Yves Smith

yvessmith More Evidence That Shareholder Liability Leads to Less Risky Behavior: An interesting paper at VoxEU provides some... http://bit.ly/dsoBOv

yvessmith Is Calm on the European Front Merely a Lull Before an Inevitable Storm: During the global financial crisis, after ... http://bit.ly/agq36a

yvessmith Bill Black: “Control Fraud” Crushes Kabul, And the New York Times Needs to Correct its Correction: By William C. B... http://bit.ly/by7wgs

yvessmith Links 9/6/10: Reading Arabic ‘hard for brain‘ BBC Rare colour footage of Blitz unearthed Telegraph What America Ha... http://bit.ly/9mlzrb

yvessmith Summer Rerun: Japan Says US Financial Crisis Worse Than Its Bust, Urges Government to Recapitalize Banks: This pos... http://bit.ly/cFdsRZ

yvessmith Links 9/5/10: Apologies for thin links, I am supposed to be having a holiday and need to be up early to drive from... http://bit.ly/aocMDh

yvessmith Bill Black: Band of Bigots – Dr. Sarrazin, Herr Henkel, and the Bank of America: By William C. Black, Associate P... http://bit.ly/cgXWpC

yvessmith Summer Rerun: The Administration’s Cosmetic Credit Market Reform: This post first appeared on March 13, 2008 Never... http://bit.ly/aHhYkl

yvessmith Guest Post: Economic consequences of speculative side bets – The case of naked CDS: By Yeon-Koo Che, Professor of ... http://bit.ly/9Wht4c

yvessmith Links 9/4/10: I’ve got my hands full aping Mum: Orangutan cradles lion cubs in unlikely babysitter role Daily Mail... http://bit.ly/bZ65eo

yvessmith Fannie to Crack Down on Foreclosure Delays: Is a stealth shift in policy afoot, to find the bottom in the housing ... http://bit.ly/b6fyUB

yvessmith Links 9/3/10: Rare Roman lantern found in field near Sudbury BBC (hat tip reader John M) One Lump Or Two? James H... http://bit.ly/bhxVqD

yvessmith Eurobank Stress Tests: A Failed Confidence Ploy: As much as this blog was a persistent critic of the US version of... http://bit.ly/aUfujO

yvessmith Marshall Auerback on Why Quantitative Easing Won’t Fix the Economy: Via Bloomberg: View the segment here. http://bit.ly/djxxhK

yvessmith Andrew Horowitz: NPF Unemployment Preview: Continued Market Strength or September Weakness?: By Andrew Horowitz of... http://bit.ly/d6LTYn

yvessmith New Oil RIg Explosion in the Gulf: News is preliminary, no idea yet whether it is a production well or not, but al... http://bit.ly/dsZ4Lx

yvessmith Links 9/2/10: Deep-fried beer invented in Texas Telegraph (hat tip reader Martin W) Old star wallows in ’steam bat... http://bit.ly/9iokka

yvessmith Whalen Says Forget QE, Get Tough With Banks: Chris Whalen has a particularly tough-minded post at Reuters in which... http://bit.ly/blrWQl

yvessmith Having Hollowed Out IT in the US, Indian Outsourcers Complain Re Difficulty of Finding US Staff: Lordie, if this i... http://bit.ly/cpz7NY

yvessmith Guest Post: Scientists Say Dispersants May Delay Recovery of the Gulf By Years … Or Decades: → Was hington’s ... http://bit.ly/aHF39Z

yvessmith Lax Basel III Rules to Spur Further Bank Consolidation, Meaning More TBTF?: The “lax” is clearly a tad inflammator... http://bit.ly/dp3ekn

yvessmith Dick Fuld is Still Trying to Blame Everyone Else For Lehman’s Failure: The English language needs a new word to de... http://bit.ly/dbJqMg

yvessmith Links 9/1/10: Drunk baboons plague Cape Town’s exclusive suburbs Telegraph (hat tip reader Paul S) How Many Lone N... http://bit.ly/bDjW0h

yvessmith So $400 Billion of QE Buys 17 Basis Points of Rate Reduction?: A key paragraph in a post on a new paper by Jim Ham... http://bit.ly/9tvXF0

yvessmith William Black: Theoclassical Law and Economics Makes the Law an Ass: By William K. Black, Associate Professor of E... http://bit.ly/9ZjKxF