Mike Norman Economics

Looks like EZ is next to get its ass kicked on trade... USD zombie eradication continues apace..President Trump Announces Delegation for Davos Worldwide Economic Forum Conference… https://t.co/yGtdmXCK1G pic.twitter.com/9etvoT2zcX— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) January 2, 2020

This thing from InBev is getting cycled through all the Bowl games this week...I'm getting a human trafficking vibe off this f-ing thing...  creepy.... creeeeeee-peeeeee... They gotta pull this thing... makes me want to never buy Modelo ever... (I don't think I ever will now..)And where do they get the idea that an Irish bar is going to feature Modelo????Whole thing is  weird.... oooh...... rama...[embedded content]

Could the wheels fall off the wagon for the centrist Democrats, let's hope so? Not that the Republicans are much better. Bernie's for me. Rudy Giuliani is not only willing to testify in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, he wants to "do demonstrations" in order to outline what he described as a "series of criminal acts" involving "the highest levels of the Obama administration," adding that Democrats Adam Schiff and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will go down in history like Joe...

Greece really has it rolling now... enjoying large fiscal transfers via the ESCB...Greece now has the world’s strongest manufacturing sector, based on indexes of manufacturing activity https://t.co/sdNAZeGpvV— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) December 31, 2019

Where is these nutter people's downside now that they are proven wrong?  Where?I don't see it... 2004: "secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs, warns major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain plunged into 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine & widespread rioting will erupt across world." https://t.co/wFcNNKU5dg — Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 31, 2019 Here's another one same thing, just different time domain...

Public services are dividing countries instead of uniting them. I remember how I loved the old British Rail, well, I just liked trains, I guess, and train bridges. There was a lovely enchantment to the old British Rail. I also loved the London Underground. Public utilities were a service to the citizens because we deserved it, we were valued, but now a person's only worth is his money. In Democracies Are Fighting for Their Lives, Joergen Oerstroem Moeller described how democracies...

AT&T is laying off thousands of workers at the beginning of the year without severance pay.  Instead, the employees will have to train their foreign replacements.  At the same time, the company saved $3B thanks to Trump's tax cuts.  Trickle down economics is a cruel joke.

The west is still finding it extraordinarily difficult to come to terms with China’s remarkable ascent The West took over the world by military conquest and technological achievement, but China is now doing the same, but only with technology and commerce. China's wealth is built by hard work, not conquest.Many Western economists and academics said China was an economy built on steroids with printed money and would soon collapse, but it was the West that collapsed instead - in 2008 - and we...

Trump, the down-to-earth guy who's on the side of the average American. A populist. Under the insidiously named Secure Act (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement) the children who could previously inherit their parent’s IRA and take the Required Minimum Distribution based on their own age – effectively giving them the ability to compound that inherited IRA over their own lifetime on a tax-sheltered basis – will now be required to reduce the account to zero (yes, ZERO!) over...

As 2019 (already) comes to an end, I rounded up the top 10 most-read posts of the year on the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community blog. You are welcome to (re)read and share them. And, let’s try something new, this list are followed by the 10 least-read posts of the year which are surely worth reading....  Economic Sociology and Political EconomyTop 10 Most-read Economic Sociology and Political Economy Posts of 2019Oleg Komlik | founder and editor-in-chief of the ES/PE,...