Author Archives: Yves Smith
Ilargi: Migration Blowback
On misdirected anger over migration policies.
Read more...May’s New Brexit Trade Scheme Dead Before Arrival
Spain tells Theresa May to quit wasting her time on trying to sell the EU27 on a special Brexit trade scheme.
Read more...Earthquake in the Bronx: Ocasio-Cortez Beat 10 Term Establishment Dem Crowley in Primary
Challenger Ocasio-Cortez delivers a major upset in turfing out a Democratic party fixture, Joe Crowley.
Read more...Links 6/26/18
Brexit: Chaos Visible
As businesses finally start telling the press they are worried about Brexit, the press is still not coming to grips with key issues.
Read more...Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns
A public health warning about the dangers of guns to the elderly and their relatives.
Read more...How Cynical Is the Democratic Party’s Support for Identity Politics? (Plus a Note on the Ocasio-Crowley Contest)
Another case study of Democratic Party hypocrisy.
Read more...Some Public Pension Funds Give KKR a Wet Noodle Lashing Over Toys ‘R’ Us Collapse
Not surprisingly, action in the wake of private equity investors Bain, KKR and Vornado stiffing Toys ‘R’ Us workers of their severance have generated more press than restitution. But some of the ideas bruited about would have real teeth.
Read more...Italy Threatens to Throw Spanner in European Alternative to Russian Gas
Italy threatens to make trouble on another European front.
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Read more...Will Investors Like CalPERS Fall for Private Equity’s Long-Lived Fund Con?
Beware of the private equity “innovation,” the long-lived or “permanent capital” fund. It is virtually guaranteed to short change investors on returns needed to compensate for the longer holding period.
Read more...Links 6/23/18
Why Italy’s Crisis Is the Left’s Crisis
Why framing the political struggle in Italy as mainstream versus populist shifts focus away from the most important issue, Eurozone reform, where the battle is mercantilists versus Keynesians.
Read more...Wilkerson: Don’t Trust Trump, Bolton to Deliver US-North Korea Peace
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and Real News Network host Aaron Mate mix it up a bit more than usual on the topic of North Korea.
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