Mike Norman is currency trader and economist who is a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). He writes a blog at www.mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com.

| Jun 19, 2013
| 3:29 PM EDT
This taper selling of stocks is a gift in my opinion. The gov't is a net payer of interest so anything that raises rates...
Government spending, not monetary policy, is what creates jobs.
I think the China credit bubble talk is misguided.
The Fed only wants to look 'tough, but fair.'
Economic malaise could linger another 20 years.
Treasury Secretary Lew should be in front of this issue, but we don't see him.
Not since the gold standard, anyway.
Why anyone listens to Standard & Poor's, I'll never understand.
| Jun 10, 2013
| 12:50 PM EDT
Bill Gross runs the largest bond fund in the world, so you'd think he'd know something about monetary operations. How...
The IMF missed the negative effect of austerity.

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| Jun 19, 2013
| 6:18 PM EDT
News outlets are widely reporting that proposed transit fare hikes have been rolled back in Brazil as a result of protes...
| Jun 19, 2013
| 5:36 PM EDT
Investors seem to wake up today to the fact on how dependent this market is to the Federal Reserve's every word. It is ...

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