Mike Norman Economics

Latest from Navarro: Sunday Talks: National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro Discusses Confronting China… https://t.co/bPVy1iuoUT pic.twitter.com/fkAeJSlq73 — TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) March 25, 2018

Look, it's bogus. It's fiction. It's B.S. It's disinformation. It's American propaganda. The reality is this: Russia has been protesting about the, once we left, Washington left the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Russia has been protesting what we've been building. We told Russia, why are you worried? It has nothing to do with Russia. This is all about Iran and, quote, rogue states, unidentified.... This was about Russia. The Russians knew it. You and I knew it. Everybody knew it... Then...

Another professional looks at John Bolton in terms of his abysmal record. JackMattlock.com William Polk on John Bolton and Dangers Ahead Jack Mattlock | former US Ambassador to the USSR under President Reagan

So what are these horrendous people being charged with? Stealing unreleased scripts of Game of Thrones and a bunch of academic articles. I am not making this up. Marginal RevolutionIranian “CyberAttack” Threatens Elsevier Not USAAlex Tabarrok | Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center

Perhaps a Confucian path would be the right direction toward Eurasian integration Asia TimesWill the Putin-Xi era supersede the Western liberal (dis)order? Pepe Escobar

I’m not saying all economists can’t answer these questions. I’m saying that collectively these are core parts of what the discipline of economics should be about and yet are topics dealt with by fringe groups whose key insights have not penetrated the textbooks or been shared widely across the discipline.... Fresh Economic ThinkingSeven questions economists can't answerCameron K. Murray

The cyberattack on Internet sites and blogs is on.The Vineyard of the SakerEmergency Warning From The Saker The SakerSee alsoWSWSBehind the Facebook data scandal: The drive to censor the Internet Andre Damon

“It’s a strategy of building a wall separating Russia and the European Union. I know from my own experience of work in the European Parliament that the European Union is conducting a real Cold War against Russia,” Le Pen said.... Russia FeedMarine Le Pen: I know the EU is waging a Cold War against Russia – Here’s Why Matfey Shaheen

Amid a recent upsurge in support for a national job guarantee program, L. Randall Wray, Stephanie A. Kelton, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Scott Fullwiler, and Flavia Dantas outline a new proposal for a federally funded program with decentralized administration. Their Public Service Employment (PSE) program would offer a job—paying a uniform living wage with a basic benefits package—to all who are ready and willing to work. In advance of an upcoming report detailing the economic impact of the PSE,...

I found Populism: A Very Short Introduction by Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser to be very useful and conceptually clear, a worthy addition to Oxford’s charming Very Short Introductions series.The real contribution of the book is that it provides a definition of populism that is both conceptually clear and empirically useful–no mean feat. Here it is: We define populism as a thin-centered ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and...