Mike Norman Economics

You will have to do a Google picture search to find out where they are from if anyone intrigueds enough. Amsterdam Castle Haar, Netherlands Oahu, Huawei PredJama Castle, Slovenia Sauble Beach, Canada The above one is from my cycle ride. 

 The best NDE video I've seen. All subtles, but I soon stopped noticing. These things are real, but whether it's a phenomenon of a dying brain, or not, is still under research. Scientists have just added another criteria for an NDE, which is the complete absence of negative emotions. [embedded content]https://youtu.be/c9v7sCCPHiUI find most NDE videos unconvincing, but I liked this one. Okanagan artist Jose Hernandez draws inspiration from his near-death experience.Jose Hernandez was an...

Banks as price setters in the economy. This provides information on the sanctions' hit on economic activity.

  The Greyzone team are brave, and so is Ben Norton who works for another company now. The propaganda in the West is horrendous, and as the Greyzone team say, all of our media is propaganda now. This Greyzone interview is good.I find war so horrendous that I've  disappeared into my photography and spiritual twitter accounts for number of weeks now, so I have some new nice pics coming up. I've taken an anti-war position on twitter. Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug...

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The Vineyard of the SakerSitrep : Sanctions and quite major economic newsThe Sakerhttp://thesaker.is/sitrep-sanctions-and-quite-major-economic-news/Reminiscence of the FutureNews Of The World.Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issueshttp://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/news-of-world.htmlThis Is Importanthttp://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-is-important.htmlNaked CapitalismAn American in Siberia Gives a Preliminary Assessment of the...

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairsParallel Worlds or Parabolic Mirror Images: Media Coverage of the Russia-Ukraine WarGilbert Doctorowhttps://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/15/parallel-worlds-or-parabolic-mirror-images-media-coverage-of-the-russia-ukraine-war/India PunchlineRussian forces double down to complete operationMK. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador....

It is hard work being an economist. Especially when about 90 per cent of what one reads each day is fiction masquerading as truth. That wouldn’t be so bad because fiction is good when it is in the right place. But in this context, the fiction that comes out from economists and their lackeys in the financial media causes massive damage to innocent citizens who lose their jobs, have their pay aspirations stifled, enter poverty, lose their homes and commit suicide out of sheer hopelessness with...

It's a rough estimate, but I have a number that gives you an idea of the impact of war, sanctions, and the Fed, so far.

 The first part is on the war, the second on the economics of it, trade in particular. (Not a great title. Hardly anything to do with Smoot-Hawley. The situations are very different.)Naked CapitalismRussia Sanctions Trade Shock: Fulfilling the Fears of Smoot-Hawley?Yves Smithhttps://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/russia-sanctions-trade-shock-fulfilling-the-fears-of-smoot-hawley.htmlRelatedTax Research UKThe absence of any sort of strategic thinking within the government is why we’re in a...