Author Archives: Yves Smith
Supreme Court Decides For Workers and Against Private Equity in Important Bankruptcy Case, Jevic
The Supreme Court slaps down lower courts and gives workers a key bankruptcy court win in Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp.
Read more...Commercial & Residential Real Estate Bubble Again a Risk to Financial Stability; Fed’s Rosengren Worried
Real estate is again looking like a ticking time bomb. At super low interest rates, pray tell what does the Fed do if it blows up again?
Read more...Alice in Gender-Gap Land
The gender pay gap persists, even in supposedly female-friendly fields like the arts, when women have similar credentials and experience.
Read more...Even Before Brexit Triggered, EU Again Signals It Is Not Budging on “Shape of the Table” Issue
The EU is not giving ground as the Brexit trigger date approaches.
Read more...Who Benefits From the Mayo Clinic Explicitly Putting Commercially Insured Patients Ahead of Some Government Insured Patients?
The Mayo Clinic takes a big step backwards in patient care.
Read more...Will New Required Reporting of $3 Trillion of Debt Crimp Big Cos, Private Equity?
A geeky accounting change in liability reporting may have real world consequences.
Read more...Calling All Windy City Residents! Be Sure to Stop by Our Chicago Meetup This Friday March 24
A reminder about our Chicago meetup later this week!
Read more...The Mechanical Turn in Economics and Its Consequences
A historical discussion of the fondness of economics to envision economies as machines.
Read more...Links 3/21/17
The Global Industrial Working Class
Why industrial workers are better positioned than most observers think…just not in the US and many other Northern Hemisphere countries.
Read more...Is Trump Going to Punt on H-1B Visa Reform?
The lack of updates from the Trump Administration about H-1B reform suggests it will miss a key window of opportunity.
Read more...The Battle for Healthcare in the US
Some of the major consequences of the proposed Republican changes to healthcare, um, health insurance.
Read more...Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China?
Why Amazon will destroy a lot more jobs.
Read more...Uber President Resigns Unexpectedly, Citing Problems With “Beliefs and Approach to Management”
Yet more news of internal discord at Uber.
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