Monthly Archives: December 2013

December 31, 2013

• Links New Year’s Eve 2013
  by Yves Smith 4:25 am

• “When You Bareback With the Internet, You Ride With the NSA”
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am

• Solomonic Judgment vs. Sophists, Economists and Calculators
  by Yves Smith 2:47 am

• Wolf Richter: Cesspool Of Greek-German Corruption
  by Yves Smith 2:09 am

December 30, 2013

• Links 12/30/13
  by Yves Smith 4:08 am

• “Honey, I Shrunk Killed the Middle Class”
  by Yves Smith 2:54 am

• Wolf Richter: Next Shoe To Drop In Broke California’s Lopsided ‘Recovery’
  by Yves Smith 1:44 am

• Ilargi: The Taper And The China Credit Power Struggle Squeeze
  by Yves Smith 12:48 am

December 29, 2013

• Links 12/29/13
  by Yves Smith 3:02 am

• Open Thread: Best and Worst of 2013
  by Yves Smith 12:52 am

• Philip Pilkington: Interest Rates and Animal Spirits – A Response to JW Mason
  by Yves Smith 12:28 am

December 28, 2013

• Links 12/28/13
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

• Essays in Monetary Theory and Policy: On the Nature of Money (Continued)
  by Yves Smith 1:27 am

• Wolf Richter: What Happens Next, Now That The 10-year Treasury Yield Hit The Psycho-Sound Barrier Of 3%
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

December 27, 2013

• Links 12/27/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Happy Boxing Day: My Train Set, Devolution, and Evolution
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

December 26, 2013

• Michael Hoexter: Malign Confusion about Growth, Economic Growth or “Degrowth”: Which Way Forward? – Pt 3
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 12/26/13
  by Yves Smith 2:40 am

• Michael Hoexter: Malign Confusion about Growth, Economic Growth or “Degrowth”: Which Way Forward? – Part 2
  by Yves Smith 1:39 am

• Goodbye Price Stability, Hello Exchange Rate Volatility
  by Yves Smith 12:47 am

December 25, 2013

• Links Christmas 2013
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

• Was Scrooge a Neoliberal?
  by Yves Smith 1:23 am

• Patrick Durusau: A Salinas Card
  by Yves Smith 12:58 am

December 24, 2013

• Pentatonix’s Little Drummer Boy
  by Yves Smith 6:00 pm

• Links 12/24/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• America’s Shopper-in-Chief Has His Staff Sign Him Up for ObamaCare (But Not His Family)
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 am

December 23, 2013

• Wolf Richter: Financial Engineering Wildest Since The 2007 Bubble
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 12/23/13
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Banks Squealing Over Volcker Rule Exposing Their Dirty Laundry. Will Regulators Capitulate?
  by Yves Smith 5:39 am

• Amar Bhidé on How Following Hayek Leads to Regulating Banks Like Utilities, Looking Askance at Liquidity and Securitization
  by Yves Smith 2:08 am

• Epic Duel In Spain Between The Politically Connected CEO Of A Collapsed Bank And A Judge
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

December 22, 2013

• Holiday Schedule Plus January 8 New York City Meetup With Lambert
  by Yves Smith 8:00 am

• Links 12/22/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Season’s Greetings / Happy Solstice
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

December 21, 2013

• Obamacare Implementation as Teachable Moment
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 12/21/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Obama Exempts “If You Like It You Can Keep It” Cancelees from the Individual Mandate
  by Lambert Strether 6:04 am

• Vincent Huang: On the Nature of Money
  by Lambert Strether 1:22 am

December 20, 2013

• Links 12/20/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• The Fed’s Taper and Market Fealty
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Yes Virginia, Obama and the Democrats Are Mussolini-Style Corporatists, Just Like the Republicans
  by Yves Smith 6:46 am

• Tom Adams: Citigroup is the Real Reason We Need the Volcker Rule
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Ilargi: Debt Rattle – E/U in 2014?
  by Yves Smith 5:06 am

December 19, 2013

• Links 12/19/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• As Many Uninsured Oppose Obamacare as Favor It
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Banks Start Volcker Rule Blame Game
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am

• Tapering Talk: The Impact of Expectations of Reduced Federal Reserve Security Purchases on Emerging Markets
  by Yves Smith 4:08 am

• Michael Hudson: Trade Advantage Replaced by Rent Extraction
  by Yves Smith 2:16 am

December 18, 2013

• Steve Keen: Oh My, Paul Krugman Edition
  by Yves Smith 7:48 am

• Links 12/18/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• JP Morgan, Not Satisfied with Profitable WaMu Acquisition, Sues FDIC to Extract More
  by Yves Smith 5:43 am

• Slate Tries Presenting Amazon’s Abusive Warehouse Jobs as Great Opportunities
  by Yves Smith 3:16 am

• We Are Seven Years Old
  by Yves Smith 2:21 am

December 17, 2013

• Links 12/17/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Bubble-logic and the Fed’s “To Taper or Not to Taper”
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

• Wolf Richter: Fear And Trembling In Muni Land
  by Yves Smith 6:08 am

• Ragnarok – Iceland and the ‘Doom of the Gods’
  by Yves Smith 4:47 am

• Amazon Warehouse Workers Strike in Germany Over Pay, Sweatshop Conditions
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

December 16, 2013

• Links 12/16/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Market Participation, aka Shopping, as a Toll of Neoliberalism: Obamacare as Case Study
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• America’s Child Soldiers: JROTC and the Militarizing of America
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• Law And Disorder In Spain
  by Yves Smith 3:40 am

• 401(k) Plan Abuses Finally Coming to Light
  by Yves Smith 2:13 am

December 15, 2013

• Links 12/15/13
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• Tourette’s Adventure of the Mind
  by Yves Smith 5:39 am

• How the Budget Deal Perpetuates Austerity Policies
  by Yves Smith 3:29 am

December 14, 2013

• Links 12/14/13
  by Yves Smith 6:28 am

• Gaius Publius: `Liberalism Doesn`t Carry the Critique of Capitalism that Progressivism Does`
  by Yves Smith 2:38 am

• “Can Societies Be Commodities All the Way Down?”
  by Yves Smith 2:25 am

December 13, 2013

• Links 12/13/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Why Obamacare Cannot “Insure” for Pre-Existing Conditions
  by Yves Smith 6:48 am

• Is Krugman Running on Brand Fumes? (TransPacific Partnership Edition)
  by Yves Smith 6:02 am

• The Eurozone: If Only It Were the 1930s
  by Yves Smith 4:18 am

• Bill Moyers: The Great American Class War, Plutocracy Versus Democracy
  by Yves Smith 2:30 am

December 12, 2013

• Links 12/12/13
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Will Opposition in the US and Overseas Derail the Toxic TransPacific Partnership?
  by Yves Smith 6:46 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Confessions of an Erratic Marxist in the Midst of a Repugnant Eurozone Crisis
  by Yves Smith 5:42 am

• America’s Descent into Third World Status: Tropical Diseases Rise Among Poor (Update)
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• Philip Pilkington: Hjalmar Schacht, Mefo Bills and the Restoration of the German Economy 1933-1939
  by Yves Smith 4:18 am

December 11, 2013

• Links 12/11/13
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Volcker Rule: The Devil’s in the Unimpressive Enforcement Details
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

• Guns and Votes: The Victory of an Intense Minority Against an Apathetic Majority
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 am

• Please Tell Us About Site Anomalies + Three Fixes for Readability Issues
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

• Ian Fraser: Victoria Chick — “The financial system has gone completely off the rails”
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

December 10, 2013

• What Equality-Efficiency Trade-Off?
  by Lambert Strether 1:09 pm

• Links 12/10/13
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• ObamaCare and Its Opportunity Costs
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Big Banks About to Start Booking Second Mortgage Losses They Can No Longer Extend and Pretend Away
  by Yves Smith 4:32 am

• Ilargi: All The Plans We Make For Our Futures Are Delusions
  by Yves Smith 1:17 am

December 9, 2013

• Whistleblower Describes How Private Equity Firms Flagrantly Violate SEC Broker-Dealer Requirements
  by Yves Smith 11:00 am

• Links 12/9/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Michael Olenick: Consumer Reports Joins Obama in Telling Obamacare Big Lies
  by Yves Smith 3:45 am

• Rob Parenteau: How to Exit Austerity, Without Exiting the Euro
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

• “Loss & Damage” Beyond Charity, into Solidarity, and Suffused with Climate Justice?i
  by Lambert Strether 12:55 am

December 8, 2013

• Links 12/8/13
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Modern Monetary Theory Meets George Lakoff
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Our Uneconomic Methods of Measuring Economic Research
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 am

December 7, 2013

• Links Pearl Harbor Day 2013
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am

• Capital Inflows and Booms in Asset Prices
  by Yves Smith 2:47 am

• Yanis Varoufakis Discuses Bitcoin and Litecoin on RT
  by Yves Smith 2:44 am

December 6, 2013

• The BLS Report Covering November 2013: Effects of the Government Shutdown Fade, Part Time Work Increases
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 pm

• Links 12/6/13
  by Yves Smith 7:02 am

• Nelson Mandela is Dead
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Ohio’s Official Fracking Water Damage Denialism
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Eric Ben-Artzi: How Risky is Citigroup’s New, Improved Version of a Once-Toxic Type of Synthetic CDO?
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

• Ilargi: Everything’s Fine In A Parallel Universe
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

December 5, 2013

• Links 12/5/13
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• Elizabeth Warren Attacks Beltway Powerhouse Third Way as Fronting for Wall Street
  by Yves Smith 3:24 am

• The US Economy Can’t Take QE
  by Yves Smith 1:56 am

• Obamacare’s Drug Coverage Minefield
  by Yves Smith 1:50 am

• New Zealand’s Latest Dodgy Export: Why FX Investors Should be Wary of Software Sold by Irish Company Paymark Autotrader
  by Richard Smith 12:12 am

December 4, 2013

• They’re Going to Dump the Fukushima Radiation Into the Ocean
  by George Washington 5:43 pm

• Links 12/4/13
  by Yves Smith 4:53 am

• New Study Confirms that Lower Corporate Tax Rates Don’t Create Jobs
  by Yves Smith 3:26 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: What Europeans Should Know About the Current Situation in Greece
  by Yves Smith 12:53 am

• Satyajit Das: The End of Trust? Part II
  by Yves Smith 12:12 am

December 3, 2013

• Policy and the Worship of Prediction Markets
  by Yves Smith 11:41 am

• Links 12/3/13
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Mathew D. Rose: Is It Time to Pull the Plug on the EU?
  by Yves Smith 4:29 am

• Wolf Richter: Strung-Out Consumers, Desperate Retailers, Crummy Sales
  by Yves Smith 2:58 am

• Satyajit Das: The End of Trust? Part I
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

December 2, 2013

• New Study Finds Higher Methane Emissions from Fracking
  by Yves Smith 1:12 pm

• Links 12/2/13
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• Ian Fraser: The “Financial Terrorism” of Royal Bank of Scotland
  by Yves Smith 4:13 am

• Obama Kept His Head in the Sand During Healthcare.gov Fiasco
  by Yves Smith 2:34 am

• Servaas Storm: Some Remarks on “Larry Summers, Secular Stagnation and the Crisis of the New Consensus Model”
  by Yves Smith 12:36 am

December 1, 2013

• Seeking Reader Comments on Latest Version of Our Site Redesign!
  by Yves Smith 5:48 pm

• Links 12/1/13
  by Yves Smith 1:05 am

• The European Balanced Budget Disaster
  by Yves Smith 12:19 am

• Steve Keen: The International Financial Architecture
  by Yves Smith 12:01 am