Occupy the SEC is back! The small group of lawyers, bank compliance experts, and financial services industry product specialists generated an outside reputation with its highly praised, over 300 page comment letter on Dodd Frank. As Law.com wrote: In detailing how they believe the Volcker Rule can be strengthened, Occupy the SEC has written what […]
Read more...Getting out of super low interest rates and unwinding QE is proving to be easier said than done.
Read more...Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
Read more...A rise of unfinished houses thanks to construction delays. Massive supply building up in the pipeline.
Read more...Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it
Read more...Biden is signaling he might retreat on resuming student debt payments. But is this simply a ploy in light of the BBB brick wall?
Read more...CalPERS, which has lagged nearly all other public pension funds’ performance, is doubling down on failure by resorting to leverage.
Read more...How endowments, the supposedly best and brightest fiduciaries, are destroying value.
Read more...Not surprisingly, fintech looks like a variety of old scams in new bottles.
Read more...Foreclosure suits from the financial crisis era get a new life thanks to a ruling by a conflicted New York judge.
Read more...Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging talk, including American policy in the post-war era, how economics ignores debt, and class warfare.
Read more...While increasing interest rates to combat this inflation is bone-headed, the Fed has long wanted to be out of super low rate terrain.
Read more...How stock price fixated management and a big expansion into financial services under Jack Welch did in the once-esteemed General Electric.
Read more...The financial press overhyped the latest Fed stabilty report’s comments on China, and ignored the near total absence of supply chain woes.
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