Mike Norman Economics

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This is an excellent article describing how neoliberalism has failed, and how most people have become poorer because of it. Not only did the neoliberals encourage the mass movement of goods, services, and finance around the world, but also the mass movement of people, to lower business costs - and all done under the guise of being 'nice' liberals. Whole communities were distrupted and house prices shot up even further out of reach for ordinary people. The left got the blame, so now...

Is the CIA behind the behind the Falun Gong?This article is 11 years old but looks at the geopolitics of China and the US. Tibet and Africa are full of resources which the West wants control of. Tibet: imperial pawn Behind the powerful din created by the popular and celebrity-embraced “Save Tibet,” campaign is the fact that the CIA is behind the Tibet independence movement. According to many reports, the Dalai Lama himself may be a long-time CIA asset. See The Role of the CIA behind the...

I gave the date, Sep 26, back in July, again in August and even last week.

Yves Smith looks around corners before the rest of us get there. She was premature on the financial crisis in 2006, on mortgage-backed securities/Magnetar, on the foreclosure fraud crisis, on the Eurozone, on the failure of Syriza, on private equity, and on the “crapification” of American corporations.She’s early, she’s right, and she’s clear. But in D.C., where I live and work, she’s anything but celebrated. In fact, as we’ve seen, people like Yves, and many of you, are attacked and...

A wave of corporate media reports on Chinese organ harvesting rely without acknowledgement on front groups connected to the far-right Falun Gong cult, whose followers believe “Trump was sent by heaven to destroy the Communist Party.” Western corporate media outlets have gone wild with claims that the Chinese state is “harvesting” the organs of ethnic minorities and political opposition figures. But an investigation by The Grayzone has found that these allegations originate from front...

Most interesting for the analysis of the process relative to statistical reasoning and news reporting, which happens to be the bedrock of economics and the narratives based on conventional economics. Short and not wonkish.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceThat study about the health risks of red meat: An excellent news reportAndrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

Still correct.

Single-handedly holding up the economy.

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