Mike Norman Economics

I’ve seen this a million times.

Let that sink in. That is throwing down the gauntlet. It's going there. Recall that the US entered WWII as a result of the US blockade of Japan, which Japan interpreted as an act of war and responded by attacking Pearl Harbor. In a sign of how seriously Russia is taking the threat, President Vladimir Putin discussed what the Kremlin called “possible new unfriendly steps by Washington” with his Security Council on Friday. What is especially dangerous is that just about the only Americans...

Short backgrounder on the recent film, "Shock and Awe."How the neocons hijacked US policy with lies.Armstrong EconomicsWhy Did the USA Invade Iraq?Martin Armstrong

  Russian and Chinese military capability versus US. The Vineyard of the Saker Button up yer bungholes boys n’ girls, cuz Baba Beijing is bringing on the badass Jeff Brown Crossposted from China Rising

Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela. Venezuelanalysis.com, a left-leaning news site that writes from a pro-Bolivarian revolution stance, has been around since 2003. Critics, including the US government, brand it as a propaganda outlet of the government in Caracas. The site says it is funded by donations and...

Dollar rebounded today back to 52 week highs. I’m getting more short.

Do you know, I was just watching a Real News video where a professor was saying that we are now closer to a nuclear catastrophic than ever before and I was sizing it up for MNE's when I got depressed. We read here all the time about the evil side of human nature and it can get hard at times, so I thought, how can I cheer myself up a bit and maybe find something different for MNE's, and then I thought of Danny blue, a mentalist. I watched a number of his videos a few years back and I was...

Julian Assange has been asked to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee as part of their Russia investigation, according to a letter signed by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA) posted by the official WikiLeaks Twitter account. The letter, delivered to Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, reads in part "As part of the inquiry, the Committee requests that you make yourself available for a closed interview with bipartisan Committee staff at a mutually...

Backgrounder on Greece (and the IMF and Eurocrats). A sad tale of elite rule and rent extraction off the back of ordinary workers with no power or influence — unless they rise up angry and are willing to pursue it.Michael Roberts BlogGreece: on paroleMichael Roberts

Abba Lerner versus Robert Barro.Lars P. Syll’s BlogAbba Lerner and the nonsense called ‘Ricardian equivalence’Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University