Mike Norman Economics

Bill on feudalism and capitalism. Capitalism and feudalism are essentially different in that land is the dominant factor in feudalism and land rent is the chief means of expropriation. Under capitalism, capital and expropriation of surplus value through industrial (technological) production along with financial rents are the dominant factors, although land and land rent are also still key in generating passive income resulting from ownership (title). That is to say, capitalism and feudalism...

Here’s what I said about Nvidia a year ago.

Total System reserves took a nice 50b drop last week but it does no good if Tsy runs TGA down by almost 200b at same time.. TGA account balance supposed to be $650b…. TGA reduction increases bank deposits while banks capital still under pressure from the Fed rate increasing psychos…TGA:TGA topped at around 550b coming up out of debt ceiling and rolled over taking financial asset prices with it since late July…  I think TGA should be back up to mid 400s as of yesterday’s Treasury operations…...

The good news is that humans evolved often as cooperative and “prosocial” beings, so looking to the past and better understanding our cultural evolution as a species might help illuminate the best ways forward across the board. This is the basis of a paper published in April 2023 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled, “Multilevel Cultural Evolution: From New Theory to Practical Applications.” Rather than focusing on the genetic code and physical...

If you reframe information to fit your biases you are sabotaging yourself.

Every year, I bring to the attention of readers of my blog, the results of the latest Credit Suisse Wealth Report. It is produced by economists Anthony Shorrocks (with whom I graduated at university), James Davies and Rodrigo Lluberas. It is the most comprehensive study of global personal wealth and inequality between adults around the world. "Wealth" implies ownership. This is the size of the ownership class globally.Michael Roberts Blog — blogging from a marxist economist1.2% of adults...

"Military Keynesianism." (article by Jan Taporowski, Professor of Economics and Finance, SOASVisiting Professor of Economics, University of Bergamo, and Professor of Economics and Finance, International University College)Weapons and StrategyLook Out: Ukraine Will Cost More than Half a Trillion More if the War Ends Tomorrow—Will US Voters Support More Huge Outlays?Stephen BryenAlsoBarbara Ehrenreich was a remarkable writer and thinker. Her book, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the...

Fed’s “remedies” are a failure so they change the rules to make it look like it’s working.

I am in the final stages of moving office and it has been a time consuming process. And one of my regular research colleague, Professor Scott Baum from Griffith University, who occassionally provides blog posts here, sent me some research which he had written up in blog post form and with time short today, here is Scott’s latest guest spot. Today he is going to talk about a new analysis of financial insecurity that we are currently doing.William Mitchell — Modern Monetary TheoryThe growing...

This is Russia’s most direct debunking of the Alt-Media Community’s false perceptions about BRICS thus far. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov published an article in South Africa’s Ubuntu Magazine on the eve of the 15th BRICS Summit that’ll be hosted in that country. Titled “BRICS: Towards a Just World Order”, he explained how Russia envisages its global role and built upon the efforts earlier this month by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to clarify false perceptions of BRICS. This includes...