Mike Norman Economics

India appears to be more divided than the US. There is also an economic component to it. Scroll.in India heading towards civil war, riots have entered home, says Kanhaiya Kumar Staff

Trump’s national-security officials are making many of the same arguments Bush’s did in 2003.... When you lose The Atlantic....The AtlanticThe North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar Kori Schake, fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University also The Trump administration is preparing to roll out its new National Security Strategy, a document meant to guide its national security policies. Yet a Trump administration staffer who reviewed a draft of the document—and shared key...

I don't want to worry you guys, but... On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence delivers the keynote speech at the annual summit of Christians United for Israel. Pence once again pledged that the Trump administration would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, this time to Christian supporters of Israel who have become increasingly restive at President Donald Trump’s failure to make good on his campaign promised for Israel — signaling what some see as a new ideological shift for the White House....

We've always been told that the West is the bastion of free speech.  Google is escalating its campaign of internet censorship, announcing that it will expand its workforce of human censors to over 10,000, the internet giant announced on December 4. The censors’ primary focus will be videos and other content on YouTube, its video-sharing platform, but will work across Google to censor content and train its automated systems, which remove videos at a rate four times faster than its human...

[embedded content] It's 2:40 long.At the 2017 Holberg Debate, Julian Assange, John Pilger and Jonathan Heawood discussed the presence of propaganda in news and social media, and its democratic implications. About 00:11:00 Julian Assange About 00:56:00 Questions for Julian Assange About 01:19:00 Jonathan Heawood About 01:43:00 John Pilger About 02:17:11 Las Q&A Session Is there an escalating war of information that is threatening our democracy and our ability to make informed...

In 2009  Satoshi Nakamoto put out his research paper on Bitcoin and the software engineers who studied it said it was bullet proof but in 2011 he vanished into thin air saying he had other interests to pursue and his Bitcoin wallet has been untouched ever since and is now worth $4 Billion. Maybe he isn't bothered because he knows that in a few years time it would have doubled, and then later, double again, but I would have thought it would be worth at least cashing in a $Billion of it to...

And so it begins.Fort RussOFFICIAL: US and Russian Air Forces engaged in Syria, US acts as ISIS' air force Joaquin FloresrelatedMoon of AlabamaSyria - ISIS Is Defeated - The U.S. Is Next In Line bZero HedgeIran's Revolutionary Guard Sends Formal Message To US Military: Leave Syria Or Else Tyler DurdenalsoRussia to classify state procurement information, bypass sanctions KtovKurse - translated by Inessa Sinchougova AlsoDebunking British intelligence propagandist Bellingcat (Elliot...

As an evolutionist critiquing the field of economics, I felt like a disciplinary outsider until I encountered the work of Friedrich Hayek. The Austrian economist was himself critical of Walrasian general equilibrium theory and proposed a radical alternative: Economic systems are a form of distributed intelligence that evolved by cultural group selection. They work without having been designed by anyone. That was my area of expertise. I had to admire Hayek as a pioneer, especially since...

Employment opportunities at debt collection agencies. Should drive up alcohol and drug sales, too.Angry BearAmericans and debt…Dan Crawford

Say what you want about the backers of Bitcoin, they managed to create a currency unit that acts in the insane fashion that matches the way money works in mainstream economic models. For anyone with any attachment to reality, it offers a very good real world explanation why the DSGE approach to economics is inherently useless. It is an extremely safe bet that this lesson will be completely missed by the mainstream economics profession.... Bond Economics Bitcoin As A Vindication Of...