Mike Norman Economics

The signals of unrest in Chile mounted for years amid corruption scandals, rising inequality, and new monopolies. The tax increase on public transport that sparked the protests was only the final straw. ProMarket — The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessHow Economic Concentration and Crony Capitalism Led to the Chaos in ChileDaniel Matamala | Host of 360 and CNN Prime at CNN Chile

It is rumoured that Julian Assange is being treated with harsh psychiatric drugs to melt his brain. Who knows, but he has become almost incoherent. But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real...

We know the intelligence agencies are embedded in the whole of the Western corporate media. In fact, they even infiltrated Britain's very left-wing Morning Star once by corrupting one of its journalists.Today, the Independent does a hit job on Tulsi Gabbard. They argue she will hand the election over to Trump in the she way Jill Stein did.Tulsi Gabbard has become much more Liberal over time, where she says her very conservative father influenced when she was younger, and yet the Independent...

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has announced that he will donate $ 15.6 million - more than $ 62 million - to environmental protection and conservation programs aimed at combating climate change. Physics-Astronomy  Leonardo DiCaprio Donates $ 15 Million to Protect Animals and the Planet

Rolling Stone Everyone Is a Russian Asset Matt Taibbi CounterpunchChinese Revolution at 70: Twists and Turns, to What?Horace G. CampbellOilpriceThe U.S. Will Not Give Up Control Of Syrian Oil & GasTsvetana Paraskova Oil Price Russia Replacing Oil Workers With Robots Irina Slav RTTrump ‘fully prepared’ for military action against Turkey – Pompeo SouthFrontUS Troops Will Remain In Syria To ‘Protect’ Oil Fields From ISIS Sic Semper Tyrannis US foreign policy is now based on...

Another reserve cycle coming up.

How low can politics get? The smear machine and dirty politics. It's quite a good summery of the Deep State, the war machine, and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton has smeared Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein as Russian assets, and almost no Democratic politicians are pushing back. Max Blumenthal says that Clinton's comments reflect a continued effort by Democratic neo-liberals to deflect responsibility for their loss to Trump in 2016; marginalize voices like Gabbard and Stein's who challenge...

Useful but written from written from an idealized Western point of view. For example, the author is either unfamiliar with Aristotle's analysis of friendship or else purposefully truncates it, essentially misrepresenting it. Aristotle distinguished three types of "friendship" — friendship based on pleasure, friendship based on use, and friendship based on "brotherly love" (φιλία philía). Most relationships fall into the first two categories, and true friend — those whose only wish is to...

The Brexit issue in Britain has been marked by many different estimates of GDP (income) loss arising from different configurations of the Brexit. The media is flush with lurid headlines about the catastrophe awaiting Britain. As regular readers will appreciate, I am not convinced by any of those predictions. But as I said the day after the Referendum in this blog post – Why the Leave victory is a great outcome (June 27, 2016) – that when I tweeted it was a ‘great outcome’ I didn’t say that...

Most solar farms align their solar arrays in rows and columns to form a grid. A new solar power plant in Datong, China, however, decided to have a little fun with its design. China Merchants New Energy Group, one of the country's largest clean energy operators, built a 248-acre solar farm in the shape of a giant panda. Physics-Astronomy  CHINA JUST BUILT A 250-ACRE SOLAR FARM SHAPED LIKE A GIANT PANDA