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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
”Who Says Violence Doesn’t Solve Anything?” A Review of Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment by Cory Doctorow
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:12 am | 53 Comments »
How Deep Is Boeing’s Hole?
A favorite saying of famed short seller David Einhorn is, “No matter how bad it looks, it’s worse.”. This appears particularly true of Boeing these days.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 182 Comments »
China-US Trade War Heats Up: 3 Reasons It Won’t Cool Down Anytime Soon
Why the US and China are gridlocked on trade.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:50 am | 54 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bullock, de Blasio, O’Rourke, Sanders, legitimacy and the DNC, Sunrise movement, import and export prices, small business optimism. influencers, Uber, Adobe, coal ash, the Mississippi, California wildfires, Adolph Reed, Bruce Lee, “Everything’s Going According to Plan”
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 127 Comments »
Working on Cloudflare’s Captcha Hell
Cloudflare doesn’t seem terribly interested in addressing a “captcha hell” that almost certainly originates with them, so please be patient while we work on seeing if we can change settings to make things more tolerable.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:45 pm | 26 Comments »
SEC to Relax Audit Requirements for Small Companies, Thus Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud
SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Investment management, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 9:55 am | 9 Comments »
Links 5/14/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »
Facebook’s Finance Fantasy Island Dreams
Facebook wants to become a big payments system player. Good luck with that.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit cards, Guest Post, Payment system, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Clive at 6:06 am | 37 Comments »
“It’s Not Just Barclays – Tackling Climate Change Means Building a New Bank System”
A discussion of using bank lending as a way to tackle climate change.
Topics: Banking industry, Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Privatization
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:24 am | 7 Comments »
ZEN and the Art of Modern Money, Part 3 (MMT)
More MMT for people in a hurry.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Payment system, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:29 am | 10 Comments »
Why Everyone in the U.S. Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead
Keep your eye on what Assange’s real offenses are in the minds of the officialdom.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Middle East, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:42 am | 57 Comments »
ZEN and the Art of Modern Money, Part 2 (MMT)
MMT for people in a hurry.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Payment system
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:12 pm | 5 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread and iOS mailer hate.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 105 Comments »
Josh Hawley (R-MO) and How the Social Media Economy Addicts Users
Lambert gingerly enters the worlds of gaming and Republican politics.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:25 pm | 29 Comments »
Links 5/13/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 172 Comments »