Mike Norman Economics

This week in Say More, PS talks with Angela Huyue Zhang, Director of the Center for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong and the author of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation.Project SyndicateAngela Huyue Zhang Says More…Interview with Angela Huyue Zhang, a law professor, is Director of the Center for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong

 The underlying issue is this: NATO promised not to expand eastwards. It has done so repeatedly. It is never called out for this.In a stunning and unexpected outburst this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the press that his country’s current problems came from the West rather than the East.Press stunned as Ukraine leader points finger at West, By Nury Vittachi

An article discussing how US planners sparked the 2011 anti-government protests in Syria. CREATIVE CHAOS: HOW U.S. PLANNERS SPARKED THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS OF THE SO-CALLED ARAB SPRING IN Syria, by William Van Wagenen/

[embedded content]The libertarians hardly care about liberty.  https://youtu.be/SPXrswH-iUA

The UK Office of National Statistics released a new dataset last week (January 28, 2022) – CPI-consistent inflation rate estimates for UK household groups (plutocratic weighting) – which resumes its analysis of the differential impacts of price rises on different cohorts in the population. Other national statistical agencies have also been doing for some years now. For example, the Australian Bureau of Statistics regularly publishes its – Selected Living Cost Indexes, Australia (last edition...

Short summary of how government finance works as only Warren can state it.The Daily Caller — OpinionMOSLER: The Alarm Surrounding The National Debt Is MisguidedWarren Mosler

How to calculate surpluses, deficits, fiscal flows on a daily basis. Get the course. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/daily-treasury-statement/

New Statesman (pivot to Asia on hold?)Ukraine crisis forces Biden to rethink foreign policy goals Emily Tamkinhttps://www.newstatesman.com/democracy/2022/01/ukraine-crisis-forces-biden-to-rethink-foreign-policy-goalsThe Vineyard of the Saker (staged false flag)Virtual Ukrainian invasion virtually imminent Lilia Shumkova for the Saker bloghttp://thesaker.is/virtual-ukrainian-invasion-virtually-imminent/How to break the Ukrainian trap? (false flag)Vladislav...

A major reason why Big Tech firms have achieved such scale and become the gatekeepers to entire markets is that they have been able to obscure most of their financial and operating data. There are obvious steps that regulators can take to close the reporting loopholes that the industry has been exploiting....Project SyndicateBig Tech Must Stop HidingMariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and Founding Director of the UCL...

Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.Emphasizing efficiency (for increasing profit) over resilience (safety). American ProspectHow We Broke the Supply ChainDavid Dayen, Rakeen Mabudhttps://prospect.org/economy/how-we-broke-the-supply-chain-intro/#new_tab