Mike Norman Economics

Continually pushing for dominance in the backyards of the world's nuclear powers is madness. Not if one thinks that they can win a nuclear war, which the neocons apparently do. Then, it's perfectly "rational." The National InterestWhy America Shouldn't Threaten Preemptive War Doug Bandow | senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former special assistant to President Ronald ReaganSee alsoWorld Beyond WarAlice Slater: Time Out for Nukes!AlsoIn These TimesHow Pro-War Democrats Use Russiagate...

If you are following either oil or this part of the world. The Vineyard of the Saker Putin took away Lukashenko’s chance to sell Russian oil to Poroshenko Ruslan Ostashko Translated by Scott Humor

Legitimacy of American elections is being called into question from both side. This follows on the GOP effort to delegitimize President Obama with "birtherism, of which Donald Trump was a chief leader. And after Trump's election, the Resistance barrage to delegitimize the new president. (See Caitlin Johnstone's Politico Report Says Russiagaters Should Prepare To Kiss My Ass and The Screens.)The legitimacy of American elections was significantly improved by the Civil Rights Act and then...

Cat fight.Mainly MacroMMT and Labour’s fiscal ruleSimon Wren-Lewis | Emeritus Professor of Economics, Oxford University

Vintage Bill Vickrey quote.Lars P. Syll’s BlogWhy so-called​ deficits​ are economic necessitiesLars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University

I never liked much of Primal Scream's music (although some tracks I liked), but I always admired Bobby Gillespie's stance on politics.I remember reading reviews of Primal Scream's new albums and it wouldn't take long before Bobby Gillespie was onto politics. But the reviewers usually made fun of him in their write ups, saying he was nuts. They were really horrible to him. This was because Bobby Gillespie had very strong views, was very passionate, and was clearly angry. I liked him, and he...

Steve Keen is going to stay in Europe as he says the youth are more revolutionary here.I love Steve Keen's accent, it's kind of old fashioned London even through he's Australian. Hey, maybe one day I will meet him for a pint in a Wetherspoon 's.We humans love round numbers. I didn't note my 10th Patron (that came sometime during day 1 of my Patreon campaign), nor the 100th, but the 1,000th Patron, about 20 months after I started my campaign in February of 2017, is a milestone well worth...

The Guardian’s Larry Elliott on why we need a clean break from BrusselsLarry Elliott, the economics editor at the Guardian, is more leftist than I thought, as he takes an old fashioned view on the EU rather like in the Tony Benn tradition. That's like me, although I was very pro E.U. up until a few years ago, where I even wanted the Euro not knowing what a disaster that would be.I saw Europe as the bastian of social democracy, but sadly, I came to realise it had become Thatcherite-...

Trump dealing Friday in Arizona.  This may be his most impressive political speech this election season...[embedded content]

Entertaining to watch all the cognitively under-developed Peterson people having a really bad year now under Trump/GOP administration: Working with substantially higher funding limits, thanks to this spring’s two-year budget deal, Congress' spending leaders have fought about how and where to spend an extra $300 billion — not what to cut — making the Obama administration look like an era of austerity by comparison. “Budgeting was supposed to mean: If you want more of something, you have...