ECONOMY

Yves here. Gerald Epstein, who has written regularly about bank regulation and the inadequacy of “reforms” since the 2008 financial crisis, weighs in with his take on the 2023 panic....

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I’m going to try to keep this post as simple as I possibly can. The other day, I took notice of the following “letter” from...

Yves here. Supposedly super duper bank reforms after the crisis have done little to shore up confidence, particularly among the rich who tend to keep too much in uninsured accounts...

Yves here. As much as the overall picture for worker rights seems grim, the flip side is concerted pushback is finally producing some reversals of long-standing cuts in rights, as...

Yves here. I must confess that the lack of an integrated approach to weaning economies off fossil fuel has me deeply discouraged, independent of the inherent difficulty of the project....

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I got wrapped around the axle on household matters. More shortly. –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the Day House Wren, Licking,...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am enmeshed in the coils of hospital infection control regulation, and hope to escape at some point today. In the meantime, this...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, after reading this post, you may well decide to throw a flag on a Betteridge’s Law violation, but hear me out. Clearly, one...

It is remarkable to see the Fed determined to keep driving banks and investors into the ditch in the name of combatting an inflation it can’t fix. Since when do...

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