Hacker News
- Wall Street and Silicon Valley http://baselinescenario.com/2011/10/09/wall-street-and-silicon-valley/ 30 comments
- How Are the Kids? Unemployed, Underwater, and Sinking http://baselinescenario.com/2010/11/20/how-are-the-kids-unemployed-underwater-and-sinking/ 46 comments
- Why do Harvard kids head to Wall Street? http://baselinescenario.com/2010/05/04/why-do-harvard-kids-head-to-wall-street/ 103 comments
- The Myth of Efficiency http://baselinescenario.com/2010/02/11/the-myth-of-efficiency/ 17 comments
- Goldman Goes Rogue – Special European Audit To Follow http://baselinescenario.com/2010/02/14/goldman-goes-rogue-%E2%80%93-special-european-audit-to-follow/ 2 comments
- Salespeople and Programmers http://baselinescenario.com/2009/12/24/salespeople-and-programmers/ 3 comments
- The Problem with Software http://baselinescenario.com/2009/07/14/health-care-software/#more-4359 4 comments
- 60% of Ted Cruz‘s Tax Cut Goes to the Top 1% http://baselinescenario.com/2015/11/04/60-of-ted-cruzs-tax-cut-goes-to-the-top-1/ 138 comments politics
- "If we don’t fix the system — then, well, nothing else really matters. Forget about doing anything about climate change. At a minimum, Larry Lessig’s campaign will bring attention to the importance of electoral reform and political equality." http://baselinescenario.com/2015/09/25/the-only-two-things-that-matter-why-im-supporting-larry-lessig/ 4 comments politics
- "The Democratic establishment seems intent on making Lessig’s point for him by keeping him out of the upcoming debates." http://baselinescenario.com/2015/09/28/whos-afraid-of-larry-lessig/ 3 comments politics
- Friedrich Hayek Supported a Guaranteed Minimum Income. http://baselinescenario.com/2015/07/20/friedrich-hayek-supported-a-guaranteed-minimum-income/ 4 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren And The Independent Community Bankers of America Are Right: Antonio Weiss Should Not Become Undersecretary for Domestic Finance http://baselinescenario.com/2014/12/17/elizabeth-warren-and-the-independent-community-bankers-of-america-are-right-antonio-weiss-should-not-become-undersecretary-for-domestic-finance/ 13 comments politics
- Citigroup Will Be Broken Up: "Citigroup is a very large bank that has amassed a huge amount of political power. Its current and former executives consistently push laws and regulations in the direction of allowing Citi and other mega-banks to take on more risk..." http://baselinescenario.com/2014/12/12/citigroup-will-be-broken-up/#more-11044 3 comments politics
- The Problem with 401(k) Plans http://baselinescenario.com/2013/08/09/the-problem-with-401k-plans/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+baselinescenario+%28the+baseline+scenario%29 4 comments economy
- The Importance of Excel - Excel spreadsheets break all the time. But they don’t tell you when they break: they just give you the wrong number." J.P. Morgan used Excel spreadsheets to monitor risk on the London Whale trading account. They were wrong. Nobody noticed. Cost: $6bn http://baselinescenario.com/2013/02/09/the-importance-of-excel/ 9 comments business
- Who’s a Freeloader? Understanding the Tea Partiers "I deserve my entitlement programs, but you don’t deserve yours" attitude http://baselinescenario.com/2012/03/14/whos-a-freeloader/ 13 comments politics
- The proposition is simple: Too-big-to-fail banks should be made smaller, and preferably small enough to fail without causing global panic. http://baselinescenario.com/2012/05/12/making-banks-small-enough-and-simple-enough-to-fail/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+baselinescenario+%28the+baseline+scenario%29 15 comments politics
- "This is what the golden age of unregulated capitalism looked like. It’s also the world we’re heading towards" http://baselinescenario.com/2011/12/27/state-of-nature/ 3 comments politics
- Jon Huntsman: Too Big To Fail Is Too Big - The Baseline Scenario http://baselinescenario.com/2011/10/20/jon-huntsman-too-big-to-fail-is-too-big/ 6 comments politics
- Will The IMF Save The World? --- "A potential recession in the eurozone and a weak recovery in the United States does not make for a world crisis. Beware people who demand that the world be saved – usually they are making the case for a bailout of some kind" http://baselinescenario.com/2011/09/25/will-the-imf-save-the-world/ 23 comments worldnews
- Ponzi schemes for beginners or why Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme http://baselinescenario.com/2011/09/12/ponzi-schemes-for-beginners/ 11 comments politics
- Why Are The French So Determined To Run The IMF? --- If economics isn't your area, this will make the scales fall from your eyes. Superb, concise commentary on eurozone financial troubles and the IMF, by the fund's former chief economist http://baselinescenario.com/2011/06/03/why-are-the-french-so-determined-to-run-the-imf-%E2%80%93-and-what-will-it-cost-you/ 35 comments worldnews
- Big Banks Have A Powerful New Opponent - small business joins together against big bank fees http://baselinescenario.com/2011/04/07/big-banks-have-a-powerful-new-opponent/ 3 comments politics
- Bill Daley's appointment as Obama's gate-keeper means banks have capped their conquest of financial/political system and will continue to reap the rewards (bailouts, interest-free money, no re- regulation, lower taxes), as they will ride the US to another crash, profiting all the way. http://baselinescenario.com/2011/01/09/the-bill-daley-problem/#more-8493 5 comments economy
- Why Is The US Taxpayer Subsidizing Facebook? http://baselinescenario.com/2011/01/06/why-is-the-us-taxpayer-subsidizing-facebook-%E2%80%93-and-the-next-bubble/ 6 comments politics
- Why Is The US Taxpayer Subsidizing Facebook – And The Next Bubble? Goldman Sachs is investing $450 million of its own money in Facebook, at a valuation that implies the social networking company is now worth $50 billion. http://baselinescenario.com/2011/01/06/why-is-the-us-taxpayer-subsidizing-facebook-%E2%80%93-and-the-next-bubble/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feed%3A+baselinescenario+%28the+baseline+scenario%29 5 comments business
- How Are the Kids? Unemployed, Underwater, and Sinking http://baselinescenario.com/2010/11/20/how-are-the-kids-unemployed-underwater-and-sinking/ 8 comments economy
- If your first suggestion is "cut taxes," you're not a fiscal conservative. http://baselinescenario.com/2010/11/04/paul-ryan-is-not-a-fiscal-conservative/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+baselinescenario+%28the+baseline+scenario%29&utm_content=google+reader 250 comments politics
- Foreign money, national security and the midterm elections - "We have effectively enfranchised foreigners in US elections. This is clearly and absolutely not what the drafters of the Constitutions had in mind." http://baselinescenario.com/2010/10/31/foreign-money-national-security-and-the-midterm-elections/ 3 comments politics
- Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts -- "They screwed up their own banks, the financial system, and the economy like a bunch of two-year-olds. Every single major bank would have failed in late 2008 without massive government intervention — because of wounds that were entirely self-inflicted. " http://baselinescenario.com/2010/05/26/wall-street-ceos-are-nuts/ 6 comments politics
- The SAFE banking ACT actually ends "To Big To Fail" while the Dodd financial reform bill does nothing good. http://baselinescenario.com/2010/04/22/the-safe-banking-act-break-them-up/#more-7265 4 comments business
- Geithner: 'We Saved the Economy, but We Kind of Lost the Public Doing It'. Leading Economist (Simon Johson): 'They Saved The Big Banks But Kind Of Lost The Economy Doing It' http://baselinescenario.com/2010/03/08/they-saved-the-big-banks-but-kind-of-lost-the-economy-doing-it/ 4 comments business
- Eurozone may ban Goldman Sachs, humiliate U.S. Federal Reserve http://baselinescenario.com/2010/02/14/goldman-goes-rogue-%E2%80%93-special-european-audit-to-follow/ 5 comments reddit.com
- "A single rogue trader can bring down a bank. But a single rogue bank can bring down the world’s financial system." http://baselinescenario.com/2010/02/14/goldman-goes-rogue-%E2%80%93-special-european-audit-to-follow/ 7 comments business
- Obama Should Nominate Paul Krugman For the Fed http://baselinescenario.com/2010/01/23/paul-krugman-for-the-fed/ 14 comments reddit.com
- Volcker, legendary former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board with much more experience of Wall Street than any current policymaker, was blunt: We need to break up our biggest banks and return to the basic split of activities that existed under the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. http://baselinescenario.com/2009/12/17/paul-volcker-picks-up-a-bat/ 29 comments politics
- Support for Same-Sex Marriage across the US, by Age and State http://baselinescenario.com/2009/11/04/same-sex-marriage-and-time/ 8 comments reddit.com
- Summary of Krugman's take on the current state of economics http://baselinescenario.com/2009/09/04/krugman-on-economics/ 5 comments economy
- Too Big To Fail, Politically - Simon Johnson's scathing review of the Obama administrations plan. http://baselinescenario.com/2009/06/18/too-big-to-fail-politically/ 3 comments economy
- How to solve the toxic asset problem: give them to bank executives as bonuses. http://baselinescenario.com/2009/02/08/heres-an-idea/ 88 comments business
Linking pages
- Volcker and Bernanke: So Close and Yet So Far | HuffPost Impact http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/volcker-and-bernanke-so-c_b_507966.html 6 comments
- Grading the Banks' Stress Test - The New York Times http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/grading-the-banks-stress-test/ 3 comments
- Nominate Elizabeth Warren -- Provide the Pecora Hearings We Need | HuffPost Impact http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/nominate-elizabeth-warren_b_857476.html 3 comments
- Mark Zuckerberg’s $45 Billion Loophole | by James Kwak | Bull Market | Medium https://medium.com/bull-market/mark-zuckerberg-s-45-billion-loophole-7dcff7b811b3#.hoki3o0rr 1 comment
- Who caused the economic crisis? | Salon.com http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/22/economic_crisis_part_one/ 0 comments
- &ampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampLTi>Fiscal Affairs&ampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampampLT/i>: A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions: The "JOBS" Bill | HuffPost Impact http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/fiscal-affairs-a-colossal_b_1362060.html 0 comments
- There Is No Effective Fiduciary Duty to Maximize Profits | by James Kwak | Bull Market | Medium https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiduciary-duty-to-maximize-profits-939ae50d0572 0 comments