A positive voice tone can lead to higher share prices and decreases in volatility, highlighting the importance of voice control for central bank communication.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
The Voice of Monetary Policy
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Federal Reserve, Macroeconomic policy, Market inefficiencies, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 9 Comments »
Links 4/24/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 188 Comments »
The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
The Covid nightmare in India won’t end soon. Yet the West, despite self-interested reasons for reducing the contagion, is standing pat.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Privatization
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:40 am | 92 Comments »
From an Un-Caring Economy to a Caring Economy: The Tax Justice Network Podcast, April 2021
“Caring economy” sounds awfully soft and fuzzy. However, it may finally be time to reject utlitarian views of how we organize our resources.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:09 am | 10 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 82 Comments »
Money Alone Can’t Fix Central America – or Stop Migration to US
The US has played a big role in creating near or actual failed states in Central America. Are we capable of improving conditions?
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 29 Comments »
Links 4/23/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 120 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Plato, Aristophanes and Aristotle on Money-Lust, 399-380 BC
While Plato, following Socrates, saw money as leading to hubris, Greek philosophers didn’t care much for working men either.
Topics: Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Income disparity, Moral hazard, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:19 am | 32 Comments »
Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy
Is Biden’s high testosterone foreign policy a feature or a bug?
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:48 am | 30 Comments »
Ilargi: Ukraine Warheads
The US seems to be back in its “Fuck the EU” and frankly the American people mode over Ukraine.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:42 am | 65 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/22/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 100 Comments »
The Coronavirus Crisis Within the Economy Is Far From Over – Because Reopening Creates a Whole New Type of Risk
Whither the post-Covid economy, assuming a “post-Covid”? The answer depends at least in part on where you sit.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 28 Comments »
Links 4/22/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 164 Comments »
CalPERS Employee Accused of Embezzling $685,000 from Beneficiary Bank and CalPERS Accounts Hasn’t Been Arrested, Much the Less Prosecuted. Why the Cover Up?
CalPERS has allowed an employee accused of massive embezzlement to go free for months rather than seek her arrest and prosecution. What is it hiding?
Topics: Banana republic, CalPERS, Investment management, Legal, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 20 Comments »
How America Can Curb the Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers
Health care staffers are on the receiving end of violence more often than you might think, yet perilous little is done to protect them.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:01 am | 5 Comments »



