Articles by Yves Smith - Page 543 of 1582

Identifying issues that may influence how Italy’s political crisis over the rejection of a Lega Nord-5 Star economy minister plays out.

There’s No Getting Around Iranian Sanctions

A discussion of the how Europe’s efforts to buck the US sanctions against Iran may play out.

Stock Market Borrowing at All Time High, Increasing Risk of Downdrafts

I find it hard to get excited about stock market risks unless defaults on the borrowings can damage the banking/payments system, as they did in the Great Crash. This is one reason the China perma-bears have a point: even though the Chinese government has managed to do enough in the way of rescues and warnings […]

Be Sure to Catch This Saturday’s June 2 NYC Meetup with Lambert

If you live in or near NYC, hope you can make our meetup this coming Saturday.

Links 5/26/18

How Institutional Dysfunction Has Enabled Poor Economic Policy Thinking

How economic research practices and the role of academic journals helped create and reinforced an orthodoxy that was able to miss that the crisis was coming.

Do Fewer Settlements by Pharmaceutical Companies Mean Even Less Accountability for Their Execs?

Drug company settlements with the Feds, which never were very tough to begin with, are also becoming less frequent.

Links 5/25/18

Eyewitness Sketches Provide ‘Stormy’ Results, Can Lead to False Convictions

On the shortcomings of eyewitness memories, and in particular, forensic sketches based them.

PropOrNot – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits

Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.