Mike Norman Economics

After seven years of economic research and developing forecasting models that have outperformed the experts, author, blogger, and physicist Dr. Jason Smith offers his controversial insights about the major driving factors behind the economy derived from the data and it's not economics — it's social changes. These social changes are behind the questions of who gets to work, how those workers organize, and how workers identify politically — and it is through labor markets that these social...

Oh goodie... More reification error from the Liberal Art trained unqualified perhaps on the way... The world's most powerful central bankers are preparing to pump a whole lot of cash into the global economy https://t.co/qHfjTzilNP pic.twitter.com/Hv837xhXz9— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) June 24, 2019

And nothing has ever changed....I wonder what @BernieSanders and @ewarren think about @joebiden’s long-history of trying to cut social security benefits for elderly Americans? pic.twitter.com/eRkZwHQMmF— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 22, 2019

[embedded content] The people who think like this are dead! They are the most extreme people but it is they who are in power. Blowing the planet up its unthinkable, but not to these people. Billions dead, a nuclear winter - 'so be it', they say. I guess they will be sitting in their nuclear bunkers for ten years.

Robert Kaplan does geostrategy and does a credible job of it. In my view he sees the big picture  in outline pretty well, although I would quibble with some of the details. It is written from the US POV, of course, but he is able to stand back from it enough to make the article worth a read. Robert Kaplan and his spouse Victoria Nuland are mainstays of US foreign policy, so it is important for that reason alone.The National InterestAmerica Must Prepare for the Coming Chinese Empire Robert D....

Isn't new technology amazing? I remember reloading Windows 10 on my PC and then, without me doing a thing, icons started reappearing on my screen until my old Windows configuration and had been rebuilt with all my original software loaded back on.The modern technology may be crazy, like 3D printing, but it seems we are finding very smart ways to run our economies too.Those Minibots again! Unemployment Many observers will have forgotten that German unemployment was higher for 3 years from...

Italy's new Minibot currency sounds a bit like MMT to me. Intriguing! The Italians are proposing to use new printed notes (minibots) to pay back all the arrears the state has accumulated in the past. These unpaid bills from the Italian state to the private sector amount to Euro 53 billion, about 3% of GDP. Minibots will provide liquidity and alternative notes, but will not solve Italian unemployment (10.2%) unless the concept is expanded. Minibot means huge interest saving for Italian...

Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn’t actually true. By KEVIN ARCENEAUX, BERT N. BAKKER, CLAIRE GOTHREAU, and GIJS SCHUMACHER Are conservative and liberal brains hardwired differently? look around the net and you see the research quoting that this is the case, and many books have been written about it too. But what if it's wrong and that conservatives and liberals aren't doomed to be forever at each others throats....

Climate nutter thinks photosynthesis is "magic!"  LOL!  Hey moron ever hear of: 6CO2 + 6H2O ------>  C6H12O6 + 6O2 Try taking a biochemistry course some time Liberal Art trained moron!!!  LOL!!!!  Probably withdraw failing after the second week!!!   LOL Unqualified dialectic trained moron!!!![embedded content] Says we're all dead in 11 years!!! LOL!!!!  What's her downside if she is wrong???  Nothing!!!

The first half of this is very interesting (The second half is local British politics which is also interesting).Iran has a secret weapon to counter the US military in the region,  which is an Electromagnetic pulse weapon which will knock out all the US military communications rendering them useless. It's not sure what the Iran military will use for communication, except it's likely to be the good old fashioned stuff, like pigeons, etc, :) [embedded content] Second hour Investigative...