Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Trump on war, Warren, Sanders and the press, rural voters, Ellen DeGeneres, Stacey Abrams, JOLTS data, IBM, Panasonic and Uber, PG&E and California wildfires, WHYY union drive, BlackJewel miners, jobless statistics, “Collapse OS”
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/9/2019
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 174 Comments »
Another Generous Reader Steps Up With a 20 Donation “Double Your Donations” Challenge!
Another benevolent reader makes a fundraiser “Double Your Donations” challenge. Please take up this generous offer. Thanks so much!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:54 am | 7 Comments »
Links 10/9/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 165 Comments »
Naked Capitalism: An Incomparable Educational Institution
How Naked Captialism helps you learn to see through charlatans like mainstream economists.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:43 am | 2 Comments »
Herd Behaviour in Asset Markets: The Role of Monetary Policy
Data supports the idea that lax monetary policy contributes to bubbles. Yes, Virginia, some regard that claim as controversial.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Market inefficiencies, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:27 am | 8 Comments »
To Stop Threat of ‘For-Profit Surveillance,’ Rights Groups Demand End to Partnerships That Give Cops Access to Amazon Ring Data
Civil rights groups demand that Amazon Ring’s spy program be put behind bars.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:53 am | 11 Comments »
Long Term Real Interest Rates Fell Below Zero in all Euro Area Countries
Is praise of negative real interest rates in Europe making a virtue out of (mis)perceived necessity?
Topics: Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Macroeconomic policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:15 am | 20 Comments »
Congratulations! Met Our Sixth Goal, On to Our Seventh: More Original Reporting
Help us fund what we most like to do, but find hardest to get to: original reporting.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:39 am | 4 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Biden and his funders, Harris and Palantir, Sanders, Warren, Florida felon voting, rehabilitating Bush, small business optimism, producer prices, consumer credit, cobalt, Softbank, Cargill, decelerating growth, Richard Stallman, AI, neural feedback, WBAI closes
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 144 Comments »
Announcing the 2019 “Sarah Henry Double-Your-Donation Challenge”!
Sarah Henry has made another annual challenge grant. Will you match her generosity?
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:30 pm | 5 Comments »
Bill Black: Eric Holder is the Official Missing from Discussions of the Bidens’ Ukrainian Efforts
How the Bidens’ Ukraine scandal has been a big gift to Trump, but the biggest was Eric Holder’s refusal to prosecute bank executives.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 74 Comments »
Links 10/8/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 219 Comments »
My Journey: Flyover to Finance to Defence, with Scams Along the Way, to Naked Capitalism
How Naked Capitailsm’s writers and readers stay ahead of the curve and influence the presee.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:21 am | 4 Comments »
Announcing the First Winner of the Archie McCardell Award for Truly Horrendous Management: WeWork
Introducing serial leading company wrecker Archie McCardell, and noteworthy successors to him, with WeWork as a first object lesson.
Topics: Corporate governance, Guest Post, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:00 am | 39 Comments »
Southwest Pilots Blast Boeing in Suit for Deception and Losses from “Unsafe, Unairworthy” 737 Max
Yet more deserved bad news on the Boeing 737 Max front.
Topics: Legal, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:55 am | 17 Comments »