On-Time Rent Payments Sag Amid Massive Spike in Rents
Rents are up a lot in most places in the US of any consequence. Not all tenants are keeping pace.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Links 2/12/2022
Faster Internet Displaces Social Capital in the UK
Confirmation of the notion that the Internet displaces social time with real people.
Read more...What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those ‘Free’ Covid Tests? The Government Won’t Say.
The officialdom is not giving straight answers to simple questions about how much it spent procuring those “free” Covid tests.
Read more...Update: Supreme Court to Weigh EPA Authority on Greenhouse Pollutants
Additional briefs shed light on possible outcomes of major Supreme Court case scheduled for oral arguments this month.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Nine: Despite Massive Price Increases Uber Losses Top $31 Billion
Uber burns through yet more cash, but analysts and reporters fail to question its extremely misleading financials.
Read more...Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism
Read more...SEC Set to Lower Massive Boom on Private Equity Industry
Private equity is about to get a big wake-up call. Expect shoes to drop when industry has to make basic disclosures about fees and returns.
Read more...Revealed: New Insight into What Really Drives the Stock Market
In How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market, economist Nicholas Mangee examines how stories influence stock market outcomes
Read more...Links 2/9/2022
The 50 Biggest US Donors Gave or Pledged Nearly $28 Billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Account for $15 Billion of That Total
No, you are not paranoid if you worry about the outsized influence of the Gates Foundation.
Read more...Resist Inflation Phobia Coup
Efforts to cure inflation, at least for poorer countries, will prove to be more damaging than the disease.
Read more...Occupy the SEC to DoJ: Act on Congressional Mandate, Quit Rubber Stamping Bank Mergers
Occupy the SEC is back! The small group of lawyers, bank compliance experts, and financial services industry product specialists generated an outside reputation with its highly praised, over 300 page comment letter on Dodd Frank. As Law.com wrote: In detailing how they believe the Volcker Rule can be strengthened, Occupy the SEC has written what […]
Read more...New Report: Monetary Policy Without Interest Rate Hikes
A fresh report lead authored by Nathan Tankus takes on orthodoxy monetary policy ideas and provides Modern Monetary Theory solutions.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help
Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.
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