Author Archives: Yves Smith
Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Did Cisco Just Say Demand is “Very Lumpy?”
Look out below: Cisco has a history of being the canary in the coal mine at market turns.
Read more...Genetically Engineered Disappointments
A looked at sales talk versus results for genetically engineered crops.
Read more...Links 5/17/17
Hayek and Neoclassicals Meet Information Theory and Fail
Why the left doesn’t need to engage Hayek, Friedman, and neoclassical economics but should instead argue from information theory.
Read more...China Blinks!
China taps the brake…..
Read more...Why Did the FBI Leak the Comey Memo?
Putting the Comey leak in the context of US-Russia relations and the domestic factions that are keen to maintain hostilities.
Read more...Links 5/16/17
Trump Reiterates Support for a New Glass-Steagall Act, But It Will it Pass Congress?
This Real News Network interview discusses where Trump and his allies stand on reviving Glass-Steagall.
Read more...More Evidence School Choice Hurts Student Performance
More proof that “school choice” as in vouchers, is about profiteering and ideology rather than better education.
Read more...Mark Ames: The FBI Has No Legal Charter But Lots of Kompromat
The extra-constitutional, thuggish history of the FBI.
Read more...Board Candidate Asks Whether CalPERS Is Cooking the Books to Fatten Bonuses
CalPERS board candidate Margaret Brown finds a lot not to like in the way CalPERS continues to play fast and loose with figures.
Read more...Some Public Pension Funds Taking on Outsized Private Equity and Hedge Fund Fees
Public pension funds might finally be getting over their unhealthy co-dependent relationships with private equity and hedge funds.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Globalization of Misery
A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
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