Today’s Water Cooler: “Golden showers” and shock doctrine, inflation, housing, co-ops, political risk, Tanzanian seeds, lost planet, shrooms
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/11/2017
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 138 Comments »
Lessons From the Demise of the TPP
Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science, TPP
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 23 Comments »
Links 1/11/17
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 278 Comments »
Calling Readers! Fight for Corruption-Busting SC Treasurer Curt Loftis As GOP Tries to End His Pension Oversight Role
Pension-corruption-fighter/state Treasurer Curt Loftis is under attack. Urge everyone you know in South Carolina to come to his defense.
Topics: Banana republic, Hedge funds, Investment management, Politics, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:02 am | 6 Comments »
Wolf Richter: What’s Going on with the Banks? Citi Cuts Goldman to “Sell,” after Goldman Cut Citi to “Neutral”
Citi and Goldman downgrades suggest the Trump trade may be overdone.
Topics: Banking industry, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:28 am | 4 Comments »
How ’60 Minutes’ Became a Pentagon Mouthpiece for Drone War
Drone warfare as an example of how the military uses overly-cozy news outlets to sell its pet initiatives.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:12 am | 19 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2016
Today’s Water Cooler: Obama’s legacy, “Russian hacking,” Sessions, Tillerson, Sanders and oligarchy, Brock, small business optimism, Apple
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 149 Comments »
Tom Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can’t Levitate a Broken Economy
How central banks’ policy remedies have taken big steps backwards.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Credit markets, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 53 Comments »
Links 1/10/17
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 203 Comments »
Gaius Publius: Best Buy National Repair Techs Routinely Search Customer Devices, Act as “Paid Informers” for FBI
Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:59 am | 64 Comments »
House Passes Koch Brothers-Backed REINS Act that Weakens Gov’t Regulatory Agencies
How the stealthy REINS Act would hamstring all Federal regulators.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:37 am | 18 Comments »
Obamacare: Republican Leaders Trying to Quell Revolting Senators
Enough Republicans are concerned about the downside of simply ending Obamacare to put a brake on efforts to repeal it.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:35 am | 43 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/9/2016
Today’s Water Cooler: 2016 post mortem, labor market conditions, many bezzles, co-ops, Larsen ice shelf, Atlantic conveyer, precarious jobs
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 158 Comments »
TrumpCare, Pre-Existing Conditions, and “Continuous Coverage”
“Continuous Coverage” is the Republican solution for avoiding a death spiral by covering pre-existing conditions. How bad will it be?
Topics: Health care, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:04 pm | 93 Comments »
Links 1/9/17
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 151 Comments »