Author Archives: Yves Smith
John Helmer: Four MH17 Questions – The Answers to Which Prove the Dutch Police, Ukrainian Secret Service, and US Government Are Faking the Evidence of the MH17 Shootdown
A skeptical look at the latest MH17 findings.
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf Tries to Brazen Out Fraud as Congressmen Call Wells a “Criminal Enterprise,” Demand Breakup
Stumpf has another deservedly bad day in the Congressional hot seat.
Read more...CalPERS General Counsel Matt Jacobs Lies to Board, and Staff Abuses Authority, to Stymie Public Input
Why general counsel Matt Jacobs’ record of misrepresentations, omissions, and slipshod advice makes him a danger to CalPERS.
Read more...Fade OPEC
Is the OPEC production cut set to be finalized at the end of November the real deal?
Read more...Battling Apple and the Giants
The larger implications of the fight between Apple and the European Competition Commission over Apple’s sweet Irish tax deal.
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf, Head of Community Bank Hit With Multi-Million in Clawbacks: Labor Department Opens
Wells Fargo’s board acts against CEO John Stumpf right before a House hearing. Is this to blunt the interrogation or to save his hide?
Read more...Wolf Richter: “Negative Growth” of Real Wages is Normal for Much of the Workforce, and Getting Worse – New York Fed
The Fed ‘s creative euphemisms for how real wages are sinking for many won’t keep threats like Trump at bay.
Read more...Why a Banking Crisis in China Seems Unavoidable
Another alarm about the danger that China’s rapid increase in private debt poses to its banks.
Read more...The Nobel Prize in Economics: How It Took a Hard Neoliberal Turn
How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...Links 9/27/16
Law Firm for Private Equity Fund Managers Points Out That California “Transparency” Bill AB 2833 is a Big Fail
Yet more evidence that AB 2833, a supposed private equity reform bill sponsored by California Treasurer John Chiang, was a cynical ploy.
Read more...Oil And Gas Bankruptcies Set To Double This Year
Heavily indebted oil and gas companies have managed to hold off the day of reckoning, but analysts expect bankruptcies to spike.
Read more...Rethinking Macroeconomic Theory Before the Next Crisis
Only after the US subprime financial crisis began have the macroeconomic and monetary theories of mainstream economists been questioned.
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