Mike Norman Economics

The Republicans are at it again.  A team of database experts, statisticians, lawyers and investigators working with the Palast Investigative Fund discovered — and Indiana now admits — that these thousands of voters were cancelled in violation of a June 2018 federal court order that barred the state from using the notorious Interstate Crosscheck purge list sent to state officials by Kris Kobach, Secretary of State of Kansas. The court order stemmed from a suit by the NAACP and League of...

How can mankind be so dumb? A few rich people have paid out millions to rubbish climate change science and largely succeeded. These problems could have been sorted out and the elites could have been making a fortune out of green technology, but they are lazy, it was easier for them to throw some money into climate change denial and then carryon pumping out the carbon. The right have spent a ton of money since the New Deal to get people to distrust all government and all taxes, so now many...

But US/  Saudi relations won't change, says Stephen Lendman.  On October 2, prominent Saudi journalist/critic Khashoggi disappeared after entering the kingdom’s Instanbul, Turkey consulate, needing documents for his upcoming wedding, scheduled for this week. He hasn’t been seen or heard from since, likely victimized by foul play. Turkish officials believe he was murdered by a Saudi hit squad sent from the kingdom to eliminate him. Last year, Khashoggi fled Saudi Arabia over harsh...

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Andre Vltchek says Singapore is a social democracy where its citizens have one the highest standards of living in South East Asia, if not one of the highest in the world. It has subsidized healthcare, state educating, and subsidized, very efficient public transport. The countries around Singapore are turbo capitalist, much approved of by the West, but they have very high levels of poverty.Andre Vktchek says that Singapore has very low corruption, and excellent social policies. It has...

I don’t have much time today as I am travelling from Lisbon back to London for a series of meetings. My next public speaking engagement is on Saturday in Germany (see below). But I read an interesting report yesterday, which confirms the belief that Germany is a long way from ever permitting any wholesale reform of the Eurozone, along the lines necessary to make it functional. The research paper – Attitudes towards Euro Area Reforms: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment – was...

Stripped to its essence, the Brazilian presidential elections represent a direct clash between democracy and an early 21stCentury neofascism, indeed between civilization and barbarism, writes Pepe Escobar. I would say that the future of Western democracy is being played out in the US and UK, and it doens't look like a bright one.On the other hand, the West has never been democratic in the sense of rule of, by and for the people. All Western nations have been either monarchical or...

Looks like they are (to them) 'helping' by adding reserves for banks to "lend out!" and crashing the whole thing just like the US did in 2008: The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 3.7% on Monday, its biggest single-day loss since June 19. Its smaller and tech-heavy counterpart in Shenzhen fell 3.8%. The losses were broad-based, and included banks, real-estate developers and tech stocks such as ZTE Corp. that are at the forefront of the escalating U.S.-China trade spat.  The...

This a brilliant explanation of how the British fiscal system works, and probably the American system is similar, I would have thought. Ann Petrified demolishes the myth about left wing governments 'spending other people's money'.Governments either borrow money from their own central banks, she says, or issue bonds to borrow the money from the private sector. This money is then invested into the UK building its infrastructure and public services, etc, creating jobs which helps the private...