Mike Norman Economics

I've been listening to Ray Mcgovern interviews by Larouchepac. What a decent guy,  he voted for Jill Stein as well. He's a left leaning liberal, like me. KVRay McgovernThrowing down the gauntlet on alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by the Department of Justice and the FBI, House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) stated that there could be legal consequences for officials who may have misled the FISA court. “If they need to be put on trial, we...

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Very brief review of Taleb's new book.Marginal Revolution*Skin in the Game*, the new Nassim Taleb bookTyler Cowen | Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center See also Why are U.S. firms holding more cash?

Why do we think the world is about to see the resurrection of the “comrade culture club” over the next ten years?  Make no mistake; there will be a visceral political reaction to the coming acceleration of labor disrupting technology. We got a little taste of it in the 2016 election. Just wait until it hits the doctoring, lawyering, and accounting class.... Technology replaced the farmers. Now it is coming for the industrial workers and many types of service workers, too. Soldiers and...

Occasional Links & CommentaryWhat, us worry? David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame

One of the most common difficulties many people encounter in understanding the mechanics of the financial system lies in their failure to understand the difference between stocks and flows. erablogdotcom Bank income and spending

I have noted before that when someone asks me where I come from I immediately (and innately) respond Australia. If questioned further I might tell them I grew up in Melbourne, Victoria. Sure enough, I am a Victorian (with some of the cultural attachments that that denotes) but that affiliation is weak compared to my nationality. That doesn’t make me a xenophobe or a nationalist. It just says I am culturally from that geographic area. If I ask my friends from Italy, Spain, France, the UK,...

Rethinking Russia sat down with University of Kent’s Professor Richard Sakwa to discuss his new book Russia Against The Rest, its relations with the West, its role in a new world order as well as its greatest challenges in 2018. Richard Sakwa is on the level of Stephen F. Cohen and Paul Robinson as a Russian analyst — worth saying attention to.Rethinking RussiaRichard Sakwa: The Key Challenge for Russia is to Avoid Inflicting Damage on Itself – Rethinking Russia Interviewed by Pavel...

Whether intentional or not, this is preparing the American public for an overt conflict of US and Russian forces in Syria and a hot proxy war in Ukraine this spring. This is now entering the high danger stage. The InterceptA Consensus Emerges: Russia Committed an “Act of War” on Par With Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Should the U.S. Response be Similar? Glenn GreenwaldSee also The Mueller indictment against the Russians is a well-timed effort to distract Americans’ attention from the real...

Beijing is turbo-charging its infrastructure connectivity across the region and the Caribbean. "Who lost Latin America?"Asia TimesChina’s ‘New Silk Roads’ reach Latin America Pepe Escobar See alsoTalk of four nation-led ‘alternative’ to Belt and Road picks up steam Asia Times StaffSee also Australia, the United States, India and Japan are talking about establishing a joint regional infrastructure scheme as an alternative to China’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative in an...