MMT Economics and Trading

03/14/2023 I'm back. Mike Norman podcasts are back!


12/22/2021 Fed policy shift. Erdogan and the Turkish lira. Bitcoin mining. Russian-NATO conflict. No free market?


11/24/2021 I'm back. 50m bbl oil release. Fed taper and income. The profit motive. Why rates will come down.


10/27/2021 My 14er summit. Taper is money printing. Inflation falling? Bond bears. Banks loan boom. Remember when Bezos was rich?


10/06/2021 Debt ceiling. More Fed cheaters. Facebook outage. Forbes rich list. Oil top? Stock market reality.


09/29/2021 The most dangerous man. FOMC member front running. Greece pays less? Let's default! Mint the coin!


09/08/2021 UE benefit cuts. $600 bln per month. Defunct economists. El Erian gets it wrong. GDP and shrimp scampi. Make your own bread. Fiat systems don't blow up.


08/31/2021 Fiscal cliff coming? Fed official on market risk. Zombie reactions. UE benefit cuts took a bite. Skyrocketing home prices.


08/11/2021 Fires everywhere, blame the Fed! High prices homes, cars. Precious metals crash. Spend first collect later. Construction needs to rise. Open borders. Larry Summers. Fading the zombies.


08/05/2021 Idaho. Zombie behavior. MMT gives you an edge. Bragging about losses in the Hamptons.


07/21/2021. Political reality of gov't spending. Bond yields, rates to zero? US insolvency. Stoic mentality. Big boy investing.


07/14/2021. Inflation scare. Interest rate spike? Gold and Basel III. US debt default? Let's go!


07/07/2021. Fiscal slowdown. They're un-printing money! Thatcher's other people's money. MMT as a tool. Seek discomfort.


06/16/2021. Fedwatch insanity. Debt ceiling politics. The dollar as tax credit. Deficit dips. Fiscal fraud.


06/16/2021. Paul Tudor Jones. A fool and his money. America's priorities. Leverage ratio. Our "creditors."


06/09/2021. Basel 3 and gold. Fed again. Did Bitcoin just jump the shark?


06/02/2021. Fiscal spigot shut off in June? Oil rally ending? Fed's repo madness. Crazy debt talk.


05/26/2021. My Grand Canyon hike. Inflation over? Now it's fight the Fed. Fiscal risk ahead?


05/12/2021. Paid not to work. Stanley Drunken Miller: Find the inflows. Who pays all the taxes? Beware the debt ceiling.


05/05/2021. Inflation hysteria. Tunnel vision focus on Fed. Warren Buffett on low rates. The Monopoly game explains everything. Yellen thinks she's still at the Fed.


04/21/2021. US Russia relations. Trading pit stories. Gas shortage this summer? Zero tax states won't be for long.


04/14/2021. Claw back the money. Floor trading stories. Economists and the big lie. Fired from Standard and Poor's. My life flashed before my eyes.


04/07/2021. Grand Canyon hike. Price is meaningless. Most ridiculous critique of MMT ever. Economic boom coming if we can avoid WW3!


03/31/2021. It's our money. Self mastery. Reframing your experience. More regressive policy.


03/24/2021. $3T stimulus. It's a balance sheet. Powell gets some credit. Inflation vs growth.


03/17/2021. Ray Dalio whines why own bonds? Finance Capitalism is not capitalism. It's not a meritocracy. Bill O'Reilly. Biden's tax increases
HERE'S what causes inflation.


03/10/2021. Reserve tsunami. We need that "debt." Fools running things. Buy value. Biden return to fiscal conservatism?


03/03/2021. Hedge funds front running their way to unimpressive profits. MMT is in policy and has been for a long time. Bonds are the new GameStop.


02/23/2021. Burying Michael Burry. Opinion economics. My Alan Greenspan story. Selling doom and gloom. Money is an accounting system.


02/16/2021. Dwayne the rock Johnson for president. Reaganomics. bitcoin $50k. Reserves and banks. Negative rates coming for U.K. and the British pound.


02/10/2021. Super Tom Brady. Biden stimulus coming. Bitcoin mania. Gold, Silver, undervalued? The weaponization of the dollar. Keystone Pipeline.


Elon grills Vlad on Robinhood actions. Is the stock market about to tumble? Raise the min wage now!


Gamestop. The little guy gets even with Wall St. Euthanize the short sellers. It might go up. It might go down. It might stay the same.


Biden stimulus. Yellen confirmation hearings. She said what? End of dollar as reserve currency. Chasing the fairy.


Capitol insurrection. Blackrock sucks. Give everyone a trillion. Leave it to the market.


Georgia election. Fiscal flows. Wall St strategies? Never stop fighting.


Not pocket change. Rand Paul, "We're out of money." I didn't get a bill. Tesla bubble?


Biden is official. We're doing MMT!. Go against emotion. Grand bargain. Gov't capture.


The vaccine is out. Stock market sentiment at historic levels. Another clueless hedge fund guy. More MMT attacks.


Blackrock to the White House. Biden's econ team. Applied MMT. Dialing for dollars.


Janet Yellen is the incoming Treasury Secretary. She's a well known debt phobe.


Mike Norman MMT podcast episode #24. Dow 30k? Fiscal flows. Trump attack on Iran. Biden austerity? MMT dishonesty.


Mike Norman MMT podcast episode #23. Election fraud? Wall Street gets it wrong again. Keynesian doesn't work? Covid vaccine. Mental game.


Mike Norman MMT podcast episode #22. My (pre) election thoughts. Inequality. Jim Rogers better hurry. Maya MacGuineas the debt nut job. William Vickrey. Otmar Issing's attack on MMT.


Mike Norman MMT podcast episode #21. Biden's neoliberal advisers are blind. Is Biden a fiscal hawk? Are home prices too high? Don't blame me.


There is no debt. Shark Tank. TSA. Larry, Rob and Rahm. Voting has begun.


Debunking the national debt nonsense. Zerohedge attacks MMT and fails miserably. Sun Tzu and mental game. Wall Street short-termism.


Pavlina Tcherneva and Mark Cuban discuss the job guarantee


Presidential debate. Is the Fed a private corporation? Trump's tax returns.


Market correction. Is Neel Kashkari really that dumb? Trump's adviisers and their mythology. Nietzsche and trading.


Finally, a stock market correction. What the hell does an "artificial economy" mean? Is NYC ever coming back?


No stock market correction until everyone is "all in."


Poker and trading. The mental game aspects are the same.


How to spot and profit from fools and their contradictions.


Payroll taxes and Social Security. How Biden, Bernie and the Dems are blowing it. Plus, Covid and media ignorance.


Gold flies. Is Neel Kashkari really that dumb? And, Guuuunnnndddlllaaaaaccccchhhh!


Fiscal support is ending. Falling dollar. Rising gold. Mental game.


I go after the dopey MMT critics.


Are you mad, bro? My best rant yet.


The financial sector is too big and should be shrunk.


If the former NY Fed chief doesn't understand how do you expect everyone else?

Mike Norman MMT podcast #4. Fed hysteria. "They're printin' munnie." And some good mental game concepts

 

Episode #3. The daytraders are back. Training for good mental game. June 17, 2020.

Episode #2. All those "Very Serious People" still don't get it. June 10, 2020.

Re-launching my podcasts. Episode #1. MMT, economics. June 5, 2020.

My podcast for July 24, 2015. Joe Firestone. Matt Franko.

 

Get Joe's book is entitled, "Declarations of Dependence: Trade Tyranny, Sovereignty, and Democracy."

 

My podcast for July 16, 2015. Markets, misguided ideology, Daily Treasury Statement

 

My podcast for July 8, 2015. It's been a while, so here you go.

 

Podcast for May 22: Jon Reznick and Hedgeclippers.

 

Podcast for April 9: My interview with Gary Carmell, author of The Philosophical Investor.

Podcast for March 26:
My interview with Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt and Public Bank Solution.

Podcast for March 23. $720 TRILLION. Inflation. Paul Tudor Jones.

 

 

Podcast for March 17. Politics. Stock stall. Outlook.

 

Here's my podcast for March 9. McConnell, debt ceiling, stocks, economy.

 

Podcast: Some info on my upcoming, "Understanding the Daily Treasury Statement" course.

 

Here's my podcast for today, Jan 15.

I get into the SNB, Russia, crude and all the rest of a wild day.

 

Podcast for Tuesday, Jan 6, 2015.

Some topics: Market decline, bond yields, Bill Gross (again), euro, oil. Enjoy.

 

Here's my first podcast for 2015. Enjoy.

Stephanie Kelton,  Bernie Sanders, NYPD insubordination, Forex, disgraced Representative Michael Grimm and more.

 

My podcast for today.
Forex trading and my upcoming Forex course. Police insubordination. The weakness of liberals and progressives. Obama's love of neoliberalism.

 

Dec 16. Interview with Justin Santopietro.
My interview with Justin Santopietro. Great conversation. We cover politics, economics and the strength and failings of MMT. Justin is a contributor here and specializes in political commentary.

 

 

The theft of our freedom, liberty, wealth and futures by the elites has become brazen to the point where they are not even trying to hide, in the least bit, what they are stealing from us.

Podcast for Dec 15.

 

 

In this podcast I talk about the government's funding bill that rips off workers and gives new, free money to Wall Street banks to play with. And I talk about Russia and the crazy policies that Putin and the central bank are employing, which are only hurting the economy and further enabling Western sanctions.

Podcast for Dec 12.

 

Today I talk about a possible government shutdown. How any Continuing Resolution does not solve the debt ceiling issue and why that's the "doomsday" scenario. Also, why you can only get this info here on this blog. Not the mainstream media, not CNBC, not the WSJ, not Fox Business, NOWHERE but here, folks.

Thurs Dec 11

 

Dec 10 Podcast with Roger Erickson.

 

Tuesday, Dec 9.
Madoff aide gets jail time. Criminal Wall Street bankers, NOT. More Debt Doomsday stupidity. What happens when the robots make everything?