Mike Norman Economics

Some potential dangers that need to be monitored. 

Peter Radofrd plumbs what is really going on in economics?The Radford Free PressAn Order of MenPeter Radford See alsoOpen DemocracyConspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ResetIvan WeckeNaked CapitalismNo Energy Transition Unless Tech Can Make It Cost Competitive: BlackRockJulianne Geiger, Oilprice.comRussia in Global AffairsGlobal Encirclement and Prospects of Socialism in the 21st CenturyAnnamaria Artner, Institute of World Economics, Budapest, HungaryCentre for...

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The Google trial, an Amazon complaint, an attack on a private equity roll-up, a giant meat price-fixing suit, going after pharma cheating, and populist GOP antitrust nominations. Astonishing.…The irony of this remarkable month of antitrust activity is that it’s both astonishing, far more bigger than anything anyone expected, yet it’s also only a tiny fraction of what is necessary to reverse the damage monopolists have done to our society. But it is a real start. Good read. Matt Stoller has...

Details of the world's lithium reserves and the lithium market. US/Russia competition is not the central focus.Dances with BearsKick Start Or Kick Over — Can The Us Defeat Russia In The Lithium Battery War?John Helmer

It’s always an understanding of the macro environment that will tell you what to do and when to do it. 

A Market selloff, based on a government shut down, would present a buying opportunity. 

China's new policy paper on a multipolar world.Moon of AlabamaChina's 'Shared Future'

I read an interesting report this morning, which resonated with some other work I had been looking into earlier in the week. The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) released a report yesterday (September 27, 2023) – Inequality in Australia 2023: Overview – which shows that “The gap between those with the most and those with the least has blown out over the past two decades, with the average wealth of the highest 20% growing at four times the rate of the lowest”. It is one of the...

 The India-Middle East-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the west - to the dustbin. Here's why.…The CradleWar of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ployPepe Escobar