Market bounced as I told you it would. Meanwhile, heavy speculative liquidation of gold and oil. Trade and invest using the concepts of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/ Mike Norman Twitter https://twitter.com/mikenorman Mike Norman Economics: https://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/
Read More »Links — 5 July 2022 Part 1
One WorldA Key Russian Policy Influencer Confirmed The New Worldview Of His Country’s Elite (Important. A key part of the Western plan is the overthrow of Putin and his government by the Western-oriented elite. Dmitry Trenin, formerly such a person, says to forget about that. Russia has put the West behind it and is now orienting to the Global South as the global future. Western-led globalism is dead. The other alternative to overthrowing Putin was the oligarchs, until that fizzled. The...
Read More »Links — 4 July 2022
Asia TimesUkraine – the situation (July 5, 2022)Uwe Parparthttps://asiatimes.com/2022/07/ukraine-the-situation-july-4-2022/A Son of the New American RevolutionLysychansk Bites the dustLarry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations...
Read More »Bill Mitchell – Why has Japan avoided the rising inflation–a more solidaristic approach helps
A few years ago, various policy makers, but mostly central bankers were keen to disabuse anyone of the notion that they were ‘doing’ Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Some were aggressive in denial, such as US Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell, who on February 26, 2019 announced to the US Senate Banking Committee that MMT was ‘just wrong’. There was a general pile on from other central bankers and commentators. No way, they were doing MMT. Okay, they were right, one doesn’t ‘do’ MMT, given it...
Read More »Information Anarchism — Caitlin Johnstone
An appropriate American Independence Day message from Caitlin, even though she is Australian.I would add that American philosopher John Dewey explored the requirements for successful democracy, the chief necessity being an informed electorate, which requires an adequate educational system for citizenship. A good place to start is Dewey's Democracy and Education.This discussion began in the West in ancient Greece, where a fundamental question was, "What does it mean to life a good life in a...
Read More »War Spending Gives MMTers and the Left a Strong Talking Point — Connor Mortell
This post was picked up and reposted by the Wall Street Journal.It is interesting that Connor Morrell concedes the truth of the MMT claims about fiscal sustainability. His objection is that it leads to excesses that result in eventual contraction to purge the system.Short and to the point.Mises Wire — Mises InstituteWar Spending Gives MMTers and the Left a Strong Talking PointConnor Mortellhttps://mises.org/wire/war-spending-gives-mmters-and-left-strong-talking-point
Read More »Social Security Independence Day — Stephanie Kelton
It's not well-known that people pay into Social Security only on the first $147,000 they make. While most fall far below this level and pay year-round, those with high salaries only contribute for part of the year.The LensSocial Security Independence DayStephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator...
Read More »Links — 3 July 2022
The Vineyard of the SakerLugansk PR liberated. 3M22 Zircon as strategic factorThe Saker Staffhttp://thesaker.is/lugansk-pr-liberated-3m22-zircon-as-strategic-factor/A Son of the New American RevolutionWestern Lies, Russian Success–It Ain’t the Flow of Weapons, It is the SoldiersLarry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S....
Read More »Links — 2 July 2022 Part 1
A Son of the New American RevolutionRussia Grinds On and Ukraine Chases a SquirrelLarry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations (1984-1989)https://sonar21.com/russia-grinds-on-and-ukraine-chases-a-squirrel/Moon of AlabamaLysichansk Is Under Control Of...
Read More »The Perplexing Problem Of Credit In Macro — Brian Romanchuk
One of the major issues with the internal logic of neoclassical macro is the handling of credit risk. The problem of credit is acute for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models because they are allegedly based on “microfoundations.” However, the theoretical problems remain for any aggregated mathematical model. The advantage of heterodox economists is that they do not make a big deal about the alleged internal consistency of their mathematical models, and so they are more willing to...
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