Mike Norman Economics

Some excellent quotes. The Case for Concerted Action Anthony Thirlwall’s Predictions About The Fate Of The Euro Area From The Year 2000 V. Ramananee alsoAlsoRepublic StandardThe Future of Europe Is Civil War Ash Sharp

The plot thickens. PoliticoSyria reports missile attack; U.S. denies launching strike APUpdate:ReutersSyria, Russia accuse Israel over strike on Syrian air base

Training first-world children for a third-world life. Must-read. Colonizing the home country. It's a recipe for revolt — or imposition of a totalitarian state to preclude it, which is already well in progress. The flying the ointment may be representative democracy, where the dispossessed majority, facing no hope, elect a "populist" government. That could go many ways., especially is resentment is elevated. INETThe Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public...

Hmmm... only $71B above last year halfway through.. this thing better get going if we are going to have the $1T+ deficit that E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y has been predicting...CBO: federal budget deficit was $598 billion for the first half of fiscal year 2018, $71 billion more than the shortfall recorded during the same period last year https://t.co/T77C0U2CNn— CRFB.org (@BudgetHawks) April 6, 2018

LOL!After Doubling US Debt In 8 Years, Yellen & Furman Fearmonger "A Debt Crisis Is Coming" https://t.co/GlMG1wLJNN— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 9, 2018

The escalating rounds of tariffs between the United States and China is an interesting point of economic debate. However, from the perspective of the interest rate markets, it appears to be one of those subjects that generates a great deal of economist commentary, but with limited market impact. This view is arguably complacent; whether it is too complacent is left for the reader to judge.... Bond Economics Trade War ComplacencyBrian Romanchuk

So they are going to be disappeared? This gets more bizarre all the time.Zero HedgeCIA & MI6 To Relocate Skripals To America, Give Them New Identities: Report Tyler Durden

The dominant propaganda meme of the day, as already noted by Colonel Lang, is that Bashar al Assad unleashed chemical weapons on "innocent women and children" in rebel held territory and that Russia and Iran, along with Syria, are responsible. We MUST take action (or so we are told emphatically by morons pretending to be news anchors on the various cable outlets). Few media outlets are willing to report that this information is not only uncorroborated but originates with established liars...

All of these information feeds to the MSM and thence to DJT's ears are news feeds from the propaganda apparatus of the rebels, much of it supported financially by the British government's foreign ministry and delivered through MI-6. What on earth motivates the UK in this devilment? MI6 and CIA joined at the hip? Sic Semper Tyrannis "Animal" Assad strikes again! - This time to celebrate victory? Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense...

Just think if Russia done something like this using snipers to shoot defenseless, peaceful protesters? Israel gets away with it because the media is biased in their favour, so now they are being brazen.  KV In recent days 17 Palestinians have been shot and killed by Israeli forces positioned along the 32-mile fortified border separating Israel from the impoverished enclave. An extraordinary 1,416 have been wounded in clashes between Palestinian protesters and the military,...