Mike Norman Economics

Three years ago this month, the Paris climate agreement went into effect, and so far things aren’t looking great. Many countries are struggling to hit their emission reduction goals, the United States confirmed its intention to withdraw from the agreement, and tech giants are cozying up to the fossil fuel industry and climate change deniers. Meanwhile, entire cities are sinking into the ocean, wildfires are ravaging the West Coast of the US, glaciers are melting, and the ocean is...

“During my lifetime, the subject has become much more mathematical, much more abstract, and much more useless in terms of contributing to effective public policy,” Volcker told Bowmaker in an interview for the book. Forbes.  Simon Constable - Former Fed Chief Found Economists “Useless,” New Book Says

The pause comes hours after President Trump signed a bill targeting entities working on the project BERLIN—U.S. sanctions have temporarily stopped the construction of a pipeline that is set to increase the flow of natural gas directly from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea. WSJ Bojan Pancevski - U.S. Sanctions Halt Work on Russia’s Gas Pipeline to Europe

Meh.... probably doesn't have anything to do with "globalwarmingclimatechangeclimate!"...  maybe the climate nutters can ask 16 year old uneducated cognitive impaired Greta for her analysis...  .... you know...  cathode... anode.... temperature differential... etc.. Polar express: magnetic north pole speeds towards Russia https://t.co/vefVwDqygX — Ievgen Lokot (@VuS4AZ6PRkEDFQw) December 21, 2019

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why a wealth tax is the best proposal to address staggering economic inequality. [embedded content]

Gorbachev -  "What's behind the United States' decision to withdraw from the INF is their striving to free themselves of any obligations with respect to weapons and obtain absolute military supremacy," Gorbachev said. "That is an illusory aim, an unfulfilled hope. Hegemony by one single country is not possible in today's world. The result would be destabilization of the global strategic situation, a new arms race and all the randomness and unpredictability of global politics. The...

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Our country is divided! Our political parties are NOT divided! Sure they disagree on superficial nonsense that further divide us but they are ONE party when it comes to helping corporations get richer as opposed to helping the working class people of this country!

Neoliberalism has failed the young. They are poorer than ever, and yet technology never been better. They know they've been had. And she may very well be right. Ethan Fosse, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto who researches generational politics, says that millennials may well trend further left as they age. NewsweekLucas Lee - Why millennials may be left-wing forever