Category: Economy

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumps billions of dollars of US stocks FT Nobody Knows Anything, FedWatch Edition The Big Picture Climate High concentrations of floating neustonic life in the plastic-rich…

Lambert here: As before, Lira hold dual Chilean-American citizenship. So Yves remarks: I suggest Lira followers call their Chilean Embassy or Consulate to demand that Lira either be allowed his…

Yves here. Let me keep harping on my pet themes. Despite 2008 and supposedly better protections due to Dodd Frank, we’ve clearly had bank supervision become weaker and more captured.…

Yves here. While this article catalogues how some Republican states either have or are in the process of passing laws that would weaken restrictions on children serving as workers, it…

Your humble blogger feels the need for a wee change from our usual programming. Yes, the Ukraine conflict is important and even riveting if you are a war porn sort…but…

Watch a Moose Walk into an Alaskan Movie Theater, Eat Popcorn, and Leave Field and Stream You’ve Heard About Behavioral Finance. But What About Physical Finance? Institutional Investor Why Our…

Ukraine is “building the most convenient digital state in the world — without corruption, without bureaucracy, absolutely paperless, and open for everyone.” And the UNDP, like USAID, is fully on…

Yves here. Just a reminder: while the efforts of various countries to conduct trade outside the dollar system does vitiate using sanctions as a weapon (not that they were all…

Yves here. Richard Murphy put up this post to demonstrate the asymmetry between the rights of corporate carbon-killers, um, emitters, versus citizens trying to exercise their right to peaceful protest.…

Powell: Fed made ‘mistakes’ in regulation and supervision on his watch American Banker Pushback Against Powell’s Prognosis Comes Almost Immediately Bloomberg How the Fed Became Everything (and Everything Became the…