Mike Norman Economics

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...

Jonathon Tepper explains why wages are low and why there is no innovation in Western capitalism. He says that everything  has become concentrated into monopolies and making money through rents is easy, which he says is a kind of tax. yesWhen it gets down to just four companies competing with each other they start to become monopolies, he adds. He says that not every monopoly works against the public interest, but most do. He predicts the pendulum will now start to swing the other way and the...

Two arch capitalists argue in a new book that we don't have capitalism in he US anymore, it's a rigged oligopoly. In an interview with ProMarket, Jonathan Tepper talks about the rise of America’s oligopoly problem, why he believes antimonopoly is not a left-right issue, and how a passionate fan of free markets came to write a book titled “The Myth of Capitalism.” Something has gone terribly, terribly wrong with American capitalism. This argument, put forth by Jonathan Tepper and Denise...

[embedded content] Rick Sanchez explores the history of US intervention in Central and Latin America by using foreign lands and labor to expand American businesses, financing the overthrow of democratically elected leaders, training oppressive military forces and contributing to the poverty and immigration issues facing the US today. Then human rights professor Dan Kovalik joins to share his insight.

This is excellent; Cailtlin Johnstone is spot on here about feminism, I thought. Jordon Peterson had a point about the  women's role in society being undervalued, but he comes from a patriarchal point of view, where Caitlin Johnstone's view is slightly different, and much better. Yes, alpha women aggressively competing with alpha men in the market place isn't my idea of equality for women.This article is so good I didn't know what bits to leave out, so I've put everything in. Outlets like...

The meaning of 'friendship' in Riyadh's case has been distorted beyond all reality. I'm still trying to get used to conservatives that are anti war because they normally are very pro the establishment and their wars. Anyway, some good stuff in this article.BTW, there was English right-winger on YouTube the other day who kept complaining about the elites, and he said he stood up for the ordinary guy, like the way Alex Jones says he does. I wrote underneath saying that most conservatives...

The guy behind behind the The Charisma Matrix is some sort of life coach who teaches people how to be more assertive. In the video below he shows you why Ben Shapiro and Bill Maher are so good at debating.  If you're up for more, there's a Tucker Carlson VS Dave Rubin: ALPHA BATTLE Analysis further below.  This life coach, though, is very loud and my ears were stinging afterwards.  [embedded content]   [embedded content]

While everyone was screaming recession I told you the economy was very strong.