Mike Norman Economics

Anecdotally, several acquaintances have altered their view of future real estate prices and prospects, affecting their decisions on RE purchases and sales to reduce risk in view of expected or demonstrated location exposure. A very small sample, but it seems this could already be happening. If so, this is where the rubber hits the road.Zero HedgeMorgan Stanley: "Climate Will Be A Key Driver Of Asset Prices In The Months And Years Ahead" Tyler Durden

The military also ordered air-and-land operations to 'neutralise' armed groups that act outside the law.Everything in the West is a lie. No doubt the Western media will back this. The commander of Bolivia's armed forces called on embattled President Evo Morales to resign amid a growing furor over his disputed re-election. Morales should step aside to help ensure stability in the country, armed forces commander Williams Kaliman told reporters on Sunday, heaping pressure on the leftist...

The rap hip hop song sounds good in this video. I normally hate rap but I've noticed how more and more it's being used by poor people for protest songs. They are not about voilence, they're about wanting a better future. Poor people on the third world often use hip hop this way. The quality is good too.The Republicans are up to their low-down tricks again. And they have the nerve to say other countries aren't democratic. At the same time that more and more Americans across the United States...

PG&E is worth pennies on the dollar and it's infrastructure is worth more than the going price. Greg Palast says the public should launch a hostile takeover. But Paul Elliott Singer, known as the Vulture, is closing in on it. Power companies have two jobs: Keep the lights on and don’t kill your customers. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. of Northern California flunks on both counts. So how can California put an end to PG&E’s reign of error? The answer: Make this so-called “public...

There’s something unsettling about a private firm making powerful autonomous machines – but what’s scarier is who’s building them, and why These robots are not that advanced yet.Earlier this year, videos of a robot being kicked, hit with a chair, and shot at by its human owners spread online. Created by an LA-based production company, Corridor Digital, the videos were a parody of those released by Boston Dynamics, a company that has been making robots since 1992. But with their videos...

If you take away the Korean threat, if you recognize the Iranians aren’t a threat, if you see that Russia is a tiny little country that’s not going to invade Western Europe and crash through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and so forth— All of a sudden somebody is going to do the math as we get into the coming fiscal crisis and say, “We can’t afford all this defense that we don’t need. Let’s cut it back dramatically.” They don’t want this to happen. And so, they have to keep these hot...

Pic of the day: Oh the irony of Neoliberal Elites constantly banging on about "skills" as the way to reduce inequality. Despite trying to push anyone breathing into college, guess which countries suck the most on basic numeracy and literacy? https://t.co/DlPIvGESusMy tweetAll those tests to ensue the teaching is 100% making school a misery for kids & teachers. All the market solutions: the competiton, the competitive tendering, adding stress to the system to keep everyone on their toes...

being a writer is 67 percent just googling words to make sure they absolutely mean what you always assumed they meant.

Simple explanation.Progressive PulseThe household fallacyCharles Adams | Professor of Physics at the University of Durham, where he teaches Optics and Econophysics

It's pretty scary!It won't be long before they are ready for action, especially as technology seems to be rising exponentially. It shows man's evil side..If I was that robot serving them tea, I would smash that tray over their heads. [embedded content] They will be replacing us at work soon. They don't look all that friendly! [embedded content]