Mike Norman Economics

French children don't need medications to control their behavior. In the United States, at least 9 percent of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5 percent. How has the epidemic of ADHD—firmly established in the U.S.—almost completely passed over children in France? Is ADHD a biological-neurological disorder? Surprisingly, the answer to this question...

Short lesson in strategy. Current discussions of “punishing” Russia for interference in the 2016 presidential election, or “sanctioning” Russia for destabilizing eastern Ukraine, or “countering” Russian military deployments by stationing additional U.S. and NATO troops in the Baltics, fail to ask an elementary question from strategy 101: and then what? What will Russia do in response? And at the end of the sequence of actions and reactions, will Americans be safer than before? Bismarck...

This kind of deceleration has always been associated with recession.... The Center of the UniverseCredit checkWarren Mosler

You can rest easy. The nuclear threat narrative was a hoax according to these scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsNorth Korea’s “not quite” ICBM can’t hit the lower 48 statesTheodore A. Postol, professor of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT, and Markus Schiller, Robert Schmucker, engineers

Putting Assad's alleged Aleppo massacre aided by Russia to bed. It was disinformation.Sic Semper Tyrannis Large numbers of Syrians are returning homeCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.), former military intelligence officer at the US Defense Intelligence Agency

As usual Moon is critical.Moon of AlabamaHyping North Korea To Relaunch Reagan's Star Wars? b

Thomas Goodrich is an historian and very right wing, but he is complex, he's a tree-hugger, an animal rights activist, and a vegetarian. He has written a book called Hellstorm, The Death of Nazi Germany 1944 to 1947 and it is terrifying.Paul Craig Roberts got me thinking about this again because he is reading David Irvin's book Nuremberg (1996), and like me, he is discovering that the world is not as it seems. I was your typical liberal and fully absorbed the narrative of WW2, yep, there was...

While Republican leaders are confident their party can set aside its differences to resolve the latest debt-limit impasse before the clock runs out sometime between late September and mid-October, investors are shying away from Treasury bills earlier than they have in the past.... BloombergU.S. Default? Unlikely, But Bond Traders Are Taking No Chances Brian Chappatta and Alex Harris

North Korea is not going to launch a first strike on America or its allies with nuclear weapons. To understand this, you don’t need to know anything about the history of U.S.-North Korea relations, or the throw weight of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or even where North Korea is. All you need to know is human history. And history says that small, poor, weak countries tend not to start wars with gigantic, wealthy, powerful countries — especially when doing so will obviously result...

I have had plenty of criticisms of the Fed over the years. I am concerned that their model of inflation isn't working, and that their estimate of the natural rate of interest is too high. But that type of criticism is a far cry from describing the institution as the "deep state." We have seen time and time again that fomenting that kind of thought only leads to bloodshed.... Tim Duy's Fed WatchDon't Add To The FireTim Duy