Mike Norman Economics

Barrett says that American companies agreed to share some of their technology with Chinese companies if they were allowed to move their production there. They didn't have to agree, no one was forcing them. This is how capitalism works, where you try to get the best deal, contract, or the best price. Simple as that! American companies needn’t have gone to China. In this video I discuss how China is accused by many countries of stealing technology and intellectual property. This is not...

The MSM isn't interested.  Just as extraordinary as the leaks themselves is the fact that they have been completely blacked out by the mainstream media in the United States and Europe. Despite the explosive character of the documents that have been published so far, exposing the ostensibly objective and neutral OPCW as a tool of the US and its imperialist allies, there has been no significant coverage in the mainstream media nor any effort by the New York Times, Washington Post or any...

Zero Hedge Senior OPCW Official Busted: Leaked Email Exposes Orders To "Delete All Traces" Of Dissent On Douma Tyler Durden Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistMedia’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal Caitlin JohnstoneEurasia ReviewWikileaks Leaks Info On OPCW ‘Dissenting’ Report About Syrian Chemical AttackAl Bawaba News RTOops for Google Apps? Huawei seeks an alliance with other Chinese firms to push US giant out of AsiaSputnik InternationalHuawei May Sell...

Some good analysis. The Labour Party of the UK took a DEVASTATING loss in last night's election. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Hasan Piker, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down [embedded content]

One of the things that Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) obviously needs are good short "explainers" aimed at people who already consider themselves experts in economics. (In addition to people trained as economists, that would include market practitioners -- like myself -- who consider themselves macro experts.) There are plenty of primers aimed at people unfamiliar with economics, and academic journal articles -- but not a lot in between. The new textbook -- Macroeconomics, by Mitchell, Wray,...

The US is two or three years behind. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed Friday that the Avangard, the country's new intercontinental hypersonic weapon, became operational and entered combat duty, per the AP. Why it matters: Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Russia is the only country armed with hypersonic weapons. He also has compared the success of the Avangard's development to the Soviet Union's first satellite launch in 1957. Axios Russia's new...

Syrian officials say that they are looking at filing an international lawsuit against the United States government over the intended theft of Syrian oil from fields in the country’s northeast. Since October, President Trump has totally revised the goals of the US war in Syria, entirely around the idea of “securing” the oil, and has been very public about intending to have the US take the oil for themselves. Anti-war.com - Assad Plans To Sue US Over Stealing Syrian Oil

Joe Glasman, CAA head of political and government investigations congratulating activists who "helped defeat" UK Labour party in 2019 General Election (The video they didn't want you to see!) [embedded content]

This policy makes absolutely no sense whatsoever—neither social sense, economic sense, or political sense. Yet it rolls forward, with no resistance from legislators of the president's party: American Progress: Cruelty for Cruelty's Sake: 'This week, President Donald Trump issued a new, cruel rule that will strip nearly 700,000 struggling people of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) benefits. In its announcement of the rule, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited a strong economy and...

Bill Binney says all of our mainstream media is controlled by the intelligence agencies. UK Column's Mike Robinson speaks to former NSA analyst William Binney about the Trump impreachment, Russiagate and UK, not Russian, interference in the US election process. [embedded content]