Project S.H.A.M.E. on Megan McArdle…
Angry Bear has had a history of disagreement with Megan McArdle via her Atlantic magazine posts (starting in 2007), at one point being called Mike and his merry madmen in print by Megan McArdle (in...
View ArticleYves Smith on Wall Street ethics
You can’t say Wall Street has no ethics…but you can say what kind:
View ArticleThe CBO Wants to Discuss Healthcare and the Deficit?
The CBO Wants to Discuss Healthcare and the Deficit?(from run75411) Someone struck a nerve, “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much: CBO Director Asks for A Chat . . .”. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism received...
View ArticleSystematic document forgery and fabrication
Yves Smith at continues to point us in the direction of property ownership and the fallout from the widespread disregard of law in establishing title to property in her post Systematic document forgery...
View ArticleBruce Bartlett and Yves Smith on Overhyping the Fiscal Cliff
This video featuring Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith on Overhyping the Fiscal Cliff is worth watching. Independent political and economic analysts Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith join Bill in a discussion...
View ArticleIs the $8.5 billion Foreclose and Fraud Settlement Enough of a Penalty?
by run75411 Update: Besides not prosecuting particulars who promulgated much of 2008, what makes this settlement bad is letting banks off the hook: “In the settlement announced Monday between the...
View ArticleNew Ruling on Mortgage Putbacks a Potential Huge Win for Banks
Yves Smith discusses New Ruling on Mortgage Putbacks a Potential Huge Win for Banks Even though, for most people, the housing crisis is a thing of the past, the fight over who should bear the cost of...
View ArticleInnovation and production
Yves Smith points to a MIT study on how much bigger the conversation should be than the political arguments of offshoring and outsourcing suggest. And the complexities of applying ‘just in time’...
View ArticleYves Smith will be on Harry Shearer’s Le Show today (Sunday)
Yves Smith will be on Harry Shearer’s Le Show today (Sunday), originating at 1 pm ET live on many public radio stations, and aired on many others throughout the day. Good streams are available all day,...
View ArticleHarry Shearer and Yves Smith transcripts
Transcript: Yves Smith Interview – Harry Shearer – Listen to the podcast here. A link to Yves’ IFR e-book is here. (on the fraudclosure fiasco…)
View ArticleI keep wondering: Is anyone under the age of 40 ‘Ready for Hillary’?
Yves Smith linked this morning on her Naked Capital blog to my post from yesterday called “The Secretive Democracy Alliance’s Secret Is Out: Some of its members are elitist, racist and self-serving,”...
View ArticleBlackie, in Wantagh, NY [Sweet dog still needs a home. 8/23]
I see so many listings about older dogs whose owner can no longer care for him or her, usually because of finances. I just received this sweet, touching email notice,* from Hempstead Animal Shelter in...
View ArticleWhat Bernie Sanders is doing to help Hillary Clinton [UPDATED]
One charge against Sanders by the likes of Paul Krugman that I just could not abide—there were others, but this post is about this one—was that while Clinton was actively soliciting campaign funds for...
View ArticleThe Bizarre and Manipulative Crusade by Centrist NYT Columnists to Persuade...
All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent’s bounce a...
View ArticleMike Kimel vs. Yves Smith
I and many others, including Yves Smith, waded into the thicket of Mike Kimel’s provocative generic and specific-reasons-for-the-generic claims in his post here earlier this week titled “Negative...
View ArticleYves Smith on foreclosures
The post Yves Smith on foreclosures appeared first on Angry Bear.
View ArticleMortgage Mess being re-aired
Yves Smith on the Harry Shearer show concerning the Mortgage Mess is being re-aired this Sunday (see link for times). The transcript for the show is at the link. The post Mortgage Mess being re-aired...
View Articleextractionism
Dylan Ratigan interviews Yves Smith on where the money goes (h/t rjs): Smith: Investors Are Afraid of Suing the Big Banks for Fear the Government Will RetaliateOn this episode of Greedy Bastards...
View ArticleObama Bucket Shop act
Yves Smith points us to information on our notions of new business and venture capital: Amar Bhide, who has written the classic, The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, has decisively debunked the...
View ArticleRobbery at the Saving and Loan… a reminder
As I wait for the roofers to fix a leak in a flat part of the roof I pass along this comment and link: Lifted from comments at Naked Capitalism, reader Mary points us to some history: Martin Mayer...
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