Mike Norman Economics

PCR has put out the Edward Curtin review of David Ray Griffin's book, The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? I couldn't stop reading the review right through to the end so I nearly put the whole thing out here, but it's quite long so I decided not to. It's pretty damming: From the genocide of the Native Americans onwards the U.S. has been continuously at war, and the Anglo-American Empire has even been the cause of both world wars. Will it ever stop? Fortunately, both left and right...

When Blue America endorses a candidate, there are several ways we can be helpful to their campaigns, the most obvious being to help them raise campaign funds by connecting them to small dollar campaign contributors. This cycle one of the most valuable other ways we've helped candidates is by connecting them to Stephanie Kelton, America's most brilliant economist. She has been very patient and very helpful with any candidate who wanted to take up he offer. Stephanie is well on the way to...

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Renowned French security expert Paul Barril has let loose a bombshell: the existence of Operation Beluga, a covert Western intelligence scheme intended to undermine Russia and its leaders. Is that what's behind much of the threatening rhetoric now going back and forth between the US and Russia?Barril exposed Operation Beluga in a recent interview with Swiss businessman Pascal Najadi on the 2006 Alexander Litvinenko death case. Litvinenko was a reputed former spy who many believe was murdered...

Landmark research proves that the US-led ‘war on terror’ has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades Last month, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility (PRS) released a landmark study concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the “War on Terror” since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as 2 million. The 97-page report by the...

MMT gets a mention right at the top of the list.Huff PostThese 5 Rebel Movements Want To Change How Money Works Brett Scott

The One Percent have found a pressing need for the services of mainstream economists Here he is, my favourite, the lovely Michael Hudson, with a very easy to read article. This is about half of it. Kevin Vincent. To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone complains about inequality, but nobody does anything about it. What they do is to use “inequality” as a takeoff point to project their own views on how to make society more prosperous and at the same time more equal. These views largely depend...

Cash assets going the wrong way in here.... should be experiencing a consistent reduction... creating asset price volatility...

As far as I'm concerned this is essential viewing. Tulsi Gabbard says she and thousands of others joined the military to go get Al-Qaeda after 9/11, but now, after many years and endless wars, with millions of people left dead, the U.S. is protecting Al-Qaeda in Syria and the other head chopping terrorists there. Al-Qaeda are now stronger than ever, she says.Tulsi Gabbard introduced a bill to stop American tax payer's money funding terrorist groups, but it never received one vote in...

Jimmy Dore catches onto MMT. It's quite a good interview where Stephanie Kelton explains how government deficits invest into the economy increasing economic activity which eventually pulls in more taxes which decreases the deficit. Jimmy Dore then asks why does the government ever have to borrow money, and Stephanie Kelton says it doesn't have to, and the interest paid on government bonds are just a free handout to the investment class. It has been mentioned here at MNE's that government...