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The Wall Street Journal and the Troika Fear they Have Not Adequately Terrorized Greece

By William K. Black Washington DC: January 6, 2015 I’ve written recently about the embarrassing nature of the New York Times’ coverage of Greece (and the eurozone more generally), so it is time to describe the even more appalling coverage by … Continue reading

The ECB and the NYT’s Obsession with Talking about Deflation

By William K. Black Kansas City, MO: December 4, 2014 In the last two days, the New York Times’ website has published a blizzard of six article about deflation, several of them focusing on the European Central Bank (ECB). Collectively, … Continue reading

The Way Out of Shutdown Shenanigans

Today, I received an e-mail from the Friends of (the very popular with progressives) Senator Bernie Sanders. In it the Senator says: I’m joining with the members of Progressives United to send a clear message to President Obama that we … Continue reading

The Wall Street Journal Still Refuses to Grasp Accounting Control Fraud via Appraisal Fraud

By William K. Black Kansas City, MO: December 2, 2014 The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) report described one of three epidemics of accounting control fraud that drove the financial crisis in these terms. “Some real estate appraisers had also … Continue reading

The New York Times Misses the Irony of Austerity and Economic Illiteracy

By William K. Black The New York Times published a story by Liz Alderman dated November 17, 2014 entitled “As Japan Falls Into Recession, Europe Looks to Avoid It.” The article begins with a burst of (unattributed) economic illiteracy. “Japan … Continue reading

Standard Chartered Is Outraged That It Is Treated Like A Criminal For Its Criminal Acts

By William K. Black After a decade of committing tens of thousands of felonies that the U.S. government believes helped fund terrorism and Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, having the great fortune of settling the cases without any senior officers … Continue reading

Why Democrats Lost: It’s Not All About Millennials

By Joe Firestone Carl Gibson, a writer blogging at Reader Supported News, provides an “Open Letter to the Democrats” giving his view of why they lost the Congressional Elections of 2014. He endorses the President’s view that people didn’t show … Continue reading

Piketty’s Neoliberal Capital

Let’s get this out of the way. I agree with Piketty’s overall conclusion in Capital about inequality, that: the distribution of wealth in many industrial nations is highly unequal, wealth concentration has been increasing; and there is a high likelihood … Continue reading

The New York Times Finally Allows Competent EU Commentators

By William K. Black As my regular readers know, the NYT coverage of the EU financial crisis has been shameful, economically illiterate, and harmful. In the last two weeks, however, that coverage has finally begun to mention the concept of … Continue reading

Did Ms. Rousseff’s epiphany come too late?

By Felipe Rezende If you’ve been tracking the news on Brazil’s presidential election, you already knew that incumbent Rousseff will face Neves in a runoff election for Brazil’s presidency on October 26th. The tight election reflects the perception of a … Continue reading