Mike Norman Economics

The imperatives motivating Chinese leaders towards greater technological self-reliance have the potential to drive China further outside of the mainstream of the global economy. Were China to succeed in achieving greater technological independence from the West, the global economy could fundamentally change. Whether or not China will feel compelled to go down this path remains uncertain as the world seems to be shifting away from techno-globalism towards techno-nationalism...."Whether or not...

The Russian President added that everything that the United States did with regard to Nord Stream 2 was beneficial only to them….Germany was just not that into buying expensive US gas.TASSUS sanctions against Nord Stream 2 become meaningless - Putin

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador is moving fast on his pledge to embrace bitcoin as another legal tender, already opening a new geothermal well that would use clean geothermal energy to power the cryptocurrency mines.On Wednesday, Bukele tweeted that he had instructed the state-owned geothermal electric company LAGeoSV to power bitcoin mines with “very cheap, 100% clean, 100% renewable, 0 emissions energy from our volcanos.”.…Competing.RTEl Salvador wants to power crypto mines with...

How property is institutionalized.Ownership can be traced to territoriality as an evolutionary trait. See Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative, for instance.Naked CapitalismBook Review: “Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives”Lambert Strether

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, RI, has recently begun giving a series of speeches on the Senate floor in re dark money and the effect on the Supreme Court. The two so far have centered on Lewis Powell’s secret memo to the US Chamber of Commerce in 1971 just before his appointment to the US Supreme Court. The two speeches go a long way toward explaining the present makeup of the Court, how we got to this point, how capitalism works in America, southern aristocracy, our aristocracy, … . Herewith,...

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Not exactly the way the title implies, but interesting anyway.OilpriceNatural Gas Is The Secret To Scaling Geothermal EnergyHaley Zaremba

Chiefly about the global economy — and geopolitics/geostrategy.The Vineyard of the SakerG7: Desperately Seeking RelevancyPepe EscobarRelatedZero HedgeMore European Firms Onshoring In China Than Offshoring, Complicates Biden's Decoupling PlanTyler DurdenECNSU.S. businesses getting anxious as Trump's China tariffs remain: media