Coronavirus Dashboard: Updating the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Parsing some US coronavirus data.
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Wall Street’s Useful Idiot: Financial Times Shills for CLOs….as Fed Hasn’t Bailed Them Out
A major story on the CLOs chooses not to address the key questions.
Read more...Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?
Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
Read more...The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment
Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Read more...Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results
Foreign Affairs runs “dangerous to your health” propaganda from the Sweden without informing its readers.
Read more...Testing and the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Looking at state (non) progress on Covid-19.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Big Business Takes Cash as Workers Laid Off, States and Cities Go Bust
Tom Ferguson and Paul Jay discuss how Democrats and Republicans distaste for accountability by finance and big corporations is playing out in the coronacrisis
Read more...Don’t Do It Again! The Swedish Experience With Negative Central Bank Rates in 2015-2019
Why negative interest rates were a bust.
Read more...The False Dawn of Ending Coronavirus Lockdowns
It would be nice if relaxing the lockdowns would solve a problem, any problem….
Read more...Universa Debunks CalPERS’ Defense of $1 Billion Tail Hedge Miss; Insider Accounts Expose Additional Misrepresentations
CalPERS efforts to ‘splain away its $1 billion tail hedge fiasco backfire as one of the tail risk managers, Universa, shreds CalPERS’ claims.
Read more...Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March
Keeping tabs on Fed munificence.
Read more...More Public Pension Fund Pain: LACERS Reports Hit to Liquidity from Private Equity Capital Calls; Are Fund Managers Exploiting the Dumb Money Yet Again?
Private equity firms are sucking cash out of their limited partners at the worst possible time, exposing public pension funds in particular to liquidity crunches and fire sales.
Read more...Unemployment Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders
Why ending the lockdowns won’t do all that much to lower unemployment.
Read more...Consumer Beware: Coronavirus Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress
How hopes for coronavirus tests are ahead of the state of play.
Read more...CalPERS Out of Control: Stunningly High Number of Personal Trading Violations, Yet Board Ignored the Misconduct
CalPERS yet again manages to exceed expectations in a bad way.
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