Mike Norman Economics

Nice job....yeah let’s get these same people to administer a JG or a UBI... real good idea...Many Americans are still waiting for their $600 stimulus payments and your tax preparer could be part of the problem. According to Jackson Hewitt, the IRS blindly sent the stimulus payments to over 13 million bank accounts that are no longer open or valid. Leaving many still asking, where is my stimulus?Las Vegas 3 News.

Paper at NIH here.28 proteins, including ofc the Spike:The viral genome of the coronavirus encodes four structural proteins named spike (S), envelope (E), membrane (M), and nucleocapsid (N), 16 non-structural proteins (nsp1–16), and 8 accessory proteins. The S protein plays the most critical role in viral attachment, fusion, and entry into the target cell mRNA gets a mention but not much else... this is it:mRNA has been used as a template for endogenous expression of proteins selected as a...

 A superb video about Mike Oldfield and the making of his classic, The Tubular Bells. When Mike Oldfield was about 14 years old his sister, Sally Oldfield, who played a bit of folk guitar, taught him three chords on the guitar, but two weeks later she went into his room and he was running his fingers all over the fretboard. She said he learned how to play the guitar at striking speed. Within a year Mike Oldfield was an accomplished musician - a virtuoso.At 16 years old Mike Oldfield played...

 Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi has been belatedly added to one of the US lists of companies its citizens aren’t allowed to interact with.But the tech guys aren't fooled!The US government is, of course, obliged to protect its citizens from foreign threats, but the nature of the threats addressed by these last-minute measures is very vague. Is Xiaomi actually accused of anything? If not, then surely this just amounts to collective punishment for the crime of being Chinese.Telecoms.com US...

 Since the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, American news media has been rife with stories about how China handled – or according to many of the reports, mishandled – the initial outbreak. The most recent is a story in the New York Times, A Year After Wuhan, China Tells a Tale of Triumph (and No Mistakes). On the surface, it is the story of China’s “whitewashing” of the early days of the pandemic. But simmering just below is an unmistakable sentiment of anti-Chinese propaganda.There...

The Unz Review (falling into the Thucydides trap?) Trump’s Not-So-secret Art of Containing ChinaPepe EscobarThe Vineyard of the Saker (analysis)Joe Biden’s WarJ. Hawk, SouthFrontVoltaire Network (the enemy of my enemy is my friend)The Iran-Al-Qaida Axis according the USAMike PompeoMoscow Times (Putin's successor?)A Year After Shock Appointment, Russian Prime Minister Mishustin’s Star is RisingFelix LightAndrew Batson's Blog (defense)What makes China want growthAndrewVisual Capitalist (loaded...

The first-ever digital election was held by CDU on Saturday, with Laschet defeating his main contender, hardliner conservative Friedrich Merz, in a runoff ballot.The centrist politician and self-styled Angela Merkel continuity candidate, Laschet, narrowly won the election scoring 521 to 466 votes. The digital election’s results will be further confirmed by a postal vote with final, legally binding results expected next week.Runner-up Merz congratulated Laschet, wishing him “success” as the...

Somethings to think about now that the US is at the point of change and faces emergent challenges requiring science — the pandemic and climate change. Is "the market knows all" the way to go, or something else.The problem with so-called natural approaches is that when "nature takes its course" the "weak" get culled. And on the way, immiseration increases and along with it social unrest and systemic dysfunction.WSWSThe approach of the World Socialist Web Site to scienceBryan Dyne

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Some stores of value are clearly overdoing the storing partAccidents do happen, especially to bitcoin investors. An estimated 20 per cent of the digital currency is stranded — owned, for example, by people who can’t remember how to access it. I thought these guys were against the right to be forgotten?A Financial Times colleague wisely wrote down the passphrase to his bitcoin, now worth a few thousand pounds. Sadly he wrote it down wrong. As long as he doesn’t write things down wrong in the...