Author Archives: Yves Smith
Voters Repudiate Clinton
Hillary Clinton is over.
Read more...Bill Black: Liberals Didn’t Listen – The Immense Cost of Ignoring Tom Frank’s Warnings
Why liberals (which do not forget is not the same as the left) reaped the whirlwind in the elections
Read more...Gaius Publius: TPP Is a Monopoly Protection Scheme, the Exact Opposite of a “Free Trade” Deal
Obama is determined to pass the TPP in the lame duck session, so yet another reminder of what this deal is really about.
Read more...Monetary Policy at the Time of Elections
How much was the Federal Reserve standing pat on interest rates linked to the election, and what can be expected for the future?
Read more...Links 11/8/16: Election Day
Judge Jed Rakoff Throws Down Gauntlet to Judges on Lack of Due Process in America
How the judicial system is failing ordinary Americans and why judges need to address this large and growing problem.
Read more...Did the Farm Credit System Change Americans’ Thinking About Credit?
How and why the farm credit system served as the first Federal experiment in using cheap credit as an economic and policy tool.
Read more...Be Sure to Join Our Election Night Live Blog/Open Thread Tomorrow Evening
Join the Naked Capitalism community for conversation and commiseration as election results come in!
Read more...Private Equity Energy Funds Did So Badly They Might Have to Do the Unthinkable – Pay Clawbacks
Clawbacks, a provision meant to protect investors, seldom work as advertised. Investors might get better terms as the defects become obvious.
Read more...Election 2016: Playing a Game of Chicken With Nuclear Strategy
Too many parties are becoming less inhibited about pressing the nuclear button.
Read more...Links 11/6/16
Wolf Richter: Come on Moody’s, Spare Us These Falsehoods: That $1.3 Trillion “Overseas Cash” Is Already in the US
Moody’s turns into tax lobbyist for its biggest corporate clients.
Read more...A Colorado Ballot Measure Could Make it Nearly Impossible to Ban Fracking
Green groups hope to amend the Colorado constitution so communities can ban fracking. An industry-sponsored amendment could block that.
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