Mike Norman Economics

Could French bean plants really be consciously controlling their growth?If you're a plant and you detect a nice pole nearby which can help you get a leg up for more sun, you go for it. The idea of plants being capable of making conscious decisions is a controversial one, but a new study involving climbing French beans suggests the concept may be beginning to take root. Plants: Are they conscious?

 Cancel culture at Fox? ?Zero HedgeFox News Cancels Lou Dobbs' Show, Day After Billion-Dollar SmartMatic LawsuitTyler DurdenSee alsoThe IndependentDiehard QAnon followers think Trump is secretly still president and carrying out executions at White HouseOiver O'Connell

I knew Mr. Barilla. He taught me a very valuable lesson. He showed me that to make big money you had to put on a position and hold it. Trade and invest using the concepts of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/mmt-trader/?s2-ssl=yes/ Download my podcasts! New one every week. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1105286 Mike Norman Twitter https://twitter.com/mikenorman

 Accused by the West of police violence against protestors, Russia takes off the gloves. People in glass houses.….The Vineyard of the SakerFeel the difference: a self-explanatory visual reel from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian FederationThe Saker

The US is on an unsustainable trajectory based on Wynne Godley's analysis.The Case for Concerted ActionU.S. Net International Investment PositionV. Ramanan

A study by researchers at the University of Cambridge has found that climate change played a key role in Covid-19 spreading from animals to humans, as the two groups were forced closer together as populations grow.Scientists examined changes to temperature and rainfall over the last 100 years, specifically modelling bat populations against their habitat needs. They found that climate change had resulted in 40 species relocating during that time to areas in China, Laos and Myanmar. “Bats are...

In the military, logistics is everything in the sense that the side with superior logistics wins in the end as a matter of attrition in prolonged conflict. Long supply chains are weak links.Zero HedgeUS Navy Tests 3D Printers In Move To Shore Up Supply Chain Tyler Durden

According to the theory of capital as power (CasP), capitalists and corporations are driven not to maximize profit, but to ‘beat the average’. Their yardstick is not an unmeasurable theoretical abstraction, but the readily observable performance of others. Their aim is not to increase their ‘material gain’, counted in fictitious utils or socially necessary abstract labour time, but to earn more money than everyone else. And the reason, we argue, has to do with power. In capitalism, capital...

Economic liberalism (capitalism) as an economic system is antithetical to political liberalism (democracy) and leads to corporate statism (fascism). The economic system that is compatible with democracy is socialism.Robert Urie makes a case. CounterpunchFascism is Capitalism That Really Means ItRob Urie

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