  by Yves Smith 2:02 am

September 12, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• From Credit Risk to Pipeline Risk: Why Loan Syndication is a Risky Business
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/12/17
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• How US Regulators Created the Equifax Mess
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Bill Black: Is Politico or Third Way More Divorced from Reality?
  by Yves Smith 4:40 am

September 11, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/11/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Sarbanes-Oxley Internal Controls Provisions Forecast Accounting Fraud
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/11/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Have a Vested Interest in Not Listening to Workers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Wolf Richter: Worst US Consumer Data Hack Ever? Equifax Confesses
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

• High Tech Pork: The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

• Europe’s Globalists Tackle the Immigration Class War
  by Yves Smith 2:53 am

September 10, 2017

• Links 9/10/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Trump Nominates Seventh Round of Federal Judges
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Bill Black: Equifax Data Breach is a 10 out of 10 Scandal
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 am

September 9, 2017

• Links 9/9/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Trust, the UK PSC Register, and the Squiggle Family
  by Richard Smith 1:55 am

• Millions Consumed Potentially Unsafe Water in the Past 10 Years
  by Lambert Strether 12:25 am

September 8, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 9/8/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• CalPERS Goes for Secrecy Over Returns; Exploring Paying Additional Layer of Private Equity Fees by Outsourcing to BlackRock
  by Yves Smith 4:10 am

• Violence and the State: A Prelude
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 7, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/7/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Joy Reid’s Politics of Tribalism and “Punching Sideways”
  by Lambert Strether 1:25 pm

• Where Have All the Workers Gone: Opioids and US Labor Force Participation
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/7/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• North Korea: How Obama Regime Change Policy Created the Crisis Trump Has Inherited
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:25 am

• Hurricane Harvey’s Economic Impact
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 6, 2017

• Announcing First “NC in LA” Meetup
  by Yves Smith 5:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/6/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Hookworm Persists as US Public Health Problem
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/6/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Bad Things That Happen When Alternative Views Go Mainstream
  by Clive 3:55 am

• A Louisville Union Built Its Strength as Blacks, Whites Took on International Harvester
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

• Don Quijones: ECB Tightens Noose Around Bank Accounts
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 am

September 5, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/5/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yankees, Red Sox Hit Up Fans for Hurricane Harvey Relief, and Eschew Much By Way of Their Own Direct Donations
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 10:55 am

• Links 9/5/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Why Trump Opponents Should Be Thrilled That Many Political Appointments Remain Unfilled
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Big Business Dominates Brexit Negotiations
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• John Helmer: Canadian Foreign Minister Freeland Hid Light Under Bushel Until Toronto Globe & Mail Exposé
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 2:55 am

September 4, 2017

• Joy Reid’s Politics of Tribalism and the Democratic Party
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Links 9/4/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Global Banks Sabotage Uruguay’s Efforts to Legalize Marijuana
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 3, 2017

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Success and Failure in the Garden (2017)
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 9/3/17
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• What Hurricane Harvey Says About Risk, Climate, and Resilience
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 am

September 2, 2017

• India’s Demonetization: No Impact on Black Money Despite Huge Costs It Imposed
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/2/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Houston, South Asia Floods: Climate Change Is Creating A New Urban Crisis
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

September 1, 2017

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/1/2017
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Federal Judge Strikes Down Overtime Rule, Leaving Trump Labor Dept to Decide What Follows
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 9/1/17
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Looming Gas Shortage: “Imports Can’t Make Up For This”
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:15 am

• Flood Protection: The US Should Go Dutch to Avoid Building Another Houston
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:15 am