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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Michael Muharrey — Signed as Law: Kansas Removes Barrier to the Use of Gold and Silver as Money

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Money crankery. So everyone using bullion as money carries scales and assay equipment and keeps up on market fluctuations of bullion on s...
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Marko Marjanovic — Big Blow for Huawei as Japanese, Korean, British Firms Reconsider or Suspend Cooperation as Well

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Huawei’s suppliers in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan (ROC), and Britain are examining if they can continue to make business with Huawei, while...
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T. J. Cole — Vicious Cycle: The Pentagon Creates Tech Giants and Then Buys their Services

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"Private enterprise" and "the free market" at work. Ain't capitalism grand. Counterpunch Vicious Cycle: The Pentag...

Katsuji Nakazawa — Xi Was Ready for a Deal With Trump, But the Party and the Politburo Overruled Him

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Worse than the headline. "Unequal treaties" is a hot button for all Chinese as being reminiscent of China's humiliation by W...

Marko Marjanovic — Russia’s $30 Million Missile Corvettes Have Four Times the Weapons Range of US $2 Billion Destroyers and Cruisers

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Russia is adding warships to its navy faster than the US . The reason for that is simple, while the US is pouring $14 billion into the USS ...
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Warren Mosler — "Entweder wir glauben an die Demokratie oder nicht"

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Die Zeit is somewhat similar to the NYT in the US in that it is centrist to left of center and intellectual. But it differs from the Time ...
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Andrei Martyanov — Daniel L. Davis Hits It Out Of The Ball Park

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Smackdown of US foreign and military policy and policymakers. Reminiscence of the Future Daniel L. Davis Hits It Out Of The Ball Park....

Timothy Taylor — Origins of "Microeconomics" and "Macroeconomics"

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Some history of economics. Conversable Economist Origins of "Microeconomics" and "Macroeconomics" Timothy Taylor | Ma...

Stephanie Kelton — The Deficit Myth (Book)

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Stephanie's new book is available for preorder. It should be a game-changer. The blurb reads, "Deficits can be used for good or ...
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Bill Mitchell – Announcing – Foundation for Monetary Studies Inc.

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It is Wednesday today and a blog-lite day. An announcement and a few videos only. But plenty to occupy your time if so inclined. I have an ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Pepe Escobar — Why capturing Huawei is no victory in tech war

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Chinese firm is a queen on tech chessboard, but Beijing will just tell its whiz-kids to reach the next level…. Asia Times Why capturing ...

RT — Huawei CEO says company’s own OS will run Android apps - reports

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My, my. turns out that Huawei was not only making its own chips in anticipation of exclusion, but also preparing its own operating system. ...
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Banikinkar Pattanayak — Indian Households Hold More Gold Than the World’s Top 10 Central Bank Holders Combined

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This is nothing new. India households have always been holders of gold. Chinese households also have a preference for gold. As India and Ch...

Michelle Starr — Tomorrow The Definition of The Kilogram Will Change Forever. Here's What That Really Means

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This is a big deal even though it won't be noticed by most people. However, precise measurement essential to science and measurement inv...

Richard Murphy — Growth, MMT and the Green New Deal

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Richard Murphy has been working on the New Green Deal over the last decade. In the second half of this post he provides an outline that is v...
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Yasmin Tayag — How Do You Pay for the Green New Deal? Ask Andrés Bernal

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The House of Representatives didn’t know what hit it. The Green New Deal , introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Febru...

TeleSUR - Huawei Blacklisted By The US

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Google say they won't be upgrading Android on Huawei phones anymore. And I've just bought a new Honor 10 phone as well. All this wil...

TRNN - Trump Says the Military Industrial Complex is Pressuring him Into a War With Iran

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Trump says he does not want a fight with Iran, but the military industrial complex is trying to force him into one. I have read that many co...

Bill Mitchell – Japan Finance Minister getting paranoid about MMT

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The debates about MMT are expanding. There are weird offerings springing up each day. I read something yesterday about how MMT is really ju...
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Paul Robinson — Book Review – John Helmer

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If you are aware of John Helmer's blog Dancing with Bears, frequently linked to here, you may be interest in this. Otherwise, not so muc...

Paul Antonopoulos — China’s U.S Strategy: “Be Courteous, Because Russia And China Rises As The West Falls”

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According to [economist and director of the China Institute of Fudan University, Zhang]   Weiwei, it is enough just to take a look at the v...

Brian Romanchuk — Comments On Turning Points And Recessions

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As the Canadian experience shows, deciding which episodes qualify as "recessions" can be debated. The safest course of action is ...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

At the front line in the Sino-American trade war — Links

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Zero Hedge Beijing Backs Iran, "Firmly Opposes" Unilateral US Sanctions Tyler Durden Sputnik International Google Suspends Hu...

Bill Mitchell — Australia and Scotland and the need to escape neoliberalism

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Today’s blog post considers the Australian election and some issues that arose from my recent trip to Scotland – all of which bear on the p...
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Matthew Ehret — The Polar Silk Road Comes to Life as a New Epoch in History Begins

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Speaking at China’s second Belt and Road conference in Beijing featuring 37 heads of state, Russia President Vladimir Putin unveiled the in...

Sergi Basco, Martí Mestieri — The new globalisation and income inequality

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Trade in intermediates (or ‘unbundling of production') and trade in capital have become increasingly important in last 25 years. This c...

CTGN — Learning lessons from Huawei's countermeasure

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Turns out that Huawei was preparing for such an eventually for some time. CTGN Learning lessons from Huawei's countermeasure Editor...
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China's Central Bank Warns on Trade, Pledges Targeted Stimulus

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Reification error continues to plague mankind nowhere else as prominent currently as in Asia: "The bank will make “good use” of t...

Chris Hedges - What Greed has Done

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Why the West is coming to an end - greed! The elite don't care about the environment, or its beauty. They don't care about t...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Vijay Prashad — The Plot to Kill Venezuela

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The curse of oil and Dutch disease used to force compliance. [Mark] Weisbrot and [Jeffrey]Sachs say that these sanctions “would fit the...