Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Bloggers
  • Policies
  • Documents
    • Limited Partnership Agreements
  • Contact

Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power

  • Follow yvessmith on Twitter
  • Feedburner RSS Feed
  • RSS Feed for Comments
  • Subscribe via Email
  • SUBSCRIBE

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Bloggers
  • Policies
  • Documents
    • Limited Partnership Agreements
  • Contact

Recent Items

  • Links 10/15/2025 - 10/15/2025 - Conor Gallagher
  • Trump 2.0’s Eurasian Balancing Act Has Failed - 10/15/2025 - Yves Smith
  • As Trump Sells Peace in West Asia, His ‘Route for International Peace and Prosperity’ in the Caucasus Fails to Live Up to Its Name - 10/15/2025 - Conor Gallagher
  • Israel, the US, and the New Aerial Imperialism - 10/15/2025 - Yves Smith
  • Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Rare Earth Elements - 10/14/2025 - Haig Hovaness
  • The Huge US Bond Market and the US Dollar Blow Off the “Debasement Trade” - 10/14/2025 - Yves Smith
  • Links 10/14/2025 - 10/14/2025 - Yves Smith
  • War in Venezuela Could Be Another Vietnam, Warns Mexican Analyst Fernando Buen Abad - 10/14/2025 - Nick Corbishley
  • Economic Myths: Homo Economicus - 10/14/2025 - Yves Smith

Links 12/15/07

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Yves Smith

A Short Primer on the Republican Candidates Robert Reich. Quirky but useful nevertheless.

Retail Sale Growth Is not Necessarily Strong, When Inflation is High Dean Baker. Note this is observation sometimes comes from Barry Ritholtz on particular retail sales reports.

Euro-yuan-dollar diplomacy Brad Setser

Do people make better decisions when they understand average risk? University of Michigan Health System (hat tip Mark Thoma)

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

This entry was posted in Guest Post on December 15, 2007 by Yves Smith.

Post navigation

← Mirable Dictu! A Climate Deal in Bali! Gotcha! (Willem Buiter’s Market Maker of the Last Resort Edition) →

Tip Jar

Support us! Please Donate or Subscribe! Please Donate or Subscribe!

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Daily e-mail Bi-weekly newsletter Twitter Posts RSS feed Comments RSS feed

Search

Recent Comments

  • griffen on Links 10/15/2025Cybertruck sales....out of the Seinfeld playbook by none...
  • The Rev Kev on Links 10/15/2025"US Seeks India’s Help To Counter China’s Rare...
  • Balan Roxdale on Israel, the US, and the New Aerial ImperialismAlon Mizrahi has written about the psychology of...
  • Candide on As Trump Sells Peace in West Asia, His ‘Route for International Peace and Prosperity’ in the Caucasus Fails to Live Up to Its NameThis is a useful application of what we...
  • Wukchumni on Links 10/15/2025There are eight million stories of online AI...

Topics

  • Africa (226)
  • Australia (196)
  • Auto industry (251)
  • Banana republic (5,124)
  • Banking industry (5,408)
  • Brexit (356)
  • CalPERS (357)
  • Carbon credits (50)
  • CEO compensation (284)
  • China (1,285)
  • Coffee Break (118)
  • Commodities (701)
  • Corporate governance (589)
  • Credit cards (210)
  • Credit markets (4,114)
  • Curiousities (431)
  • Currencies (1,222)
  • Derivatives (747)
  • Documents (7)
  • Doomsday scenarios (4,017)
  • Dubious statistics (1,529)
  • ECONNED (104)
  • Economic fundamentals (4,903)
  • Energy markets (1,486)
  • Environment (1,827)
  • Europe (1,864)
  • Federal Reserve (1,594)
  • Free markets and their discontents (3,926)
  • Garrulous insolence (125)
  • Global warming (1,509)
  • Globalization (2,344)
  • Guest Post (17,266)
  • Health care (1,663)
  • Hedge funds (529)
  • Income disparity (3,097)
  • India (232)
  • Infrastructure (346)
  • Investment banks (769)
  • Investment management (917)
  • Investment outlook (1,129)
  • Japan (266)
  • Legal (3,232)
  • Links (6,130)
  • Macroeconomic policy (1,513)
  • Market inefficiencies (455)
  • Media appearances (78)
  • Media watch (1,635)
  • Middle East (761)
  • Moral hazard (448)
  • New McCarthyism (53)
  • New York Magazine articles (4)
  • New Zealand (83)
  • Notices (737)
  • OCC (17)
  • Pandemic (1,075)
  • Payment system (257)
  • Permaculture (136)
  • Politics (10,464)
  • Private equity (878)
  • Privatization (303)
  • Real estate (1,805)
  • Regulations and regulators (5,383)
  • Ridiculously obvious scams (1,746)
  • Risk and risk management (1,006)
  • Russia (1,144)
  • Science and the scientific method (579)
  • Social policy (2,604)
  • Social values (3,193)
  • Species loss (131)
  • Student loans (120)
  • Summer rerun (55)
  • Sunday morning Antidote movie (27)
  • Surveillance state (409)
  • Taxes (590)
  • Technology and innovation (1,329)
  • The destruction of the middle class (3,110)
  • The dismal science (2,144)
  • TPP (99)
  • Turkey (71)
  • Uber (64)
  • UK (574)
  • Water Cooler (2,646)

Blogroll

  • Alex Christoforou
  • Alexander Mercouris
  • Angry Bear
  • Automatic Earth
  • BIG, by Matt Stoller
  • Bill Mitchell – billy blog
  • Common Dreams
  • Credit Slips
  • Drop Site News
  • Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Challenging Development)
  • Matt Taibbi (Racket News)
  • Michael Hudson
  • Moon of Alabama
  • OilPrice
  • Rajiv Sethi (Imperfect Information)
  • Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
  • System Update with Glenn Greenwald
  • The City
  • Thomas Neuburger (God’s Spies)
  • Wolf Richter (WolfStreet)
  • Yale Climate Connections
  • Yanis Varoufakis
Copyright © 2006 - 2025 Aurora Advisors Incorporated All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell My Personal Information