Mike Norman Economics

Energy economics — by physicists. Hurry up with the cold fusion. Independent (UK)This is how UN scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism Nafeez Ahmed

Andhra Pradesh is playing catch-up.World Economic Forum The Indian miracle state pointing the way to global sustainability Suchi Kedia and Ian Cronin

Before getting down to brass tacks, let me say that I loathe penning articles like this; loathe writing about myself or in the first person, because a reporter should report the news, not be the news. Yet I grudgingly make this exception because, ironically, it happens to be newsworthy. To cut to the chase, it concerns Anglo-American financier Bill Browder and the Sergei Magnitsky affair. I, like others in the news business I’d venture to guess, feel led astray by Browder. This is no...

Avoiding discomfort makes you a hobbyist, not a trader.

In May of 1949, the first issue of Monthly Review came off the press, with a circulation of 450 copies. It featured an essay by none other than Albert Einstein titled, “Why Socialism?” Why so famous a scientist speaking to so few people, and then out of his field of expertise?…. Actually, it doesn't take an Einstein to answer the question, Why socialism? But Einstein did anyway, in case some didn't get it yet.Counterpunch Why Not Socialism? James Rothenberg

This is the third addition in the ‘Exploring the effectiveness of social media’ series, which is reporting current research I am doing with Dr Louisa Connors, which seeks to understand how best to use social media to advance an awareness and understanding of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). We will be discussing some of this work at the The Second International Conference of Modern Monetary Theory (New York, September 28-30), that is, later this week. There is no doubt that social media (among...

Amid reports that publishers of the books/manuals for industrial training have run out of US  inventory... this is all just getting started...Boeing is making an $11 million investment in training American workers in STEM skills to solve the workforce crisis. (And tax reform is making it possible.) https://t.co/NXq8wEeVAA— The NAM (@ShopFloorNAM) September 24, 2018

From Mike's latest, $4.622T and still climbing sweet...Morons still calling this a "neo-liberal austerity conspiracy!"...

Very strange, and even Bill Broader is disappointed. In the world of high financial crime, it looks like no one can be trusted; they're all pulling dirty tricks on each other.  I was pretty sure it was the proceeds of the fraud and the corruption committed against Bill Browder.'     But a more senior official at the National Crime Agency with links to the Foreign Office, according to Mr Benton, then took him to one side and asked him tostop the investigation.  'I was approached and taken...

To think I bought the Guardian for years and loved the paper, but now look at it - it's full off boring identity politics? And here they are found to be spreading propaganda (fake news) again.  Craig Murray’s allegations about the extent of the selectivity and frank dishonesty underpinning the Guardian’s recent “reveal” regarding Julian Assange and his alleged (and seemingly entirely invented) bid to “escape” to Russia, should shock us all. Even those of us all too familiar with...