Monthly Archives: November 2011

November 30, 2011

• Central Banks Announce Coordinated Liquidity Effort to Alleviate Euromess
  by Yves Smith 11:11 am

• Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part II – The Strategy
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Links 11/30/11
  by Yves Smith 3:41 am

• Michael Olenick: Are Remotely-Processed Mortgage Assignments Another Smoking Gun?
  by Yves Smith 1:30 am

November 29, 2011

• LPS Foreclosure Fraud Whistleblower Found Dead (Updated)
  by Yves Smith 6:33 pm

• Dylan Ratigan: To Eric Holder – A Simple Way To Prosecute Bank Crimes
  by Yves Smith 5:07 pm

• New York Fed Brownshirt Jason Barker Urges Police to Crack Skulls of #OWS
  by Yves Smith 11:00 am

• Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Links 11/29/11
  by Yves Smith 3:49 am

• Matt Stoller: Mortgage Servicers – Getting Away with the Perfect Crime?
  by Yves Smith 2:18 am

• Judge Rakoff Whacks SEC Yet Again, This Time Over Citi CDO Settlement
  by Yves Smith 1:32 am

• Mosler/Pilkington: The IMF-ECB ‘Plan’ – Fig-Leaf upon Fig-Leaf
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

November 28, 2011

• Tom Ferguson: Democratic Governance Is Becoming Discredited
  by Yves Smith 6:28 pm

• Links 11/28/11
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• Philip Pilkington: The Coming Age of Neocla
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• Quelle Surprise! Banks Lied About Bailout Funds and Got $13 Billion in Profit from Them
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• Steve Keen on BBC on How to Get Out of Our Current Depression
  by Yves Smith 12:55 am

November 27, 2011

• IMF and ECB to offer Italy a 600 billion euro bailout (sources)
  by Edward Harrison 8:25 am

• Links 11/27/11
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

• Is a Eurofix Around the Corner?
  by Yves Smith 2:37 am

• More Reader Queries
  by Yves Smith 1:23 am

November 26, 2011

• Links 11/26/11
  by Yves Smith 3:53 am

• Eurocarnage Continues
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am

• Does Smaller Government Create More Jobs?
  by Yves Smith 1:45 am

November 25, 2011

• Links 11/25/11
  by Yves Smith 2:43 am

• Peak Life Expectancy?
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

• We Speak on PBS Newshour About Why No Bank Executives Have Gone to Jail
  by Yves Smith 12:31 am

• Black Friday Antidote: George Carlin on Advertising and Consumerism
  by Yves Smith 12:08 am

November 24, 2011

• Links Thanksgiving Day
  by Yves Smith 5:02 am

• Happy Turkey Day!
  by Yves Smith 4:37 am

• German Bund Action Goes Badly; Bank of America CDS Spread Hit New High; EuroSovereign and US Bank Spreads Widen More. Will the Germans Finally Break Glass?
  by Yves Smith 4:33 am

• Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Bank Break-In Case Against JP Morgan, Lender Processing Services
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

November 23, 2011

• Links 11/23/11
  by Yves Smith 4:48 am

• The Fed Stress Tests While Europe Starts to Burn
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

• Mark Ames: How UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi Brought Oppression Back To Greece’s Universities
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• Will 50% Cuts “Hollow Out” The Military?
  by Yves Smith 4:01 am

November 22, 2011

• An Italian exit scenario
  by Edward Harrison 10:53 am

• Haldane/Madouros: What is the Contribution of the Financial Sector?
  by Yves Smith 9:20 am

• Links 11/22/11
  by Yves Smith 4:31 am

• An Open Letter to the Winter Patriot
  by Yves Smith 3:08 am

• Satyajit Das: Extortionate Privilege – America’s FMD
  by Yves Smith 3:01 am

• Mosler/Pilkington: A Credible Eurozone Exit Plan
  by Yves Smith 2:10 am

November 21, 2011

• Mark Ames: Libertarian Liars: Top Reagan Adviser, Cato Institute Chairman William Niskanen: “Deficits Don’t Matter”
  by Yves Smith 5:59 pm

• Former AIG CEO Suing Treasury and Fed Over AIG Bailout
  by Yves Smith 5:48 pm

• Marshall Auerback: The more you deflate, the bigger the debt problem gets
  by Edward Harrison 8:35 am

• Links 11/21/11
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Satyajit Das: The Main Game Looms – The Problem of US Debt (Updated)
  by Lambert Strether 3:00 am

November 20, 2011

• Planning to garden next spring?
  by Lambert Strether 1:52 pm

• Links 11/20/11
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Greg Palast: This is it, folks
  by Lambert Strether 12:45 am

• On the narrative of pepper spray at UC Davis, or “Mic Check for President!”
  by Lambert Strether 12:23 am

November 19, 2011

• George Washington: “If Only They Enforced Bank Regulations Like They Do Park Rules, We Wouldn’t Be In This Mess”
  by Lambert Strether 6:53 pm

• Michael Hudson: Some Modest Proposals for Reforming the U.S. Financial and Tax System
  by Lambert Strether 1:59 pm

• Links 11/19/11
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• Planning on heating your home this winter?
  by Lambert Strether 1:49 am

• Bill Black in concert at #OccupyLA
  by Lambert Strether 1:00 am

November 18, 2011

• Links 11/18/11
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

• Swiss Central Bank Forces MegaBanks UBS and Credit Suisse to Shrink and De-Risk
  by Yves Smith 1:48 am

• Debunking Economics: An Interview with Steve Keen – Part II
  by Yves Smith 12:42 am

• “Validated Carbon Credits”: a Correction, a Confirmation, Questions, and No Hint of an Apology
  by Richard Smith 12:41 am

November 17, 2011

• Matt Stoller: Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto Cracks Open the Financial Crisis
  by Yves Smith 6:47 pm

• Links 11/17/11
  by Yves Smith 4:02 am

• Michael Olenick: Don’t Buy Mortgage Industry Hype on Mortgage Modifications
  by Yves Smith 2:16 am

• Are You Happy That Your Tax Dollars are Going to Crush #OWS and Other Occupations?
  by Yves Smith 1:28 am

November 16, 2011

• Mark Ames: Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine
  by Yves Smith 7:20 pm

• Nevada Attorney General Masto Files 606 Count Criminal Indictment Against Two Title Officers (Updated: Lender Processing Services Employees)
  by Yves Smith 7:19 pm

• Was the New York Times Embedded with the NY Police Department Prior to the #OWS Raid?
  by Yves Smith 9:56 am

• Italian default scenarios
  by Edward Harrison 8:16 am

• Links 11/16/11
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Philip Pilkington: Debunking Economics – An Interview with Steve Keen – Part 1
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Satyajit Das: In the Matter of Lehman Brothers – Part 2: Well Structured Messes
  by Yves Smith 5:49 am

• Ex Libris: About those 5,554 books in the #OWS library
  by Lambert Strether 12:39 am

• Bill Black: Best Satire of Faux Austrian Economics Ever
  by Yves Smith 12:38 am

November 15, 2011

• Video of Police Assaulting #OWS Protestor and Punching Woman in the Face
  by Yves Smith 6:06 pm

• Police State: #OWS, Other Crackdowns Part of National, Coordinated Effort; Bloomberg Defies Court Order to Let Protestors Back into Zuccotti Park [Update: Judge Rules in Favor of City]
  by Yves Smith 5:23 pm

• On the Dubious Defenses of the Netting of $4 Trillion of US Bank CDS to the Eurozone
  by Yves Smith 7:48 am

• More Evidence That Judges Have Had it With Banks
  by Yves Smith 7:28 am

• Links 11/15/11
  by Yves Smith 7:00 am

• Zuccotti Park Being Raided NOW, If You Can, Join #OWS (Updated)
  by Yves Smith 1:23 am

• Satyajit Das: In the Matter of Lehman Brothers – Part 1: Breaking Up is Hard To Do
  by Yves Smith 12:24 am

November 14, 2011

• Moron from Scam Companies “Validated Carbon Credits” and “Baron Traders Limited ” Threatens This Blog
  by Richard Smith 3:09 pm

• Links 11/14/11
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• The End of Loser Liberalism: An Interview with Dean Baker Part II
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Banks Jacking Up Fees to Retail Customers
  by Yves Smith 4:56 am

• David Apgar: Between the Whirlpool of Riots and the Rocks of Default – Market-Based Debt Relief after Greece
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• Yet More Reader Updates
  by Yves Smith 1:47 am

November 13, 2011

• Links 11/13/11
  by Yves Smith 2:38 am

• Draft Versions of a Mobile Website, and the Question of Mobile Devices v. Blogs
  by Yves Smith 1:42 am

• EFSF Fail: Forced to Buy Some of Its Own Bonds in Auction
  by Yves Smith 12:46 am

November 12, 2011

• Links 11/12/11
  by Yves Smith 5:24 am

• Devastating Analysis of MERS
  by Yves Smith 5:22 am

• Down to the Wire, Last Chance for 2011 Fundraiser!
  by Yves Smith 1:51 am

• Tom Ferguson on Congress for Sale
  by Yves Smith 12:09 am

November 11, 2011

• Countdown!
  by Yves Smith 11:41 pm

• Coming Down to the Wire…
  by Yves Smith 10:16 pm

• Final Hours of Fundraiser, Beat New Target
  by Yves Smith 7:31 pm

• The Best Part of This Week
  by Yves Smith 3:00 pm

• Validated Carbon Credits and Baron Traders Limited Have (Update: Briefly) Left the Building
  by Richard Smith 8:37 am

• Links 11/11/11
  by Yves Smith 5:28 am

• The Comfort Of Other People: Inequality Then And Now
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Iceland’s New Bank Disaster
  by Yves Smith 3:07 am

• Cheer Up, FTAdviser: At Least You Don’t Publish Threadbare Excuses from Scammers, Like Reuters Does
  by Richard Smith 2:00 am

• Last Day, Last Chance for Our Fundraiser
  by Yves Smith 1:58 am

November 10, 2011

• Mark Ames: Why Finance is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
  by Yves Smith 6:19 am

• Links 11/10/11
  by Yves Smith 5:43 am

• The End of Loser Liberalism: An Interview with Dean Baker Part I
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

• “FTAdviser” Tricked Into Lending the Good Name of the Financial Times to Carbon Credit Scammers
  by Richard Smith 3:48 am

• Two Days Left in Our Fundraiser
  by Yves Smith 3:37 am

November 9, 2011

• Marshall Auerback: The Road to Serfdom
  by Yves Smith 6:03 pm

• The Italian Job
  by Edward Harrison 3:10 pm

• Links 11/9/11
  by Yves Smith 6:22 am

• Doug Smith: One Way Journalism Paints Flawed Picture Of Poverty
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

• Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism – Your Anti-Lobbyist
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

• Denial in the Mortgage Industrial Complex
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

• Foreclosure Law Firm, Vilified for Making Fun of Homeless, Now Attacks Constitutionality of New Rules to Assure It Verifies Court Documents
  by Yves Smith 2:31 am

November 8, 2011

• Questioning Italy’s solvency means ECB intervention
  by Edward Harrison 2:54 pm

• The eurozone vendor financing scheme
  by Edward Harrison 8:06 am

• Links 11/8/11
  by Yves Smith 5:34 am

• Taleb: End Bonuses at Too Big to Fail Banks
  by Yves Smith 5:10 am

• Naked Capitalism: the First Five Years (Nearly)
  by Richard Smith 4:42 am

• EuroCrisis Spotlight Moves From Greece to Italy
  by Yves Smith 4:39 am

• Thanks! Met Fourth Target, On to the Fifth
  by Yves Smith 4:02 am

November 7, 2011

• Chinese bubble bursting: A probable non-event
  by Edward Harrison 9:02 pm

• The money scoreboard
  by Edward Harrison 11:52 am

• Bill Black: The High Price of Ignorance
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Links 11/7/11
  by Yves Smith 5:24 am

• Matt Stoller: 50 State Settlement Chatter – $65 Million of Fundraising and the Kamala Harris Network
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• #OccupyOakland and the Power of the Black Bloc
  by Yves Smith 12:49 am

• On the Blinkeredness of Soi-Disant Progressives
  by Yves Smith 12:28 am

November 6, 2011

• Wow! Met Our Third Target, On to the Fourth!
  by Yves Smith 4:58 pm

• Philip Pilkington: Naked Capitalism – A Rare Bird
  by Yves Smith 11:55 am

• Links 11/6/11
  by Yves Smith 1:59 am

• Is Greece About to Derail the Bailout Yet Again?
  by Yves Smith 1:29 am

• Thanks! Met Our Second Fundraising Target, On to the Third
  by Yves Smith 1:25 am

• “When Offshoring Backfires”
  by Yves Smith 12:52 am

November 5, 2011

• Thanks! Met Our First Target Fast, Announcing Second Target
  by Yves Smith 1:26 pm

• Links 11/5/11
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Launching the NC Fundraiser!
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• Bill Black on the Real News Network on His Three Big, Simple Demands
  by Yves Smith 1:56 am

• #OWS Guest Post: Oakland Police Strike Army Ranger With Nightsticks On His Back, Ribs, Shoulders and Hands, Lacerating His Spleen and Causing Internal Bleeding … Then Deny Him Medical Treatment for 18 Hours
  by George Washington 1:25 am

November 4, 2011

• Links 11/4/11
  by Yves Smith 2:01 am

• Bank CEOs Lying When They Say They’ve Stopped Robosiging
  by Yves Smith 1:10 am

November 3, 2011

• Steve Keen: Harvard Starts its Own PAECON Against Mankiw
  by Yves Smith 8:12 pm

• Michael Hudson on the Showdown in Greece
  by Yves Smith 4:06 pm

• Links 11/3/11
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• #OccupyOakland General Strike Closes Port, 5th Biggest in US
  by Yves Smith 2:21 am

• Is GMAC, Now Ally, Just Dishonest or Criminally Incompetent?
  by Yves Smith 1:29 am

• Satyajit Das: Central Counter Party Tranquilliser Solutions
  by Yves Smith 12:11 am

November 2, 2011

• EU Leaders Threaten Greece With Expulsion From the Eurozone
  by Yves Smith 8:00 pm

• Is the Eurobankster “We’ll Shrink Our Balance Sheets” Threat Largely Empty?
  by Yves Smith 4:42 pm

• Links 11/2/11
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Hubris Watch: US Bank CEO Sniffs About Breaking Rules When His Bank Has Huge Trustee Liability
  by Yves Smith 2:53 am

• Greece: The Debtor that Roared
  by Yves Smith 1:21 am

• Europe’s Plan To End the Debt Crisis – Putting The “Con” in “Confidence” Part 2
  by Yves Smith 1:20 am

November 1, 2011

• Links 11/1/11
  by Yves Smith 7:02 am

• Matt Stoller: Why a Foreclosure Fraud Settlement is a RIDICULOUS Idea
  by Yves Smith 5:27 am

• Follow Up to Reader Query
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• Satyajit Das – Europe’s Plan To End the Debt Crisis – Putting The “Con” in “Confidence” Part 1
  by Yves Smith 2:19 am