Crash Landing? Part 2 – The Usual Suspects
What parts of the financial system are most vulnerable to a crash?
Read more...What parts of the financial system are most vulnerable to a crash?
Read more...Why the expected official response to this bank panic wil make matters much worse, just not right away.
Read more...Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages
Read more...DOJ says it’s going to crack down as lawsuits pile up against real estate Goliaths and US officially becomes a “rent-burdened nation.”
Read more...New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.
Read more...One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”
Read more...Democrats help the gig economy expands its reach as it brings pain and suffering to more American workers.
Read more...Gail Tvergberg explains why oil prices are likely to remain be lower than full costs, and how that undermines the move to cleaner energy.
Read more...Vaccine politics could end up nudging countries in the region even deeper into China’s orbit. As vaccines fail to materialise, doctors turn to cheap, widely available drugs such as Ivermectin.
Read more...The company has been repeatedly caught falsifying records, at times on a gargantuan scale. Now it is seeking opportunities in an industry where money routinely disappears in the trillions. What could possibly go wrong?
Read more...Blackstone was a big winner of the last crisis. Now, it hopes to repeat the feat, albeit using a somewhat different playbook.
Read more...Debunking Bernanke’s pet excuse for the global financial crisis, the savings glut hypothesis, which of course exculpates the Fed.
Read more...No, collateralized loan obligations are not about to wipe out banks, and Frank Partnoy should have focused on real risks, like destruction of productive capacity.
Read more...Beware of old CDO risk re-imaged as “nonlinear finance”.
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