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Blog post topic: Credit Card Delinquencies Reach Record Level

Ga Young (Gina) Jeon
Blog post topic: Credit Card Delinquencies Reach Record Level
Author: Yves Smith
                We have stretched our limits. We are finally experiencing the “feared crash” that the finance sector hoped and prayed wouldn’t come.
Hello Reality.
                Smith constructs an analysis from the Financial Times composed on Thursday, February 5, 2009. The outcome has simply [...]

Post by gjeon | May 16th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (3)

Blog post Topic: Quelle Surprise! Credit Card Companies Opposed to Proposed Regulation

Ga Young (Gina) Jeon
Blog post Topic: Quelle Surprise! Credit Card Companies Opposed to Proposed Regulation
Author: Yves Smith
                To whom does the power belong? The tables have turned as the push for power has shifted.
                A continuous imbalance in the financial sector has brought upon greater burden on the financial life cycle as a whole. [...]

Post by gjeon | May 16th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (9)

Blog Post: 2005 Bankruptcy Law Changes Have Worked to Detriment of Credit Card Companies

Ga Young (Gina) Jeon
Blog Post: 2005 Bankruptcy Law Changes Have Worked to Detriment of Credit Card Companies
Author: Yves Smith
 
            The ongoing battle was coming to reach its stretch point. Smith addresses some of the many reasons for the credit industry and its suffering debtors.
Seemingly, the monstrous banks and its partner, politics have learned to function [...]

Post by gjeon | May 15th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

“Four Crises of the Contemporary World Capitalist System”

Ga Young (Gina) Jeon
Professor Jesse Goldstein
“Four Crises of the Contemporary World Capitalist System”
Author: William K. Tabb
 
Before constructing an outline for this article, I’d like to inform you that Tabb approaches the financial analyses with the motivation to “inform progressive governments and movements for social change (1).” Tabb critiques the contemporary crises in four distinct yet inter-related [...]

Post by gjeon | March 17th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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  • Links 11/22/09 November 22, 2009
    Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair Times Online Economists: Wrong Again Michael Panzner The illusion of improving global imbalances Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni, VoxEU (hat tip reader Don B) Unemployment rates rise in 29 states CNN (hat tip reader John D) Wall St. Finds Profits Again, Now by Reducing Mortgages Louise [...] […]
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    Apologies for absence of links! Hope to be back to closer to usual programming early next week. […]
  • Stop the madness now! November 20, 2009
    By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns. A reader at Naked Capitalism asked us to respond to a recent article from the Christian Science Monitor asking Does US need a second stimulus to create jobs? Marshall Auerback has already done some heavy lifting – and taken all of the heat in the comments. He says emphatically yes. Now [...] […]
  • Dodd: Bernanke Confirmation “Not Necessarily” a Foregone Conclusion November 20, 2009
    This clip is from an interview with blogger Mike Stark. Apologies for the poor sound quality. While Dodd indicates that he is “inclined to be supportive” of Bernanke, he is surprisingly cautious about making a broader statement, a sign of a shift in sentiment. […]
  • Ivy Zelman: “Home prices are going back down” November 20, 2009
    By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns. Yves is stuffed again today, so I am going to post at least once or twice. Hopefully, we will also see something from Jesse or George as well. This is a post I wrote overnight about rising delinquencies and shadow housing inventory. I am not convinced house prices [...] […]

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  • Links 11/22/09 November 22, 2009
    Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair Times Online Economists: Wrong Again Michael Panzner The illusion of improving global imbalances Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni, VoxEU (hat tip reader Don B) Unemployment rates rise in 29 states CNN (hat tip reader John D) Wall St. Finds Profits Again, Now by Reducing Mortgages Louise [...] […]
    Yves Smith
  • Antidote du Jour November 21, 2009
    Apologies for absence of links! Hope to be back to closer to usual programming early next week. […]
    Yves Smith
  • Stop the madness now! November 20, 2009
    By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns. A reader at Naked Capitalism asked us to respond to a recent article from the Christian Science Monitor asking Does US need a second stimulus to create jobs? Marshall Auerback has already done some heavy lifting – and taken all of the heat in the comments. He says emphatically yes. Now [...] […]
    Edward Harrison
  • Dodd: Bernanke Confirmation “Not Necessarily” a Foregone Conclusion November 20, 2009
    This clip is from an interview with blogger Mike Stark. Apologies for the poor sound quality. While Dodd indicates that he is “inclined to be supportive” of Bernanke, he is surprisingly cautious about making a broader statement, a sign of a shift in sentiment. […]
    Yves Smith
  • Ivy Zelman: “Home prices are going back down” November 20, 2009
    By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns. Yves is stuffed again today, so I am going to post at least once or twice. Hopefully, we will also see something from Jesse or George as well. This is a post I wrote overnight about rising delinquencies and shadow housing inventory. I am not convinced house prices [...] […]
    Edward Harrison