Mike Norman Economics

The Polish do have a problem with violent football fans, but when the BBC went to Poland to make a documentary about football fan race hate, they were disappointed, so much so, they had to do a lot of editing, cutting, and pasting to make the documentary they wanted. When the documentary came out, the Polish were outraged and so was their government.Just like in Britain, some of the Polish football clubs are owned by Jews, and rival fans will chant, 'Death to Jews', meaning death to the...

Fiscal support, banking metrics coming together in a big way.

In 2016 U.S, personnel thought that the Cubans were using sonic weapons on them, but it turned out to be just crickets.  In the autumn of 2016 U.S. diplomats stationed in Cuba started to complain about being affected by some mysterious noise. Twenty four embassy staff and family claimed a bizarre list of symptoms - from headaches, dizziness and sleeping difficulties to problems with balance, vision and hearing. Doctors were not sure what affected these people. There were all kinds of...

Young, hip, and rich in Brazil - but it's not my idea of paradise! [embedded content] Wouldn’t you just love to be rich? To have everything that you ever wanted right at your fingertips? Well sometimes being wealthy comes at quite a large price. Let’s take a look Inside the Lives of the Rich Kids of Brazil. They have more money than over 50% of the rest of the population. In Brazil, the wealth gap is enormous. The six richest families have the same amount of money as the poorest 50% of the...

This is Neoliberalism, this is misery, where the only value is monetary value! [embedded content] If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the series for you. Neoliberalism is an economic ideology that exists within the framework of capitalism. Over four decades ago, neoliberalism become the dominant economic paradigm of global society. In this video series, we'll trace the history of neoliberalism, starting with a survey of neoliberal philosophy and research, a...

The Corporate Democrats are so out of touch with the general public that they don't even realise that young people vote, thinking that they are 14 years old, or something.Joe Biden says, 'the young generation tell me how tough things are ', then he adds, 'give me a break!'.In a democracy, if you don't listen to the concerns of electorate you could end up not getting voted in, but that isn't a problem for politicians in the West anymore. [embedded content]

A good documentary by Graham Phillips showing the truth about the war in Georgia which has footage never seen before in West. Graham says he is only funded by people who pay him through croudfunding and that he has no ties to Russia. He is just angry at the Western propaganda and its support for war. What a great guy! [embedded content]

Paul Jay feels we have no choice but to embrace socialism now, especially if we want save the environment. But capitalism has not benefited most of the people in the world, and it has brought on two world wars. Paul Jay says that for a while white working class people in the West did well out of it, but not anymore.Capitalism is failing most people in the world. But socialism is not anti-capitalist, it embraces it via the mixed economy. One answer could be for the general public to become...

[embedded content] You may have heard by now that Amazon’s new headquarters will soon call the New York and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas home. This decision has engendered much criticism. But the Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson doesn’t think the vitriol is enough. “We should all be screaming mad about the state of corporate handouts in this country,” Thompson says in the latest Atlantic Argument. He argues that corporate subsidies, such as those given to Amazon by New York...

Columbia law professor Tim Wu on The Curse of Bigness, neo-Brandeisian antitrust, and the lessons we should learn from the first Gilded Age. Four decades ago, writes Tim Wu in the introduction to his recent book The Curse of Bigness, the United States and other countries entered into a sweeping experiment that radically transformed their economies and politics. The experiment in question consisted of abandoning most checks on anticompetitive conduct, thus allowing concentrated corporate...