Monday, October 7, 2019

Links — 6 Oct 2019

Mother Jones
An Actual Conspiracy Kept Jeffrey Epstein’s Accomplices out of PrisonWith four little words, the government granted immunity to Epstein’s co-conspirators. Why?
Somin Park

Reminiscence of the Future
On Russia And China (Again).
Andrei Martyanov

Dances with Bears
UKRAINIAN OLIGARCH VICTOR PINCHUK IS PUTTING HIS MONEY ON JOE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT AT $40,000 PER MONTH – THAT’S $3,000 MORE PER MONTH THAN BURISMA WAS PAYING HUNTER BIDEN
John Helmer

Valdai Club
Chinese Scholar: Would the White House Care to Explain What ‘Economic Aggression’ Is?
Cheng Dawei

Fort Russ News
U.S. think tank [Rand Corp] publishes Russian ‘Black Sea’ containment plan
Paul Antonopoulos

The Grayzone
‘The drone revolution’: Ecuadorians revolt against repressive US-backed President Lenin Moreno’s neoliberal policies
Dennis Rogatyuk

Zero Hedge
Rockets GM 'Stands With Hong Kong' -- Until China Pulls Endorsements
Tyler Durden

MarketWatch
These numbers show why U.S. policy makers are misjudging popular support for China’s government
Neil Thomas

Strategic Culture Foundation
HSBC Never Left the Dope Trade nor the Crown: Why HSBC Is No ‘Victim Institution’ in the Huawei Case
Cynthia Chung

Strategic Culture Foundation
Can Trump’s ‘Middle Lane Nationalism’ Hold the Line Against System-Network Attack Strategy?
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy

The Vineyard of the Saker
Saker rant: the man is truly a narcissistic imbecile (5D chess anybody?)
The Saker

The American Conservative
Idiocy or Perfidy? How We Get Hooked on Foreign Democracy Crusades
James Bovard

RT
Scientific paper arguing Assad not responsible for Syria chemical attack shelved after Bellingcat-led backlash

Gold Goats 'N Guns
Are These the Five Tweets That Change the World?
Tom Luongo

Fort Russ News
‘Great Middle East’ Plan – Russia’s Orthodoxy, Sufism And Shi’ism Against Globalization
Paul Antonopoulos

Defend Democracy Press
Trump’s Trade War With China Is Already Changing the World
Michael Schuman

The Money Illusion
MMT isn’t helicopter drops
Scott Sumner | Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University


1 comment:

Matt Franko said...

This funny Sumner:

“Thus (AFAIK), under MMT the rate of inflation is determined by fiscal policy. If that were true, then central banks would be wasting their time in targeting inflation. Inflation in the US has averaged 1.9% since 1990. If MMT were true, then it would have been fiscal policymakers that caused inflation to be close to 2%, and not close to 0% or 5% or 20%.Fiscal policymakers?”

So he implies cb is not “wasting their time” But then you have the platonistic CB people going all around all the time scratching their heads they can’t hit their “inflation!” target with rates at zero or below and the highest ranking economist in the US at the time J Yellen saying that they don’t even know how “inflation!” is operating or perhaps what it is...

This is where platonism leads you every time ... right thru the broad gate and into the moron pasture..., it should be ideally banned ...