Mike Norman Economics

Imagine if this was happening in Russia to get someone from Putin's United Russia Party elected, imagine the outcry in the press? [embedded content]  My lawyer had to threaten Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp with a federal lawsuit to force him to turn over the names of over half a million voters whose citizenship rights he quietly extinguished. This past week, I released the name of every one of these Georgia voters Kemp flushed from voter rolls in 2017. If you’re a Georgia resident,...

Russia will fight against attempts of other countries to inhibit its activity on the international arena, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote in the article for the Voprosi Ekonomiki (Economic Questions) magazine published on Tuesday. "Every time when our country becomes active on the international arena, it always faces hard attempts to hinder us. We cannot ignore these tendencies, and we will actively fight for a good place in world economy and world politics," Medvedev said.He...

I wholeheartedly agree with our newest Nobel Laureate. Quite right that a large chunk of mainstream macroeconomics has made itself irrelevant. I’m not sure about the thirty years estimate as my feeling is that it goes back even further, but that’s an academic question. Regardless of when it started, the bottom line is that we are in a terrible place today. Economics graduate students are increasingly avoiding taking specializations in macroeconomics and our discipline was hopelessly...

The meme spreads, mostly coming from the right.Zero HedgeKunstler: Civil War Two Looms As Deep State Circles The WagonsAuthored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.co

The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past, controversial investigations for use as case studies. The details of the workshop have not been made public and Bellingcat founder Elliott Higgins...

The Brett Kavanaugh battle is just the tip of the iceberg. I am watching my country going through a slow motion disintegration into civil war, conflict, and the rise of authoritarianism. It’s a velvet coup d’état that controls the means of enforcement: the police, the courts, the political assemblies, the reins of corporate power, advertising and public relations. In other words, the creeping fascism that Richard Nixon attempted but failed, and which G. W. Bush and Dick Cheney advanced post...

According to [Finance Minister Anton] Siluanov, the Russian authorities are working to avoid using the dollar in foreign trade, and start to carry out transactions in euros, rubles and other currencies.… “The list of countries that want to reduce their dependence on the US currency is large and includes all states that have already suffered or those who fear suffering from the dollar’s extremism,” the author said.... Fort Russ NewsMajor: Russia Responds to Sanctions – Will Phase Out Usd...

See the neocons lying - one big fat bold lie after another while pretending to be the good guys. They talk about Iran's crimes, but no mention on the evil Saudi/ US war against Yemen. [embedded content] John Bolton and Mike Pompeo headlined the annual United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) summit, where speakers celebrated the strangling of the Iranian economy under U.S. sanctions and cheered on regime change. We report from inside

Mme Ulstein, who originates from Algeria and lived for several years in Libya in the 1980’s states: “Many don’t know the truth about Gaddafi’s Libya. It was the richest country in Africa and Gaddafi was not trying to kill his people. These were media lies and we all know it.” She says: “In Libya under Muammar Gaddafi, education was free for everyone, grants were given to those who wished to study abroad, health care was free, gasoline and other necessities subsidized Each family had their...

 Tommy Hansen is a Danish, Berlin based journalist, founder of free21.org, a news site that features over 150 journalists’ work in Europe. In the Herland Report conversation, he speaks passionately about the deep rooted moral problem of Western culture as the implementation of democracy now is done by bombing countries. Afterwards, as that particular nation disintegrates into civil war and anarchy, Western companies take control of their oil revenues, the gas and the billion dollar...