Monthly Archives: September 2018

September 30, 2018

• Avoiding Sepsis Death Traps: Nursing Homes and Hospitals
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 9/30/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Wolf Richter: The Rental Markets in America, from Hot to Cold
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

September 29, 2018

• Links 9/29/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Steve Keen: How Economics Became a Cult
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Measuring Unfair Inequality
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

September 28, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/28/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• A Rational Backlash Against Globalization
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/28/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare: Injection Wells Damage Production Wells, Rising Disposal Costs Will Increase Industry Losses
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

• SEC Sues Elon Musk for Fraud, Seek to Bar Him Permanently from Executive, Board Role in a Public Company
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• Why Dodd-Frank Is a Protection Racket for Banks
  by Yves Smith 5:05 am

September 27, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/27/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The US-Mexico Trade Deal Dies
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Adam Ashton of the Sacramento Bee Publicizes This Blog (and CalPERS’ Frustration With It)
  by Yves Smith 9:27 am

• Links 9/27/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Bank of International Settlement’s Claudio Borio, Who Warned About the Crisis, Says the World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick
  by Yves Smith 6:19 am

• Something Russia and EU Appear to Agree on – the Euro
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

September 26, 2018

• California Treasurer John Chiang Calls for an Independent Investigation of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Hiring Misrepresentations
  by Yves Smith 7:08 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/26/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• CalPERS’ CEO Marcie Frost’s History of Embellishment and Poor Management Goes Back to Washington
  by Yves Smith 9:30 am

• Link 9/26/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Joseph Stiglitz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Social and Economic Justice
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

• Hard-Brexit Lobbyists Demand UK Roll-Back Environmental Standards to Strike Free Trade Deals with India, China and US
  by Yves Smith 5:38 am

• Trump Escalates Tensions With China Through Taiwan Weapons Deal
  by Yves Smith 4:58 am

September 25, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/25/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Workers Overdose On The Job, And Employers Struggle To Respond
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/25/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• How the Crisis Caused a Pension Train Wreck
  by Yves Smith 5:03 am

• Widely-Reported Study on Uber, Lyft Driver Economics Misses Fundamental Deterioration
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

• IPCC Manipulating Climate Report Summary to Favor Wealthy Nations
  by Yves Smith 12:01 am

September 24, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/24/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• First Set of High Seas Treaty Negotiations Concludes in New York
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 9/24/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Don Quijones: Multiple Online Banking Systems Go Down in the UK
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:25 am

September 23, 2018

• How CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Efforts to Organize Astroturf Support Are Compromising Her
  by Yves Smith 6:08 pm

• Does the U.S. Have the Ingredients to Win a Trade War?
  by Yves Smith 6:00 pm

• SEC Enforcement Wanes on Trump’s Watch
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 9/23/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: It Is Outrageous That the US Is Supporting a Genocidal War in Yemen
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

September 22, 2018

• Links 9/22/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Women’s Anticipation of the Employment Effects of Motherhood: Evidence and Implications
  by Yves Smith 6:43 am

September 21, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/21/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Why the Public Debt Should Be Treated as an Asset
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/21/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Crash Out Brexit Virtually Guaranteed as EU Leaders Talk Tough to Theresa May, Reject Chequers Plan, and Give Her October Deadline
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Post Crisis Measures Have Failed to Tame Derivatives Risks
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

• Why the “Green New Deal” Is a Headfake
  by Yves Smith 3:26 am

September 20, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• On Brexit, UK Negotiators Have Adopted a Hard Bargaining Strategy
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/20/18
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Michael Hudson: 10 Years Since Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy – Did the Economy Really Recover?
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• Here’s Why Setting a Maximum Wage for CEOs Would be Good for Everyone
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• How Climate Change Is Increasing Global Hunger
  by Yves Smith 2:23 am

September 19, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/19/2018
  by Lambert Strether 3:40 pm

• Los Angeles Times’ Mike Hiltzik Says CalPERS Needs to Come Clean About CEO Frost’s Educational Claims
  by Yves Smith 9:42 am

• Senators Unveil Legislation To Protect Patients Against Surprise Medical Bills
  by Yves Smith 9:20 am

• Links 9/19/18
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Marcie Frost‘s Poor Job as CalPERS CEO – “The Place is Being Run Like a High School, Not a Business,” IT and Operational Failings
  by Yves Smith 5:08 am

• Beating the Tax Gap
  by Yves Smith 5:07 am

• Florence is the Worst Flood in East Coast History. Here’s How Locals Describe It.
  by Yves Smith 4:06 am

September 18, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/18/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Chevron Arbitration Ruling Against Ecuador ‘Completely Off Base’
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/18/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: The Lehman 10th Anniversary Spin as a Teachable Moment
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• J.D. Alt: Paying for Hurricanes
  by Yves Smith 2:52 am

• Gaius Publius: Brett Kavanaugh’s #MeToo Moment — Questions Raised As His Accuser Comes Forward
  by Yves Smith 1:49 am

September 17, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Anticipatory Unease: A Visit to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
  by Lambert Strether 10:55 am

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

• CalPERS’ PR Strategy on CEO Marcie Frost’s Resume Lies Backfiring
  by Yves Smith 5:14 am

• The Long History of Loneliness In the West
  by Yves Smith 4:48 am

• Why Central Banks Should Not Be Inflation Nutters
  by Yves Smith 4:17 am

September 16, 2018

• Futuristic Nostalgia: Maine’s Two-Footer Railroads
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Links 9/16/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis
  by Yves Smith 12:54 am

September 15, 2018

• Links 9/15/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Double Whammy: Implicit Subsidies and the Great Financial Crisis
  by Yves Smith 3:41 am

• Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933-1940
  by Yves Smith 3:12 am

September 14, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:03 pm

• Victorian Central Banks and the Myth of Independence
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/14/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Brexit: Circling the Drain?
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

• Census Bureau Reveals Grim Facts about Real Earnings of Men
  by Yves Smith 2:26 am

• Gaius Publius: Democrats Should Release All “Committee Confidential” Kavanaugh Documents Now
  by Yves Smith 12:57 am

September 13, 2018

• Former CalPERS Board Designee Calls for Board to Terminate CEO Marcie Frost for Resume Fabrications and Ongoing Lies
  by Yves Smith 5:22 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Revolving Doors and Regulatory Capture
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/13/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Marcie Frost’s Poor Job as CalPERS CEO – Gutting the Audit Function
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• Marcie Frost‘s Poor Job as CalPERS CEO – Incompetence in Human Resources, One of Her Supposed Areas of Expertise
  by Yves Smith 5:36 am

• The Economy Under Trump: Business Optimism Combined with Inequality
  by Yves Smith 4:08 am

September 12, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Michael Olenick: Debunking Yet Another Misleading Gun Study
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/12/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• State AGs to Step Up Enforcement Against Tech Companies?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Why Positive Thinking Won’t Get You Out of Poverty
  by Yves Smith 3:56 am

• Shall We Kill the Hay Exports or the Cows?
  by Yves Smith 1:30 am

September 11, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/11/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• If You Read This Book, It’ll Make You a Radical: A Conversation with Thomas Frank
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/11/18
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Olenick: Digging Into Data on the Student Loan Scam
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

• Fighting Opioid and Painkiller Addiction
  by Yves Smith 3:05 am

• Gaius Publius: Big Oil Seeks Billions from U.S. Government to Protect It From…Climate Change
  by Yves Smith 12:47 am

September 10, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/10/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• UK Consumers Sour on Plastic Packaging
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:25 am

• Former Official Criticizes CalPERS Board Member Richard Costigan’s Defense of CEO Marcie Frost’s Lies
  by Yves Smith 9:50 am

• Links 9/10/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
  by Yves Smith 6:39 am

• Don Quijones: Credit-Cardholders & Bank Customers Burned Again as New IT Chaos Breaks Out in the UK
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Holding the Line on Torture
  by Yves Smith 1:48 am

September 9, 2018

• Why Is CalPERS Aggressively Promoting Internet Voting Despite Experts Like the National Institute of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Saying “Hell No”?
  by Yves Smith 2:10 pm

• Links 9/9/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Prisoners Strike Across America & Canada to End Penal Enslavement
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:25 am

September 8, 2018

• Dengue on My Mind: Spending on ‘Diseases of Poverty’ Not Enough to Create Effective Vaccines
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/8/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Marshall Auerback: Central Bankers as ‘Dealers of Last Resort’
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

September 7, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/7/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Financial Times’ FundFire Unambiguously Confirms Our Reporting of Misrepresentations by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost
  by Yves Smith 1:59 pm

• Plastic Watch: First Ocean Cleanup Array to Launch Tomorrow
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/7/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Divided Psyche of Privilege
  by Outis Philalithopoulos 6:10 am

• How Supreme Court Pick Brett Kavanaugh Could Return US Policy to the Era of Robber Barons
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• More Evidence that Private Equity Funds Fail as Investment: No Outperformance v. Stocks, Higher Volatility
  by Yves Smith 12:51 am

• Democrats Can Block the Kavanaugh Nomination If They Want To
  by Yves Smith 12:42 am

September 6, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/6/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Waste Watch: Burberry Pledges to Stop Burning Unsold Goods
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

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

• Before Privilege: Cats, Spaghetti, and Ice Cream
  by Outis Philalithopoulos 6:00 am

• Revisiting Privatization’s Claims
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• As Musk Goes Nuts Publicly, Tesla Bondholders Get Antsy
  by Yves Smith 1:58 am

September 5, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/5/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• A Texas Lawsuit Being Heard This Week Could Mean Life Or Death For The ACA
  by Yves Smith 1:03 pm

• Links 9/5/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Victory of Privilege
  by Outis Philalithopoulos 6:00 am

• Nick Turse: The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Witch Hunts in the Western World, Past and Present
  by Yves Smith 12:11 am

September 4, 2018

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/4/2018
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Second Circuit Narrows Reach of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 9/4/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Fear and Loathing — Mostly Loathing — with Chris Hedges at the Harvard Club
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Trans Mountain Pipeline a Serious Misstep for Trudeau
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Why We Should Worry About Monopsony
  by Yves Smith 12:11 am

September 3, 2018

• Reminder for Portland (Maine) Meetup This Thursday with Lambert and Yves
  by Yves Smith 12:27 pm

• UN to Launch Talks on Treaty to Regulate High Seas
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/3/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Don Quijones: No Other Banks Are This Exposed to Turkey, Argentina, Brazil…. Emerging Markets Haunt Spanish Banks
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 2:55 am

September 2, 2018

• India: Demonetization Debacle
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 10:55 am

• Links 9/2/18
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• If Vanuatu Can Ban Single-Use Plastics, So Can the Other Commonwealth Countries
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

September 1, 2018

• The Mills of Providence Were Ground Up Slowly
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 9/1/18
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Trump’s NAFTA Deal Simply Can’t Solve America’s Manufacturing Problems
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 am