Month: July 2019

Looks like I was right yet again 2 months ago telling people to buy Google stock on the dip over fears of a supposed anti-Trust investigation. Spoiler alert: nothing will happen. There’s not going to be any investigation. No one has the impetus to do it. Ppl complain about social media censorship and monopolies, but… Continue reading Woke capital does not make sense. It is not supposed to.

Ross continues…”but cold hard economic data also suggest that ours was a uniquely blessed coming-of-age: a time of low unemployment, surging productivity, strong working-class wage growth — and all without a huge overhang of public and private debt;” however, the unemployment rate currently stands at 3.8%, which is as low as it was in the… Continue reading The ’90s and now, part 13

Aurini discuses past and future trends for the alt-right: The Tide is Returning: Logos is Rising/ The major problem for the alt/dissident-right, among other reasons, is that there is no economic or social catalyst or justification for a right-wing insurgency, especially not in America, but perhaps less so in European countries, which have weaker economies… Continue reading Past and future trends for the alt-right

Ross also laments the current state of popular culture and entertainment, “…if you prefer a zillion algorithmically-generated Netflix shows and endless Marvel sequels to ‘The Matrix’ and ‘The Sopranos,’ then God bless you,” but, culturally, with the possible exception of late 90′s cinema , which one could argue was a sort of golden era, the… Continue reading The ’90s and now, part 12

Just going by the Youtube title, “An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure” (the whole thing is 3 hours long and have not gotten around to watching it), I disagree that we are in an era of “stagnation and universal institutional failure.” If stagnation and institutional failure exists, it’s much more evident in Europe… Continue reading Are we in an Era of Stagnation? Likely not

This story Foreign purchases of American homes plunge 36% as Chinese buyers flee the market went massively viral. It got 2.5k, 6.9k, and 6.1k votes on /r/worldnews, /r/news, and /r/investing, respectively, indicative of immense interest by Reddit regarding trends of foreign purchases of American real estate. Most notably, and why the story went so viral,… Continue reading Foreign purchases of American homes fall: separating hype from reality

From Charles Murray: Abolish the SAT. This article is pretty old, so it’s possible that this does not reflect Dr. Murray’s current view about the SAT, but if it does, this is a rare instance in which I disagree with something he has written. Dr. Murray argues that the SAT ‘subject tests’ are a good… Continue reading Don’t Abolish the SAT

It’s not news that the GOP is becoming increasingly ineffectual against the left and has conceded on almost all significant cultural and economic issues, with the exception of abortion, guns, defense spending, and tax cuts, which are the last four holdouts for what is left of American conservatism. Consider the issue of illegal immigration. Trump… Continue reading The decline and failure of American conservatism

Nassim Taleb is quoted as saying “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary,” and “those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.” Also, reliance on a paycheck makes one ‘anti-fragile,’ because all of one’s metaphorical eggs are in a single basket, that being… Continue reading A job is not like slavery , nor higher risk than entrepreneurship

Eric Weinstein calls Trump an “existential risk,” and no one calls him out on it, neither Joe Rogan nor anyone in the comments. It completely goes over everyone’s heads. Maybe Joe didn’t understand what Eric meant by existential risk. In layman terms, it means that Trump being in office is a threat to the existence/survival… Continue reading Eric Weinstein on Joe Rogan