Mike Norman Economics

Paul Robinson shows how the attempt to create a "Putin is rehabilitating Stalin" meme is based on reaching and is clearly an exercise in propaganda.Robinson makes the point that celebrating Stalin as the victor in WWII and revering his leadership as Russia's savior from a dire future under the Reich does not imply condoning his other excesses.I would add that the US founding fathers are also celebrated and revered even though some of them, George Washington, for example, were slave-owners,...

M. K. Bhadrakumar seriously faults the Modi government for a strategic blunder of unprecedented proportion for India. India PunchlineUS pours oil into fire in Gulf, mum’s the word for IndiaM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service

Bottom line: Russiagate is going up in smoke. The claim that Russian military intelligence fed thousands of emails to WikiLeaks doesn’t stand up to scrutiny while Mueller is not only unable to a prove a connection between the Internet Research Agency and the Kremlin but is barred from even discussing it, according to Friedrich’s ruling, without risking a charge of contempt. After 22 months of investigating the ins and outs of Russian interference, Mueller seems to have finally come up...

How the great game has changed. Turkey is pivotal, and the US, NATO and the EU overplayed its hand. Geopolitically and geostrategic pivot point Turkey is now turning to face East rather than West. Of course, this paints a target on Erdogan's back. The recent coup attempt against him, which he attributes to the CIA, may have failed, but that is the end of the game. The post is mostly of interest, however, since Andrei Martanov is well-versed in military science and military technology,...

Back in 2006, two encounters with grassroots change processes shaped a lot of what I have written ever since. The first was with the fishing communities of Tikamgarh – I went back to see them again in 2016 and made this video. The other was the Chiquitano indigenous group in Bolivia, a second inspiring story in which grassroots mobilization took them from a situation of apartheid/semi feudal servitude to winning a million hectares of land after Evo Morales became Bolivia’s first ever...

David Glassner lays the smackdown on Fed-goldbug Judy Shelton for failing to understand the basics of currency manipulation when they have been explained to her.Of course, President Trump has even less of an idea than his appointee, but in fairness he is not a PhD economist working in the field that expected to know about this matter in great detail.Uneasy MoneyDr. Shelton Remains Outspoken: She Should Have Known Better David Glasner | Economist at the Federal Trade Commission

Powell saying this week that IOR is here to stay as a permanent policy...  potential board nominee (Sally Field???) perhaps saying otherwise... Important: Chair Powell just did a major defense of IOER (interest on excess reserves). Trump Fed nominee Judy Shelton says her No. 1 priority is to get rid of IOER.Powell: "This is our principal tool for implementing monetary policy: IOER."https://t.co/Mg0R49bEsX #Fed — Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) July 10, 2019 Unqualified Journo throws in the...

One of Mike's best of his latest videos; getting long at the beginning of June as Reserve Assets topped...[embedded content]

They are at least understanding the current effect of volatility in the Treasury General Account  causing fluctuation in Reserve Asset levels at the depositories...Though not yet mentioning the effect this same volatility is causing in other depository system regulatory ratios... I guess they might say "not their job"...  “Money market rates generally stabilized at modestly lower levels over the intermeeting period, likely re- flecting both the technical adjustment in the interest on excess...

Pretty small deficit for June... Economic Report: U.S. runs June budget deficit of $8 billion https://t.co/RFVWkdgzRY #opportunities #stock pic.twitter.com/e7gO73HwTX— HP Targeting, Inc. (@HPTarget) July 11, 2019