What Do US Wages Tell Us About the Business Cycle?
Does the US business cycle have longer to run?
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Hedge Funds Get More Pushback on Terms as Enthusiasm for Strategy Wanes
Investors are trimming hedge funds’ sails….finally.
Read more...How WalMart Makes You Pay for Its (Lack of) Policing
Yet another WalMart scam….
Read more...The Elite “Let Them Eat Education” Fallacy
Debunking the idea that better education is an adequate remedy for inequality and high unemployment.
Read more...Will Elizabeth Warren Stymie Clinton’s Pro-Big Finance Campaign Promises?
A Financial Times reporter who is clearly no Elizabeth Warren fan says that the Massachusetts senator will be able to thwart Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street backers who expect to regulatory breaks if she becomes President. As John Dizard wrote over the weekend: Cynics, including most of the US public, figure that Wall Street will have […]
Read more...Banks Pushing Back Against Negative Interest Rates With Threat to Store Cash
Banks are looking into holding more cash as central banks threaten to drive interest rates even further into negative terrain.
Read more...Hope to See You at Our San Francisco Meetup Today
Hope you can make our meetup today.
Read more...Welcome Jerri-Lynn Scofield to Naked Capitalism!
Jerri-Lynn Scofield joins Naked Capitalism as a guest writer and site DJ.
Read more...How the Fed Promoted “Financial Dominance” and Shadow Banking by Promoting Repo
Yves here. This is a very important post, and sadly I’m not providing it with the introduction and commentary it warrants because I am scrambling to get organized to get out of town. By Daniela Gabor is associate professor in economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Originally published at the Institute […]
Read more...Hot Money and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters
A new World Bank paper looks at the interaction between commodity prices and commodity exporters. It’s a story about hot money.
Read more...Links 8/12/16
Big Wall Street Firms Make Lame Excuse for Volcker Rule Non-Compliance, Ask for Additional Five Year Extension
Big Wall Street firms like Goldman and Morgan Stanley offer “dog ate my homework” excuses for failure to comply with the Volcker Rule.
Read more...Central Banks Pushing on Strings Again
More proof that central banks have lost the plot.
Read more...Don’t Miss Our San Francisco Meetup This Sunday, August 14
If you are in or near the Bay Area, hope to see you at our meetup this Sunday!
Read more...William Astore: Why Do Military Professionals Remain Silent About America’s Disastrous Wars?
Why is there so little domestic criticism of U.S. foreign policy and its disastrous wars and so little military dissent in particular?
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