Mike Norman Economics

 Rebel Bill's Twitter account got suspended. I don't know why, but I managed to get this.@Rebel_Bill Many thanks to American airborne troops for their bold courage, foresight and wisdom. Russia has only one enemy : the devil 'In the form of neo-Nazism in Ukraine, in the form of Islamic terrorism, in the form of the NWO of Washington's deep state and EU'. God bless https://t.co/I9IYmR1r4L

It's not just the right that attack Fauci, but some of the radical left too, especially Jimmy Dore. It's gets him loads of viewers, apparently, and makes him lots of money. We see other remarkable parallels between the right-wing coronavirus and climate change disinformation campaigns. Mirroring the "climategate" smear campaign of 2010, wherein fossil fuel interests and their abettors sought to discredit climate scientists by misrepresenting their words and phrases from stolen emails, the...

US and Australia ask China to intervene with Russia. Here is the English-language summary of the Chinese response.On Sunday, Australia followed the US to urge China to help them push Russia, with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling on China to not remain "chillingly silent" on the crisis. On Thursday, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said "We would hope that the Chinese would play a role in encouraging the Russians to do the right thing."Chinese analysts said the...

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It is hard to imagine that so little progress has been made in dismantling the mainstream macroeconomics paradigm over the last decade within the institutions of government. We have had the GFC, and now, the pandemic to disclose what does and does not happen when governments engage in relatively large fiscal shifts, yet the fictional world that is taught in mainstream university programs and echoed in policy making circles keeps being rehearsed. While researching the literature on rates of...

Moscow’s state-owned oil giant, Rosneft, signed a US$80 billion 10-year deal to supply the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with 100 million metric tonnes of oil.This increase in crude oil delivery volumes and mechanisms to China is part of a broad-based strategy to circumvent to as great a degree as possible the effects of international sanctions against Russia.This multi-level cooperation strategy between Russia and China provides financing into Russia from China, regardless of...

Strategic Culture FoundationNord Stream: The Geo-politics of Keeping Germany ‘Down’, Russia ‘Out’, and Instability in UkraineAlastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacyhttps://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/14/nord-stream-geopolitics-of-keeping-germany-down-russia-out-and-instability-ukraine/NEOWashington Rolls Out a ‘New’ Approach to Encircling ChinaSalman Rafi...

Market not paying attention to the fact that corporate profits in Q1 may be very strong.

Funny that almost no commentators are noticing that Russian energy not going to Europe would be going to China instead, and eventually other non-Western countries. It would be economically beneficial for Russia to have a stable customer and strategically beneficial for China to reduce maritime energy imports that are under the control of the US Navy. In fact, this is already happening and it is only going to increase. Higher prices for carbon-based energy sources are also a boon for the...

From our man on the ground in Canada. No big economic impact.Bond EconomicsCanadian Protest CommentsBrian Romanchuk