Mike Norman Economics

Put/call ratio getting pretty low.

This is not about the market. I'm struggling.

Everyone got hysterical over the taper but now things are acting pretty normal here’s what the outlook is.

Nervous Nelly's, a) don't understand and, b) freak out all the time.

Honesty is the best policy, and I wish everyone the best.

China is demonstrating that it is taking this seriously.MERICSChina’s quick way of going green: cutting production to cut emissionsAlexander Brownhttps://merics.org/en/short-analysis/chinas-quick-way-going-green-cutting-production-cut-emissionsSee alsoAlso at the news conference, the U.S. President said he was confident the country could meet his administration's goal of emission cuts, which is 50 percent from 2005 by 2030. Yet, the president acknowledged that the renewable shift cannot...

 The post is actually about the corporate Democrats doing what they can be counted on to do. File under "corruption watch."It’s all a smokescreen, it’s all BS. The Democratic Party, like the Republican, answers to the owners and donors. It is doing exactly what it’s been told to do, abandoning all its progressive promises (it never had any principles) in the false name of compromise and bipartisanship.And this is exactly why Donald Trump will be reelected in 2024.Not that the corporate-owned...

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/net-zero-climate-pledges-are-greenwashing-by-maureen-santos-and-linda-schneider-2021-11Recent carbon-neutrality pledges may seem ambitious, but merely serve to promote a new set of false climate solutions under a different guise. Such pledges may persuade many people, but the climate isn’t buying it.Project syndicateNet Zero Is Not ZeroMaureen Santos, Coordinator of the National Advisory Group of the Federation of Organizations for Social and...

Today, we have a guest blogger in the guise of Professor Scott Baum from Griffith University who has been one of my regular research colleagues over a long period of time. Today, he has taken a breather from teaching and exam marking to write about the long-run uneven labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has been the global emergency that just keeps giving. And not in a good way! Daily figures from around the world show that the pandemic’s health impacts...