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Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Roiled Repo Markets: Looking for Answers in All the Wrong Places
If you are worried about repo, you are worried about the wrong thing. If anything, it’s a symptom of too much liquidity demand from the FX swaps market.
Read more...30 Years After the Berlin Wall Came Down, East and West Germany Are Still Divided
Why Eastern Germany is still a place apart.
Read more...Links 11/9/19
The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Read more...Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Read more...The One Metric That Matters For Electric Cars
Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Read more...Links 11/8/19
Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Ousted from The Real News Network in June; Current Fundraiser Hides that Fact; Falling Viewership and Liberal Turn Result
The disgraceful defenestration of the founders of The Real News Network and the effort to cover that up.
Read more...‘Maybe Rich People Can See the Writing on the Wall’: CEOs Stepping Down at Levels Not Seen Since 2008
CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?
Read more...Ilargi: Energy vs Waste
Why the problem of human energy consumption is intractable.
Read more...The Stormy Birth of “Europe”
A review of major institutional and political developments that created modern Europe.
Read more...Links 11/7/19
How Misleading Economic Analysis Is Corrupting Our Democracy
Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.
Read more...Police Deadly Force: Then and Now
Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
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