Mike Norman Economics

Checkmate.. AGAIN... for like the 1 thousandth time..."It's an incredible way of putting it." pic.twitter.com/HJ74AkOBr3— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) March 6, 2020

Researchers can now link weather events to emissions – and to the companies responsible. A string of lawsuits is about to give “attribution science” a real-life test. Richard Heede spent a decade digging through “disheveled, dusty” tomes in libraries around the world searching for the answers he thought could help save humanity. The Norway-born academic’s task was direct, but far from simple: Find out how many greenhouse gases the world’s fossil fuel companies, cement-makers and...

It might be a bit of sales pitch to get more investors on board, as these companies always need more funding, but it looks good. They say they may need some government funding to bring it to market.They say they will be able to develop small low cost versions for trains.CEO of TAE Technologies Says They Will Begin Commercialization of Fusion by 2023

Massive asset purchases ("money printing") drove rates down, not up. Trade and invest using the concepts and understandings of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/mmt-trader/?s2-ssl=yes/

The Trump Administration’s 2021 budget calls for major new cuts in programs funded through non-defense appropriations. This budget category, often called non-defense discretionary (NDD), supports veterans’ medical care, aid to education, environmental protection, low-income housing, scientific research, infrastructure, public health, national parks, justice and law enforcement, job training, and many other important services and investments.[1]"THE BUDGET ABANDONS THE BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT...

So, I'm not the only one who loves doing nothing. Well, not all the time, but often. [embedded content]

More on the E8 lattice theory, but this time without the mysticism. [embedded content]

I will write a detailed account of my view on how to deal with the coronavirus from an Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) perspective next week. But today I want to highlight something that just ‘goes through to the keeper’ (cricket reference meaning no-one pays attention to it) but is significant in understanding what is wrong with the Eurozone. I refer to information that is contained in the latest – Annual Report 2019 – released last week by the Deutsche Bundesbank. If you juxtapose that with...

Anti-EmpireBuying the Official Skripal Poisoning Story Requires Believing 40 Absurd or Implausible Claims…At the Same Time Rob Slane Dances with BearsCYBER SOLDIERS PENETRATE THE SKRIPAL CASE John Helmer Strategic Culture FoundationThe Myth of Moderate Nuclear War Brian Cloughley, British and Australian armies’ veteran, former deputy head of the UN military mission in Kashmir and Australian defense attaché in Pakistan Mint Press NewsWith Grenell Appointment, the Israel Lobby’s Foothold...

After digesting its massive theft of ideas, things and people from Operation Paperclip following the end of World War Two, the US wasted no time in designing and implementing the world’s largest network of commercial espionage that has ever existed, and one which still exists in vastly expanded form today – as we saw from the revelations by Edward Snowden.... Today, Echelon attempts to intercept and monitor every communications transaction transmitted by satellite, undersea cables, fiber...