Don Quijones: Catalonia Threatens Spain with “Financial Bloodbath”
Yet another European debt/austerity-induced game of chicken, this one of Catalonia v. Spain.
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CalPERS Keeps Board in the Dark About How Private Equity “Subscription Line Financing” Gooses Staff and General Partner Pay and Systemic Risk
CalPERS is asleep at the switch yet again.
Read more...Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Renounces Commitment to Glass-Steagall While Saying He Isn’t
Steven Mnuchin demonstrates that he is a shameless liar even by Goldman standards.
Read more...China Blinks!
China taps the brake…..
Read more...The Financial Crisis That Spawned Austerity, Corporatized the Democratic Party and Gave the World Donald Trump
Why New York City’s fiscal crisis was a watershed event.
Read more...China Sickening into Classic Emerging Market Crisis
More and more analysts are getting nervous about China. Are there concerns warranted?
Read more...Is the Great China Crash Upon Us?
No large economy has made a crisis-free transition from being investment/export led to consumption led. Is China finally starting its Big One?
Read more...Wolf Richter: #Carmageddon Not Yet, But Hot Air Hisses out of Auto Bubble
Despite record incentives, auto sales decline speeds up, inventory bloat spreads to zombie malls.
Read more...The Fall of the Latin American Left, Part III: Argentina and the Right Winning Elections
How the Kirchner program in Argentina ran into the buzz saw of currency markets.
Read more...“Howard Marks Seems to Read Naked Capitalism” on Private Equity Fund-Level Borrowing That Juice Reported Returns While Increasing Risks
Storied investor Howard Marks penned a not-very-positive post on private equity subscription lines of credit, echoing our earlier warnings.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Private Equity in the Thick of Bricks and Mortar Retail Implosion
The distress at traditional retailers has been made much worse by private equity asset stripping rendering them fragile.
Read more...Big US Banks Make Laughable Excuses for Preserving Failed Universal Bank Model
Count on the banks to keep trotting out tired excuses for their too-big-to-faill ways.
Read more...Student Debt Bubble Sucks Even More Out of Economy and Ruins Lives, Yet Officials Keep Inflating It
The student debt problem is only getting worse and no one in power has any interest in addressing it.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Great Debt Unwind: Consumer Bankruptcies Jump, First Since 2010; Commercial Bankruptcies Spike
Both consumer and commercial bankruptcies spiked in March– and the oil bust’s not to blame.
Read more...Bill Black: Why Did Preet Bharara Refuse to Drain the Wall Street Swamp?
If you still doubt that Bharara and other federal prosecutors could have gone after bank executives but chose not to, this should settle it.
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