Mike Norman Economics

Today is Wednesday which means it is my short blog post day. I have been travelling a lot today. By the way, there are still some things which cannot be attended to via the Internet, Zoom or otherwise. As I continue to calculate various things along the way to my 10-point or something plan which I hope to have final by next Monday. But with limited time today as I dodge and weave to avoid the virus, I have been reading a lot of the research literature about modelling epidemics. It is quite...

Well who is the Fed buying their new govt bonds from then?  Fed buying $15B per week since mid September and another $700B in the current two week period...

New StatesmanHow America built the best pandemic response system in history – and threw it awayWill Dunn Alt-M That darn coin George Selgin Yahoo FinanceOur Money: MMT for State and Local Governments During COVID-19 Crisis OilpriceWhat Happens If U.S. Shale Goes Bust? Haley Zaremba Brave New WorldHeiner Flassbeck – Corona Shock Paul Cockshott's BlogGuest Post: China defeats Coronavirus in 60 days. Builds global Sanitary Silk Road. Washington and Brussels in Chaos. What will happen...

Fed allegedly going to buy corporate bonds to "help" this situation: Amidst everything else I’d missed that the Fed is going to buy corp bond ETFs https://t.co/G8rpFDY4bF — Tom Powdrill (@TomPowdrill) March 24, 2020 Article says: The central bank is only buying investment grade corporate bonds, not high-yield bonds. Only problem is S&P is downgrading all the big firms being effected all week: BREAKING: Delta Air Lines credit rating cut to junk by S&P. pic.twitter.com/4117hGI1sy —...

Won't work here either... still going to be moron conspiracy nutters out there...Pentagon starting ‘Mythbusters’ page to debunk false rumors of martial law https://t.co/w3F5XCRTxx— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) March 25, 2020

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Video here produced by Bill Still with some anecdotal results of using Quinine (Tonic Water) and Zinc against the Wuhan virus: [embedded content] Some more information here in this thread from Michael Savage using other substances to apparently dilate the virus cell membrane to allow Zinc into the virus: QUERCITIN AND EPIGALLOCATECHIN ACT THE SAME WAY AS CHOLOROQUINE TO OPEN THE CELLULAR MEMBRANES TO PERMIT ZINC TO ENTER AND KILL THE VIRUS (very complicated science-this is the short...

A massive glacier up to 80 miles long in East Antarctica is shrinking at an alarming rate, but the record-setting landscape beneath it could speed up its demise even more. The Denman Glacier has retreated three miles over a 22-year period, and researchers are concerned this could be just the beginning of a total meltdown that would cause global sea levels to rise a whopping five feet (1.5 m).4 Forbes How The World’s Deepest Point On Land Could Raise Global Sea Levels

Ends with a political rant, but the part about "taxpayer money" being public money in reality is correct.SplinterThe Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'Raúl Carrillo, practicing attorney and a director of The Modern Money Network and Jesse Myerson, an Indiana-based community organizer with Hoosier Action

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