The stock market (or what I call the HBD bull market, because high-IQ people are the main beneficiaries of the expansion, but also high-IQ businesses like Google and Microsoft are contributing the most too it, too) is relentless. What is perhaps the greatest wealth creation…
Milo dumps on Ben Shapiro and the ‘never-trumpers’: Ben Shapiro & Milo Yiannopoulos ROASTING each other “Ben Shapiro has been cast into the media wilderness!” As the trite saying goes, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I don’t like either of these…
The White-Minstrel Show Kevin Williamson’s message of self-sufficiency is mostly correct, although he belabors his dislike of Trump to the point that it distracts from anything useful he has to say. In invoking Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his report The Negro Family: The Case For…
A question that I didn’t address in part 1 is, why is IQ so important for investing? What is the mechanism that explains why high-IQ stocks, assets, industries, and countries do so well compared to average & low-IQ ones. The answer has to do with…
Regarding the earlier post Donald Trump Does Not Like to Read (but so what) regarding if I am really as good at predicting stuff as I claim to be, and if so, why I’m not more successful. Since 2013 or so, I’ve made 20 predictions…
This article is going viral: Just own the damn robots In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 novel, Player Piano, we are introduced to a future in which only engineers and managers have gainful employment and meaningful lives. If you’re not one of the engineers and managers, then…
Jordan Peterson says not to take notes during lectures: IMHO, for most people this is bad advice, or at least it’s bad advice unless you’re as smart as Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson in a June 2017 video says he has an IQ of 150…this is…
Because he has a new book, Ta-Nehisi Coates has been in the news more often than usual. Here are some articles in the past month alone either by him or about him: How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power Ta-Nehisi Coates: the laureate of black lives…
This is going viral: Readers of this blog would have not made that mistake.
Trump still not in power This does not come as a surprise, and I have long maintained that the only way for Trump to gain more power is if he’s put in a situation where he can rise to the occasion; for example, if there…