Month: January 2016

The Daily View: ‘Longest Depression’, Basic Income, Pinterest

From Huffingtonpost: Future Economists Will Probably Call This Decade the ‘Longest Depression’ Sounds like goalpost moving, where slightly mediocre growth becomes a ‘depression’. The 2008 recession, while deep and sudden, was narrow, only lasting about 16 months until growth picked up, where it has remained. Hardly a decade. Also, the authors seem to be cherry… Continue reading The Daily View: ‘Longest Depression’, Basic Income, Pinterest

Does the Nation Make the Genius?

From Social Matter (Identity And Civilization: Why Humanity Depends On Ethnoculture): … nationalism becomes an enemy of civilization when it believes that Shakespeare is great because he was English, rather than that England is great because it produced Shakespeare. But the HBD argument is that genes produce geniuses, not nations. Maybe it so happen that… Continue reading Does the Nation Make the Genius?

Better or Worse?

Two contrasting viewpoints: Pessimistic: The Truly New Year Optimistic: Financial Fridays: The Stock Market is Bullshit New inventions and technologies would outpace the demand for those commodities so that as we needed their functionality more, the prices would fall. Think about computers: your price per speed and functionality in your computer has gone down every… Continue reading Better or Worse?

Soros: It’s the 2008 crisis all over again

Soros: It’s the 2008 crisis all over again George Soros is just another liberal who wants the economy to fail, for personal profit and to foment ‘revolution’ and class warfare, similar to past leftist upheavals such as the October Revolution, French Revolution, The Great Depression, and, to a lesser extent, the financial problem of 2008,… Continue reading Soros: It’s the 2008 crisis all over again

The Millennial Backlash Against The Baby Boomers

In addition to the post-2013 rise of nerd culture and the post-2013 decline of the SJW narrative, I’m also observing a post-2013 backlash by millennials against boomers, who are perceived as being blissful, naive spendthrifts who had five decades of post-ww2 prosperity dropped on their laps, who have the audacity to lecture millennials about getting… Continue reading The Millennial Backlash Against The Baby Boomers

Active Management Continues to Lag Indexes

After a really bad 2014, 2015 proved little better, with the majority of hedge funds, managers, and mutual funds failing to beat the S&P 500. Carl Icahn, Warren Buffett, and Bill Ackman – all of whom are billionaires – lagged the market substantially. Buffett lagged by 13% in 2015 Bill Ackman by 20%. It looks… Continue reading Active Management Continues to Lag Indexes

Re: Wealth Inequality

Paul Graham’s wealth inequality essay is generating considerable discussion. Seth Bannon rebuts, How Paul Graham gets it wrong in “Economic Inequality, arguing that Graham is attacking a straw man; however, Seth Bannon fails to actually make a substantive case that wealth inequality is bad for the economy. In the essay, his overarching point seems to… Continue reading Re: Wealth Inequality

In Defense of Smart People

It may be fashionable in certain circles to hate on smart people, who are perhaps perceived as being too enamored or ensconced in their thoughts and machinations to care about society and the world around them, perhaps appearing aloof, conceited, or disconnected. Maybe the economy is to blame, too, in bestowing too much prosperity upon… Continue reading In Defense of Smart People