Portland (Maine) Meetup Thursday, September 6 with Lambert and Yves
Announcing a Down East meetup for Thursday September 6. Hope to see you there!
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Lump-of-Labor Fallacy: The Nastiest Motives of Nasty People
Why the lump-of-labor fallacy is bad for workers and for economics.
Read more...Brexit: EU Takes Hard-Nosed Stance on Financial Services “Equivalence” Deals
Is the EU playing iron fist in velvet glove on the UK’s Brexit pitch for a financial services equivalence deal?
Read more...Robo-Signing, CalPERS-Style: Travel Expense Claim Forms Regularly Had Approval Signature of Board President Rob Feckner Faked by Staffers; Deputy CEO Doug Hoffner Also Participated in Approval of Undated, Pre-Signed Expense Forms
Yet another addition to the long roster of Board and senior executive misconduct at CalPERS.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Greece Was Never Bailed Out and Remains in Debtor’s Prison – Bild Zeitung Interview
Yanis Varoufakis revisits the Greece 2015 debt negotiations and describes how Greece still wears the austerity yoke.
Read more...Social Activism and the Economics of Mental Health
Is the recent vogue for social activity as a remedy for mental distress well founded?
Read more...Links 8/22/18
The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from Digital Slavery
A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...Could Turkey Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis?
Why the currency crisis in Turkey is a due in part to the failure to take adequate corrective measures after the global financial crisis.
Read more...Gaius Publius: What to Expect from a Kavanaugh Court – Government-Funded “Religious” Education
Why Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court would be very bad news.
Read more...Brexit as a Tightly Coupled Process
Stepping back to look at the Brexit trajectory.
Read more...The Zero-Sum Economy
Is the problem with the economy the amount of stultifying work, or that too much work is really about more and more aggressive competition for income?
Read more...CalPERS Election-Rigging: Delays Release of Proof of Incumbent Priya Mathur Approving Illegal Pre-Signed Expense Forms to Thwart Challenger Jason Perez
CalPERS is up to yet more election dirty tricks.
Read more...Brexit Is a Consequence of Low Upward Mobility
In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.
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