Author Archives: Yves Smith
Cognitive Economics: How Self-Organization and Collective Intelligence Works
The challenge of understanding self-organizing groups.
Read more...Financial Stability Regulations: A (Non) Progress Report
A survey of major financial reform initiatives finds they have been insufficient. That’s not an accident.
Read more...Debunking Mainstream Economists on Secular Stagnation and the Loanable Funds Fallacy
An important, accessible takedown of the loanable funds theory, on which a ton of bad policy rests.
Read more...Links 12/22/17
Thomas Cox: A Sweet Christmas Gift for a Client in Maine
Nationally famed foreclosure defense attorney Tom Cox scores a Maine Supreme Court win that saved a client’s home right before Christmas.
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Gaius Publius: New Study Evaluates Climate Models — Best Ones Also Show the Most Global Warming
A new study of the performance models shows more convincingly than ever that we are cooking our collective goose.
Read more...Larry Summers: Reagan’s Tax Plan Was Better Than Trump’s
Summers on inequality, the GOP tax plan, and US economic prospects.
Read more...Defining the Tax Reform Battleground
How tax “reform” policy discussions reinforced destructive economic ideas.
Read more...Exposure to Brexit in Regions on Both Sides of the Channel
A granular analysis of which regions will lose most from Brexit.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Apple Rips Off Owners of Older iPhones
More evidence of Apple crapification and customer abuse.
Read more...Bill Black: DSGE Dilettantes v. ADM God Devotees
Black shows how DSGE defenses fall apart, even as their backers lash out at critics.
Read more...Links 12/20/17
Lee Camp: How To Create NPR’s Propaganda – As Seen In a Hit Piece Against Me
NPR stoops to intellectually and factually dishonest bashing of comedy host Lee Camp. Not the behavior of a confident elite.
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