Mike Norman Economics

According to a recent survey conducted by Kadir Has University a whopping 81.9 percent of Turks consider the United States the most dangerous country for Turkey.Israel follows the US with 63.3 percent, according to the survey, titled “Turkey Social and Political Trends Research,” published by Turkish media outlets on Wednesday.The opinion poll was conducted on 1,000 people over the age of 18 in face-to-face interviews between Dec. 12 and Jan. 4 in 26 provinces. The results of the survey,...

Col. Lang backs the intel chiefs rather than the neocons handling Trump. Sic Semper Tyrannis Trump and the Spookery Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence...

The Chinese government defended relations with Russia and stressed that they do not target third countries. “[China and Russia] stick to a new kind of interstate relations… that are not directed against third countries,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen Shuang. Beijing’s official statement comes a day after US intelligence director Daniel Coats claimed that China and Russia are collaborating to confront Washington’s policy.... Fort Russ NewsChina stresses its cooperation with...

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An U.N. expert says that the U.S. sanctions are crippling its economy and are illegal, but the media says nothing about this. They only say that socialism doesn't work, even though over 70% of Venezuela's economy is privately owned. It's no more socialist than Norway, or the rest of Scandinavia, which the U.S. accepts.So, we have the illegal U.S. sanctions on a country where the elections that were considered to be fair by international observers, and by Jimmy Carter, but the U.S. is...

My speech is composed of four parts. The first part is an introduction to China’s monetary policy framework, the second part clarifies how monetary policy supports the real economy, the third part is about how to prevent and resolve financial risks, and the last part focuses on how to strike a balance between internal and external equilibrium. As we know, the Law of the People’s Bank of China explicitly stipulates that the ultimate goal of China’s monetary policy is to maintain currency...

Chilling stuff!Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says he came out of a bipartisan meeting the other day and both the Democrats and the Republicans were in agreement about never ending war. This is the debt that the Empire wishes to leave upon the World, he says.The Brazilian election was considered fair, even though the chief opposition leader was languishing in prison and couldn't run, but Venezuela's election was considered not fair by the U.S., even though intentional observers, and Jimmy Carter,...

Frank LI takes on Ayn Rand. To understand Libertarianism and American Conservatism, one needs to study Ayn Rand, which is what this post is about.… Ayn Rand was a successful novelist. But her works on philosophy should be irrelevant, because they are too extreme, thus more wrong than correct. Rand constructed a fantasy world in her novelist's mind, which is what novelist's do, but then she believed in it, confusing it with the real world. So do a lot of other people that can't...