Mike Norman Economics

Julian Assange has made it clear what his research has uncovered about the 'research' used by one of FRN's (Fort Russ News) opponents - the billionaire blog known as 'Vice News'. Over a month ago in December, Vice News wrote a hit piece in which Fort Russ was singularly named and singled out as a particularly pernicious outlet of 'fake news'. In particular, their slanderous claim was based upon the 'data' compiled by a shadily financed method it called 'Hamilton 68'. Supposedly a 'score'...

What Skidelsky and other critics of mainstream economics (both in its micro and macro parts) fail to recognise is that no new big idea willappear because mainstream economics is a deliberate result of the need to avoid considering the reality of capitalism. Its theories are ideological justifications of capitalism( its supposed tendency to harmonious growth, equilibrium and equality). When reality does not bear out the mainstream, it is ignored. That’s because ‘mainstream’ means support...

What to do when our economy benefits only the few, but politicians seem powerless to change it? This new series, called the Alternatives, follows communities who are working out their own answers The technocrats have failed us with their economic theories based on mathematical gobbledygook.  Look at the mess it has created? We have had over 40 years of Thathcherism and they say we need more of the same for it to get better. More austerity; less public provision; more rip off Britain fleeced...

Brian gives a simple and accessible explanation of bond market dynamics based on his considerable experience in the field as a "quant."Bond Economics The Highly Predictable Treasury Bond Bear MarketBrian Romanchuk

Not much munnie in USD terms being issued for their Basic Income Guaranty in that shit hole these days. Looks like blockchain coins are going to have to come to the rescue in the turd world. Venezuelans frequently have to wait hours for their daily cash allowances, which can be worth less than a nickel. https://t.co/lNRnVrfGVy— Shane Savitsky (@ssavitsky) January 21, 2018

No authority: "#Blockchain lets people who have no confidence in each other collaborate without needing a central authority" - The Economist — RoCrypto (@Fintech_Crypto) September 16, 2017 It's a libertarian utopia... and really gaining in popularity and acceptance.

[embedded content] Have the FBI, the CIA, and Hilary's team have been caught staging a coup? Paul Craig Roberts It is exactly as I told you. Russiagate is a conspiracy between the FBI, the DOJ, and the Hillary campaign to overturn Donald Trump’s election. We have treason committed at the highest levels of the FBI and Department of Justice and the Democratic National Committee. If you believed one word of Russiagate, you now must laugh or cry at your incredible gullibility. This...

[embedded content] Chunky Mark describes rip off Britain and the privatisation robbery.

For the record.Summation: The strategy of the US is founded not on geographical defense but rather on protecting and extending "Enlightenment values," that is, liberalism. Ladies and gentlemen, we have no room for complacency, and history makes clear that America has no preordained right to victory on the battlefield. Simply, we must be the best if the values that grew out of the Enlightenment are to survive.... Under Christendom it was "saving souls."United States Department of...

The United States has pursued a decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible, undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and maintaining what US policy papers call “primacy” over Asia. US policy has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China’s borders and along China’s geopolitical peripheries to divide and destabilize the immense and increasingly powerful Asian state. These networks are funded and supported regardless of who occupies the White...