Monthly Archives: June 2013

June 30, 2013

• Links 6/30/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Some Datapoints on Global Political Risk
  by Lambert Strether 2:33 am

June 29, 2013

• Former Top Regulators Tell Congress to Rein in Big Banks
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 6/29/13
  by Yves Smith 4:55 am

• Congrats Digg for Rescuing Me From Feedly! Gets Google Reader Replacement in Just Under the Wire and It WORKS!
  by Yves Smith 3:03 am

• Advocates Oppose Senate Immigration Bill Over Escalation of Border Militarization
  by Yves Smith 1:26 am

June 28, 2013

• Links 6/28/13
  by Yves Smith 5:11 am

• US Mortgage Rates Skyrocket
  by Yves Smith 4:46 am

• How Much Are the NSA and CIA Front Running Markets?
  by Yves Smith 3:55 am

• James Boyce: Limits to Growth – of What?
  by Yves Smith 2:17 am

• Gaius Publius: Obama’s New Climate Plan: Less Coal, More Fracking
  by Yves Smith 12:06 am

June 27, 2013

• Links 6/27/13
  by Yves Smith 6:56 am

• Misguided Corker-Warner “Kill Fannie and Freddie” Bill Relies on Private Market Sparkle Ponies
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• South Africans Plan to Protest Obama’s Crimes Against Africa During Presidential Visit
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• Administration, Congress Trying to Give Gensler the Brooksley Born Treatment over Derivatives Reform
  by Yves Smith 5:18 am

• US: Desperately Seeking Income
  by Yves Smith 1:37 am

June 26, 2013

• Links 6/26/12
  by Yves Smith 6:06 am

• Regulatory Looting, Promontory-Style: Botched Foreclosure Reviews Alone Generate More than Double Goldman’s Revenues per Employee
  by Yves Smith 5:33 am

• Corruption, EuroStyle: ECB Chief Draghi Fudged Italy’s Books to Secure Eurozone Entry, Italy Stuck With Derivative Losses
  by Yves Smith 4:06 am

• Nathan Tankus: Krugman von Hayek
  by Nathan Tankus 1:04 am

• Hong Kong to US on #Snowden: A4 Paper, Please. And Do Remember to Spellcheck!
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

June 25, 2013

• Links 6/25/13
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Mortgage Rate Shock Likely to Dent the Housing Market
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

• Danny Schechter: Mandela and Snowden – Two Heroes With More In Common Than We Know
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• Lee Adler: The Big Four Central Banks Muddy The Same Sea Of Liquidity, And Then There’s China
  by Yves Smith 3:56 am

• Gensler Staring Down Administration and Banks on Derivatives Reform
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

June 24, 2013

• Links 6/24/13
  by Yves Smith 5:33 am

• The BIS Loses Its Mind, Advocates Kicking Citizens and the Bond Markets Even Harder
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

• Administration Keeps Pretending Mortgage Servicing Has Been Fixed, Whistleblowers Say Otherwise
  by Yves Smith 3:21 am

• Quo Vadis, Edward Snowden?
  by Yves Smith 1:12 am

June 23, 2013

• Monday DataDive: Fedspook, May Reports on Consumer Prices, New Home Construction, and Existing Home Sales
  by Lambert Strether 11:35 pm

• Bill Black: How Ecuador Won By Defying Neoliberal “Washington Consensus” Playbook
  by Yves Smith 11:33 pm

• Links 6/23/13
  by Yves Smith 3:47 am

• Warren Mosler: Consumer Borrowing Has Kept Economy Afloat, but for How Much Longer?
  by Yves Smith 3:14 am

• Bill Moyers: The United States of ALEC
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

June 22, 2013

• Links 6/22/13
  by Yves Smith 3:05 am

• “The Political History of American Inequality”
  by Yves Smith 1:46 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: The Death of Direct Bank Re-capitalisation: Europe’s (Newest) Day of Shame
  by Yves Smith 12:29 am

June 21, 2013

• Links 6/21/13
  by Yves Smith 6:17 am

• How Wall Street Fraudsters Plunder Public Finances, And How to Fight Back
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• The Taper is Too Sharp
  by Yves Smith 5:21 am

• New York’s Benjamin Lawsky Collects Scalps, Showing Regulators Can *Gasp* Regulate
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

• Pepe Escobar: Why American Worries about “Containing China” Are Off the Mark
  by Yves Smith 12:55 am

June 20, 2013

• Bernanke Kills Fed Credibility and the Confidence Fairy in One Shot
  by Yves Smith 7:21 am

• Links 6/20/13
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Sherrod Brown Wimps Out on Secret Trade Negotiations In USTR Vote; Elizabeth Warren Takes Risk in Bucking Obama
  by Yves Smith 6:05 am

• Chinese Interbank Markets Having a Heart Attack, Repo and Shibor Skyrocket, Could Trigger Bigger Unraveling
  by Yves Smith 4:33 am

• Wolf Richter: One Part Of Japan’s Abenomics Salvation Is Already A Fail
  by Yves Smith 2:52 am

June 19, 2013

• Links 6/19/13
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• More Obama Administration Secrecy: Rep. Grayson Can’t Discuss Classified Trans-Pacific Partnership Draft
  by Yves Smith 4:29 am

• ObamaCare Icebergs: Burgeoning Medical Debt and the Wobbly Start-Up of the Federally-Run Exchanges
  by Yves Smith 2:50 am

• Extreme Energy, Extreme Implications: Interview with Michael Klare
  by Yves Smith 12:42 am

• Lynn Parramore: Meet America’s Most Shameless Defender of the 1 Percent, Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

June 18, 2013

• Links 6/18/13
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• NYU Administrators Create Student Debt Slaves to Subsidize Summer Homes, Ginormous Pensions
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

• Coming to a Broke Municipality Near You: The Greek, Um, Jefferson County, Solution
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

• Robert Wade: Elite Denial of Corruption and Inequality – World Bank Case Study
  by Yves Smith 12:23 am

June 17, 2013

• Michael Hoexter: Summer Heat – The Movement Against Ripping the Face off the Earth for a Brief Fossil-Fueled “Party”
  by Yves Smith 11:05 pm

• Links 6/17/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Techies’ Efforts to Own #Snowden/NSA Surveillance Narrative = #Fail
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Vale David Hirst
  by Yves Smith 6:26 am

• Some Datapoints on Global Political Risk
  by Lambert Strether 4:10 am

• May’s Retail Sales Up 0.6%, Industrial Production Flat
  by Lambert Strether 2:30 am

June 16, 2013

• Links 6/16/13
  by Lambert Strether 5:32 am

• ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (2)
  by Lambert Strether 5:11 am

• Six Reasons Why Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward #Snowden
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

June 15, 2013

• Links 6/15/13
  by Yves Smith 3:50 am

• What Are You Doing to Protect Yourself From NSA? #SafeData
  by Yves Smith 3:02 am

• Why You Should Stop Worrying About Central Bank Losses
  by Yves Smith 1:35 am

• The Party is Over: Children, Clean up the House! Lessons from the Turkish #OccupyGezi
  by Yves Smith 12:59 am

June 14, 2013

• Links 6/14/13
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

• Is the Fed Going to Dial Down Its QE Taper Talk?
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am

• Snowden Shows South China Morning Post Details of NSA Hacking in China
  by Yves Smith 3:41 am

• Yes, Congress and the President are Responsible for the Surveillance State
  by Yves Smith 1:58 am

• Joe Firestone: What Social Security/Medicare Solvency Problem?
  by Yves Smith 1:01 am

June 13, 2013

• Links 6/13/13
  by Yves Smith 7:03 am

• Nikkei Falls 6.4%, Overseas Markets Escalate Hissy Fit Over Cut in World Bank Forecasts, Fed Taper Talk
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Occupying the Closure of Greek Public TV (Journalists at BBC, ABC, and CBC, Take Note). Updated
  by Yves Smith 4:03 am

• Sasha Breger: More Ways That Financiers Suck Wealth From Agricultural Providers (and Ultimately, You)
  by Yves Smith 3:51 am

• Top National Security Experts: Spying Program Doesn’t Make Us Safer, and Spying Leaks Don’t Harm America
  by George Washington 12:39 am

June 12, 2013

• Links 6/12/13
  by Yves Smith 5:42 am

• Are Early Calls on ObamaCare Costs Premature?
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• Wolf Richter: Germany Grapples (Again) With The Choice Between Its Constitution And The Euro
  by Yves Smith 3:40 am

• Obama Axes Bank-Harrassing Gary Gensler at CFTC, Plans to Install Lightweight Ex-Goldmanite
  by Yves Smith 1:50 am

• Lynn Parramore: Obama Nominates America’s Biggest Walmart Cheerleader as His Chief Economic Adviser
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

June 11, 2013

• Links 6/11/13
  by Yves Smith 6:02 am

• China to Build Panama Canal Bypass Through Nicaragua
  by Yves Smith 5:24 am

• Lynn Parramore: Class of 2013 – All Dressed Up and No Place to Work
  by Yves Smith 4:47 am

• Patrick Durusau: Social Security Numbers – Close Enough for a Drone Strike?
  by Yves Smith 1:24 am

• Richard Alford: Trust in Economists?
  by Yves Smith 12:11 am

June 10, 2013

• Site Switchover Notice
  by Yves Smith 11:26 pm

• Links 6/10/13
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• Edward Snowden Makes Himself an Even Bigger Problem to the Officialdom
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• Mary Jo White Institutionalizes Deutsche Bank Protection Racket at the SEC
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

• Mortgage Delinquencies Down….But a Record 843 Days to Foreclose
  by Yves Smith 2:17 am

• Lynn Parramore: Half Lives – Why the Part-time Economy Is Bad for Everyone
  by Yves Smith 12:51 am

June 9, 2013

• Links 6/9/13
  by Yves Smith 5:18 am

• Sheila Bair: Everything the IMF Wanted to Know About Financial Regulation and Wasn’t Afraid to Ask
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• Obama Defends “Big Brother” Powers
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

June 8, 2013

• Links 6/8/13
  by Yves Smith 5:03 am

• Could the Verizon-NSA Metadata Collection Be a Stealth Political Kickback?
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• The Jobs Report Covering May 2013: About As Good As It Is Going To Get And Still Too Insufficient By Far
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

• Update on Site Performance Issues
  by Yves Smith 12:46 am

June 7, 2013

• Mr. Market’s Temper Tantrum Over Fed Tapering Talk
  by Yves Smith 7:20 am

• Links 6/7/13
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• NYT Gives Damning-With-Faintest-Praise-Possible Profile of Glenn Greenwald After Surveillance Scoops
  by Yves Smith 4:48 am

• Nathan Tankus: Memo to Paul Krugman on the Eurozone – Read Your Own Research!
  by Nathan Tankus 2:54 am

June 6, 2013

• Quelle Surprise! US and UK to File Criminal Charges Against Small Fry for Barclay’s Libor Abuses
  by Yves Smith 5:46 pm

• Links 6/6/13
  by Yves Smith 5:48 am

• Mortgage Rate Increases Starting to Bite
  by Yves Smith 5:02 am

• Dan Kervick: Do Banks Create Money from Thin Air?
  by Yves Smith 4:02 am

• Dave Dayen on Student Loans as Medieval Indentures
  by Yves Smith 2:53 am

• Bill Black: How Elite Economic Hucksters Drive America’s Biggest Fraud Epidemics
  by Yves Smith 12:46 am

June 5, 2013

• Links 6/5/13
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Puzzling Economic Sightings
  by Yves Smith 6:44 am

• Sasha Breger: How Commodities Hoarding Distorts Food Prices
  by Yves Smith 4:55 am

• Bill Black: Great Moments in Nobel Prize History – 2007 Winner Pumps for Plutocracy, Billionaire CEOs
  by Yves Smith 4:04 am

• Nikkei Disses Third Dose of Abenomics, Falls Nearly 4%
  by Yves Smith 3:35 am

June 4, 2013

• Links 6/4/13
  by Yves Smith 5:18 am

• Why Isn’t Elizabeth Warren Attacking the Student Debt Problem Head On?
  by Yves Smith 4:46 am

• The Stealth Problem of Predatory Mortgage Modifications
  by Yves Smith 3:20 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Mixed Messages from the IMF
  by Yves Smith 1:46 am

• Philip Pilkington: Paul Krugman and the Fatherless Keynesians
  by Yves Smith 12:30 am

June 3, 2013

• Links 6/3/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

• WSJ Bemoans Rise in Rationality, Um, Decline in Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking
  by Yves Smith 4:27 am

• Lynn Parramore: Guess What? Fewer Americans Call Themselves Economic Conservatives
  by Yves Smith 1:11 am

• China’s Minsky Moment
  by Lambert Strether 1:06 am

June 2, 2013

• Links 6/2/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Democrats’ Vision for Economy is GOP-Lite
  by Lambert Strether 4:00 am

• Leverage Versus Debt
  by Lambert Strether 1:18 am

June 1, 2013

• Links 6/1/13
  by Yves Smith 3:47 am

• Sasha Breger: How Big Finance is Eating the World’s Lunch Agricultural Wealth
  by Yves Smith 1:11 am

• Wolf Richter: Lobbying And GMO Giant Monsanto Buckles In Europe
  by Yves Smith 12:30 am