The Rise of the Right Wing Populist: Blame It on the Banks
Contrary to popular belief, the shift to the right is not due to immigration as much as the financial crisis and its aftermath.
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Obama Administration Trying to Throw Massive Secrecy Veil Over Past and Future Pilfering of Fannie and Freddie
Why is the government insisting that a huge stash of Fannie and Freddie records deserve state secret treatment?
Read more...Greece-Troika Train Wreck Shaping Up for July Despite IMF Leak
As hard as it seems to believe, the IMF is shaping up as a less bad actor in the continuing Greece austerity saga. Germany finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, by contrast, seems emboldened by Merkel’s fallen stature, which couldn’t come at a worse time for Greece.
Read more...Bill Black: Andrew Ross Sorkin Makes a Hash of Met Life “Too Big to Fail” Decision
Andrew Ross Sorkin yet again misinforms readers, to the benefit of Big Finance.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: Neoliberalism as Lived Experience
How do these people live with themselves.
Read more...Towards a Theory of Shadow Money
Struggles over shadow money today echo 19th century struggles over bank deposits.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Pamama – Laundering Haven for War Budgets
Michael Hudson explains the history of Panama as a center to launder earnings for the oil and the gas industries, and the mining industry.
Read more...Five Big Banks Get Bad Grades on Living Wills, No One Gets Clean Pass; Admission That “Too Big to Fail” is Alive and Well
The practical and political consequences of no big banks getting a pass on their living wills.
Read more...Bill Black: “Liberal” Economists Cheered the New Democrats’ Deregulation of Finance
A case study illustrating how soi-disant liberal economists pushed the US to the right during the Clinton Administration.
Read more...Martin Wolf Defends Central Banks’ Negative Interest Rate Policies
The Financial Times’ lead economics writer, Martin Wolf, makes an intellectually bogus case for negative interest policies.
Read more...Krugman Kinda, Sorta Retracts a Key Part of Last Friday’s ‘Sanders Over the Edge’ Op-ed
Being Paul Krugman means never having to say you’re sorry.
Read more...Housing’s “Deadly Embrace” in Financial Cycles
The IMF argues that regulating mortgages is not sufficient to prevent housing booms and busts.
Read more...John Helmer: Brookings Launches Unguided Missile – The Panama Papers as Putin Plot
Brookings issued an astonishing report, and not in a good way, about the Panama Papers.
Read more...Fed Suddenly Having Emergency Meetings as European Banks Also Wobble
The Fed is suddenly looking very nervous, and by contrast, the Europeans don’t seem anywhere nervous enough on the banking front.
Read more...Caesars Bankruptcy Fight Over Alleged Fraudulent Transfers Opens Window on Private Equity Looting
Creditor suits against private equity kingpins Apollo and TPG for the failed Caesars’ deal have already revealed a lot of dirt, with more sure to follow.
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