• Discussion on National Review Online

    Dumbing Down the SAT

    • Economics Institute • 2 hours ago

      The left will never be satisfied until everyone is equally worse off. The nail that sticks out gets the hammer

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    De Blasio vs. Minority Children

    • Economics Institute • 3 hours ago

      The left wants to promote equal outcomes even if that means everyone is equally worse off

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    For Whom the Maidan Bells Toll?

    • Economics Institute • 3 hours ago

      So I guess we should just wait for Russia to implode again. The problem is if the left overdoes the sanctions it could trigger a recession and instability in Europe & Russia that could spread all over the world. It would cause energy prices to rise , exports to slow etc

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Basic Right of a Free People

    • Economics Institute • 3 hours ago

      Praise for Clinton and schumer ..am i on the wrong website?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Progressivism’s War on Winners

    • Economics Institute • 3 hours ago

      The has been waging a war against the successful and the meritocracy for years . They are thankfully losing, but nonetheless a persistent bunch. They are like an injured cockroach that needs to be put out of its misery.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: Ike Redivivus?

    • Economics Institute • 4 hours ago

      Obama still leading from behind. The biggest joke in the world.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The War on Discipline - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 hours ago

      The left is trying to get the SAT discontinued because the results reflect cognitive differences between individuals ad this is strictly verboten. They want to believe the stock market is a bubble, that wealth inequality is bad, or that some people aren't born smarter than others.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    More Obamacare Numbers, More Speculation

    • Economics Institute • 17 hours ago

      If the bar is set to zero any gains will be progress. Pretty disingenuous how the media forgets/ignores how lofty expectations initially were

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Does This Bull Market Still Have Legs?: Ritholtz Chart

    • Economics Institute • 18 hours ago

      A lot further to go. Assume earnings are completely flat, multiple expansion alone should be good for another 40%

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Bill Ackman's Hilariously Inept Crusade Against Herbalife

    • Economics Institute • 18 hours ago

      I would love to see HLF be acquired for a 50% premium . Ackman is an injured cockroach that needs to be put ouf it its misery. JCP, herbalife, green mountain..this guy is batting 000

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Does This Bull Market Still Have Legs?: Ritholtz Chart

    • Economics Institute • 18 hours ago

      Ackman throwing in the towel...that will be the top

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is Speed Reading Possible?

    • Economics Institute • 19 hours ago

      snakeoil repackaged in an app

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    These MIT Researchers Want to Turn GIFs Into a Language

    • Economics Institute • 19 hours ago

      'rule the web'

      hardly. facebook doesn't allow them. neither does google image search. The gif won't be animated.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Good Obamacare News That Might Even Be True

    • Economics Institute • 20 hours ago

      In other words, no one knows

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    How Much Recovery Does the U.S. Have Left?

    • Economics Institute • 20 hours ago

      Just another reason why a STEM degree is invaluable in today's economy. Those are the people finding jobs the fastest. Those who don't have in-demand technical ability such as coding or math will continue to fall between the cracks and there won't be sympathy from Washington. Second, a lot of abuse of unemployment and other social welfare benefits, but a mismatch of skills is a large part.

    • Economics Institute • 21 hours ago

      A lot more recovery

      American household net worth is at an all-time high, surpassing $80.66 trillion dollars, according to the Federal Reserve Bank's latest "Z.1" release.

      Of the $9.8
      trillion added in 2013 alone, $2.19 trillion came from real estate while
      $3.85 trillion were added thanks in large part to a rising stock
      market; the benchmark S&P 500 index was up 29.6% in 2013, going up
      to 31.9% if dividends are added.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Agony of Perfectionism

    • Economics Institute • 21 hours ago

      Seems like the author is drawing out an extreme counterexample from something that is otherwise axiomatic. 95% of the time the rational consumer theory works. If a consumer is presented with a choice to buy two identical products and the same location , but one is cheaper they will choose the cheaper one. If a cheaper product is further away they will have to decide if the gas and time to to obtain it is worth the savings.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    What Could Go Wrong?

    • Economics Institute • 21 hours ago

      not really. 2014 & 2016 they are in for a rude awakening

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Cross Purposes

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      The great thing about capitalism is that if gay patrons are so important to business, then businesses will adjust accordingly. Most businesses would rather serve gays than close shop, even if it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Maybe someone can create a gay photo center and a gay wedding center .free market

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The New Glenn Beck

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      I don't get it . This weekend we tarred and feathered John Stewart in the Kevin Williamson column, and deservedly so. Now some of you guys are going after Beck. Maybe he is too histrionic but that was how he brought attention to these important issues

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    America Must Engage

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      ya but no one has actually gotten hurt; otherwise it would be in the news everywhere . Putin knows that if ppl start dying he has a lot to lose.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Common Core Is Driving the Changes to the SAT

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      America's schools are becoming more like a factory and the SAT changes reflect this. We need to move to critical thinking and reasoning than just memorization. Like Obamacare, common core is a big hassle and a bureaucracy power grab

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Body Image Pressure Increasingly Affects Boys

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      I guess why do so many boys aspire to be jocks. The nerds are the ones making all the $ nowadays, with a few exceptions like athletes and some actors

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Marco Rubio's Warped Worldview

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      He's the new John McCain

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Investing for the Next Shock

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      99% of the time you will make money money simply going long than trying to time or hedge against the next crisis. Leverage is killer though

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Monday Reads: Bullish Bears

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      A bifurcated housing recovery. Home prices in the bay Area will keep rising due to the unstoppable web 2.0 boom

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Confused About Pot? So's the Law

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      It may have been luck, but good call. Much better than the we're all doomed crowd that has been wrong for every year except for 2007-09. I wish I had went 100% in on PCLN or hell, even picked up some general growth property at 40 cents or thrifty dollar at 80 cents.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    A Missing Plane and a Stolen Passport Mystery

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      x-files stuff

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The South's Stunning Embrace of Gay Marriage

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      because lot of people find it disgusting

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Levine on Wall Street: Expensive League Table, Expensive Whistleblowing

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      That is an obscenely high reward

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Weil on Finance: Bill Ackman Keeps Hope Alive

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      bill ackman losing all his money in HLF

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The New Glenn Beck

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      with friends like this on NRO who needs enemies? Maybe you should tell your boss you want to work for free because working for money would be beneath you

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      Glenn beck single-handedly created the tea party. Karl Denninger and other were only online but Beck was on Fox New everyday rallying support against Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      seems like you drew your own premature conclusion before wishing him luck.

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      Glenn is always slightly crazy and that's what makes him entertaining. He was right about everything (except for the fed perhaps ) an was instrumental in the 2009 tea party republican resurgence

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Replace Obamacare, Stat

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      The proposal I suggest would achieve four remarkable things: It would be
      more progressive than Obamacare, because it would involve more
      distribution from higher- to lower-income households. It would provide
      genuine protection for people who have a preexisting condition, as
      opposed to the bait-and-switch promises of Obamacare. It would provide
      genuine access to care for everyone, as opposed to leaving 30 million
      uninsured, as Obamacare does
      -----

      Awesome, just replace Obamacare with something worse.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    What Could Go Wrong?

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      ". In fact, full-time employment for young men remains at or near record
      lows. This matters because full-time work remains the best way to avoid
      poverty and to chart a path into the middle class for ordinary
      Americans."

      As a free market libertarian and republican, I'm not sure why NR is repeating the liberal hyped fear over young adult unemployment. Economically speaking, it's just not a big deal. Its better for young people to gain high tech, self-actualizing skills than enter the labor force too soon at a no-end job. The liberals are the party of creating meaningless work for the sake of work. Let's hope the republicans don't go down that path.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    America Must Engage

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      Unlike hassan rouhani or Bashar al-Assad Putin isn't a religious fundamentalist and is pro-capitalist . Unlike Kim Jong-un he's sane and has much more to lose by engaging in actual warfare. So far all he has done positioned a few tanks and troops in Crimea without any causalities or tensions. I can see some of the comparisons but they don;t hold up.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Provocative Weakness

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      While the president of Russia is using military force to invade
      neighboring countries, our president is reducing the size of our
      military and boasting about the record number of Americans on food
      stamps. Obama conveys weakness to our allies and our enemies, but wise
      presidents have always understood that American weakness leads to
      violence, American strength to stability.
      -----------------

      Foreign leaders know Obama is naive, a pushover, and a doormat and that's why they walk all over him. Bush to his credit may not have been as 'liked' but he commanded respect, and was viewed as more competent. By taking a strong stand against terror, Bush was able to forge alliances in Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudia Arabia Now look at what has happened .Iraq in a civil war, syria and iran have free reign to proliferate nuclear weapons. Obama is trying to get Israel to cede land

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    A Newer, Better Cold War - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      Pat is right. Putin is much closer to being a conservative than an other leader. He's opposed to the homosexual lobby, he's nationalistic, and he supports capitalism. The concern is that Obama will overact in an effort to look tough to try to boost his sagging poll numbers. If the neocons were in power, however, they would probably be singing a different tune considering Bush's affinity for petro oligarchies

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Why Does Hollywood Ignore White Slavery? - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • a day ago

      Hollywood = propaganda

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Destroyer Cometh

    • Economics Institute • 2 days ago

      grover norquist: How republicans can win in 2016: cut taxes, more defense, raise the h-1b visa cap, don't worry so much about the debt, repeal obamacare, champion free market capitalism

    • Economics Institute • 2 days ago

      'let us celebrate capitalism' says WSJ

      high-salaried tech employees have drastically driven up rents.Gentrification has been going on for 40 years, but it's accelerated recently, but we don't need to do something. The left for years has been warning about wealth inequality but there is no evidence inequality is bad for the economy..

    • Economics Institute • 2 days ago

      yea like stewart prevented bush from getting elected in 2000 & 2004 or prevented republicans from wining the house in 2006 or th tea party in 2010

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      you cannot draw that conclusion. the daily show is only 23 minutes versus Fox which is an entire network. Like comparing apples and oranges. Also a selection bias in that people that are more knowledgeable are more likely to answer the survey

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      liberalism is dying. Obama voters are waking up and realizing they were lied to for the past eight years. Obutthole promised jobs, homeowner bailouts, affordable healthcare, and the list goes on. Not one came to fruition. We knew the Keynesian resurgence would be a failure and only a decade later are people waking up. We can thank Fox News, the internet libertarian movement, the meritocracy, consumer spending

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Republicans Audition for 2016 at the Conservative Political Action Conference

    • Economics Institute • 2 days ago

      Gonna be Chris Christie the nominee

    • Economics Institute • 2 days ago

      probably his tendency to grandstand to little effect

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 11 Most Irreconcilable Contradictions About Millennials

    • Economics Institute • 2 days ago

      apparently only one picture of him exists in the world. the same picture the media has been using since the story broke

    • Economics Institute • 2 days ago

      A lot of millennials are defecting from Obama and are embracing internet libertarianism and classical liberalism. Many are realizing welfare liberalism doesn't work given the failure of the Obama administration to keep any of its promises. Many may still be democrats buy their faith in politicians has been irreparably shattered, so we can expect low voter turnout in 2016 and victory for the GOP

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Destroyer Cometh

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      he's more interesting than jonah goldberg . even though I may not agree with everything he says it's less predictable

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      karma, too

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      it probably had to do with a creative dispute. maybe his views didn't jell with the editor .

      my take is that NR is very confident the GOP will do well in 2014 & 2016 so they are now trying to tack to the right-center because they no longer need the support of the far right

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      It was a thought exercise

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      Gutfeld Berkeley grad. one of the hardest schools

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      B&B was created by mike judge, a genius of social commentary. light-years ahead of the daily show

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      A small quibble. Kevin doesn't make a distinction between a liberal and a conservative intellectual, because they both exist. What if john stewart were Stanford PHD string theorist in addition to a comic. Would that change his opinion of him. I just don't get why someone being intellectual matters. Intellectuals have plenty of bad ideas. Intellectuals legitimized Marxism in the early 20th century, look at all the good that came out of that. 100 million dead

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      you mean the writers. john stewart just does the voices and faces. he's an actor.

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      I agree the republicans more so than the democrats tend to be the party of big ideas. My only complaint is that we don't see enough of them. I would like to see some more fresh (no pun intended) economic ideas than the usual 'the debt is too high' that has constituted the bulk of republican discourse about the economy.

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      jeff dunham

      blue collar comedy tour

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Destroyer Cometh

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      it's a good thing disqus no longer shows down-votes because I probably got a ton of them. Instead it looks like people are just indifferent lol

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      The SAT was a good classical liberal invention to give exceptional students from modest and disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to enter prestigious universities, but has fallen out of favor among the left because blacks and Latinos don't score as well as whites and Asians. According to the left, opportunity is OK, provided the outcome is the same. If the wrong people do well, then it's time to scrap the program. And that's why the libs have been so vehemently opposed to any psychometric testing.

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      If you seen Obama give a speech without the teleprompter it sounds like him

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      I don't know why in his columns Kevin gives such effusive praise to the Kotch brothers but little deference to actual libertarians or libertarian leaning republicans like gary johnson or ron paul.

      oh wait, looks like kevin already wrote about ron paul how flattering lol

      http://www.thenewamerican.com/...

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      i'm making comments people wont like so that my stocks go up on monday. Last time I did this the market went up 200 points meaning $5k for me Own 15 contracts of XLV and some FB

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      Seems kevin is infatuated with intellectuals, but what is an intellectual, anyway? Is it someone that is well-informed, someone who reads a lot, someone with an advanced degree, someone who enjoys high-brow entertainment, or someone with a high IQ? There are plenty of'smart' people that like 'low-brow' entertainment. What if an intellectual were a democrat? Would he fall out of Kevin's good graces or would he not count? What if an avowed republican doesn't meet the criteria of an intellectual?

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      nothing showed up sorry

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      no i havent

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      were you able to extricate his ideas from the block of text?

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      They are the anti-reality party. They live in a delusional world where there should be full employment, where there are no innate intellectual differences between individuals, where everyone should have equal outcomes in life instead of equal opportunity, and where wealth can be created by spreading it from the most successful to the least.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Destroyer Cometh

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      putz, read my earlier post. I'm not a fan. To say your a JS fan means you're a fan of his writers since it's not his material, anyway.

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      not really. Just want to see some of Kevin's big ideas. His complaints are justified but have not heard any his ideas for fixing society's problems.

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      Fox was right about Obamacare lies, Benghazi,IRS, Obama's pitiful excuse for a job recovery

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      umm did u read the article. ur right but it's out of context

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      JS pretty much appeals to the lowest common denominator. It's not like those are his jokes or ideas. His huge team of writers come up with the material and he delivers it in usual usual sardonic style. If you have seen him outside of his show he cannot form a coherent argument, like he is on drugs

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      Kevin talks about big ideas but does he himself have any? His post is devoid of any. I would like to hear his ideas if he has any to share. My idea as an alternative to the guaranteed income is to pay people to upload pictures to facebook and stream netflix movies & TV shows.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama, Russia, and the Wages of Weakness

    • Economics Institute • 3 days ago

      In 2008 Russia invaded Georgia and nothing happened. yet somehow the liberals and blogs thinks we’re on the verge of ww3 and Germany just invaded Poland, even though unlike the 2008 invasion there has yet to be a single casualty.

      Now we have john stewart joining obama in taking aim at putin

      The 'neocons' need to ask 'what would Bush do' and resist the urge to go to war or endorse sanctions.

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      As time passes, the odds of Obama screwing up approaches one. Putin
      and obama are ideological opposites. Obama is a wealth spreader. putin a
      wealth creator. Obama is uxorious whereas putin exudes toughness. There's an article in 2009 where putin reounces any ties to the KGB and denounces socialism.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    How to Tell Good Obamacare Changes From Bad

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      Seems like you're confused. ACA is not universal healthcare

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    How Presidential Budgets Became a Joke

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      To call it a budget is a joke, because to budget implies some sort of rationing or prioritization. The spending always goes up.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Friday Reads: Some Advice From Martha Stewart

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      as always good links

  • Discussion on TIM

    Why This $376 Million Marijuana Stock Will Crash

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      this is going to $40

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Bershidsky on Europe: Erdogan Threatens Facebook

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      Turkey's currency due for another dump . spending and debts are spiraling out of control in addition to rampant corruption

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Weil on Finance: So Is This the Real Bitcoin Guy or Not?

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      Bitcoin is changing the world. $6000 by 2015

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Last Chance to Blame Job Growth on the Weather

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      it's a beat. futures surging again

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama, Solipsist

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      foreign leaders know obama is inexperienced, inept and a doormat. they walk all over him

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Tyrant in the Gray Flannel Suit

    • Economics Institute • 4 days ago

      Obama approval at record lows

      Trump Wows CPAC: Says Putin 'Toying With Obama'
      Jindal: Jimmy Carter, You're Not the Worst President Ever Anymore

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Lupita Nyong'o's Radical, World-Changing Fashion

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      not sure how this is became a big story

      seems like the magical negro trope in real life

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Doxing: A Brief Etymology

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      maybe he consented to it ahead of time

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Is Your Brain on Pot?

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      It can cause paranoia, memory loss, aggravation, outbursts of anger, weight gain, addiction & tolerance meaning that increasingly large doses are required to feel normal,

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Most People Think Watching Porn Is Morally Wrong

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      It would seem this porn addiction if a liberal phenomenon. The left are conflicted in that they are the biggest consumers of it but are also the most concerned about the actresses being exploited.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Can the New SAT Solve the Test's Inequality Problem?

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      When you remove the highest and lowest two the difference is around 140 pts which is not as dramatic

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Thursday Reads: Investors and Silence

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      "Major hedge fund trader says the QE stimulus bubble will burst... at some point"

      how about never . my money is on never

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Goodbye Polar Vortex, Hello Market Bears

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      good or bad weather, the results will still be better than expected

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Will Obama Ever Enforce His Health Law?

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      Obamacare great for healthcare stocks (long XLV) but bad for average Americans

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      basketball, vacations

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Unvaccinated Kids Make Everyone Sick

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      they cannot make the vaccinated kids sick

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Bershidsky on Europe: Russia Talks Fail

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      stocks still keep rising. looks like the worst is over

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Levine on Wall Street: Don't Let Facebook Tell You How to Invest

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      but facebook the stock has been a great investment

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama in Denial on Russia

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      there were no injuries. pretty much a non event . no one got irradiated as you put it

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Anti-Empirical Left

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      Liberals only support the science that agrees with their prexisting beleifs, such as IQ environmental than congenital or that genes don't play a role in the outcome of life, among many other denials of science. The libs also reject technology if it may displace unproductive, overpaid jobs. The leftist dystopia is one where everyone is equally worse off

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama in Denial on Russia

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      But you do realize Obama and putin aren't exactly friends nor are similar ideologically. Putin is a rapacious capitalist and opposed to the homosexual agenda. We have more to fear from Obama jumping the gun than Putin, imho. The left has a tendency of overreacting and making things worse, like Vietnam.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    The New SAT Is a) Better b) Worse c) Both 

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      The SAT is not intended to mirror the HS curricula. That would make it a rote memorization test instead of a reasoning test. HS GPAs have been rendered nearly useless by grade inflation, so SAT scores are one of the few ways schools and pick out exceptional students from the masses.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Bait-and-Switch Liberalism

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      It's called the nanny party for a reason They think they know best. They think raising the minimum wage & taxes will create jobs or that they can provide a better healthcare plan than your existing one.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Skepticism’s Proper Target - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      "Some others say I am a contrarian on race and IQ"

      I wouldn't even go that far. Just mentioning that IQ exists, is static or is an innate quality is controversial enough.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Marching on Behalf of a Gangster - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 days ago

      the biggest gangster is obama

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This 13-Year-Old Just Became the Youngest Person Ever to Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      cool

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Is What the New SAT Will Be Like

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      If you exclude jargon, research papers in economics aren't as verbose as you may expect. SAT words tend to be ones that can be substituted for simpler ones without changing the meaning, such as 'resplendent' when you can just say 'brilliant' or 'vibrant'. To know these works you would probably have to do a lot of outside reading of literature and consult a dictionary for the words you don't know. Often you can guess the word from the context, but that isn't possible for the now discontinued analogies section.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    New Highs Aren't a Fluke: Ritholtz Chart

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      that would be a good buying opportunity then

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Putin Isn't Crazy, He's KGB

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Putin is calculating, but not crazy. He knows has a lot to lose if he jumps the gun (look at Gaddafi and Mubarak for example). Contrary to popular belief, he's not a communist, but a rapacious capitalist. There's more to fear from Obama overreacting than Putin.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Republicans 'Support' Expanding the EITC—Just Not If It Will Cost Money

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      An easier way to shift people out of poverty is to just redefine poverty. Americans have a higher standard of living than ever before , including the poor.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Is What the New SAT Will Be Like

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      exactly. and grade inflation makes HS transcripts nearly worthless. There are many instances of students doing poorly in HS because they were board with the material or school politics but excelled on the SAT

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      It's a racket

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      You would get a very flat, right-skewed skewed distribution. in order words, a useless test that fails to measure exceptional ability.

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      not really. the words are deliberately chosen so that most don't know them. otherwise there would be no way to measure exceptional ability. Even Paul Krugan, the 'pinnacle' of public intellect seldom uses SAT words

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Radical Rejected

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Call jesse jackson lol

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why the Tea Party’s Waning, Not Winning

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Professor: Earnings Will Lift Dow to 18,000.. agree. long stocks

      I agree with the tea party message except for some of their economic views. The tea party is an effective tool to drive more votes for GOP candidates. Since the tea party isn't technically a new party it cannot split the vote.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    RadioShack Still Stuck in the '80s

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      In the 90's you could go to radio shack and buy a pre obsolete computer for $2800

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      anyone can beat a dead horse

      predicting is harder and more impressive imho

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Democrats Get Cozy With the Status Quo

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      The far left is dead, thankfully. The business friendly pragmatists who realize that wealth cannot be created by spreading it are gaining ground. The likes of Elizabeth Warren are not electable for national elections and will not win the nominee.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Just How Doomed Are Congressional Democrats? Pretty Doomed

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Not sure why this is a surprise. The past eight years have been a series of lies and disappointments from drones, to 'if you like your plan you can keep it', to record debt, NSA, failure to close Guantanamo, weakness in Syria, record number of ppl out of work, no home foreclosure plan, record high foodstamp

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Pesek on Asia: China's Next Bubble

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      The left has been making the same wrong bubble/crisis predictions since 2005

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Nobody Asked Mitt About His Age. Why Hillary?

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      umm because Hillary has had notable health problems whereas Romney hasn't

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    If Bitcoin Didn't Work Out for You, There's Always Goxcoin

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Bitcoin has overcome this setback and will make new highs soon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The U.S. Economy's Big Baby Problem

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      In other words, the 1st derivative is flat. since when did this become a problem? We need more high quality people, instead of just more people. America has numerous problems, but under-population just isn't one of the

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Does Obama's Budget Say About Education?

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Just keep throwing money at the problem. that will do the trick.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Poor and Hispanic Workers Are Least Likely to Have Sick Days

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      If there is any profession that needs to be automated it's food processing/preperation/serving

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Doll With Average Female Body Is Coming to Life

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      ms potato head is a more realistic ideal

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    RadioShack Still Stuck in the '80s

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Radio Shack and JcPenny. It would be nice to see her do an article about a company that hasn't yet bitten the dust or should we expect an article about circuit city, or about Montgomery Ward or crazy eddie in the near future?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 4 Numbers Putin Is Watching as He Plots His Next Move in Ukraine

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Being enamored with failure, liberals want Putin's economy to fail but it wont happen. A falling currency will help exports. Military spending will help defense, ore and steel companies. The numbers putin is looking at is Obama's approval rating. If it keeps falling intervention is more likely.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Putin's Improv Act

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      The concern is that Obama will overreact to prove his toughness before the elections and make the situation worse.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Deleveraging Is a Drag

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      I don't need to read this article to immediacy dismiss it as bunk. There is and never was leveraging, except for a tiny amount of temporary reduction in some consumer borrowing.

      Households adding debt at fastest rate since 2007 . The personal savings rate is at the lowest level in years.
      The economic and corporate data such as consumer spending and exports suggests the economy is booming. You're writing about a problem that doesn't exist except in your head.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    No, Market Highs Are Not a Bad Sign

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      maybe you should post a chart of this declining breadth because you provided no actual evidence to support your claim.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Common Core's Unsung Benefit: It Teaches Kids to Be Good Citizens

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Became they have no innate desire to learn this stuff they will forget 95% by the time summer is over and the effort will be a waste. Those they do take a keen interest will realize they been lied to.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama Is Complicit in Suppressing the Truth About Torture

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Even if the truth were known what could be done about it? nothing

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Republican Primary Season Opens in Texas

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      The Libs have Obama's 8 years of lies and letdowns for 2014 & 2016 losses

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      wishful thinking, pert. The TEA party cannot sabotage the greater GOP because the are working in tandem as opposed to splitting the vote. That is why the TEA party never actually became a new political party. In the general election, the TEA party candidates will endorse the front funner even if he's a moderate. But the TEA party can still win house seats. Either way, the GOP gets more votes.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why the Tea Party’s Waning, Not Winning

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      whaa

      Seems you have no idea what you're talking about. The tea party was right about Obama lying about keeping our existing plan under obamacare. The were right about the IRS corruption, about Benghazi etc

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Wednesday Reads: Explaining Relentless Bids

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      A lot of folks still stuck in a post-crisis mindset. They keep dwelling on inequality, job loss, and stuff like that . If they want to dwell on past it's their loss. Markets climb a wall of worry, anyway.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Weil on Finance: Why Work on Wall Street?

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      But here’s the thing: we’re in a tale of two economies. There’s all this crazy government data and people getting fired, and the Fed is printing, people are getting richer than ever, and AHHHh, it’s scary. And I agree it is. But it’s a great time to create wealth, to be wealthy, to be creative, to be smart, etc

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why the Tea Party’s Waning, Not Winning

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      The TEA party succeeds because it has won seats in the house . The rebranding of the GOP is a success

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      The tea party is still doing better than ever

      You look at the state of liberalism today and there’s reasons for despair and reasons for hope, but I’m leaning towards optimism. Young liberals that voted for Obama are realizing that he didn’t give them the jobs and affordable healthcare he promised. This is related to the rise of internet libertarianism – a ideology of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism. These are classical liberals that are suspicious of the proliferation of the welfare and surveillance state and believe in equality of opportunity under a meritocracy. Being well educated and empirically minded, they reject welfare liberal ideal of equal outcomes. They are major proponents of birth control, citing Levitt’s study that birth control can prevent crime.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    No, Market Highs Are Not a Bad Sign

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      This is still the most hated bull market ever, and one that has much much further to go

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      the PE ratio of the S&P 500 still just 15

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Haven't they been saying that since 2009? There will will be winners and losers in every bull market. Not all stocks and sectors will rise together.

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Long GOOG, XLV, PCLN and FB. I 'm emphatically bullish about the stock market and US economy.We've got perpetually low rates, low valuations, and a consumer that refuses to quit. S&P 2000 in the cards. Pretty much I'm as bullish now as I was when the bull market began. 150% later and the fundamental story is still intact.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Uncanny Valley, Interior Design Edition

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      the door seems really short

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama's New Budget Is All About the Midterm Elections

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Obama even uses a teleprompter when speaking school children

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Discrimination and My Brother’s Keeper

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      birth control. lots of it

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    An Israel-Russia Alliance? - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Russia has more to gain standing with isreal and the US than those other countries

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    An Israel-Russia Alliance? - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 days ago

      Neither like Obama too much. that they can both agree on

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to End the Gender Pay Gap Once and For All

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      women need to be more flexible to the prospect of lower wages, says expert.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why People Born in Cold Temperatures Might Live Longer

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      classic data mining

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    RadioShack Is Doomed (and So Is Retail)

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      the prediction about the demise of the floppy drive and CDrom was correct

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Some have suggested paying the uneducated, unemployed masses to post on Facebook and click google ads. These activities may create economic value and boost self esteem. Social networking is one of the fastest growing sectors.

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      They can transition to the booming healthcare sector. dont need to be too smart to change bedpans and sheets

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    A Semi-Defense of the Efficient-Market Hypothesis

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Economic models that assume humans are rational are , by in large, correct. There is no such thing as real time irrationality; only irrationality in retrospect. This is how charlatans like Shiller got famous by espousing this incorrect view that economic agents can act irrationally, when this can only be determined in retrospect.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Too Many Retirement Plans, Too Little Savings

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      It won't be long until retirement becomes a luxury

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Putin Gets Personal in Ukraine

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      looks like i was right again. stocks surging

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Elections Are Still a National Disgrace

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      It shoud be hard to vote. why should the ill-informed masses vote for programs that will enlarge the welfare state?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    RadioShack Is Doomed (and So Is Retail)

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      The left loves retail, except for Apple store, walmart, starbucks, and best buy - the actual successful retail companies.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Immigration Can Restrict and Enhance Liberty

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      The left is greedy because they want all the overpaid jobs and social programs for themselves. In a free market, an immigrant that has a sought after skill and is willing to do the job for less deserves priority over an overpaid American .We've become a nation of crybabies, clinging to obsolete ways of life, our obsolete jobs and obsolete notion of the American dream while blaming republicans, congress, free market and the fed for falling between the cracks instead of looking in the mirror.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Two Views of Bitcoin's Future

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Considering that the left has been wrong about bitcoin since 2009 my money is on $3000 soon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    States That Spend The Least on Students Are Growing the Fastest

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Also, the states that spend more don't have better academic performance . Thorwing more money at the problem wont close the achievement gap

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Is China Siding with Putin in the Ukraine Crisis?

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Even Giuliani says Putin has more leadership than Obama

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Tuesday Reads: Markets React to Russia

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      The best way to get alpha is a small amount of leverage on a strong performing ETF such as XLV

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Yes, Regulation Can Kill Jobs

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      This is wheres Obama's naivete about economics is showing. You cannot create jobs with more regulation.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Fear of Failure Is Dragging U.S. Down

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      When SHAME does a write-up on you, you’re generally doing something right, but from what I gleaned from her new book, I disagree with her message. Failure sucks your money and energy and as you get order it becomes harder to rebound. This is the reason why kids shouldn’t take the libertarian approach of sipping college to pursue their own activities, because of the crippling effects of failure and the difficulties of rebounding. Getting a higher education gives you a foundation for success later in life; without it you are at a substantial disadvantage. Choosing to fail means others will get ahead. Generally, failing may work if it doesn’t cost you much money or time or if it doesn’t jeopardize a more important priority.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Note to ‘Fiscal Conservatives’

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      The fiscal conservatives are spreading FUD about an imaginary debt problem. Like the libs, they want America to get its fiscal house in order when there is no need to. Kremlin dumbass making dumbass threats regarding toppling the US
      financial system. He should turn around and look at his own economic
      shitshow

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Soon, Our Robot Coffee Baristas Will Only Brew Certain Brands

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      typical leftist comments criticizing technology

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Immigration Can Restrict and Enhance Liberty

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      It’s not greed. It’s looking after the best interest of shareholders to keep costs as low as possible. Zuck has a lot of power but he can be superseded by the board of directors and the shareholders. The benefits of cheap labor outweigh the potential externalities. Apple can hire overseas labor because those people will never have enough money to buy an iphone anyway. The Americans that could have hypothetically been hired by Apple will look elsewhere for work. The savings from outsourcing far exceeds what apple could earn from the increased purchasing power from US apple employees if some of those employees had slightly more money in their pocket to buy apple products. Boeing, for example, knows that average ppl won't be buying its planes, so they outsource as much as possible.

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Immigrants can fill the tech skill shortage and have a greater propensity to consume than the average American. We need to reduce the social safety net, though

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      I used to be against immigration, but as a market libertarian I favor more h1-b visas for high tech workers, to make America more competitive . We cannot have a large social safety net and more immigrants , so some propose we cut back entitlement spending as a compromise for more immigration.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Whatever Happened to Hippy Jesus?

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      But hippy jesus is not an accurate portrayal

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Is Ukraine Dragging Down Your Portfolio?

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Looks like you are right. Future surging this morning. Just a hiccup. The media as usual more interested in generating hype than keeping things in perspective

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Weil on Finance: Ukraine Crisis Spooks Markets

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      so much for that. stocks surging this morning

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Fixing Inequality Won't Hurt the Economy

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      In a meritocracy such as the United States you will have a handful of winners and lots of losers. This is a concept the left is unable to grasp. The want to believe in equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Faith-Based Drought

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      There seems to be a body of literature that suggests women are more emotional and irrational than men

      I disagree that unemployment is a precious waste of resources. The economy can afford to have these people out of work if the costs for employers to employ them exceeds the benefits they provide.

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      But here’s the thing: we’re in a tale of two economies. There’s all this crazy government data and people getting fired, and the Fed is printing, people are getting richer than ever, and AHHHh, it’s scary. And I agree it is. But it’s a great time to create wealth, to be wealthy, to be creative, to be smart, etc-

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Note to ‘Fiscal Conservatives’

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      The fiscal conservatives a lot have a lot of support from social liberals

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    President Obama’s Potent Changes

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      typical Cosby speech. not fooling me

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Price of Freedom

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      I guess it's easy if someone else will be fighting for it

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Faith-Based Drought

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      The left also chooses to deny the science that shows that not only is IQ determined by genetics, but that it plays a large role in the outcome of life and the wealth of nations and generally remains static throughout life. They want to believe that discrimination is to blame when some people will simply be born losers and there isn't much anyone can or should do about it .

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Anonymous Misogynist Online Army - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      Not too sure what this point of this story was , but if women want equality they have to take the good and the bad that comes with it.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    America Is a Communist Country - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 7 days ago

      America is communist? Outside of certain fields of academia, hardly. America is among the least communist countries in the world, thankfully. There some bad apples but not nearly as bad as other countries.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    One Nazi Wedding Cake to Go, Please - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      but they are there legally under h-1b visa laws. Those are the programmers Zuck is hiring

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Remembering MIT, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      I would like to see an article about MIT is a model meritocracy and a hub of innovation

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Stepping Stones to the Ukraine Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      it seems to be implied when mention of Putin KGB background. Obama is an avowed communist but Putin has reformed

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      It's hard to know, but of the two Hitler was def. the least sane. Hitler declared all-out war against Poland with explicit permission to his commanders to kill "without pity or mercy, all men, women,..
      "

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Religious-Freedom Laws Could Come Back to Hurt the Faithful

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      Typical liberal red herring/stawman augment. A baker that denys Christian wedding cakes would never be in business for long while gay cakes make up just a tiny tiny fraction of total wedding cakes. The baker wouldn't have to fear losing much business over such a small minority.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Stepping Stones to the Ukraine Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      ya but times are different. Putin has an enormous economy at stake, in addition to his own personal fortune estimated to be the greatest in the world, while Hitler had much much less to lose

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      As a conservative republican, free market libertarian , and economic writer I'm ambivalent about this issue. The best approach, IMHO, is to watch and wait. My fear is that obama will jump the gun and make things worse by trying to prove how tough he is. Contrary to popular belief on the conservative blogs, Obama and putin are hardly friends. Putin thinks Obama is a weak pushover

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    The Ellen Oscars Selfie and Western Civilization

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      The left yearns for the demise of modern civilization because they resent the successful

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Monday Reads: Learning From Buffett

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      WB should be thanking uncle sugerdaddy sam

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Economic Tools to Use Against Putin

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      In an effort to prove his toughness Obama will overreact and make the situation worse. just watch

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Why Ukraine Has Lost Crimea

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      This selling is overblown for such a tiny region

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Read Stuff, You Should: Ukraine and the U.S.

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      not sure why this story is dragging the markets down so much

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Brings Americans to the ER?

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      No insurance

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Beware the Russian Bear

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      not really . putin is a capitalist, a nationalist, and opposes the homosexual agenda

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      To try and prove he's not a wimp Obama will jump the gun on Russia and make a bigger fool out of himself than anyone thought possible. The GOP shoud tentativly stand behind Putin as ideological allies

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Toward What in Ukraine?

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      Putin is an ideological ally of GOP, neocons, and libertarian faction. They both support free markets. Would not be surprised to see Obama jump the gun and try to flex his political muscle on Russia in time for elections , which will backfire and make him look like a bigger idiot than he already his. Foreign leaders know he's incompetent and malleable. Hopefully oil prices will keep going up because the libs will be blamed for it.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No, American Weakness Didn't Encourage Putin to Invade Ukraine

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      because Obama has no leadership ability. Foreign leaders walk all over him

  • Discussion on Wired: Underwire

    Futurist Michio Kaku On What Science Fiction Understands That Bioethicists Don’t

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      but how do you get the robot across the galaxy to intercept or CDrom neural connections?

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    Bitcoin’s House of Cards: Inside the Demise of Mt. Gox

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      The left is happy about this, but bitcoin will survive.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    California's $600 Billion Sinkhole

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      The solution is a combination immigration reform, entitlement reform and lower taxes.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    George Soros Is Not a Gangster

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      Even a republican like myself will concede a lot of this paranoia over Soros is motivated by jealousy and envy than a legitimate concern . Soros sees currency weakness and bets against it. If he didn't bet someone else would and the currency would still fall, anyway.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Is Joe Biden Up To?

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      oh please i hope they nominate biden . even better than hitlery

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      At the lowest level calculus can be reduced to arithmetic operations

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Putin's Playbook: The Strategy Behind Russia's Takeover of Crimea

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      crimea the capital of crime

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Weil on Finance: New High for Margin Debt

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      keep telling yourself that lib

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    McDonald’s New Mighty Wings Strategy: Break Even

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      as if it matters because it's nasty anyway

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Crony Capitalism Needs a Kick in the Keister

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      I would rather have bailout and a rising stock market than the solution the left wants which is to let the banks fail and the market crash

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      I somewhat disagree. Crony capitalism could be acceptable if it represents an optimal allocation of resources. Big businesses may create more economic value than small business, the later which has a lot of failure and high borrowing costs. Job creation isn't too important, anyway says wall s.t. and economic expert. It's better to have lower taxes and less regulation.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Eurasianist Threat

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      another lib that thinks America's best days are behind it

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    One Nazi Wedding Cake to Go, Please - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      I agree with the premise of this article but it should work unconditionally. If Zuck wants to hire immigrant programmers it's within his right to do so and the libs shouldn't gave him grief over it.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Beware the Russian Bear

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      Sounds like ur a lib. The debt isn't big deal because it was for defense and tax cuts

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      Also putin isn't a socialist wealth spreading liberal

    • Economics Institute • 8 days ago

      Obama is leading from behind again. Putin thinks obama is a joke and deservedly so.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Power of Hidden Law

    • Economics Institute • 10 days ago

      werd

    • Economics Institute • 10 days ago

      I regret to inform everyone that I was not affected because I never held bitcoins at mtgox. sorry. Bitcoin will be at $2000 soon which means more $ for me. The left wants bitcoin to fail like they want facebook to be a bubble or the market to fall.-

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Elon Musk: Visionary or Rent-Seeker?

    • Economics Institute • 11 days ago

      The case against him isn't compelling considering all major companies at some level benefit from action of the government

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    J.C. Penney Does the Dead Cat Bounce

    • Economics Institute • 11 days ago

      The left keeps attacking walmart and trying to prop-up the failure that is JCpenny. Not too surprising considering the left is the party of failure.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Tesla’s Giant Battery Factory Could Be Huge for Apple

    • Economics Institute • 11 days ago

      The left has been been caling tesla stock a bubble since $40

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Let ‘Hidden Law’ Rule in Arizona

    • Economics Institute • 11 days ago

      because it's a joke. it's a mockery of the institution of marriage. Maybe you cannot find a reason because you condone moral depravity

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Think)

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      i got a job offer to help move money for a nigerian prince

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Study Philosophy? 'To Challenge Your Own Point of View'

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      It's like getting a phd in sheaf cohemolgy. it may not have any obvious practical applications, but knowing it means you're in the top 0.001% of the population in terms of high-end thinking, which is an ability sought by employers.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Twilight of the Congressional Problem Solvers

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      The left would rather spread wealth than solve problems

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Ivy League Schools Are So Bad at Economic Diversity

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      Because wealthy students tend to score better on the standardized tests, have higher GPAs and have more extra curricular work

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What's So Weird About a Conservative Atheist?

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      Conservative atheism has become the fastest growing political movment since 2008, as a lot of Obama voters realized that Obama's policies are as irrational believing in a god or not believing in evolution. This includes the rise of internet libertarianism, pragmatism, neo-liberlism, utilitarianism, and the neo-conservative resurgence. The Christian right, paleoconservatism, and welfare liberalism, on the other hand, has recently begun to fall out of favor.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Survey: Businesses Don't Care If Their Employees Went to Yale

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      Maybe they don't care if the business is is low tech or low barrier to entry, but the will make a difference if it requires demanding work.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Survey: Businesses Don't Care If Their Employees Went to Yale

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      and the rest harvard, cornel, caltech, etc

      only when you get beyond 100 or so do they look at the less prestigious universities

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Useless Mouths - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      because there is no gene for intelligence like Tay Sachs disease and Sickle Cell which has either dominant or recessive alleles . Intelligence is random with probably many genes affected, and possibly a slight hereditary factor, but again, we don't know the specific the genes that account for this.

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      we sent some CA/NYC cops over to Kiev that shit would be cleared up in 2 hours

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      I think you are speaking in generalizations. It may be doomed for some but for others (like folks in the Silicon Valley) it's doing great. Once could argue that the increased competitiveness of today's society will make individuals less infantile in behavior

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      yea but what about recent advances like the discovery of HIggs Boson. An idiodcracy is not possible because intelligence is not a Mendelian trait

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      the irony is that you are quoting someone that for five years ha been habitually making the same incorrect forecasts about America's banking system being on the verge of collapse. Hes just a slightly nuttier version of Peter Schiff.We dont actually need to predict outliers, we only need solutions to fix them as was shown in 2008 when TARP was passed.

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      In 2008 & 2009 as the market was falling, deep pocketed businesses and organizations were frantically looking for explanations as to what happened. Behavior psychologists and 'contrarian' thinkers like Taleb, Gladwell, Ariely, DeLevitt & Dubner of Freakonomics fame, etc rapidly rose to preeminence on the lecture & book circuit, because the 'traditional' models had, apparently, in the span of two years, completely failed. Everyone wanted answers, and these pop psychologists would provide it. We are irrational! We can't manage or see risks! Fast forward four years, and we're back to stocks always going up, housing speculation, record consumer spending, record profits & earnings, and record bonuses.

      Smartism -the emphasis on IQ, which was dismissed in Gladwell's Outliers book, is more important than ever as low paying, low IQ jobs are rapidly being supplanted by smarty jobs, or eliminated at together. The meritocracy and American hegemony has been emboldened, as more people than ever become multi-millionaires and billionaires through stocks, real estate, speculation, and web 2.0 while the US has the best performing stock market, currency, and lowest yields of any developed country. If 2008 was supposed to be a paradigm shift, it was more of a blip and the forever irrational, risk oblivious status quo has resumed control.

      The takeaway is that Tyler and these other folks are right, and the right (but especially the left) need to acknowledge economic reality instead of believing that this will only be temporary. Average is over. Unless you bring extraordinary abilities to the table, you likely will be left behind and policy makers won't care - not because they are indifferent, but because that would be like interfering with evolution.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      Thankfully the world didn't blow up and six years later stocks keep making new highs. We learned that while we cannot necessarily prevent a crisis from happening, we have the tools to keep crisis as brief as possible. Bernanke may have been a little slow , but he was still light-years ahead of the rest of the world in terms of being the the first to lower interest rates and engage in unorthodox monetary policy.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Does Bush Deserve His Reputation as a Champion of Democracy?

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      But the world is safer even if there were no weapons

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      Bush understood that Islamic fundamentalism could not coexist with individualism, democracy, and free markets. Obama, being opposed to individual economic freedom, would rather let tyranny fester than intercede.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Audacity of <strike>Hope</strike> Hubris

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      It's liberals - not conservatives- that are the most risk averse, not only economically, but by going out of their way to not offend people, even if these people are dictators, criminals, and other low-lives. Austerity has been a huge success in Europe. Time to cut entitlement spending and lower taxes.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Good Start on Tax Reform

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      Some good news:

      Paul Ryan: Lower Taxes Equals Stronger Growth
      Duke's Harvey: Europe Proves Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs
      Greenspan: Income Inequality 'Most Dangerous' Trend
      Sean Hyman Predicts Oil Prices Run to $140

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    CPAC Is Right

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      But there is a fledgling alliance between the new atheists (Dawkins, harris) with conservatives against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ukraine and Our Useless Outrage

    • Economics Institute • 12 days ago

      Foreign leaders know Obama is spineless, effete, inept, and noncommittal , so they walk all over him. Democrats exude weakness, republicans embody strength through firm diplomacy.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Innovation vs. Regulation

    • Economics Institute • 13 days ago

      The problem is innovation outside of web 2.0 costs a lot of money and funding has gotten really tight for small/med business since 2008.

    • Economics Institute • 13 days ago

      not sure why some on the right attack Silicon Valley when even the author uses it as an example of a low-regulated free market. Maybe jealousy that Silicon Valley is so overwhelmingly successful and prosperous and they aren't.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Two 007s - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 13 days ago

      I haven't watched a bond movie in ages

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Conservatism in Russia and America - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 13 days ago

      The problem with steve and other liberals and far right folks is they are always swimming upstream in a futile fight against things that are out of their control. A long time ago I listened to rigth wing radio and while I agreed with it I knew nothign would change, andsure enough I was right . decided to get on with my life and just make the most of it. The world didn't come to an end, as many pundits had predicted. Losing sleep over cultural marxism wont help me in life because I have no control over it while I do have control over the stocks& real estate I can buy, how much money I can make, the friends I can choose, the media I want to consume, etc. So I focus most of my energies to to this small sphere of stuff I can control and a small amount to the rest.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why Republicans Need the Tea Party

    • Economics Institute • 13 days ago

      why wouldn't the marriage work? It did for the past 4 years with only minimal hiccups along the way. There re much greater division within the democratic party

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    WhatsApp and the New Meaning of Work

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      Here's an idea..feel free to steal it. For the Americans who are unable to cut it in the smartist era, maybe they should be subsidized to engage in passive consumption, such as uploading pictures to facebook, clicking google ads, streaming netflix movies, or using whatsapp. These activities may create more value for the economy than a traditional job. Maybe 5 cents per uploaded photo, 1 cent a tweet, 75 cents per facebook account. This is like a basic income, but with much less risk for abuse and a lower cost.

      When the left (and occasionally the right) say America is in decline or capitalism is dying, I just remind them of the success of facebook snapchatp, whatsapp. Only in America, and more specifically, only in a meritocracy is this possible. That's why we need programs that allow talented, smart, hard-working people from all over the world to create wealth and prosperity -not only for themselves and shareholders, but maybe so that some of that prosperity can benefit everyone else, too.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Beware the Biggest, Baddest Bulls

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      imho, just keep buying the dips. dow 20,000 soon. FB GOOG PCLN V MA AMZN XLV YELP

      We haven;t even begun monetary tightening yet

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Republican Establishment's War on the Tea Party Is Working

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      The tea party resonates with most of America because they embody hard working values. Obama, not so much. The tea party wants America to be safe from terror, lower taxes,and embrace conservative Christian moral values.

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      If the mainstream GOP take overs, the tea party will quietly fold and no one will care any more. it will be resurrected should a democrat win the presidency and house again. This means we're going to have more deficit spending for tax cut & defense under a republican control of three three major branches, and while I am impartial to this, the far left and far right will be livid. The neo-liberals, pragmatisits, neocons, and libertarians rise again just like between 1968-2008 and the welfare liberals will be kicked to the curb.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Year in the Life of the American Family Budget

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      usual leftist conspiratorial rhetoric to justify more regulation

      consumers have choices, they have the option the read the fine print before agreeing to the loan

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      Real estate is a good investment if you live in a neighborhood where price are always going up, like mine. Cars, much less so.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Opponents of Pentagon Budget Cuts Just Played the Entire Media

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      It is a big deal according to the media and that is why they jumped all over it . Even if it predicated on a lie, it still plays into the broader theme of obama being soft on terror and wanting to redistribute money from the military to less useful social programs

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    I Took the SAT 7 Times to Help My Son Get Into College

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      Hard to form much of an opinion with just this excerpt

      But the SAT is still most effective way of combating HS GPA inflation

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Black History Lessons from the GOP

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      Allen West. not sure why he hasn't gained more traction as a national candidate

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Military-Budget Delusion

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      The situation may look bad but what will happen will be the same as we
      observed for the past 8 years: more debt will be monetized and the US dollar
      will continue to rise against other currencies, against all predictions
      of inflation and fiscal unsustinability. We
      need to get entitlement spending for both veteran benefits, disability,
      and medicare under control in exchange for more defense spending and tax
      cuts since at least those two things create economic value while the
      others don't.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Shrinking Pentagon Budget

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      I agree the left wants to make america less safe from terror, but increasing the pentgon budget beyond its already immense size will rub some readers the wrong way.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    When Failure Is Success

    • Economics Institute • 14 days ago

      Failure is the lifeblood of the left in terms of instigating it, celebrating it, and benefiting from it. The GOP is the party of wealth creation and the libs are the part of wealth redistribution and class warfare. They seek crisis as a conduit to push a welfare economic agenda, just like in 2008 when the leftist media exaggerated the financial problem to get Obama election. It wasn't a crisis until the NYT said so.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Equality: Where’s the Evidence? - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 15 days ago

      Even though the deceleration of independence says we hold these
      truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, they didn't
      literally mean that in day to day affairs like property, wealth etc.
      They meant that god created man out of a common mold. That means no man
      has divine powers or communication with god, in agreement with
      protestantism opposition to relics and priests, and the religious hierarchy. So a person with a high IQ or more money is no closer to god.

    • Economics Institute • 15 days ago

      yea as if our current leaders are any more competent than the 4year old

      Seems like you're falling into the liberal trap that above average ability in one area (like IQ) must come at the cost of a more important skill, as deemed important by liberal. (e.g. people with high IQs are dishonest to compensate for being smarter.) This is how the left skirts around the IQ issue- not by denying that IQ differences exist, but by turning it into a handicap.

      IQ measures the potential to perform complex tasks, while grit is simply one's determination. A certain threshold of IQ is necessary to perform tasks involving abstract reasoning, but grit or determination will determine how far ahead one individual will perform against another with all other variables being equal. People with below/average IQs, with the exception of some athletes and entertainers, usually don't accomplish much in life. They tend to be the consumers rather than the creators. They don't create successful companies, make much money, produce/write TV shows and movies, publish books, publish research, etc

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Land of Inequality

    • Economics Institute • 15 days ago

      All this finger pointing at the elite reminds me of OWS, but with conservatives attacking the liberal rich instead of liberals attacking the conservative rich. Either way, it's still class warfare. As I wrote numerous times, rising inequity is a byproduct of a meritocracy that rewards the creators for the economic value they bring to society and is neither undesirable from an economic standpoint nor unsustainable. The liberals want to believe that run-away inequality will render capitalism self limiting, although there is no evidence this will happen. For example, consumer spending is at historic highs despite historically high wealth inequity. In a meritocracy, as exemplified by California, you will have a lot of losers and a few winners. Winners include Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and numerous examples other successful web 2.0/internet companies that have wide moats and weak competition. Small business, on the other hand, has a high failure rate due to regulation, competition, difficulty adjusting to consumer preferences, and high borrowing costs. It's much easier to make money investing in the 'winners' of the smartist era, such as web 2.0, stocks, and Bay Area & Southern California real estate than trying to create a small business. We expect the disparity between the economic winners and losers, the haves and have-nots will keep widening with no end in sight.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Fascism and Socialism: Still Not Opposites

    • Economics Institute • 17 days ago

      The left thinks they can create wealth by spreading it around from the most productive of society to the least.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Debt-Ceiling Surrender

    • Economics Institute • 17 days ago

      " The Republican establishment is to blame for much of this, spending
      like drunken sailors through the Bush years and nearly doubling — to
      $10.6 trillion — the debt it had taken Washington over two centuries to
      amass. Obama, however, has left them in the dust, adding nearly $7
      trillion more in just five years, with the once unimaginable $20
      trillion threshold close at hand."

      We're not approaching a fiscal apocalypse, but we need to get entitlement spending under control or lower taxes to broaden the tax base. Bush's debt spending, unlike Obama's, actually helped the economy and kept America safe. Obama's spending was purely wasteful, such as the failed stimulus program.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Punitive Economics

    • Economics Institute • 18 days ago

      We have a liberalism problem, not a spending problem says expert.

    • Economics Institute • 18 days ago

      that won't happen. for years the left has been saying we need to get our fiscal hour in order and yet these is no risk America could default on its debt

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Outdated Business Model of Diversity, Inc.

    • Economics Institute • 19 days ago

      No wonder they cannot find work after college. They have been irredeemably brainwashed

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Woes of Wall Street: Why Young Bankers Are So Miserable

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      metaphorically speaking , putz

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Woes of Wall Street: Why Young Bankers Are So Miserable

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      Investment banking creates value in numerous ways:

      HFT creates liquidity making it easier to buy & sell stock with smaller spreads between the bid and ask. This mean less fees.

      Private companies rise capital though investment banking. A private company sells shares to an investment bank in exchange for funding. This money can be used to hire more employees.

      Speculation helps erase potential market inefficiencies. For example, if the price of oil has diverged too far from the fundamentals, speculators will short it and bring the price down.

      Trading collateralized debt obligations lower costs by allowing firms to sell otherwise unprofitable loans on the open market. Instead of a default being a total loss it can be sold for pennies on the dollar.

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      The comments in this thread reek of OWS, but without the smell

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      maybe they would feel better if the left would stop vilifying them and recognize the value they (bankers) bring to society

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    The Future Looks Dull From Here

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      It;s better to have congress do too little than impose needless regulation and worthless stimulus projects.

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      just another lib that wants to believe the economy is weak because the 1% are making too much money relative to everyone else. Erza Klein is right to be optimistic. Libs seek crisis and failure because they want to bring the world down to their level.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being a 'Super Dyke'

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      sometimes i think it's just common sense to treat each other with respect you would want to be treated with

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The World's Next Atom Smasher May Be 60 Miles Long and Run Until 2075

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      the next one will be 60000 miles long and used for 60000 years!!

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Logic Of The Michael Dunn Jury

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      But dunn will effectively serve a life sentence with all the charges stacked against him. Wouldn't you rather have him spend the rest of his life locked up than get a higher change and only spend 15? I sure would if I were the parents.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The U.S. Government's Amazingly Wrong Forecast for This Winter

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      predicting is easy when it comes to making predictions about the market going higher. some things are easier to predict than others.

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      The left also predicted the economy would enter a double dip recession and that social media bubble would pop. neither has happened . The bad weather had no negative impact on the economy

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Unfortunately Innate Nature of Intelligence - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      But aren't greeks and germans both white? Didn't Ireland need a bailout too. Since you're no longer on TV you can perhaps elaborate

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      We're definitely in the smartist era. A persona that understands sheaf cohomology (or has the capacity to understand sheaf cohomology) is more valuable than one who doesn't. Thanks to the meritocracy, never before in history have the social and economic rewards for being intelligent & hard working been so great. Someone can code a bird app and be a multi-millionaire in a few weeks. Or someone can code a photo app and be a billionaire in a few years

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      The irish & scotts are pretty damn smart though. Carl Brannen, Rowan Hamilton, and Nathan Myhrvold examples off top of my head

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ted Cruz and the Point of No Return

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      I think it;s time for Sowell to retire. This isn't the first time he's taken shots at important republicans or defended the establishment. He wrote in 2013 that the GOP should accept obamacare and not try to shut down the govt. over it . Even though Obamacare did prevail, the resistance did have an effect in that the employer mandate was delayed and we were right that Obama lied about keeping your old plan.

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      reducto absurdum

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Welfare, Here and Abroad

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      Nowhere in the constitution is anyone guaranteed a livable wage

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Harvard Professor’s Dishonest Attack

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      According to the libs, differences in outcome in life can only be attributed to racist environmental factors that only more regulation can fix.

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      Leftist protectionism, isolationism, and regulation is incompatible with the free market and smartist era. The class warfare you read about in SF regarding the Google buses and Tom Perkins is an example of this friction between two competing ideologues.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    No Minimum-Wage Free Lunch

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      Wages are already too high for America to live up to its full economic potential, says expert. The more work that can be automated, the more prosperous some of us will be. Technological progress and wealth creation is unstoppable. Now couldn’t be a better time to be above average. According to Charles Murray, we’re coming apart and I look forward to this.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Shrinking Imperialist President

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      For a shrinking president he has sure done a lot of harm

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Nationalism Is a Blast - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 20 days ago

      Steven pinker is right. Liberals like Taleb, etc want to be believe the world is more violent because they have little faith in humanity and the innovation brought by technological progress, and rather than create technology, they want to see economic failure in order to bring the world to their level. Liberals seek mayhem and chaos as a way of upending the 'bourgeois' power structure to replaced with a re-distributive one where everyone is equally poor.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Problem with 'Super Trucks'

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      Even actual economists say Obama demonstrates less knowledge about economics than his predecessor.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Gates Doctrine: A New Precedent for Washington Memoirs

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      One need not try hard to find something to criticize about obama . Is it lying about keeping your old plan under obamacare? Guantanamo? NSA? Iran? The stimulus not creating the jobs as promised?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Middle-School Girls Sometimes Talk Like Babies

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      I think someone is trying to break my record for the most number of downvotes in an article

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      It comes as little surprise men are more tolerant of the baby talk than women.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    The Official Forecast of the U.S. Government Never Saw This Winter Coming

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      The left wants man-made global warming just like they want economic collapse

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Noise Makes People Unhappy, Cancer May Not

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      People find noise stressful> profound insight, sir

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Case for Health-Warning Labels on Soda

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      Umm as you mentioned in the end of the article the warning labels don't work. Everyone knows smoking, drinking and soda is bad for you but they do it anyway,

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    50 Shades of Faggotry - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      Darn it. late to the comments again

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Divorce Rates Jump When the Economy Gets Healthy

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      This agree with Charles Murray's book Coming Apart. As the economy recovers, society will come apart not just socioeconomically but in terms of breaking relationships.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Joy of Teaching Computer Science in the Age of Facebook

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      It's because places like Harvard and MIT admission process only select the best and brightest. The reason why No-name University isn't producing any Facebook or Googles is because their alumni just aren't smart enough.

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      there's just no pleasing some people

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      People are getting richer than ever at an increasingly early age and with much less effort than just a generation ago. A good idea and come coding can make you a mufti-millionaire in a couple years, or possibly a billionaire. In the past you would have had to claw your way up the ladder or toil for years in obscurity. Folks with good ideas are breaking out to media preeminence and becoming intantly wealthy.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Raising the Minimum Wage Is Still a Bad Idea

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      So you would rather have smaller profit margins and higher wages. You realize the costs are passed on to the consumer as inflation

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      If anything ,wages are still too high for America to live up to its full economic potential.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Eye-Popping Numbers Behind the Candy Crush IPO

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      it will falter like zynga. do not buy

  • Discussion on Atlantic: In focus

    A Frozen Walk to Island Ice Caves

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      global warming obviously

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How a Pregnant Mother's Diet Could Change a Child's Brain

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      Maybe we need to stop thinking of obesity as an illness that needs to be eradicated, and instead as the normal human condition.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When, Exactly, Does Watching a Lot of Netflix Become a 'Binge'?

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      5 or more in a row seems excessive

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The UAW’s Worker Problem

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      In a free market unions would have no reason to exist. The economy is better off without them

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    VW Workers Escape from Detroit

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      There's an old joke that if you can operate a TV remote, you can get job at the UAW. 1000's of people being paid to stand arond and no nothing. no wonder it failed.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Lessons of World War I

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      Post Soviet Russia is more interested in preserving trade relations than gaining territorial power, but this true for all countries. Even hostile countries have N. Korea have engaged in saber rattling than overt war, because the economic consequences of war would be too great. Steven pinker's thesis that we're becoming less violent world is ringing true, even though the left continues to hold old prejudices and paranoia. Historically, its been the republicans that try to forge relations and the democrats that lead the country into war.

    • Economics Institute • 21 days ago

      Obama: eight years of leadership from behind and apology tours. Bush may not have been 'liked' as much as Obama, but he forged strong diplomatic & economic ties with Russia, the Saudis, Israel, South America, China, and the British Labour Party. Obama is perceived by foreign leaders as naive, malleable, and inept. He's weakening relations with Israel, America's most important Middle East ally. By not taking a stand against Iran is damaging otherwise amicable relations with Saudi Arabia. Obama will go down in history as the most incompetent, innefective president ever.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Golden Gated Communities

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      I guess my broader question is why should we or anyone care too much about the poor at all. Many of them are engaged in self destructive habits like promiscuity, consumption, and drug use. If the progs want to blithely dismiss them that's fine by me. Many of the poor cannot and don't want to be helped.

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      California should be split into republican southern & southern states and liberal central state. This would give the republican party more electoral votes.
      On December 19, 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper submitted a six page proposal to the California Attorney General to split California into six new
      states, citing improved representation, governance, and competition
      between industries.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Yen Holds Climb Before GDP After Asian Index Futures Rose

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      Stocks keep going up. dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Deflation Threat Unsettles G-20 Roiled by Emerging-Market Losses

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      The left wants deflation so the economy shrinks. Won't happen in America, but maybe in the rest of the world it will.

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      spoken like a liberal. deflation means less economic growth because purchases are postponed. Deflation makes real debts higher. Consumers having too much money indicates slack in the system which hurts profits.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    What Lottery Winners and Tom Perkins Have in Common

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      Cry me a river. He didn't invest in segway or frisker because he is smart and skilled and knew to avoid companies with no future. It has little to do with luck. The left wants to believe people have no innate abilities or differences and that we're all just blank slates, and that without the oppressive policies of the 1% we'll live to our full slate potential. The liberals are always looking for ways to dismiss the role of talent or IQ in determining life outcomes.

      Generally, economists are better at solving & explaining acute
      economic problems than predicting or preventing them. A doctor cannot
      reliably predict if someone can get cancer or prevent someone from
      getting cancer, but he can offer treatment for it and an explanation for
      the biological processes that cause cancer.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The United States of Decline

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      According to the left, the mouth breathers should have the same representation as those that actually produce value

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The United States of Decline

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      That would cause the destruction of trillion in wealth- something that would make an America and capitalism hating liberal very happy. America doesn't need to go down that route, but we do need to get entitlement spending under control.

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      Aren't libs supposed to be the doom & gloomers? Why are we going
      down that path? We're supposed to be the party of tax cuts, free-market
      optimism, wealth creation, and defense; not the party of who is me. The
      left wanted the financial system to fail in 2008 so they could get Obama
      elected, and it was republicans that fixed the mess- despite losing all
      the major branches of govt. in the elections. That is a testament to
      the selflessness of the GOP.

      Our best days are ahead of us, and even now the US economy is still growing faster than all of Europe. We have the biggest, most powerful multinationals and the best performing stock market. Google and facebook stock will keep
      going up. Ppl are getting richer than ever. The GOP can break this
      alleged 'slump' if we return to our pro-growth values, and eschew the
      factions of the party that want default or protectionism.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Right’s 18-Year Slump

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      The GOP should have easy victories in 2014 & 2016 after years of deceit and failure of Obama

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      Aren't libs supposed to be the doom & gloomers? Why are we going down that path? We're supposed to be the party of tax cuts, free-market optimism, wealth creation, and defense; not the party of who is me. The left wanted the financial system to fail in 2008 so they could get Obama elected, and it was republicans that fixed the mess- despite losing all the major branches of govt. in the elections. That is a testament to the selflessness of the GOP.

      Our best days are ahead of us. Google and facebook stock will keep going up. Ppl are getting richer than ever. The GOP can break this alleged 'slump' if we return to our pro-growth values, and eschew the factions of the party that want default or protectionism.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Golden Gated Communities

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      "And California is not very rich."

      hmm median income isn't an accurate measure of the wealth of a state. CA has more income than any state of the union. Hopefully high rents and home prices will speed up the gentrification process

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      To the disappointment of the left, N. Ca will not have the same as Detroit; in fact, median incomes, real estate, web 2.0 valuations ,and stocks will keep gong up with no end in sight. Palo Also home prices have surged past 2007 levels even though the left insists we're in another real estate bubble. My home keeps going up in my neighborhood, too. People getting richer than ever.

      So why will N. Ca escape Detroit's fate? Simple: smarter people and booming industry. Detroit died when the sclerotic, overpaid US auto industry got supplanted by the cheaper, better quality Japanese cars. Tech companies are servicing an emergent middle class all over the world, with billions of people and thousands of corporations. This is a much greater reach than US auto companies ever had. There may have been substitutes for Ford, GM and Chrysler, but there are none for Facebook, Google, Cisco, Intel, and Twitter.

      Finally, the Bay Area isn't as progressive as you may have been lead ot beleive. Look at republicans & libertarians like Mark Andreesen and Peter Thiel, to name just a few. Many of the eleite don;t want higher txes and regulation. Some supported Obama becase they wanted some favors, not because the necessarily support his presidency.

      To the libs, Detroit is a microcosm of how America should be as a whole: A place devoid of innovation where everyone is equally poor. Thankfully ,that won't happen.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Proposed IRS Rule Change Fractures the Left

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      TEA: taxed enough already

      Kudlow: Fed Can't Help With Jobs

      According to a consortium of economics, the Obama recovery failed by not creating enough jobs.

      Expert: Obama administration most corrupt ever. An era of draconian soviet era politics

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Voter ID and Gun Rights

    • Economics Institute • 22 days ago

      If anything ,we need to make it harder to vote. Otherwise, you have liberal and other unproductive individuals voting for their own best interests such a more unemployment, more entitlements, more welfare instead of the good of the nation and the economy as a whole. Those who cannot be impelled to get proper ID not only don't deserve our sympathy ,nor any representation.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Diary of an Expatriate Ice Person - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 23 days ago

      Every year seems to be the coldest winter on record. I guess it's that global warming kicking in lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Americans Don't Know About Science

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      ocums razor. it's easier to believe in evolution than make the data agree with the alternatives

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Taxation and Representation

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      Even though the deceleration of independence says we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, they didn't literally mean that in day to day affairs like property, wealth etc. They meant that god created man out of a common mold. That means no man has divine powers or communication with god, in agreement with protestantism opposition to relics and priests, and religious hierarchy.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    America’s Self-Appointed Ministers of Culture

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      Maybe NRO should support the neo atheists such as

      Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris whom have stood up to totalitarianism, such as and radical islam.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Rand Paul’s Frivolous NSA Lawsuit

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      To some extent I agree here. The NSA technically isn't violating our 4th amendment rights, and furthermore , if you aren't doing any incriminating activity you don;t have anything to fear. The NSA doesn't care about your facebook status about going to the baseball game or your BBQ. I support Ran Paul's economic positions, but this does seem like a frivolous PR stunt. NRO is confidence the republicans will get big wins in 2016 & 2014 so I think they are aligning themselves establishment and less with the fringe.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Americans Don't Know About Science

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      Huge means relative to any other observed explosions. Anyone with some basic knowledge would know it was a bigger explosion than, say, a bomb. So much nitpicking

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      i'm sure the study has an email address where you can voice your grievance

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      But i thought America was falling behind, says the left. We scored higher than most countries in all questions.

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      nope. it was an explosion condensed hot matter. It had all the characteristics of one

      Definition: An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of .

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Study: Adderal Doesn't Help Kids Get Better Grades

    • Economics Institute • 24 days ago

      This isn't a surprise. Parents will look for any excuse for poor academic performance

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Tom Perkins Has a Fascinating, Radical, Un-American Voting Plan

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      Hmmm one could argue that if some individuals produce more societal value through their creations and investments, shouldn't they deserve more representation than those that produce less?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      Some skills are easier for older people to spontaneously pick up and master, such as writing and art. Others like math and computer science are dominated by young people.So if you're in your late 30's and you want to win a Noble in physics you have a lot of cramming to do. better stick with painting

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Richie Incognito Is What You Thought He Was

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      If this were in a normal work setting his frustration would be understandable, because going to work that isn't a matter of choice for millions of people, but to play professional football is a privilege bestowed upon a select few with the skills to participate. People play because it's their passion, which Martin seemed to be lacking judging by this list. Second, this is a boorish sport. If you cannot take the heat, get out of the kitchen..or umm lockerroom. This is not to condone Richie's behavior,because I don't. But i think martin should be more grateful for being given an opportunity that so many others would want.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Is the Dawning of the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      Pity on the leftist pessimist. He spoils his own existence. In fact, life is endurable if one is an optimist. A pessimist complicates things to no purpose. For a pessimist happiness cannot be obtained until his unrealistic expectations are met; an optimist accepts things as they are, for all their flaws and idiosyncrasies.

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      hurdurrrr why is it any different than before? Self destructive people with poor impulse control will destroy their lives with or without more technology.

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      derp derp more negativity derp

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      Leave it to the left to want to restrict economic & technological progress in order to save obsolete jobs and old ways of living. Innovation is OK only if it can be taxed, regulated, and it creates plenty of high paying jobs for everyone. I for one am optimistic about the future and look forward to an era of greater abundance and productivity.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Harvard Professor Attacking Google Thrives as Web Sheriff

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      companies like google and amazon and facebook and the NSA laugh at this kid. just a fly in the ointment

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Ten Workers on Living on the Minimum Wage

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      ' i make people smile'

      no you make them run away in terror

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Billionaires' Wealth Is Skyrocketing. Their Philanthropy Is Not

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      cry me a river. liberals seek maximum entropy where everyone is equally poor

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Schools Should Be Teaching Kids How to Use the Internet Well

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      Eventually they will be asking 'why why am i lugging these heavy textbooks and going to class when all this stuff is on wikipedia?'

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What College Graduates Regret

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      'i don't like being a physics major' but I do like the money they make

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Germany Is a Little <em>Too</em> Good at Luge

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      lugeing enhancing drugs

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    In Praise of the Establishment

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      They rose to the occasion and prevented a crisis for occurring. good job

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Wreckovery

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      NO surprise here. we've been prediction that the stimulus would fail since its ratification. It met its non existent expectations

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    From Russia with Euphemisms

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      lets hold all subsequent winder Olympics in Antarctica because there are no evil people over there. no one can possibly be offended

      i think we're beating a dead horse here.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Vision to Unite America

    • Economics Institute • 25 days ago

      I woud rather have GOP status quo than a liberal one

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the Republican Push for Black Voters Is (Mostly) Doomed to Fail

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      read the second sentence. Obama was elected for his charisma, not because he was the most qualified.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The republicans don't need to pander to get votes. Without a charismatic replacement for Obama, the libs will have nothing. Republicans can appeal to voters with tax cuts, defense, and family values. What does the left have? Obama care lies, scandals, a failed stimulus, and jobless recovery?

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      according to the dems, anything with a pulse should be a able to vote. Also known as the fog mirror test

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    A $4 Minimum Wage Can Get People Back to Work

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The comments reek of more liberalism than OWS (but thankfully without the smell)

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      His work is syndicated and most scholars write to disseminate ideas than for money

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Save Marriage in America

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The availability of contraception, abortion, and divorce has permanently altered the relationship between sex and marriage.

      That's the problem. Business being forced to provide birth control under Obamacare. Businesses and tax payers are funding destructive, immoral behavior

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Newspeak

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      If you like your plan you can keep it - a lie that will live in infamy

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    College Is a Waste—but Not Going Is Worse

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      College isn't a waste if you major in a STEM field

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    A $4 Minimum Wage Can Get People Back to Work

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      No great stagnation in Bay Area and other innovation centers of the world. Facebook (FB) keeps
      making new highs. Now is a great time to be an economist, coder, real
      estate investor, self-actualizer, speculator, etc. Not so great if you
      graduated in a non stem major with mountains of debt.
      Josh Brown debunks this 1929 comparison chart http://www.thereformedbroker.c......

      Stocks will keep going up along with Bay Area real estate prices (especially Palo Alto and Athlerton.

      Nerds are the ones making all the money in this new era while being showered
      with accolades by the media for the innovations they bring to society.

      As quoted by 360 Capital, to get ahead today it's imperative to learn a skill that employers want - something technical and useful like coding, math, engineering, etc

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      What if those 5% produce 70% more economic value than everyone else? Isn't it fair their contributions be rewarded with more wealth? A company like Facebook or Apple creates value in the jobs it creates, the products it produces and the ecosystem that surrounds it. Millions of businesses use facebook and google ads. Thousands of people work developing Apple apps.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      There are other costs that go into the shoe than just producing them. A movie costs nothing to reproduce but there are a lot of input costs like actors, marketing, distribution, etc

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Economists develop theories necessary for solving broad maco problems, like the banking problem in 2008 or the Asian currency crisis, long term management crisis, Black Monday crash etc.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      There is a market demand for those particular shoes; the market costs of promoting them far exceed the labor costs. libs like yourself keep drinking the debunked Marxian Labor theory of value of coolaid.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Plan to Reduce Inequality: Give $1,000 to Every Newborn Baby

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      yes , arbitrarily high wages will solve everything

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Making the Economic Case for More Than the Minimum Wage

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Fine let's raise minimum wage to $100 an hour under the condition you can only work 5 minutes a day

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    A $4 Minimum Wage Can Get People Back to Work

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      So your solution is economic regression from unnecessarily high wages for work that can be outsourced.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Maybe they can acquire skills that would elicit a higher salary. they can learn to stop complaining. lower wages means bigger profits and cheaper goods.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      What does that have to do with its validity ? The best the left can do is resort to adhominem attacks, lacking in any actual economic knowledge.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The fate of the long-term unemployed is arguably the most immediate social and economic challenge facing the U.S. today.

      Not really. premature raising of interest rates, tax hikes, and regulation is worse. We need to stop becoming a nation of crybabies and learn to accept decreasing labor force participation as a consequence of irreversible technological and economic progress.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Stock Market Stories Lead Us Astray

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      the headlines have frontrunned 100 of the last 4 crisis.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Jobless Claims in U.S. Increased to 339,000 Last Week

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Stocks keep going up. no one on wall st. losing sleep over this

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Drop Before Retail-Sales Data

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      But hasn't the left said there is supposed to be a crisis because not enough people can find work? where is it? lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the Republican Push for Black Voters Is (Mostly) Doomed to Fail

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Since when did obtaining ID become a racial issue?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Rise (and Rise and Rise) of the 0.01 Percent in America

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      is it better to have .1% of infinity or 100% of nothing? ponder that

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      so much wealth, not enough taxes to spread it all

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Rise (and Rise and Rise) of the 0.01 Percent in America

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Hmm how does a small minded, short-sighted thinker create a success like Google, Facebook or Apple? Or how about the billionaire pledge by Zuck, Warren, and Gates to give a bulk of their wealth to charity? Maybe your thinking is clouded by your underlying resentment of the successful.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      We just have to accept growing structural unemployment and rising inequality as a consequence of a winner take all meritocracy. It's optimal for economic growth for things to be this way.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Plan to Reduce Inequality: Give $1,000 to Every Newborn Baby

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      in b4 crime explodes

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Derek Jeter's Monotonous Greatness

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Didn't he fake getting hit by a pitch? That's what is most memorable about him

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What College Graduates Regret

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      isn't that what wonderlick tests do?

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      slate.com and salon.con are always looking for writers. After you cannot find work you can write about it to get sympathy from like minded readers.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Even Olympians Choke

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      When Olympic athletes fail it's back to would you like fries with that career track. professional athletes have it much better. Why anyone with athletic talent would want to become an Olympian versus a regular athlete doesn't make sense.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Behold the Selective Outrage Over National Security Leaks

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      I still believe that if you are not doing anything incriminating you generally don't have to fear the NSA

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the Scots Invented 'Liberalism'

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Classical liberalism/libertarianism/utilitarianism: equal opportunity under a meritocracy

      Modern liberalism: Equality of outcome. Because everyone is a blank slate, uneven outcomes in life (winners vs losers) are solely the result of environmental factors (racism/discrimination) instead of genetics paying a role, and hence more govt. spending, taxation, interest rate hikes, and regulation is needed to upend the meritocracy so that everyone can have the some outcome even if this makes everyone worse off.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Baby Steps Toward Race Realism - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      steve is def. not jewish

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Baby Steps Toward Race Realism - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      darn another taki article where i'm too late to comment before the masses have gotten to it

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Newspeak

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      3 months

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      the whine because they have unrealistic expectations and ignorance of economics. they think wealth can be created by spreading it. by redistributing it from the creators to the takers.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      why are you fanning the flames of crisis? things could be better but they could be much worse, too

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Even if McCain had won we still would have had 9-10% unemployment for the first few years of the new administration. The stimulus was a waste but it's not like the GOP had anything better either.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    An America That Works

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The
      unemployment rate for the approximately 30 percent of working-age
      Americans with a bachelor’s degree or higher is 3.2 percent. But most
      working-age Americans don’t have a college degree. Unemployment for
      those with only a high-school diploma is 7.1 percent. Their
      labor-force-participation rate is an astonishingly low 58 percent — the
      lowest level for the period for which we have records. And it is even
      worse for those without a high-school diploma.
      -----
      The economic impact of the weak labor market in terms of things like
      consumer spending, profits & earnings, and exports etc just isn't as
      significant as all the headline hype would suggest. Somehow the economy
      keeps plowing ahead when many people cannot find work. Yea it looks bad
      having a lot of ppl not working but the sky isn't going to fall and
      government programs to fix it won't work either. We just have to accept growing structural unemployment as a consequence of a winner take all meritocracy.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Deeper Naginism

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Economists have many different models explaining how economic growth
      happens. And though the relative merits of those models are hotly
      contested among economists, as are the relative weights that should be
      assigned to many variables, a few factors keep turning up: productivity,
      capital accumulation, population growth, and technological progress.

      ---
      The left believes wealth can be created by spreading it around. They want to reverse technological progress to mandate equality, so that everyone is equal but worse off.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Rand Paul vs. Bill Clinton: It's 'War on Women' Jujitsu

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Speaking of lies, how about promising you can keep your healthcare?

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Obama's miserable economic & human rights track record will do more to subvert his successor than anything that can come out of Rand Paul's mouth.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Ted Cruz Just Made Life Miserable for Republican Leaders Once Again

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      unless wealth is being spread, America needs to get its fiscal house in order, according to the left.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Narcissistic Injury of Middle Age

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      They can go to mother jones or NYT.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Too Early Look at the 2016 Presidential Race

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Rick supports HPV vaccines and tuition for illegals. Also a few cards short of a deck

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      unfortunately, that poll doesn't meann much. jeb & christie are on top because they are the most electable and will get the most donations.

  • Discussion on Wired: Game Life

    The Brief Life and Untimely Death of Flappy Bird

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      This could have been bigger than angry birds

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Yes, There's a Pilot Shortage: Salaries Start at $21,000

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Stil not low enough

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    <em>The Lego Movie</em>: Further Evidence of Will Ferrell's Subversive Genius

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      everything is political and politics is everywhere

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Psychological Roots of Procrastination

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      In the smartist era, elite colleges hold more prestige than ever before; admittance to such a college augers well for success in life and the admission process itself only picks the best and brightest out of a large pool candidates.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      shame report..megan ardele. Brutal takedown

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Your Facebook News Feed Isn't for 'News'

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      typical of luddites to disparage technological advancement, such as the FB news feed algorithm

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Rand Paul vs. Bill Clinton: It's 'War on Women' Jujitsu

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Let's not forget the sexism of Obama's campaign and his supporters (bill maher, SNL, etc) in 2008 that was waged against Palin and Hillary.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Rand Paul vs. Bill Clinton: It's 'War on Women' Jujitsu

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The Clinton surplus ended in a recession. Carter's presidency also ended in a recession, with republicans in both instances pulling the country out of the mess. Bush deserves credit for efficacious tax cuts & bank bailout while the Obama stimulus , on the other hand, was ineffective.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Too Early Look at the 2016 Presidential Race

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      I guess I was correct that he Christie Scandal would blow over in a few weeks due to lack of new evidence. The GOP front runners will be business-friendly moderates, not surprisingly.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare's Utopian Defenders

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Facebook & google stock keep going up (I own both). Getting a degree stem major is one path to joining the creative class, but there are others such as investment and creating a successful web 2.0 company. I suppose the author is referring to liberal arts majors. Tech companies rank as the “best” companies to work for, despite having no labor union. Unions have a rough-and-tumble relationship with innovation, largely because technology destroys jobs.

      The Luddites on the left are getting thumped by tech-savvy libertarians.
      Tea Party founder Mark Meckler explains how individualistic
      principles make libertarians so powerful on the net, “Because folks who
      participate tend to be so individualistic, what started to happen is,
      without anybody telling them, they immediately started to spawn hundreds
      and then ultimately thousands and then millions of web pages dedicated
      to tea party activity.”

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Unequal to the Challenge

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      more like an article for National Socialist instead of National Review

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The libs want the economy to fail unless they get their way which is full employment and equal outcomes for all (which will also destroy the economy)

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Does China's economic rise pose a threat to America? no When countries produce cheap stuff to sell us, it is good for us. And rich countries are very rarely militarily aggressive, at least once they've been rich for a full generation.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      but what if the actions of the CEO have 140x the effect of a typical worker? They get paid more because they have more important role in the company

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Obamacare Security Nightmare: It Gets Worse

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Obamacare it's bad for you

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Christie Slides, Bush Rises

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      he's a magnet for donors though

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The CBO’s Obamacare Scorecard

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Those 2.5 million out of the work force may be happier at their leisure, but the economy as a whole will be substantially worse off without their contributions.

      This author demonstrates an ignorance of economics. BY his logic you may as well have 100% employment which any economics knows is not only unfeasible but undesirable.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Unequal to the Challenge

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Aversion to technological progress has historically been a leftist tendency. Seems like peopel like yourself are going down that route

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Seems like the author is fanning the flames of class warfare. <1% earning have outpaced everyone else due to the economic value these people create in terms of consumer spending, job creation, technological innovation. A recent study has shown that the top 1% consume 40%

      Inequality is a byproduct of a meritocracy and does';t pose a threat to the economy

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Cry me a river. as far as I'm concerned the economy is booming. facebook & google stock keep going up with no end in sight. still no recession in silicon valley. my home keep going up eveyday as well.

      Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on 'the One Percent'

      Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process.

      By RUTH R. WISSE

      Feb. 3, 2014 7:37 p.m. ET

      Two phenomena: anti-Semitism and American class conflict. Is there any connection between them? In a letter
      to this newspaper, the noted venture capitalist Tom Perkins called
      attention to certain parallels, as he saw them, between Nazi Germany's
      war against the Jews and American progressives' war on the "one
      percent." For comparing two such historically disparate societies, Mr.
      Perkins was promptly and heatedly denounced.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Night America Yawned - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      i never laughed harder reading an article. thank you for writing this

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Capitalism’s Limitations

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      we're in the smartist era with the USA as the epicenter and Silicon Valley as ground zero. People are getting richer than ever with little work or time. Facebook & google stock keep going up. We're witnessing wealth creation in web 2.0 that will blow your mind. Capitalism, despite ts limitations, is thriving more than ever. It makes no provisions for equality it.; succeeds because by virtue of its success compared to the alternatives.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama's MInimum Wage Hike Won't Help Many Workers

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Raising the minimum wage is a futile attempt to circumvent inexorable trend towards lower real wages.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Fastest-Growing Jobs of This Decade (and the Robots That Will Steal Them)

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      It's time for some harsh truths: we're in a smartist society and a hyper-meritocracy. Being average won't cut it anymore. This ain't the 90's anymore when spouting some buzzwords, knowing Office and 'the web' will get you a comfy office job. Much more cutthroat.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Problem With the Triple Package: Why Immigrant Parents Aren't Superior

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      ok, if all organs are equal see how long you live without a brain. but maybe your post demonstrates that feat is possible.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Millionaire Apologizes for Comparing Progressives to Nazis, Says His Watch Is Worth a '6-Pack of Rolexes'

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      To demonize the job creators, to demonize the rich who create and buy things is crazy. There's no outcry because there's no problem except for the one you insist exists.

      It's not that students and american don't want to rock the boat out of apathy, instead they know it's bad economics to do so. With the rise of internet libertarianism and the Ayn Rand resurgence, today's young people are much more educated in economics than their baby boomer parents

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Apple: Still a Cash Factory, Even If It Sells Fewer iPhones Than Expected

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      growth is flattening. not good

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Half of Fox News' Viewers Are 68 and Older

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      At least fox tries to be fair and balanced. can we say the same for MSNBC?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Inequality Bogeyman

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The libs want equality of outcome instead of opportunity. They are the anathema to the meritocracy

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Self-Esteem άber Alles - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      I agree trying to close the achievement gap is futile. Although there's some evidence blacks have a lower IQ I'm still not sold on the idea that such a difference is meaningfully lower or even exists. Maybe we're measuring the wrong intelligence. Some studies have shown that the gap has narrowed to around 6 points. I suspect an achievement gap exists because of inability to pay attention, lack of family structure and discipline.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Great Caesar’s Ghost

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Historians will reflect not on the achievements of the Obama administration, but how our republic survived in spite of it .

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Governing by Pen and Phone

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Nixon cleaned up the mess his liberal predecessors LBJ and Kennedy created. Comparing Obama to Nixon is an insult to the legacy of Nixon

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      you read one VDH article you pretty much read them all: paranoid, rambling, incoherent, with hints of class warfare and populism.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Seems like this author cannot resit taking swipes at Nixon, who ended the mess following LBJ 's escalation of the Vietnam war.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Organs of State - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      yea but the person filling out the card doesn't intend to prolong his life by donating his organs; it's to help prolong the life of the recipient of the organs should any the organs be salvageable upon death.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    NSA Surveillance Divides the Republican Party

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Sounds like cry me a river from the Richard Stallman paranoid types. The NSA has a very high noise to signal ratio THey are looking for terror related stuff and could care less about your facebook post about your BBQ or camping trip or whatever.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Saving the American Dream

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      structural unemployment. time for Americans to sharpen their skills and stop looking for a handout or blaming the rich.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Republicans Lost the Farm

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      Farm welfare is still welfare. It's good the GOP has finally stopped being hypocritical on the issue by catering to this small subset of the population.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Does the Republican Party Have to Change?

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      940 comments. i think that is a record

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      NO the GOP doesn;t need to change.

      "Income inequality may be slowing overall economic growth."

      The operative word is 'may'. There is no study that shown beyond a reasonable doubt that it does. Intuitively you would except higher inequality to lead to less growth because the rich have less marginal propensity to consume, but the relation is not so simple.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Green Drought

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      no more bridgegate stories? Looks like it blew over exactly as I predicted would happen two weeks ago

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Saving the American Dream

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The American economy is doing better than ever. “bull market behavior” is apparent virtually everywhere one looks;
      Sold out theater tickets, a new art market explosion, the white-hot
      Miami real estate market, Bitcoin speculation, instant IPO doubles, etc.
      I would argue that the majority of this activity, which is
      unquestionably altering economic fundamentals, is being driven by what’s
      happened in the investment markets. A sub-3% risk-free rate (10-year
      Treasury yield) combined with $4 trillion in stock market gains last
      year are finally having an impact on the real world.

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      According to the libs, unless we have full employment in manufacturing with a middle class income for everyone, the American dream will be dead. The libs seek not only equal opportunity but equal outcomes.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Keystone Dithering

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      drill baby drill

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    We Need School Choice Now

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      The left wants America's competitiveness and exceptionlism to be hurt by less choices and more regulation

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Soldier in the Great War

    • Economics Institute • a month ago

      beards? there like a zillion more importation issues to blog about. A better solution is if you don't want to be clean shaven don't join the military (good luck finding a job because outside of self-actualizing professions, most employers won't allow excess facial hair). The problem with beards is they go against the ethos of discipline, de-individualization, and structure of the military.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Americans Don't Care As Much About Abortion As the Media Think

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Would you rather have smaller profits and more overpaid, unproductive jobs? The costs of overpaid labor are passed to the consumer through inflation. Typical of the left to resist economic and technological progress to promote fairness.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Christie’s War

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "Governor Christie is not some libertarianish back-bencher or a presidential candidate running on some doomed third-party ticket."

      With that kind of attitude it is doomed. Would a real libertarian disparage his party like that, or a phony one?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      You can reduce the penalties without legalizing the drugs. maybe that is a good compromise. Even I will concede 10+ years for small possession is too steep.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      the pro pot people never provide answers. It's implied that 'the market' will take care of it, i guess. No, in reality the tax payer will.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Looks like I was right about the bridge scandal blowing over. outside of MSNBC coverage has pretty much dissipated. Libs are drawn to crisis and scandal like flies to meat but they always come up short.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      If the GOP caves into the marijuana lobby like they are already caving into the gay and immigration lobby, then the GOP was we knew it is doomed and it may as well be called something else..Just another reason why voter turnout keeps falling for the GOP

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Facing Minimum-Wage Truth

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "Switzerland"

      yes but Switzerland has an extremely generous social safety net and you can take advantage of these benefits whether you work or not (unconditional). The problem in America is that when you work you lose benefits, so a lot of people choose to not work because of the opportunity costs of working.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Cuomo the Intolerant

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      so is anti-bestiality anti-dog/horse etc?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Sally Kohn, Populist Progressive

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I hope warren runs for national office.. she would get trounced because no one would fund her campaign

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Warren Buffett and Quicken Loans Will Pay You $1 Billion for the Perfect March Madness Bracket

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I'm offering 1 trillion..now gimme free advertising

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The World's 85 Richest People Are as Wealthy as the Poorest 3 Billion

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      manufacturing, stock prices, consumer spending, and exports at historic highs. this is the great recovery that's largely being ignored by the media. I'm not being facetious when I say Bernanke deserves a nobel. According to the left, unless we have full employment where everyone earns a middle class income, then the economy is weak.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The World's 85 Richest People Are as Wealthy as the Poorest 3 Billion

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      See a lot believers of the discredited labor of value theory. The left wants to keep obsolete manufacturing jobs because of the expensive labor that goes into those jobs, not because they produce superior economic value to automation.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Good intentions is the alibi of tyranny

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      You are conflating capitalism with taxation. A voluntary exchange of money for goods in a capitalist system isn't the same as taxation.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      poor simply means earning little money relative to some arbitrary benchmark set by the UN and isn't tantamount to starving to death. many of these poor countries also have much lower living expenses but few amenities either.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      typical of the left to seek crisis to justify redistribution

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      mean vs median

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      It means much less than the left would want you to believe. Lately on the blogs there has been an overabundance of articles pertaining to wealth inequality, basic income, and falling labor force participation. I hate to be the bearer of good news, but none of those things are a big deal and are just the symptoms or byproducts of productivity enhancing technologies in the context of a meritocracy that rewards a few winners for their disproportionate economic contributions. A lower labor force participation rate and bigger profits is to be celebrated as economic progress.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Rise of Curiosity Journalism

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      yea but Krugman's columns get more page views when combined. If it wern't for him the NYT would have no reason to exist.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Aren't Doctors More Tech-Savvy?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Because they (and the health case sector in general) is making enough money as it is. Only when profits are threatened will they adapt

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Wall Street Shorts Economists

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      the libs are till predicting the economic crisis that will never come lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Not only that, but other reasons include identifying children that are excelling and should be advanced and to mitigate grade inflation or grading biases. There seems to be a tendency among the left to want to minimize testing because tests tend to accentuate the innate cognitive differences in students, and unless these differences are attributed to nurture, are verboten.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama Is Losing the Millennials

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Obama's appeal among the under 30 demographic is fading as they reject welfare liberalism and embrace market-friendly libertarianims and neo liberalism.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Recessional

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Obama is trying to undo the progress GW Bush and Clinton made in forging diplomatic relations with foreign leaders. He's hurting our relations with allies

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      anyone hear of this thing called dogecoin? it's like bitcoin but based off a cute dog. up 200% in the past 3 days. The left is trying to make Aamerica less safe from terror. they want economic failure, geo political turmoil so that civilization distressed and they can 'repair' it with socialism/redistribution.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Working Rich

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      all else being equal it's better to be born rich than poor. the data shows that being born rich is the number one derterminat to being rich in life.no debate there

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Kevin's argument is compelling but we must not dismiss those by Jensen and Murray that argue there is a genetic component to success, namely in the role of IQ and outcome in life. Even for those not in STEM professions, above IQ is generally correlated with success. So we have to come to terms with the fact there will be a lot of dull unemployed people that society will need to find a role for.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Here's an idea of a product people want: a youtube video downloader that isn't full of ads and viruses. Make one and after you get a lot of users you can gradually place adds on it or sell it for a tidy sum. If you can't code it hire someone who can. That's how rich people make money. They find solutions to problems and put in the necessary hard work to bring these solutions to reality.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      What you are advocating is wealth confiscation

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Until hell freezes over and we have real border control, maybe they should learn skills for jobs that are that not being outsourced or supplanted by illegal immigrants, such as copy-writing, coding, caregiving, cashier, etc.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Solution to Poverty

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      An economist King was not

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Working Rich

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      turkish lira continues to weaken to historic lows against the dollar. that american exceptionalism that the left loathes is why the US dollar has been the best performing currency since 2009. no hyperinflation, no dollar crisis as so many liberals incorrectly predicted. It’s safe to say lending standards are more sober , that balance sheets are healthier than ever. Most of the surpluses are being stored at the fed instead of lended.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      It's not even 8:AM PST and over 460 comments , and on a holidays no less. This will probably be Kevin's most popular article

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      If wealth is a conduit to freedom it's no surprise the libs want to destroy/regulate/confiscate it

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      um, lib, even college graduates in the liberal arts are having problems finding good paying jobs and many of the most successful in society dropped out to pursue their own interests.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      We're definitely in a smartist era. The libs insist the economy is weak because some ppl can't find jobs, but this weekend Dropbox, a web 2.0 company, secured $250 million in funding, valuing the 5 year old company at a whopping $11 billion. It couldn't be a better time to be an economist, a STEM major, a coder, a web 2.0 founder, a stock market investor, a real estate speculator, a venture capitalist, a landlord. Economists are paid generously to help explain how things works and solve important problems, such as engineering the bank bailout that ended the 2008 crisis. Economic models are the best thing we have now. They are not a precise as physics modelsbut they do the job when nothing else is available. The liberals want to deracinate the status quo. they want wealth destruction and economic crisis.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Its long been taken for granted that the lump of labor fallacy and Luddite fallacies will remain fallacies, but in this smartist era due to the rapid developments in productivity boosting technology and globalization, this may not be so. The data such as the multi-decade low participation rate and an anemic 74000 jobs created in December may affirm this. However, is unemployment the most pressing problem that needs immediate attention? Probably not. A bigger threat would be withdrawing QE too quickly and fiscal hawkishness. Its unfortunate those not endowed with the necessary intellect and work ethic to succeed in today's hyper-meritocracy are falling between the cracks but there isn't much that can be done to help them, nor should we expend too much energy trying to. All economies/societies will have winners and losers.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The data such a consumer spending at a historical high and record high S&P 500 profits & earnings suggests that the economy is anything but weak. Sometimes, the gains in an economic expansion will be uneven, but doesn't mean we can generalize that the entire economy is weak or a 'sham'. The rich generally participate first in the recovery because they own investments like stocks and those tend to rise before the recovery is reflected in other data; also known as hysteresis.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      or an unalienable right to have a good paying job because you have a degree

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Sinister Roots of the American Beard

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      fyi no nazi officials had beards.so just to disabuse the notion that clean shaven is saintly

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    COLA Wars

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      We need more tax cuts for the rich and entitlement reform, says expert.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Pitfalls of Immigration Reform

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Cheap labor wins has precedent over wining elections. no surprise

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    No. 12 in the Index of Economic Freedom

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The left is still waging a war against prosperity and still losing

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Working Rich

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Umm wrong again. Data such as consumer spending and S&P 500 profits & earnings are at historic highs. The Pareto Principle implies that 80% of the consumption is by the wealthiest 20%. Any reduction in consumption by the lower strata is compensated by global demand

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      We've become a nation of crybabies because of people like you. The national debt binge is sustainable and business failure is just a part of how the economy evolves by weeding out the weak.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Rich people do indeed create more economic value than everyone else in terns of job creation, consumption, and technological innovation. That is just economic reality.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Lately it has become trendy by the liberals to bash higher education and home ownership. The operative word is 'sometimes'. Maybe renting is a good idea in a crummy neighborhood with falling prices and rent is cheap, but otherwise, a homeowner over a period of many years in a neighborhood with rising prices will accrue more wealth than someone paying perpetually rising rent to a landlord. A lot of these folks advocating renting, like dissuading you from going to college, don't have your best interest in mind want to keep you poor and ignorant.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is China's Historic Credit Bubble About to Pop?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Hasn't the left been predicting this since 2005? Just do a google search to see hundreds of failed predictions of a China crisis dating back almost a decade ago

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Future of U.S. Manufacturing: More Hubs, Fewer Workers

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      This all reminded me of Tyler Cowen’s Average is Over where he suggests that we are entering an age of hyper meritocracy. Business are trying to figure out who is the best and why. Once they do that, they’ll start asking questions to screen for those types. Cowen writes that we’ll all have Yelp style scores. I’m good at writing words but not at writing Python scripts, that gives me fictional score of Purple Circle 72. Good for blogging, bad for coding.

      The great recession brought many job losses, the great recovery has not brought those jobs back. Cowen writes that the worst performers per dollar were filtered out of the economyand those with the best skills were kept and businesses are trying to figure out what makes those best people the best.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Were There So Many Great Movies in 2013? An Economic Explanation

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      they say this about every year

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Business Wants Growth, Growth, Growth

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The libs are the party of recession and crisis. The seek economic disorder as a catalyst to push a redistributionist agenda, like following the Great Depression and again in 2008.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Growth of College Grads in Dead-End Jobs (In 2 Graphs)

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Liberal arts majors can make OK money writing for publication since their command of the English language is presumably better than those without degrees or specialized technical technical degrees.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why Texas Is Growing (and Illinois Isn’t)

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Its long been taken for granted that the lump of labor fallacy and Luddite fallacies will remain fallacies, but with rapid developments in productivity boosting technology and globalization, this may not be so. The data such as the multi-decade low participation rate and an anemic 74000 jobs created in December may affirm this. However, is unemployment the most pressing problem that needs immediate attention? Probably not. A bigger threat would be withdrawing QE too quickly and fiscal hawkishness.

      A possibly solution would be a return to the pro-growth policies that worked under GWB, such as re-instating the tax cuts on the highest income brackets, repaling obamacare, more generous home owner subsidies,

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Now is a great great time to be an economist, to work in a tech company, to learn to code, to buy stocks, to own Bay Area real estate, to be smart , rich and successful. Obama's efforts to reduce society to its lowest common nominator has failed

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Silicon Valley is impervious to the left's wanting of regulation, recession, and crisis. We're still in an economic boom, whether the libs choose to accept it or not, thanks to TARP, globalization, consumer spending, and free market capitalism..

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Why Quants Don’t Know Everything

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Just another example of the left criticizing technology and innovation

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Krauthammer's Take: Healthcare.gov Insecurities 'a Disaster Waiting to Happen'

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Circling the drain

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Immigration Reform Reborn?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Soon american citizenship won't mean anything, but to the elite the concept of sovereignty doesn't mean much anyway.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Kerry’s ‘Poor Jihadist’ Myth

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "The root cause of civilizational jihad is unmitigated evil and arrogance, not lack of compassion, understanding, or social justice."

      ????. Evil and arrogance would imply a lack of compassion, and I right?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A $47 Billion Obamacare Bailout? Hell, No!

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      hell no we wont go

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Gleeful Christie Pile-On

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      try again, pert. if it were so obvious would have been known and after coming through the records there is nothing to implicate him directly. sorry.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Gleeful Christie Pile-On

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Yup as I predicted last week this would blow over. Looks like back to the drawing board for the liberal media. They are a determined bunch.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Rebuking the ‘New' New Deal

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      8 years of failure. Obamacare's iatrogenenic affects will take decadesto reverse

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Minimum Wage, Minimal Benefits

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Liberalism is a mental disorder - Michael Savage

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Tale of Two Scandals

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      After 8 years of failure from an effete pushover like Obama, maybe Americans want a president with a backbone.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Yup looks like another correct prediction buy the economics institute regarding the scandal blowing over. The libs are out of ammunition.

      other correct predictions include: bitcoin going higher, America not defaulting on its debt, stocks going higher, et

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Illusion of Government - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      If the opposite of pro is con, then the opposite of progress is congress

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Her: A Two-Hour Put-On? - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Only 8 comments in 6 hours? C'mon where is everyone? What I like about Steve's articles is how he injects his commentary of contemporary society into explaining the motives of actors - those onscreen and in real life, or as we call politicians.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Chris Christie Was Never Going to Be President Anyway

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      As predicted last week, the scandal is blowing over, so I guess this is another way to save face instead of admitting to rushing to a premature conclusion.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Idol of Equality

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The wealth spreaders won't relent until society degrades to their level

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Libs want to spread the wealth and the end result is less wealth for everyone. The GOP is the party of wealth creation.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    On Live-Tweeting One's Suffering

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Let's not go overboard by becoming become the bullies we're trying to stop. I'm sure the Kellers learned their lesson.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 2014 Golden Globes: Winners Deserving and Otherwise

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I don;t understand how a movie like The Wolf of Wall Street which has only been out for a week can be nominated? That seems like not enough time to form a consensus.as to the movie's worthiness. Awards should be based off popular opinion instead of a cabal.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Free Society Cannot Escape All Terrorism

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      You only cherry picked some successful examples of what maybe terrorism (there is not a consensus if all the examples you listed are terrorism) but ignored the numerous examples of thwarted attacks.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Obviously as the Boston bombings showed even the most hermetic counter terror efforts can be thwarted. But is more counter-terrorism spending worthwhile? A common opposing argument is that other sources such as automobiles and smoking cause far more deaths, so efforts to stop terrorism to save lives are misplaced. But terrorism causes substantial physiological unrest that affects many more people than the contained deaths attributed to smoking and automobile accidents. A terror attack will traumatize thousands of people for every victim which can produce dramatic economic and social ramifications. Terrorism hurts local economies, for example.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What It's Like to Be the First Person in Your Family to Go to College

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I wonder if low SAT scores are a concomitant factor?A higher cutoff would mean less dropouts, but schools want the $

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Transparency Is Overrated

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      So the author is advocating a paternalist state because we cannot make our own informed decisions? No thanks.

      one nation under obamacare with fees, penalties, and cancellations for all

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    It Is Expensive to Be Poor

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      choosing the wrong degree. companies want people with relevant skills; i.e. a degree in feminism isn't effective for aerospace design

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I'm being facetious, perhaps, but maybe people should be paid to upload pictures to facebook, click google ads, tweet, and stream netflix movies since judging by recent earnings reports for the aforementioned companies, those activities seem to create immense economic value.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Economic hardship should be a learning experience, but we're becoming a nation of crybabies looking to blame congress, the federal reserve, Wall St., and the 1% for our problems instead making the necessary lifestyle changes to get ahead or learning to accept that inequality will remain a byproduct of an economy that rewards wealth creation and productivity of the creative class. Here's a tip: learn to code and network

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Millennial Generation Is Tiring of Liberal Failures

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      To navigate the minefield of social issues such as gay marriage and marijuana a GOP candidate could leave it up to the states to decide without having to having to take a personal stand on it. Extolling libertarian economic policy with the emphasis of keeping the fruits of one's labor versus redistribution would be effective. Curtailing the drug war would find support among the youth, independents and many conservatives.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    An Overreach for the NSA’s Critics

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Still not losing sleep over NSA. If you don;t want your stuff read, don't write incriminating stuff and don;t use email or facebook. They are looking for terrorists instead of digging up dirt on your weekend BBQ plans.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Tolled Bridge

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Looks like a Sandy scandal is on the front page of drudge but still nothing new regarding bridgegate. Obviously , Christie is in potential trouble but he's still hanging on My wager is still on this blowing over in a few weeks

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Owning the Income-Inequality Issue

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      policy makers. congress. they voted for TARP, pert

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      those are just a handful of companies out of 100's of thousands of that nothing from the govt. Contrary to popular belief, the govt. is very selective about which companies to bailout or fund. Solndra was a grave mistake and Obama paid the price

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      google is at no risk of failure

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Sometimes you need to pick winners and losers if the winners contribute more economic value than the losers and or the survival of the economy depends on them not failing.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    STEM Needs a New Letter

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      How about STEEM (the extra E for economics)

      or STEMM (the extra M to signify how much money they make) or $TEM

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Eye of the Tiger People - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      It's worth noting that cheating teds to be common among these 'model minorities' and that there is probably lot of selection bias going on to draw an honest inference

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      with the exception of sexuality everything is nurture, according to the nurture-lobby

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Don’t Destroy This Family

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      A single stint of lockup for drug possession and they'll be begging to go back. be careful what you wish for.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Millennial Generation Is Tiring of Liberal Failures

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      On sites like reddit and twitter you can see evidence that the educated millennials are supporting libertarian, neoconservative, and neoliberal policies and eschewing overt leftism. They are skeptical of the concentration of power of the state, but also opposed to regulation and redistribution under the guise of fairness. They believe in equality of opportunity under a meritocracy, but not equality of outcome knowing that such an outcome would not only be impractical but deleterious to economic autonomy.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The GOP shouldn't sell-out on the social issues for votes, sorry.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Tolled Bridge

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Seems like more liberalism disguised as concern

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Eye of the Tiger People - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The WSJ is mouthpiece of the purveyors of moral depravity. Anything to make a quick buck is condoned by them, including but not limited to outright fraud.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    New Scandal, Same Old Christie

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      he's a good bermometer about the momentum or derivative of a scandal

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      wow what an original critique

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      as if she was the first person to ever die in traffic? Christie already took the necessary steps. Without a smoking gun this will clear up in a few weeks.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The liberals are beholden to superstition and wishful thinking than extant reality. The libs wanted to believe in economic crisis because of the sequester and shutdown, but instead the economy roared ahead, making fools of out the likes of Krugman and others. The AEI was right that the shutdown and sequestor would be a blip. Second, they want to believe in market bubbles because the 99% aren't participating enough in the recovery, so that sustainability of the bull market is predicated on on fairness rather than fundamentals..

      I am partial to Fama's view of the market than Shiller's. 99.9% of the time market are efficient and the Fama model is the most accurate representation of reality. Occasionally you get inefficiencies but they are very hard to exploit to get excesses returns. For example, shorting overvalued tech stocks in the 90's would have resulted in a total loss unless you timed the top precisely or had a lot of capital. By excess returns you have to increase your whole account by an amount exceeding a benchmark. A lot of traders like to brag about their returns on certain trades but these trades are often very small relative to their entire account. Pundits said Facebook was a bubble when it went IPO and now its stock price has surged 50%. Those who shorted and didn't cover lost everything.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      i'm sure MSNBC and nyt will give it another week

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What America Won in the ‘War on Poverty’

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      There is no immutable law that a rising economic tide has to lift all boats. Nowhere is it enumerated in the constitution that the the govt. must provide provisions for the disadvantaged. We have to come to terms that there will be winners and losers in today's economy, and efforts to close this gap will only result in wasted money and effort. Inequality is a byproduct of economic & technological progress and no way out except regression. Obviously, this this is the wrong approach, but many on the left seek crisis to push wealth-destroying redistribution policy to achieve this ill-fated goal of equality.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    New Scandal, Same Old Christie

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      As of this morning this story is completely off drudge. I'm not endorsing Christie, but the scandal appears to have fizzled has I predicted woud happen four day ago

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      4 days later and unless the libs can throw more logs on the fire this scandal will burn out

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      would you rather have a liberal win in 2016? Christie will be the nominee not because is is the best candidate but because he has the greatest odds of winning the election. that's how politics works.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      We need lower taxes and entitlement reform. We don't need to pay for these tax cuts. It's been in existence of over ten years.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      speaking too soon pert.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      except there is still nothing that directly implicates him.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      poor libs looks like the scandal already dead.try harder next time, perts lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 3 Weirdest Things About the Weirdest Jobs Report Ever

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Even a bad economic experience can (and should) be viewed as a chance to learn and grow as a person. But whatever, I guess some people just love to be the victim.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      We’re definitely in a smartist era. Intelligence and determination is a greater determinant of success than ever before. People becoming rich and securing comfortable employment with little time or effort in our new economy in STEM fields like web 2.0, programming, physics, etc. Also, the new service sector jobs that replaced manufacturing jobs lost during the 2008 recession may not pay well but they create a lot of economic value.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Financial Benefits of Being Beautiful

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      a beautiful person or a beautiful suit? i wonder how much attire affects perception of beauty

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    New Scandal, Same Old Christie

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      many still support him. it's just that some conservatives support candidates that cannot win, so Christie dropping out of the race would improve those odds a little

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Well, it looks like Bridgegate is no longer a prominent story drudge or other major news sources. On drudge It's been reduced to a small small headline, yielding to stories like A-rod and Target credit card breach (which will have more shelf-life than this non scandal). . no smoking gun, =scandal fail. libs lose.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      More bad news for the libs: the stimulus failed, just like Obamacare

      2013 was the year that vindicated Monetarism and lay to waste Keynesianism. I been predicting this outcome for years, so it’s was no surprise to me when bloggers began to rebuke Krugman and his failed pronouncements. knew this was true because the market never responded favorably to stimulus proposals, but it surged on rate cuts, TARP, and QE 2 & 3. In fact, the shutdown and sequester was received positively by the stock market and had no appreciable impact on important economic data-points like GDP, profits & earnings and consumer spending. 2014 will be a continuation of this pro-Monetarism trend. Niall Ferguson was the first and more have umped on the bandwagon.

      Further evidence supporting the Market Monetarists include a) rising asset prices, b) good economic news, c) rising bond market. The later wouldn’t be occurring in a liquidity trap. We can conclude monetary policy has been effective, and much praise should be bestowed to Bernanke.

      “The Federal Reserve’s large-scale purchases of long-term Treasury securities most likely provided a moderate boost to economic growth and inflation. Importantly, the effects appear to depend greatly on the Fed’s guidance that short-term interest rates would remain low for an extended period. Indeed, estimates from a macroeconomic model suggest that such interest rate forward guidance probably has greater effects than signals about the amount of assets purchased.”

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Chris Christie will blow away his competition unless there is a smoking gun or another candidate get more funding and media coverage ,which is unlikely. The most visible, well-funded, electable candidate tends to win the primaries, rather than the 'nicest' or the 'most partisan'.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      not without high enough ratings . otherwise it will die out

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      sorry lib , but this story will blow over complete by Monday due to lack of new evidence against Christie

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Are the Poor and Minorities Less Likely to Vote?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      They don't vote because they don't have time or are ill-informed. This is how it should be because only those that create value to society should have a say in how it's run. The founding fathers wrote the constitution so that only stakeholders should be able to participate in the electoral process. When the constitution was ratified only 6% of the population was eligible to vote.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why We're Marching Across New Hampshire to Honor Aaron Swartz

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "campaign finance reform"

      granny d is forgetting that Obama's campaign optimizes this problem

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 3 Weirdest Things About the Weirdest Jobs Report Ever

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Less work and a higher standard of living should be a cause for celebration instead of the bellyaching we're come to expect from the left about about not enough job creation. We have to come to terms with reality that some jobs are not coming back and the economy is better off without them.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The good news is is that further tapering is off the table. Not surprisingly, stocks reacted favorably to the report, posting modest gains. This is a perfect type of report because it means more accommodation monetary policy but not too much job creation as to create inflation and tightening.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Solve America's Democracy and Poverty Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      would you rather have lower profits and more expensive goods because wages are too high?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Going Nowhere: America Has a Moving Problem

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      to equate a richer state with a higher/better standard is living is a joke. If bill gates enters a crowd technically he will raise the mean net-worth of the collective, but the wealth of each individual is unchanged, obviously. Whether a state is rich or poor tells you nothing about its residents.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      go west, young man where the unemployment and living expenses are really high.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why American Women Aren't Living as Long as They Should

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Wonder why Hispanic life expectancy is so long when obesity rates are so high

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Re-Targeting the Fed

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "private economy start growing again."

      hmm so what would you call the success of Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

      The US dollars has outperformed all other currencies since 2009

      By bailing out too big to fail, the govt. isn't preventing failure. Businesses fail all the time bus the failure of these small and sometimes big businesses doesn't carry systemic risk. You don't always hear about it in the paper like the failure of Enron, for example, but tens of thousands of businesses fail every year with nary any effort by Uncle Sam to stave off failure.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      not sure where you get your data. the headlines say the deficit is shrinking

      http://www.reuters.com/article...

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      rates hit zero long ago . where is the crisis the left has been predicting since 2009? maybe it's time to give Bernanke and republicans credit where its due for engineering the successful 2008 bank bailout, instead of spreading FUD about stuff that will never happen

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      would you rather have a bear market? monetarism does work . wasteful stimulus programs and entitlement spending doesn't.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Let's give the Republicans Credit For The Biggest Economic Story Of The Recovery. The deficit is shrinking and stocks are rallying.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Big Miss: 74,000 Jobs Created, Labor Force Shrinks Again

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      so what's the solution? in-source more cheap labor. perfect

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Unshocking Christie Scandal

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      As I predicted two days ago, this manufactured scandal is already blowing over due to absence of any smoking gun linking him to the lane closure. Meanwhile, the GOP base maintains its steadfast support of Christie, as well as invaluable big business donors. The only ones that care about this are the libs on the blogs like NYT, Zerohedge, businessinsider.com, huffingtonpost,, etc. Stock are surging as well but the left also wants to believe the economy is weak to push redistributionist economic policies, in the same way they want to believe Chris Christie's political hopes are over.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Twitter’s Paper Millionaires May Want to Get Out As Soon As Possible

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The left also said yelp was a bubble and it's 200% higher than its IPO price. Wired is laughable at best

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      typical of the libs to spread FUD about things they know little about
      Twitter stock going to $200 this year

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Those Who Sacrifice Liberty for Facebook - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The world went from being spherical with positive curvature to flat and is now hyperbolic

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Payrolls in U.S. Rise Less Than Forecast; Jobless Rate at 6.7%

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      this is great news. it means no more taper. futures already recovering. dow 20000 soon

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Feckless Attack on Income Inequality

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Economic inequality isn't a problem- it's the leftist calls for redistribution by those ignorant of economic that is.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Getting Back to Work

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "Economic historians Michael Bordo of Rutgers and Joe Haubrich of the Cleveland Federal Reserve bank have produced data for recessions going back to 1882 and find that recoveries from past financial crises were more than four times as strong as this recovery has been."

      Not quite so. The US recovery has been faster than any country in the EU, as well as a record highs in S&P 500 profits & earnings, consumer spending, exports. GDP growth has returned to pre-crisis levels.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Escaping the Rat Maze of the Welfare State

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The basic income fails because it makes the overly generous assumption that people are rational with money. Let people spend their money how they please; just don't let them use tax payer money.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      They already have that opportunity to prove themselves; why should tax payers continue to shell out more money to subsidize the least productive of society to pay for a 'basic income' on top of existing expenses like for healthcare and education? We tell them how to live because when left to their own devices many of them will blow the money on drugs and other unproductive activities. If they seek autonomy, they should demonstrate an ability to become productive members of society, like everyone else.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    How to Increase Unemployment

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      It's called gang raped by eight for a reason

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Fighting Back against the New Anti-Semitism

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The two-state solution won't fix anything in terms of reducing Islamic terrorism They seek worldwide conversion of all non-believers.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Defense of Chris Christie, Courtesy of the NSA

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      as i predicted a few days ago, looks like this scandal ended before it began.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Rise and Fall—and Rise—of Facial Hair

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      or maybe a beard looks scruffy and itches and the decision to shave is a personal cosmetic one

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      What fall? seems like everyone has a lot of facial hair , especially on TV

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Bridgegate Is So Dangerous to Chris Christie's Reputation

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      We won;t know if this is important until he actually runs for president . This reminds me of the manufactured outage by the left about snapchat being hacked, facebook privacy, NSA, drones, etc. A lot of bellyaching but nothing will change.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What's Ahead for Education in 2014

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I wonder why cheating is so rampant in the prestigious schools. If they are smart enough to be admitted, why cheat?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Lesser-Known Dementia That Steals Personality

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I'm surprised that it's so lethal. Average survival time 2-10 years.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Republicans' Inside-Out Approach to Poverty

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      probably 60% genetic and 40% environmental

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      There may be some truth to that but even those with higher education are finding it difficult to find gainful employment. We're definitely living in a smartist society that rewards intellect , but not everyone with intellect will reap these rewards. You need to be in the right sectors with the right skills (programming, finance, etc)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Addendum To The Great Public Intellectual Debate

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I nominate Sean Hannity

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    R is for Robot: A Child's Guide to the Consumer Electronics Show

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      O is for obsolete which what all of this stuff will be in a few years

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No, the 'College Bubble' Isn't Popping

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Seems like folks are waking up to the for-profit college scam. The free market can't fix every problem and is sometimes rotten when left to its own devices.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Bridgegate Is So Dangerous to Chris Christie's Reputation

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      um except there is zero evidence Christie condoned these acts

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Um except that there is no smoking gun that implicates Christie. It's still very early in the election cycle and this will blow over in a few weeks after some much televised head rolling.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    The Grand Experiment Goes Live: Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Bitcoin going to $2000 soon. Been long since low 100's

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The bubble has become an inescapable element of modern economic discourse. Every day some liberal is proclaiming a new one, arguing that there isn’t one, proposing ways to prevent one, orcomplaining about how hard they are to prevent. I hate to be the bearer of good news, but we're in neither a bitcoin, web 2.0, or a stock market bubble.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Report Card for Humanity: 1900-2050

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      how about one for inflation adjusted wages..yea thought so

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Accordions: So Hot Right Now

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      didn't weird al make the accordion popular again

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Gates, Obama, and Ducking Difficult Choices in the Middle East

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      defense is 1/5 of federal budget . with a hammer everything looks like a nail

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    You Rang, Sir? - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      hooray slavery 2.0.. now there's app for that. working for peanuts has never been so fun

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    GOP Strategists Urge Christie to Admit Blame, and Quickly

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The desperation of the libs is showing. they fear Christie can win

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      this will blowover after a few weeks or so. no smoking gun, sorry libs

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    America's Original Poverty Line Assumed Every Housewife was a 'Skillful Cook'

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      " (bold added)"

      you don't have to tell us the bold is added

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Big White Ghetto

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      he calls them backwards. let's put K.W. out there for a few months with only few hundred dollars and see how backwards he becomes. Insulting these people won't help them.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      i wasn't sure what the point of the article was

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Define Income Inquality

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      income-inequality is a symptom or a byproduct of an economy that rewards the contributions by its creators. It's not a problem that needs to be fixed, as the libs intimate. Ending inequality would be tantamount to undoing capitalism, which is why so many of the left seek economic crisis as means to push socialism and other redistributionist, wealth -destroying policy.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Rumors of Chris Christie's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Wow this is prominently on the front page of businessinsider.com and drudge. Was not expecting such a big reaction to this story. In a blogosphere starved for click and page views, I guess this is what passes for political dirt. Its easier to write the conclusion first, than just sticking with the facts. If anyone wants to place s bet if this will doom his political prospects I'm game. Maybe it's because being stuck in traffic is one thing that unifies all voters as something they hate.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The operative word is 'staff'. Politicians have less control over these people than the media would suggest. There is no evidence that directly implicates Christie, just like with Obama and the IRS scandal which I will admit was overblown just like this one.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      still unemployed? lol

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      people generally don't vote for pushovers

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Rumors of Chris Christie's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      a butterfly flaps its wings..technically all actions have drastic consequences if you extrapolate far enough. Obamacare causing millions to lose insurance is far worse...

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Sorry, but this will be forgotten in a few weeks

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Don't get your hopes up. Christie survived the backlash following snubbing Romney during the convention and effectively giving Obama an endorsement in the final week of the election following hurricane Sandy. If being exiled from the party and then returning as the front runner in just a year's time isn't a testament to his appeal as a front runner, no evidence will suffice. He will not only be the front runner but the next president. This is great for the economy ,great for stocks, and good for America too.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      As I predicted in 2012, Christie would eventually regain the good graces of the establishment after Romney's drubbing because he is the only viable candidate. That appears to be the case as all the major republican websites have rallied behind him.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Time for Some Problems in the Chris Christie 2016 Campaign

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      This will blow over, like all the libs' manufactured outrage scandals

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Out of Work, Out of Money

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "

      The economy clearly isn’t generating the jobs young people like me need — in large part because of the hostile and uncertain environment businesses face. From Obamacare to EPA overregulation to the proposed minimum-wage hikes, there are myriad well-intentioned policies that have resulted in less work for those who seek it."

      Yes, Obamacare is great for insurance companies and the large corporations that can maneuver around the regulation, but bad for small business & average Americans.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Maybe people should be paid to upload pictures to facebook, click google ads, tweet, and stream netflix movies since judging by recent earnings reports, those activities seem to create immense economic value.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Does Prince Charming Really Need to Be Reinvented?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      technically, none of the words I used are insults. they are only insulting because you perceive them to be due to your own bias

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'No One Should Die Because They Cannot Afford Healthcare': One Meme's Story

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      ' one does not simply die because they cannot afford healthcare'

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Who Defines 'Medical Necessity'?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "But our ability to treat high blood pressure medically has led to an expansion of its diagnosis: nearly a third of American adults today have diagnosable hypertension."

      that is a racket. the vast majority of hypertension cases doesn't ultimately prove fatal. Millions of Americans are paying for drugs when there is no benefit but a better reading on some benchmark

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Millennial Communists

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Reddit & 4chan is evidence that not all millennials are overt communists. Many on the 'left' hold views that are libertarian or classical liberal of the John Stewart Mills brand of utilitarianism/positivism. Millennials tend to believe everyone is entitled keep what they earn, as opposed to redistribution.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Goldberg's example is hardly representative of the majority of millennials- many of whom hold libertarian, neoconservative or neoliberal economic views. It's the aging hippies on sites like NYT, Washington post, Motherjones, and Huffingtonpost that hold these far left views. The Reagan youth era is making a comeback.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Where Do We Go From Here? 8 Hypotheses About Tech in 2014

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      "Tech strikes back. According to people in Silicon Valley, last year everyone was hating on them. And this year, they're hitting back. "

      2013 was a banner year for tech in terms of surging stock prices and rising valuations, including real estate in my own neighborhood.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What It Means to Be a Public Intellectual

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The question is if a person of a racial majority criticizing someone belonging to a minority can technically be an act of covert racism. If a white person says someone is wrong and that person was black/Jewish, etc could it be racially motivated?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      It was implied by his comment that due to her color that she couldn't have been qualified, even though she was as qualified as the examples he gave of white intellectuals. Maybe there was a racial element to it, but it may not be completely obvious

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      A public intellectual is a professor that markets himself and his trade to the public through mass media to a larger audience than outside his intellectual circle. Paul Krugman and Neil Degrass Tyson are a notable examples.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Immigrant Voting: Not a Crazy Idea

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      an insipid idea. not much more to say than that

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    58% of Americans Still Have a VCR in Their Homes

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      I'm sure the majority of the VCRs are unused/unplugged in the same way many people have old TVs in their garage.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      600 movies..and all of them adult i bet lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    As 2014 Begins, Toll Rises for "The Most Expensive Sheriff in America"

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      'vehicles, fuel and computers' yea what luxuries

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Fifty-Year War

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      This article gets it partly wrong . Thanks to technology the poor have a higher standard of living than ever before and after factoring the numerous benefits such as earned income credit, welfare, foodstamps, public subsidies etc actually have more discretionary income than a lot of the middle class. That's why you see so many of the 'poor' with flat screen TVs, iphone ipads, etc. True, they do make less $ than the middle class but they keep much more of the $. In the war on poverty the middle class are the losers.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    White Food - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      this article makes me hungry. would really like a pastrami sandwich now with mustard

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Joy Is a State of Mind - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      2013 a great year for health insurance companies. thank you obamacare.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Outlaw Campus

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      the problem is the traditional publishing process can take too long unless you're already well known in the filed.

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      A degree is worth the time and money if you major in a good paying subject. THe humanities are corrupt and pay isn't commensurate with productive output; Cornel West a prime example of this.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    PIV-negative - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Too bad this is only a fringe or otherwise liberals would go extinct

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Racism! Squirrel!

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Sorry liberals, but we’re not in a tech bubble. Bitcoin, real estate, & web 2.0 valuations will keep going up Andreessen: Bubble Believers ‘Don’t Know What They’re Talking About’ Venture Capitalist Discusses the Current State of Tech Investing. We should give Beranke a round of applause for creating an economic environment conducive to growth, despite the best efforts of the Obutthole administration to thwart it.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    1.3 Million People Lost Unemployment Benefits. It Could Get Ugly

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      Where's the peasant uprising, perts/ not gonna happen ? lol dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Feldstein Joins Summers Predicting Stronger U.S. Growth in 2014

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      The left wishes there would be less growth, so they they can blame it on inequality, the rich and other easy targets

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Weekend Reads: A Gun to Your Head

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      thanks for these links

  • Discussion on AlterNet

    Can Being Too Smart Ruin Your Life?

    • Economics Institute • 2 months ago

      'Our brains are incredible things'

      but are other animals dumbstruck at how incredible brains are? no

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the Tea Party Isn't Going Anywhere

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      You know ted cruz cut and ran during the obamacare budget negotiations? he got the house to pass a bill that had no hope of winning in the senate and then abandoned his followers when this became apparent. As a republican, we need pragmatists like Norquiest in the party.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      As a republican I don't feel like my freedoms are being curtailed. I have the freedom to make $1000's of dollars with bitcoin and stocks and watch whatever I want on TV or visit my favorite websites everyday.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      hmmm i'm still waiting for my bill to come due..i already pay taxes but I guess I should expect a separate bill, too? Maybe you should get back to us when you understand how the budgets & deficits work.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      lets be honest.. the birth certificate was a not a budget issue

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    Facebook Data Shows Global Migration Pattens — But Can You Trust It?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      OMG people are finally learning that JavaScript can record DOM events

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Vulgar Genius of <em>The Wolf of Wall Street</em>

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      looks like the consensus suggests otherwise. the movie, to put it curtly, sucked

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'We Are Creating Walmarts of Higher Education'

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The problem is the profit incentive. They want the tuition and in return will give you a dubious education and an overpriced degree. Ivy league is still worth it though just for the connections and it looks great on any resume. Public colleges eliminate this problem

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Free Money from the 3-Cent Hike on Stamps

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      omg i bet no one has thought of that before

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Alan Turing's Body

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      his most enduring legacy are those annoying anti-spam codes

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    2013: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year for the Tech Industry

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      more like all companies. nasdaq 4100 or about 30% gain in one year

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Thank the NSA for rekindling your existing indignation against technology & the 1%? its not like the NSA scandals (overblown as it was) turned you into a technology critic; you were that way originally.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      "horrible year"

      yea except for the record profits & earnings, record high stock prices, record valuations, etc

      oh google glass fzled. whatever.

      Microsoft is not in decline either. I guess we have differing ideas of what makes a terrible year

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the Tea Party Isn't Going Anywhere

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      u do realize if the dems lose in 2016 the moderates will take over.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I agree we need smaller govt. in some areas like entitlement spending but TARP was a huge success, sorry

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      To call it a 'party' is also a misnomer. it's a faction within the Republican party but not on any ballot. Its views are pretty much aligned with the already established libertarian/constitution party

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A&E’s <i>Duck Dynasty</i> Dilemma

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Poll: This Congress is the Worst Ever
      I beg to differ. This congress has done a great job by doing as little as possible and letting the free market run with minimal interference, while negotiating a budget compromise when Obama refused to acquiesce. Stocks have posted the strongest yearly gains since 1995. Look at how great profits & earnings have been. Countries like Turkey and Brazil are rife with corruption and hyperinflation while America enjoys the best business conditions and historically low borrowing costs.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why I'm Against 'Daddy Days'

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I think this is a uniquely american phenomena. Other countries seem to have more equatable gender roles

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      i guess it should be renamed 'staying at home to take care of the kids' day

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Some People Respond to Stress by Falling Asleep

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      physical threat is met with fleeing whereas a pshychological threat by falling asleep

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Democracy in the Tobacconist’s

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      haters gonna hate..i'm gonna make bank

      63k TD ameritrade trading account

      http://i.imgur.com/16JAcCC.jpg

      10k forex account

      six figure bitcoin account

      5 figure bank account

      etc

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      i didn't want to read it. otherwise, i wouldn't have replied as I did

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      if you don;t inhale your smoke you're a wuss. The only way to smoke is a pack of red 100's.no substitute

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the Tea Party Isn't Going Anywhere

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the tea party will die when obama leaves the white house

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Five Lessons of 2013, Guaranteed to Be Forgotten

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The libs predicted budget cuts and show down would reduce growth. The exact opposite happened: stocks, GDP, S&P 500 profits & earnings and consumer spending plowed ahead. The left also said Twitter and Facebook were bubbles and yet those stocks are up 50% from their IPO price.

      I suspect the 2013 spending cuts had about the same effect as the 2009 fiscal stimulus in terms of lots of hype and no substance.

      But why does optimism about today’s world generate such strong hostility from the left on the blogs, such as New York Ties, Atlantic, Huffingtonpost, Business Insider and zerohedge? Perhaps because it contradicts what many of the libs believe - that unless wealth is distributed equally to all, no one can or should be able to enjoy it. Positive views on the present are seen as a slap in the face by people who have negative experiences, which, according to some polls, is the majority of the left. Surveys suggest that more liberal Americans than ever—99 percent, according to one poll—believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Other polls say taxes should go up and interest rates should be raised, in order to spread the wealth. Americans, and liberals in particular, of the past few years are less positive about the future than they have been at any point since the 1970s. We've become a nation of crybabies seeking crisis & failure as a way to punish the most successful whom we resent, instead of trying to emulate.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Is Target to Blame for Its Data Breach? Let the Lawsuits Begin

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      a dept . store used mostly by libs gets hacked. go figure

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why All Children Should Learn to Work

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the problem is kids have enough schoolwork and testing to have enough time to do this

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Case of the Vapers

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      liberalism is a mental disorder..go figure

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A&E’s <i>Duck Dynasty</i> Dilemma

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      In 24 hours the libs become champions of the 'free market' and constitutional scholars in defending A&E's actions.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    <I>Duck Dynasty</I> and a Free Society

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Hypocritical of the left to defend A&E's decision when purport to be champions of free speech. had he been fired for making pro-gay comments there would be no mention of indemnity of private employers regarding the 1st amendment.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Democracy in the Tobacconist’s

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      how is this newsworthy or topical? i guess another day we don't talk about the corruption is another day we let obama off the hook

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Do People Hate Optimists?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Overpaid relative to the value they create. I can open an office and hire an American programmer to fix my website or I can outsource the job to India for $50. The later creates value for me and the former would destroy it. Because I saved $1000's of dollars with the later option I have more money to invest in my business which helps the overall economy. I can lower my prices because my profit margins are higher which means more revenue.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      if democracy is dead did how did your hero Obama get elected? If millions of people voting isn't democracy, what is? Hate the player, not the game.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      There is some evidence the economy is weak, but the preponderance of evidence suggests otherwise.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The labor market is only part of the economy, and an increasingly unimportant one relative to other components. The definition of labor is changing to include part time and temp jobs which may create more economic value than traditional overpaid, longer term jobs. The fallacy is trying to extrapolate the health of the entire economy from the weakest data-points, such as the dearth of good middle class jobs.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Sites with older, liberal leaning demographic such as NYT, Mother Jones, Zerohedge, and possibly The Atlantic tend to be more pessimistic whereas sites with younger, smarter, neo-liberal/neo-conservative demographic such as Reddit and Facebook tend to be more optimistic about the outlook of the economy. The 1%, the fed, Washington make easy scapegoats for people's personal grudges against the economy as being 'rigged', 'unfair' etc.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    2017 and the End of Ethics

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      look at TWTR (twitter) stock..up 50% in just a few days. Making a killing . During the IPO the left said it was a bubble and yet it goes up 5-10% everyday. The libs predicted the sequester would hurt the economy (wrong) that the govt. shut-down would hurt the economy (also wrong), that record high S&P 500 profit margins aren't sustainable (wrong) student loan debt a bubble (wrong) housing market a bubble (wrong again).

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Who Cheats—and Why

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      wider face= more testosterone? so by that metric the Asians would have the most testosterone yet studies have shown blacks have the most testosterone with Asians having the least.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Mazel Tov, Christians!

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I will never say happy hollidays

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Persecution at Christmastime

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      then don;t live there

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Government Isn’t Santa

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      In the example of TARP bailout, for example, the government can be extremely effective, but overall there's a lot of waste and inefficiency

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    2017 and the End of Ethics

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      obama is rotten and has lied numerous times but VDH doesn't grasp that pretty much all politicians will lie & renege on promises for a short term gain

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      this author is a lib. drones mean more dead terrorists and fewer dead soldiers, then by all means let's have more of them.

      by bemoaning high unemployment is the author is fanning the flames of class warfare. true conservative would understand high unemployment is a byproduct of an economy running efficiency to maximize profits through high turnover, also known as frictional and structural employment.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    In Defense of Gift Giving

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the economics shows gift giving is really wasteful

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Charts: The Worst Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Since the Depression

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      In the past economic value was created principally by people going to work and small businesses, in the process creating a large middle class; noways it's through passive consumption (like downloading netflix movies or uploading picture to facebook), buying real estate & stocks, globalization, business-2-business, and web 2.0. The shrinking middle class is playing an increasingly small role in the US economy and this is not only a sustainable trend, but one that is conducive to economic growth, because the dynamic meritocracy is overtaking the sclerotic entitlement/welfare state. To get ahead in today's economy you have to either be a creator or have superior skills that will make employers want to hire you in an increasingly fickle and competitive job market. Simply showing up won't cut it anymore; you have to be extraordinary.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      My home keeps going up as well as Facebook and Twitter stock. If there's supposed to be a recession I can't see it. We need to learn to stop complaining about overblown/non-existent economic problems and instead spend as much as possible for the holidays. We're becoming a nation of passive consumers where capital has overtly trumped labor. Get used it, libs, instead of trying to reverse economic and technological progress.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      It hasn't been a complete failure

      http://www.heritage.org/resear...

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    The Greatest Gift of All (Economically Speaking)

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Through my posts, I'm providing a counterblast to the prevailing leftist pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Australian Shares Rise With Futures as IMF Lifts Outlook

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Through my posts, I'm provding a counterblast to the prevailing leftist pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Can Democrats Keep It Together as Obama Fades?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      they want more regulation, higher taxes and higher wages to the detriment of technological progress and economic growth

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Can Democrats Keep It Together as Obama Fades?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort … is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      these scams are more prevalent than ever

      maybe the FTC should shutdown these scams before the scammer make a profit. it does no good to come down after the scammer has tucked away a few million

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    To Lecture or Not to Lecture?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      agree it's the most effective format

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Our God-Given Constitutional Right To A Television Show

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      yea because this subject hasn't been beaten to death already..we need more

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      even i'll concede Palin was wrong that Phill's constitutional rights were impugned by having to leave the show

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The more interesting part of the debate is how much indemnity the private sector has regarding the 1st amendment . The left, usually the biggest proponents of free speech, say the private sector is immune.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Our Self-Interested President

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      he USA has overwhelmingly more labor productivity than the rest of the world

      http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RB2-...

      and the fastest post 2008 recovery

      http://www.leftfootforward.org...

      the left wants economic regression with higher taxes and regulation

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Russia ’98 Crisis Haunts Deutsche Bank’s Smith Seeing China Bust

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the left has been predicting a china crisis since 2005..just google it and you will see hunderds of failed predictions

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Boehner's Christmas Wish: To Roll the Tea Party

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      He and mitch mcconnell deserve credit for forging compromise when obama refused to

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Government Is Horrible at Predicting the Future (and So Is Everybody Else)

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      how about paul krugman's bad predictions?

      http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

      http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

      I guess this throws more cold water on Krugman’s thesis that inequality is bad for the economy.

      http://www.slideshare.net/gaet...

      overall, no correlation between gini coefficient and economic growth

      And let's not forget he made numerous wrong predictions in 2010-2012 that Greece would be ejected from the Eurozone.

      http://blog.pundittracker.com/...

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Our God-Given Constitutional Right To A Television Show

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I don't understand what this firestorm is about. If you don't like it , don't watch Duck Dynasty and do something else. There's 7 billion people on the world; trying to have them all have congruent viewpoints to your own is futile.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Surviving Anxiety

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      gonna have to tldr this

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Rose to Five-Month High in December

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The left has been predicting crisis since 2009..5 years later still wrong

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      krugman has no data to support his claim

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I guess this throws more cold water on Krugman's unsubstantiated belief that inequality is bad for the economy

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Hiding the Hacking at HealthCare.gov

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      stocks surging as obama’s polls are falling

      Bernanke is the real hero of the post 2008 economic & stock market boom

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

      -

      I guess this throws more cold water on Krugman's unsubstantiated belief that inequality is bad for the economy

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Ritholtz's 10 Monday Reads: 100 Years of the Fed 

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      here comes dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Australian Shares Rise With Futures as IMF Lifts Outlook

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      dow 20,000 soon . where's the crisis lib perts? lol

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Consumer Spending in U.S. Increases by Most in Five Months

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      But according to the libs the consumer is supposed to be maxed out. this good news shouldn't be happening lol

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    When Ducks Cry - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      our tolerance to meatpackers , fudgepackers as normal behavior is why america is becoming a joke to the rest of the world.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Genuine Conflict Being Ignored in the <i>Duck Dynasty</i> Debate

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      don't see what the big deal is. if you don't like it don't watch it

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Our Self-Interested President

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The left wants economic crisis so the 1% lose money. That's why Bernanke deserves our praise for saving the economy from Obama's incompetence.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Markets is people. Soyent green is people. Instead of blaming the fed, Wall St., Washington, and the 1% for your misfortune, if you have low intellectual aptitude and lazy, life will be hard. People who are smart and work hard tend to rise to the top. Should we help the downtrodden? No, but the big question is how do you do it? We use subsidies, food stamps, low income housing and a whole host of programs to help alleviate the problems of the poor; all are well intentioned but do they work? No because they perpetuate the problem and waste money.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Hiding the Hacking at HealthCare.gov

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      kmart, target , riteaid, = stores used by liberals

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      target & obamacare being hacked .in other words obama's voterbase . good let em be hacked..they deserve it

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Re-Education Camp

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      NRO civil war

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Age of Intolerance

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The greatest irony that drives that gives the left paroxysms that the most sclerotic congress oversaw one of the strongest years in the stock market, US economy, and real estate. More wealth was created in 2013 than any preceding year of the recovery, or any year in world history. The shutdown and sequester - despite all the pronouncements of doom & gloom by the left - was merely a speed bump.S&P 500 companies, the 1%, and the wealth creators of society coasted by blithely like nothing happened, above all the media ruckus. This validates Thomas Jefferson's truism that the government that governs least governs best. Fortunately, congress will intervene during crisis like in 2008 or post 911, and no shortage of accolades should be given to Bernanke for overseeing what may be the most successful monetary experiment ever, but otherwise congress is doing a good job by doing as little as possible.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      you already posted this earlier

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Man’s Eternal Struggle for Self-Importance - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Short the Turkish lira..country going down the crapper due to corruption, dependence on dollar inflows, hyperinflation,

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Age of Intolerance

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      i stand with phil. maybe we should start a donation drive to get through these hard times

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    You'll Never Guess Where This FBI Agent Left a Secret Interrogation Manual

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      we need to save Merry Christmas from the secular assault of happy holidays. the left is waging a war on Christmas. I will never say happy hollidays

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    I Refuse to Feel Bad About Letting My Children Watch TV

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      breaking news: parent lets kid watch tv

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Would Increasing the Minimum Wage Create Jobs?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the need to work is the only thing the libs and Puritans would find common ground on

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Or what will happen is that those people will just waste the extra money, be fired, or suffer from the effects of inflation if the minimum wage is raised. Or an old joke a Republican told me ' if being poor was so bad , there wouldn't be so many of them'

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Does increasing innequality threaten the economy? A bi-partisan panel weighs in and concludes that it doesn't.

      Between the botched obamacare roll-out, strong growth in the UK despite austerity measure, surging stock market etc krugtron the invincible should use this as opportunity to reflect how wrong he has been instead of histrionically lashing out at his critics, many of whom have been right all along. Krugman said the sequester, wealth inequality, and shutdown would hurt the economy and yet the data in terms of consumer spending, GDP growth, profits & earnings, and stock market gains refutes this. He predicted numerous times the Euro would dissolve. Niall Ferguson was right about Krugman being impertinent in his discourse towards his critics.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Judges, Leave the NSA Alone

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      yoo would take it a step further and suggest we voluntarily send our data to the NSA, to make their job easier

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    ‘Real’ Rednecks

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      he (goldberg) is an equivocating technocrat. read his comment about derb last year. threw him under the bus

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      they look like the american taliban john walker

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ladies’ Man

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Men dislike Obama because he is a wimp, a pushover, malleable, effete, etc . It has nothing to do with unemployment.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ladies’ Man

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      This reads like a who is me, cry me a river article. A real libertarian (as opposed to a fake one) would understand that high unemployment is a possible outcome of the free market, and thus would be agnostic about it. Like feminists, Kevin is playing the victim card. No different.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    The Trouble With Populism? It Isn't That Popular

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      sounds like you're just another liberal that wants the 1% to be soaked by higher taxes and more regulation

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    More Jobs Are the Antidote to Inequality

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      It;s better for the economy to more productivity and fatter profits than too many overpaid, redundant jobs.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Climb as S&P 500 Heads for Weekly Gain

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      but the libs still say the economy is weak because the 1% refuse to spread their wealth lol

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Apple's Sudden Urge to Splurge

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      dead cat boucne is almost over. go long facebook and twitter and short apple

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Value of Frequent Flier Miles Will Soon Drop for Delta and United Travelers

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      short frequent flyer currency, long bitcoins

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    How to Fly in Comfort - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Calling BS on #10. trying to sound edgy and funny .not working. author fail

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      "2. GET WASTED"

      yea i'm sure vomiting, nausea and diarrhea will make for a pleasant flight

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Darden Ditching the Fish as Red Lobster Flounders

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      oh what will become of the e coli palace? shucks

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Should the U.S. Respond to China's Bullying of American Journalists?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Why is freedom of the press such an alien concept to the obama administration?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Transparency Reports Don’t Tell Us

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      yahoo mail is better

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Real <em>Duck Dynasty</em> Scandal: Phil Robertson's Comments on Race

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      because salon writers think the whole world thinks like them

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      His statements are amusing if viewed from a deconstructionist perspective

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Millions of American Students Need to Learn English

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      just close the borders and and immigration. problem solved

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Past and Future of America's Social Contract

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Where in the constitution is a contract guaranteeing a livable wage and plush retirement enumerated? Economic policy is designed to benefit the 1% exclusively, because they create the most economic value through consumer spending, capital investments, and technological innovation. Wealth inequality will keep widening and this doesn't pose a threat to the economy, nor is it unsustainable. That's just economic reality, instead of partisan wishful thinking and class warfare rhetoric that is common in the blogs. We're becoming a smartist nation. Either join in the revolution or be left behind.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Obamacare Generation

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The libs still insist the economy is weak..they refuse to consider the data that shows it isn't. Thanks you bernanke for this huge stock market rally and rescuing the economy from obama's incompetence.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Government Jobs Shouldn't Be Soul-Killing

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Obviously. nasa ranks highest. your job is to stare at a computer terminal all day in a nice air conditioned room. pleny of food, hihg pay, and other perks

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Fed Cuts QE Pace to $75 Billion on Improved Job Market Outlook

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      hmm sounds like sour grapes

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Stocks surge, wealth spreaders lose. By tapering only 10 billion the fed signaled that the process will be gradual and the bond buying program could take well over a year to be phased out entirely. This removed a lot of uncertainty which is why stocks are surging. Dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Chart Blows Up the Myth of the Welfare Queen

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      But the real losers are the middle class. they have little assistance so they have more debt than the lower class. Why else do you see so many of the 'poor' with large flat screen, ipads, iphones, tricked out audio systems . If you work for $15,000 a year and the govt. pays for everything you're gonna have more disposable income than a middle class family earning 50,000

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Comparing the Failures of Bush and Obama

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The issue is that obama overpriced and overwhelmingly under-delivered . Pretty much he reneged on all his promises, including closing of Guantanamo and escalated US involvement in the middle east. Of course, Bush did pronounce mission accomplished in 2003 which was 10 years premature

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Education-Industrial Complex - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I didn't like this article because it seemed like a tacit endorsement of expansive military programs. Spending billions on a stealth fighter that will only bu used a handful of times against a village of mud dwellers is a waste of taxpayer resources. Education & military both have abundant waste.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Uber Explains Why $35 a Mile Is the Right Price

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      a sucker born...

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Minority Students Attend Elite Private Schools

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      they tend to integrate really well

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Great American Gender Debates of 2013

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      umm..yea..if your net-worth puts you in the <.01% of society you are hereby excluded from the debate.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      hmm Bernie madoff, Alan Stanford would disagree

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Better News on Workforce Dropouts: Ritholtz Chart

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      We're becoming a drop-out nation; people dropping out the the workforce, dropping out of college saddled in debt they have no hope of paying off. Nowadays, economic value is created through passive consumption such as streaming on netflix, uploading pictures to facebook, tweeting, using snapchat. Other are becoming wealthy through real estate, buying stocks, speculation, and web 2.0. If capitalism is defined as an economic system where those who possess capital have precedent of those those who don't then without equivocation capitalism is thriving in America, and capital has triumphed over labor. The chasm between the haves and the have-nots will keep widening, but this doesn't pose a threat to the economy, contrary to popular belief.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Whole Lotta White Privilege Goin’ On - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      If life were a monopoly game the jews would have hotels the green and blue properties. The Indians and Asians would have the yellows, orange, red, ones and everyone else would be fighting over Baltic and Mediterranean.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      is this article supposed to be a joke?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Age of Envy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the last quarter showed a large uptick in inventories which wouldn't happen if companies didn't anticipate commensurate demand.Also, US GDP has grown faster than any country in the EU ,all of which have larger proportion of welfare spending relative to GDP. That pretty much torpedoes the leftist belief that more generous social programs leads to more growth.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Age of Envy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      demand is higher than ever if you look at the actual data instead of the lies fed to you by the left. Consumer spending and S&P 500 profits & earnings have made new highs since 2009 with no sign of slowing.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      umm pert, Apple & facebook, for example, have created 1000's of jobs, including many more indirectly through 3rd parties. We're better off with fewer jobs and more productivity than too many unproductive jobs and high inflation.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The rich create economic value through investment and innovation. The poor -or the 47%- most engage in passive consumption and create relatively little economic value compared to the create class.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      if he stood on the shoulders of krugman he still couldn't change a lightbulb

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Robert Reich, the neanderthal turned economist, wants to believe that more jobs will lead to growth even though stock prices and profits have risen 130% from the March 2009 lows as labor force participation is at historic lows

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      It's bird! its plane! No, it's Robert Reich flapping his arms trying to reach the light switch. lol Like Krugman and other libs he's trying to spread the lie that the economy cannot thrive without more wasteful entitlement and job creation programs. They seek crisis to bring about socialist economic policy that takes from the most productive of society to redistribute to the least..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why This Round of the Republican Civil War Was Different

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Boehner is a pragmatist and this dives both sides nuts. It's best that Washington do too little than too much. just let the free market run on its own and only intercede during crisis, and keep raising the debt ceiling. Historically, the economy does best when congressional favorability is low.

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    New Exhibit Shows San Francisco’s Dramatic Growth in Maps

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the rent is too damn high

  • Discussion on Wired: Underwire

    Doge the Dog Tops the 9 Best Memes of 2013

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      YMMV

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      for sure. people are inept with technology, especially upper management promoted though the Dilbert Principle

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Science That Proves the 9-to-5 Day Is Hell For Creative Workers

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      How about the 2 hour workweek? I'm sure that would be even more popular then the six hour one.

  • Discussion on Wired: Opinion

    How American-Centered Tech Is Leveling Global Design Culture — Too Much

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Bay Area is and always will be the epicenter of technology and economic growth. we created companies like snapchat, twitter, facebook , tesla, and google we have the greatest appreciating real estate market in the world, most competitive wages, best living conditions, and a meritocracy that rewards creativity and intellect

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      sounds like you're a lib that is resentful of the success of the 1% tech elite. you would rather have economic recession and technological regression as a means of attaining wealth parity. these people are important because the create economic value through their technologies, unlike liberals that complain on message boards while collecting govt. benefits.

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    With $25 Million Bet, Silicon Valley Officially Claims Bitcoin as its Own

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      but the libs still say bitcoin is a bubble

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Liberal Democrats Are Skeptical of Hillary Clinton, in One Paragraph

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      And this is why Hillary will be the nominee: a recurring theme is that new age we’re living in is disproportionaly rewarding people with superior cognitive ability, superior wealth, and success and that this will become even more true in the future.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Best-Educated Generation in American History Isn't Educated Enough

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      We're becoming a smartist nation with the smartest, richest, most successful people making most, if not all, of the economic gains.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Stanford Economist Piazzesi Influences Fed Forecasts

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The overwhelming evidence validates Fama. Bubble or irrationality cannot be predicted except in hindsight.Look at all the pundits that called Twitter a bubble and the stock is up 10% higher than its closing IPO price (which was already a 50% gain). Or bitcoin, Facebook, zillow, linkedin, snapchat, instagram and many more examples of companies & trends that experts thought were bubbles but weren’t. Now Shiller says there’s a housing and stock market bubble? Nope. Famme deserved the price and shiller just a showman who’s beliefs don’t corroborate with empirical evidence.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    American Homeowners Are Nearly Back in the Black: Ritholtz Chart

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The media sure did everything in its power to exacerbate the slide. Real estate is still a much better investment than renting, especially in expensive areas such s the Bay Area

  • Discussion on CNNMoney.com

    Homeless college students seek shelter during breaks

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      anyone that is self-motivated with a strong command of the English language, writing skills, programming skills, math, physics, engineering, etc will have abundance opportunity in this century. This includes creators (web 2.0 companies), speculators (in stocks, real estate, bitcoins, commodities and buying the dips), and knowledge workers (people with STEM degrees). Look at Faceook and twitter stock up 10% in the past few days. Bitcoin & Bay Area real estate on fire. We’re seeing a concentration of wealth in the most creative areas of the country

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    How Presidents Lie

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Government dysfunction is still sighted as the leading risk factor for markets. But since when hasn’t it been? My favorite quote this week comes from POLITICO’s Ben White and Darren Samuelsohn: “The left has tried very hard this year to crush the economy with debt ceiling fights, clumsy budget cuts, a government shutdown and complete legislative gridlock. It does not appear to be working…” 2014 will be a good year if this becomes a market meme.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Iraq

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Iraq: thousands of terrorists/potentil terrorists dead. obamacare: millions of innocent ppl inconvenienced under a lie

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The End of Retail Is Vastly Overrated

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that includes a social experience of bad customer service

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    You’re Getting Too Much Healthcare

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      And those colonoscopies as well. An expensive, invasive test with a lot of pain and potential complications. If they find anything you have to increase the frequency of tests by a factor of three or more

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    What Would Reagan Do to Revive the Economy?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      sounds like you're another lib that wants wealth redistribution instead of wealth creation

      SS is broken and needs to go away

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Are Little Changed

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Twitter up 10%..where is that obvious 'bubble',libs? lol

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Harvard Study Finds: The Rent Is too Damn High

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The very rent that the libs whine about is caused by the regulation they impose

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      If the rent is too high it means you must either; earn more money or move somewhere cheaper

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      your liberalism is showing

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    An Organic Greenhouse Run by Farmers With Autism

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Seems more like autism spectrum disorder than overt autism

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Are Upworthy Headlines Suddenly Everywhere?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Why are they everywhere? I dunno..who decided this was newsworthy

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Google, Apple and Microsoft Agree: NSA Spying Undermines Freedom

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      They want priority over your information instead of the govt. Nice attempt to divert the debate away from their own unethical practices, but i'm not buying it

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Fascinating History Behind Ukraine's Toppled Lenin Statue

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      someone got the memo about 90 years late

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    MSNBC’s Alternate Universe

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Obama's polls keep falling because Americans aren't falling for his 'blame the rich' outrage. He's incompetent and wants to spread the wealth from the most productive of society to the least.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that you voted for obama speaks volumes about the value of your opinion. Fox is accurate and fair and balanced compared to MSNBC

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back from the Dead

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      where did their money go? weird/stupid office amenities

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Post-Work Economy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The era of empires, pillage & conquest ended in the last century

      Now all nations are striving for the middle class ideal instead of conquering land

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Minimum Wage and the Rise of the Machines

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      One could argue making the transition from technology A to technology B requires a slightly higher intellectual threshold and after enough iterations the acquisition of new skills for Technology Z (or whatever) becomes intellectually unattainable for most people within reason.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The unfortunate reality is that there will have to be more govt. spending to subsidize the rising living expenses for these people given that wages on the lowest end aren't keeping up with non-treasury based inflation and companies don’t want to reduce profits if they can avoid it. Even the author says business want to make money instead of jobs.

      there's a story on wired about giving bitcoins to the homeless
      www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/...

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      "Machines make us a more productive society, and a more productive society is a richer society. They also free us up for more rewarding work. "

      that's great. maybe you can set an example, jonah. it's easy to say when it's your job that not is gonna be replaced.

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    A Chimp’s Day In Court: Inside the Historic Demand for Nonhuman Rights

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that chimp is still smarter than our president

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Will the Congressional Stalemate Ever End?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Will the Congressional Stalemate Ever End? does it matter? stocks will surge anyway. buy the dip.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    The Ugly Numbers Behind Unbundled Cable TV

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      oh no too bad online video is free

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    December Jobs Report: Unemployment Falls to Five-Year Low

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      but the left still says the economy is weak

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    How Do You Define a Bubble? (And Are We in One Now?)

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I remember when the 'experts' were absolutely dead certain LNKD and FB were bubbles. Those stocks are up 300% and 30% respectively from their IPOs.

      Economists tend to me more rational, logical people that value data & empirical evidence over emotions, partisanship, and media generated 'narratives'. A common narrative is that the economy is weak even though there is an abundance of data that contradicts this. Most narratives involve reductionism - an attempt or tendency to explain a complex set of facts, entities, phenomena, or structures by another, simpler set and, secondly, the fallacy of composition. An example of reductionism is making an assessment that the entire US economy is in poor shape because low paying service sector jobs constitute the bulk of employment gains. This data may be true, but we cannot make an inference about the health of the entire economy from it. The fallacy of composition the false assumption that something which is true for one segment of the economy is true for the economy as a whole. So if I cannot afford to pay my debt then neither can the govt. and thus the nation must default - a common but incorrect narrative.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Asian Futures Drop Before Payrolls After U.S. Stocks Fall

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      When will the perts learn? There will be no taper, no recession, no bear market. dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Michigan Sentiment Index Increased to 82.5 in December from 75.1

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      my home keeps going up where I live. no bubble. people still getting richer than ever

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Gross Says Job Gains Mean 50% Odds of Fed Tapering in December

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      just another crisis seeking lib

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      When will the perts learn? There will be no taper. dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    So What If Everyone at Harvard Gets an A?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      "a lot of us weren't especially hard-working. "

      not sure what this is based this on

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Moral and Economic Imperative to Raise the Minimum Wage

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Not necessarily true. 50% of Americans own stocks and 60% own a home. strong economic growth lifts the prices of those assets creating a wealth effect. Low yields makes home ownership more affordable and lifts stock prices. Unemployment has fallen from 10% to 7% although it's still pretty high when you factor in ppl that have dropped out.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Moral and Economic Imperative to Raise the Minimum Wage

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The economic data such as GDP growth, black Friday/cyber Monday consumer spending shows that the economy is thriving in spite of record inequality. The left is trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist on a faulty premise.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Turkey’s Marginal Theocracy - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      they cant hate America more than the greeks or isreal

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Meet the Techintern - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      aghh too many links in the article . find it very distracting

      i miss the old days of footnotes

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Many Tulips Can You Buy With One Bitcoin?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The left has been calling bitcoin a bubble since 2011 and they are still wrong

  • Discussion on The Atlantic Cities

    The Minimum Wage Was Once Enough To Keep a Family of 3 Out of Poverty

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I suppose it's enough on a diet of sand and dirt

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Teenage Behavior Predicts the Future of Technology

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      snap chat now worth $6 billion, says experts. still not a bubble.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    So What If Everyone at Harvard Gets an A?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      #stuffwhiteppllike: being special

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Last Gasp of the Keynesians

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      sounds like you would prefer to have more overpaid, redundant jobs at the cost of productivity, innovation and profits. The rich create economic value though capital investments whereas the poor use money most for subsistence and passive consumption.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The left wishes there would be a 70's or 30's redux of hyperinflation or deflation so that the 1% lose money, but neither will happen. We're still in a Goldilocks economy of tame inflation, robust profits & earnings, tireless consumer spending, unending productivity, etc

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Greenspan Says Bitcoin a Bubble Without Intrinsic Currency Value

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Bitcoin value is its utility. $2000 soon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Are Colleges Getting So Expensive?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Funny how you are guilty of the very faults you level upon me. Why not give me some contrary evidence then or are ad hominem attacks the best you can do?

      College wage premium continues to widen

      http://voices.washingtonpost.c...

      Tuition costs continue to rise
      http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money...

      The rise in tuition correlates with the rise in wage premium. If it were a bad investment there would be no such correlation.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      umm..ever hear of forbearance or deferment programs? The fact that there is little recourse over defaulting is partially why rates have gone up so much.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Millennials Fell Out of Love With Obama

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      low information voters.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Id and the Ick

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Katy Perry was excoriated because she doesn't fit a minority profile. Typically, only minorities (like jews in the case of Sarah Silverman) can be spared the criticism of appropriating the culture of other minorities.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I jumped the gun. Kevin was using her work as part of a broader critique of contemporary society. I still don't hold him as a model libertarian but that's irrelevant to this discussion.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I wasn't trying to imply that he wanted to censor anyone's work.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Unfortunately , Kevin Williamson is a phony libertarian; otherwise, he wouldn't try to moralize the free market among individuals that are not doing harm, except for offending the author's sensibilities.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Democratic Party: How Did It Get Here?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the money earned through a long term investment has risk, independent of what the recipient chooses to do with his money, even if it includes taking drugs. The risk incurred by an investor creates capital for the company. A wage earner could also buy drugs; does that make him any less entitled to be paid?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that would be a short term capital gain which is taxed much higher

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      you can only offset capital losses with another capital gain. you cannot witeoff a loss to cover income.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Not a Good Enough Obamacare Fix

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      A New York Times study found that between 2009 and 2011, income inequality grew four times faster than under George W. Bush.

      you really think that would have changed had McCain won? That inequality was due to the recovering stock market & economy, thanks to the success of TARP and Bernanke's monetary policy

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Return of the Queue

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      low information voters

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Democratic Party: How Did It Get Here?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      A capital gain entails risk that you may lose all or some of the investment. The reward for taking this risk is a lower tax rate. Income doesn't have this risk.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Imgur: The Biggest Little Site in the World

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the Atlantic can write 3000 words about an image site but only scant analysis about why college is too expensive or Americans scoring low on aptitude tests.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Are Colleges Getting So Expensive?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Elite colleges are still worth the $ due to the connections and prestige. Lower ranking colleges not so much. However, the typical debt for a student is around $25k, or the cost of a new car. And unlike a car the value of higher education only appreciates due to the wage premium

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      ad impressions are Independent of article length

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Holy Smokes! Will Congress Really Start Working Again?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The left covertly wanted the sequester and a default to punish the 1%. neither happened and will happen.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Sales of New U.S. Homes Rose in October by Most in Three Decades

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      cry me a river

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      but the left says we're in a bubble- the same bubble that was supposed to doom stocks and treasuries 4 years ago but hasn't. maybe they should stop channeling their contempt for the 1% into incorrect predictions about stuff they wish would happen but will never happen (like hyperinflation, tapering, bear market, recession, deflation, real estate bubbles ). Stocks and bay area home prices will keep going up with no end in sight and yields will remain low.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Little Changed Before ADP Jobs

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The liberals say we're in a Great stagnation due to wealth inequality. hardly. Blowout cyber Monday sales, blowout retail spending, whiz kids making millions overnight with web 2.0, bitcoin making new highs, stock market making new highs, real estate going nuts in bay area, amazon drones taking flight, self driving cars, social media, etc. The USA still has greater GDP growth than the EU.

      Maybe a stagnation for those who cannot keep up, and there will be a lot of those people but for others it’s anything but. Congress has been in a great stagnation since 2009 and debt is high but the innovators and wealth creators aren't affected.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Treasuries Near Cheapest Since ’11 Versus Stocks on Fed Outlook

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      where's that hyperinflation, libs? dow 20000 soon

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    PISA, Piece by Piece - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that tends to be the exception than the norm. most low achievers in school tend to be low achievers in life in terms of income, career advancement, etc

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Little Changed Before ADP Jobs

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      dow 20000 soon. buy all he dips

  • Discussion on Wired: Threat Level

    This is the MIT Surveillance Video That Ended Aaron Swartz

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Yet again the big govt oversteps its bounds.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Quick, Take This Test About the Significance of Those Bad U.S. Test Scores

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      tech businesses have no trouble finding talent or at least let's hope the left doesn't impose regulations regarding visas in an effort to force companies to 'hire american'. Paul Krugman for example, tacitly opposes green cards for highly skilled workers.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Id and the Ick

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      did kevin willimamson just discover blue comedy. he will be shocked to learn that such acts are not unique to her.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Stop Calling Superheroes 'Fascist'

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      ur probably one of those people that talk at the movies to inject your 'commentary'

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      now i want to see that movie to see if that is true

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Seducing Bill Clinton

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Clinton won because: ross perot split the vote and Bush lied about taxes

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Explaining the Test-Score Gap

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      " victimhood"

      They are victims of a demonstrable 15 pt IQ gap between whites and blacks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

      unfortunately, there is no govt. program to fix this as the author adumbrates

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The World’s New Outlaws

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      it will be someone else's life on the line and the taxpayer's dime

      easy for him to say

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Do Healthy Non-Smokers Get Lung Cancer?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      But even an event as large as the WTC disaster wouldn't cause an appreciable uptick because it was brief and localized event.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the prognosis is so bad that that it's almost seen as a lost cause

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Graph: Countries With Higher Math Scores Have Unhappier Kids

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      ignorance is bliss?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    American Schools vs. the World: Expensive, Unequal, Bad at Math

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Shanghai is a city in China and therefore not included in the study.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      It would take the equivalent of a PHD dissertation to try to articulate solutions to these types of problems. In the allotted space and time, the best The Atlantic can do is report the problem and let readers come to their own conclusions.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      This bears repeating but the USA has the largest population of the study by far. On an absolute basis we produce more talented math students than any other country.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      boris johnson’s comments ring true and judging by the response most people cannot handle the truth that we’re becoming a smartist nation and the relationship between IQ and outcome in life are becoming inseparable. Retraining the workforce is painstakingly slow and companies don’t want to waste money on domestic labor that can otherwise be outsourced or automated. Whie there are a lot of strong opinions on this issue and a dearth of practical solutions

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Explaining the Test-Score Gap

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Sowell is appropriating the liberal Stephan J Gould line of thinking that has already been debunked by scientists like Richard Lynn, Charles Murray,, Arthur Jensen

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      yet again sowell is pushing this liberal nurture trumps nature liberal feel-good agenda in contrary to the scientific evidence that shows that the are endogenous intellectual differences between races and the inextricable link between IQ and academic achievement.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Drone Delivery Expert Answers the Big Questions About Amazon's Plans

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Second to the NSA, drones have become the latest bugaboo of the petulant, paranoid left. Drones are a lot safer than automobiles.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The World’s New Outlaws

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Even our allies know Obama is inexperienced, uxorious doormat of a president, although they cannot say so explicitly. He doesn't command nearly the same respect, authority & authenticity as G.W. Bush. Russia, Saudi, and China forged amicable ties with the last administration and now think Obama is a joke.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Another example of American exceptionism are blowout Cyber Monday sales, which hit another record even though the the consumer supposed to maxed out, or at least according to the blogs and media they should be. It would seem the left wants weak consumer spending to confirm their own bias that the economy is in a recession or 'rigged by the fed', etc.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Cyber Monday Sales Increase 19 Percent Aided by Mobile, IBM Says

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      but isn't the consumer supposed to maxed out, or at least according to the blogs and media. It would seem many want weak consumer spending to confirm their own bias that the economy is weak or 'rigged by the fed', etc.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Bitcoin Can't Be a Better Dollar If It's a Newer Tulip

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The left has been calling it a bubble since 2011

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Is the U.S. Economy Slowing Down or Speeding Up?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Does it matter? Profits & earnings keep being blowout quarter after quarter with no end in sight. Slowdown means more QE, so stocks should rally anyway,

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Waiting for That Delivery Drone? Regulators Are in No Rush

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      as usual the libs resentment for technology is showing .

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Even If the Feds Let Them Fly, Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Still Nonsense

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      a lot of Luddite libs here criticizing amazon's drone delivery program

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is the Effort to Repeal Obamacare Finally Dead?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      2009-2017 will go down as carter's second & third terms. lousy economy, high unemployment, record low congressional approval, record high dissatisfaction with direction of country, etc. How much blame can be leveled on Obama is debatable, but he failed to meet even the lowest of expectations.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      obama picked the perfect time to do this. let the incoming administration clean up the mess

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    3 Ideas to Make College (Mostly) Free

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      textbooks are the biggest expense

      it's like the movies. the show is just a lure to get otherwise rational people to pay a 3000% markup for popcorn

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Giving 101: The Princeton Class That Teaches Students to Be Less Selfish

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      i know this is taboo but being Jewish probably gives him a pass. a gentile advocating eugenics & euthanasia would be dismissed as a nazi/fascist extremist. even suggesting there are innate biological differences between races is enough to get labeled. Because jews have had a long history of being oppressed they cannot possibly be the aggressor.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I find his donating $ for third word countries and veganism to be incompatible. More 3rd world population growth is obviously bad for the ecosystem.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      you mean reprehensible? think you got your words confused

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Would You Rather Be Born Smart or Rich?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      looks like someone drinking the Gladwell cool aid

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      or better yet be like bill gates and be born with both

      but intellect generally trumps wealth because smart people have the ingenuity to create wealth

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Brief Daily Tests Might Be a Godsend for Low-Income College Students

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      by speaking in generalizations your ignorance is showing. Did it ever occur to you that not all Asians, Indians etc in America are immigrants?

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Can Silicon Valley Make Fake Meat and Eggs That Don't Suck?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      too bad silicon valley cant make enough jobs

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Anatomy of a Cyber Monday Hustle

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      a sucker born every minute

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    At $114,651.18, the 12 Days of Christmas Are an Extremely Impractical Gift

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      lol but bernanke says there's no inflation

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    No, Sales Didn't Fall 2.7 Percent Thanksgiving Weekend

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Every year the pundits front-run the demise of the consumer and every year they are wrong.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Detroit Retirees Strike Pay Dirt With City-Guaranteed Savings

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      no wonder the city want broke

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Amazon's Drone Fleet Delivers What Bezos Wants: An Image of Ingenuity

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      yea because cars never get in accidents

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      MSFT paid him billions to do pretty much nothing

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The War on Conservative Minorities

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      http://www.businessinsider.com...

      More good economic news: Bay Area is the center of the universe

      surging real estate prices, a hub of innovation & wealth creation – including even large immigrant population. They (the 1%) left 2008 in the dust and not looking back. Wealthy Chinese & private equity are investing heavily in Bay Area real estate in all cash bidding wars. Not a bubble. Everyone wants to live in the Bay Area, Everyone wants to give Bay Area firms more money, 20-30 somethings are becoming instantly wealthy, even more more so than their 90's predecessors. Back then a typical internet IPO was no bigger than a billion dollars and usually around $60-100 million; now companies go public for no less than a couple billion and early funding begins at $60 million. Will this end badly/ nope. this time is really different. There won’t be a crash like 2000 or 2008 or at least not for a very long time.

      The lesson is the quit complaining and learn how to code or buy stocks. Quit complaining about economic weakness.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      heaven forbid Americans want closed borders. No mention from NRO even though according to a poll 56% want border secured before path to citizenship

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Electric Cars Up in Flames: A List

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The pro-union left is sure desperate to smear tesla. Only 3 fires versus 160000 total fires/year.

  • Discussion on Wired: Opinion

    Stop Thinking That Coding Is the Answer to All of Society’s Problems

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      it's hard enough teaching kids algebra; coding (and WYSIWYG crap doesn't count) is many magnitudes harder , so no this is not a threat.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    How to Know When We’ve Ended the $83 Billion Bank Subsidy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      another liberal that wants to hurt the economy with excess regulation

      the reality is that lending standards for new homeowners and small business have gotten considerably more stringent since 2008

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Little Changed Before ISM Data

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      still no crisis, libs ? lol

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Black Friday Weekend Spending Drop Pressures U.S. Stores

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      cry me river. the data shows consumer spending is rising despite this

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      funny how every year is supposed to be bad or the worst year ever, and yet consumer spending & retail stocks keep surging year after year. the left is creating a narrative of a consumer that has ceased spending even though the evidence suggests otherwise.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    The World Isn't As Fragile as the U.S. Thinks

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      And the USA isn't as fragile as the left wants to believe

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    What Do Instagram Advertisers Actually Get for Their Money?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      these big advertiers don't need an ROI. the goal is just to create mindshare and to get the word out

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Want Legalized Marijuana? Better Hope America Stays Grumpy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      sounds like ur a lib

      maybe drugs caused your add?

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    A Maoist Madeleine Moment - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The problem is that capitalism is a ponzi scheme financed by debt; either personal debt, national debt, corporate debt etc. To succeed you need someone to lend you credit and that' become increasingly difficult in today's economy for average people, or you have to find a way to do it without debt which is really hard. But the failure rate is so high and rife with corruption/fraud that eventually it comes harder and harder to find suckers to lend money (except for multinationals who never have that problem cuz they sell bonds that yield just a little more than treasuries). For example, Cit group - the largest provider of small & medium sized business loans - filed for bankruptcy in 2009 due the inability of borrowers to pay back the loans. The problem is journalists, economists, politicians etc sell capitalism as a panacea for bringing people out of poverty, when it in many cases it creates poverty.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Surrender in Tehran

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      obama's weakness on terror showing yet again

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Senate Killed Filibuster to Save Itself

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      not losing sleep over shutdown. stocks perform better when the house is divided and congress can;t get anything done.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Park Service to Congress: Only YOU Can Prevent Government Shutdowns

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      not losing sleep over shutdown. sorry

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Quest to End the Flu

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      finally a use for eggs

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Do Democrats Make Better Neighbors?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      In other words, we conclusively conclude the results are inconclusive. yay another article that doesn't live up to its headline

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is Capitalism in Trouble?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      This article is more of a critique of capitalism than an argument that capitalism as an economic system is in trouble.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      There is enough counter evidence to immediately dismiss this article as crap. Stocks are surging, real estate surging, bitcoin surging, web 2.0 companies are being valued at billions of dollars creating instant millionaires and billionaires. I would say capitalism is doing better than ever.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Economic Case for Ignoring Black Friday

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I have been ignoring it for years

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Welcome to the Kludgeocracy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that is because FDR is the only president that was a bigger socialist than Obama, is that a trait of good leadership? i think not

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    An Outbreak of Lawlessness

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      lets be honest: both parties want a bigger govt. if it means advancing their cause

      the republicans want the govt. to enforce hetero marriage, anti-drug laws, homeland sec, FBI, CIA, TSA, etc

      the libs want a big govt. for social security, higher taxes, IRS, social safetynets, financial regulation, etc

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      pundits do this all the time

      if their guys are in power they will forgive them for doing the very things they admonish their opponents for doing

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Problem of Selfishness

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Obama's biggest fault is not that he's selfish or egotistical (most leaders are) but that he's simply incompetent.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Hey Shoppers, Black Friday Savings Are a Hoax

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Hasn't the left been predicting the demise of the consumer since 2006? Or a student loan bubble since 2008?

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    10 Black Friday Reads: Smarter Shopping and Dow 16,000

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      housing keeps going up where i live. no crisis . no recesison

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Do-Nothing Congress Dithers on Budget as Deadline Nears

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the libs want wealth spreading in the form of higher taxes & interest rates, regulation, tapering, and falling real estate prices. none of those will happen. dow 20,000 soon

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      if history is any indicator stocks will keep going higher when this is over

      made 400%+ gains on S&P 500 otions I had purchased during the govt. shutdown

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    America’s Coastal Royalty

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Bitcoin is changing the world

      at the very least it's a 'new' gold or hedge against inflation.

      at its full potential it's not only a hedge but a viable currency that circumvents the many problems with traditional currency. Bitcoin is the only currency that is deflationary because it cannot be expanded by the central bank; retained bitcoins will only gain purchasing power compared to fiat.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Michael Savage resides on either coast ..is he part of the elite , too? we shouldn't begrudge successful individuals and corporations because they choose not to integrate with the masses of society. Facebook & Apple could move to the flyover states but then all their workers would have to move or quit too and this would create all sorts of problems. And these companies make enough money where it's not like the lower tax rates make it worthwhile.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      a hypocrite and scatterbrained. His articles read like a collage of partially formed ideas stitched together to meet a deadline and word limit.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      'coastal elitist' is a construct

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      look at bitcoin go..1160 now

      http://bitcoinwisdom.com/marke...
      ppl getting richer than ever with stocks, bitcoin, bay area real estate, web 2.0, programming, speculation, etc

      America is still the creative & economic capital of the world. A place where anyone can become mindbogglingly wealthy with a good idea, daring, good timing, and a little luck. The left has championed a flawed message of forced egalitarianism - equality of outcome should supersede equality of opportunity. They want to spread the wealth of the creators and makers and redistribute it to the takers.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      this author has been espousing pseudo liberalism for years

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Seems like VDH is stirring the cauldron of class warfare again. The successful of society or as victor labels as the 'elite' should have no compunction about flaunting their wealth or choosing to live in nice neighborhoods.

      The road to riches and influence, we are told, lies in being branded with a degree from a coastal-elite campus like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, or Berkeley.

      This is still true, sorry lib. Libs like VDH want the 1% to be deracinated and replaced with an agrarian society of simpletons, but it won't happen.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Hey Shoppers, Black Friday Savings Are a Hoax

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      bitcoin & stock futures keep going up

      http://bitcoinwisdom.com/marke...

      weird how the crisis in 2007-09 which was predicted to bring about a new social order of a downgrading of America’s economic hegemony, fiscal restraint, and wealth equality the exact opposite has happened. The socio-economic trends that were in place before 2008 only accelerated in the years that have followed. A Mathew Effect in overdrive. Winner take all outcomes.

      And holiday sales will not be weak despite the unending pronouncements by the media about the consumer being dead, maxed-out, etc. Rumors of the death of the consumer are greatly exaggerated.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    McDonald's Worker Says She Can't Afford to Eat at McDonald's

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      ummm walmart and mcdonalds aren't the lony companies that pay low wages

      if wages rise 10-20% everywhere it will still cost tax payers money from the resulting inflation .

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      maybe she should learn to code

      we’re definitely in a talent boom. never before in the history of the world have the financial rewards for talented, high iq, ambitious people been so great. surging stock prices, bitcoins, the high-end real estate market, and web 2.0 valuations are evidence of this. In today’s economy is not uncommon for someone to become fabulously wealthy with relatively little work just by coding the next big thing or getting in early on a lucrative investment like bitcoin or startup.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Slow Death of 'Traditional' Families in America

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      some more food for though

      In the European Union, cohabitation is very common. In 2011, 39.5% of all birth in the EU 27 countries were extramarital. Births outside marriage represented a majority in 2011 in Iceland(65.0%), Estonia (59.7%), Slovenia (56.8%), Bulgaria (56.1%), France (55.8%), Norway (55.0%), Sweden (54.3%), and Belgium (50%). The proportion of extramarital births is also approaching half in Denmark (49%), United Kingdom (47.3%) and Netherlands (45.3%).[71]

      so that pretty much dispels the belief that this is problem unique to low income minorities who tend to be easy scapegoats for the 'moral breakdown' of society

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      umm how about divorce

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Does America Have a Hunger Crisis? A Thanksgiving FAQ

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that's the free market telling them they aren;t as important

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Supersized American Turkey

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      yea this treatment is not unique to turkeys either

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Bill That Could Save College Students $1,200 a Year

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      show how little you know about physics but the books are overpriced

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Crude Traders Skeptical That Iran Deal Will Bolster Oil Supplies

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      oil at 92.5 is steal..102 soon . it's pretty rare for oil to lag stocks by such a large margin

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers and the Economy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      and then wages would have to rise everywhere else and then it would cause hyperinflation, collapsing profit margins, and other problems

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      that is the usual liberal lie to justify wasteful entitlement spending. taking money from the most productive of the country and redistributing it to the least doesn't create prosperity and economic growth. Giving more money to the poor is a dead-end proposition. poor people use the money for essentials like food or recreation and cigarettes; they cannot invest, create technologies, etc

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers and the Economy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Sorry, nowhere in the constitution is a 'livable wage' assured

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      We're becoming a nation of crybabies seeking crisis and recession to punish the 1%. The lib's shrill crisis for crisis and failure keep being ignored as stocks & bitcoins make new highs everyday. People are still getting richer than ever with stocks, web 2.0, bay area real estate, and speculation. A wealth creation boom on an unprecedented level. Interest rates are not going up. NO taper. Dow 20k soon.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Bitcoin Surges to $1,000 as Virtual Money Gains Wider Acceptance

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      loser

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      cry me a river

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      spoken like a sore loser that missed out

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      keep telling yourself that, pert. 2000 soon

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The libs like Krugman predicted the demise of bitcoin as far back as 2011. they should be ignored or ridiculed, like all their other failed predictions lol $2000 soon

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      I been telling folks to buy since $100

      People are still getting richer than ever with stocks, bitcoins, web 2.0, bay area real estate, and speculation. A wealth creation boom on an unprecedented level.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock Futures Little Changed as HP Advances on Sales

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The lib's shrill crisis for crisis and failure keep being ignored as stocks & bitcoins make new highs everyday. People are still getting richer than ever with stocks, web 2.0, bay area real estate, and speculation. A wealth creation boom on an unprecedented level.

  • Discussion on Howard Lindzon

    TipToe Through The Tulips…and Bitcoins Part 2…This Time I am Serious

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      are you gonna add a bitcoin ticker to stocktwits?

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    10 Wednesday Reads: Travel Day and Buffett Wannabes

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      We're in the greatest era of wealth creation in the history of human civilization. Bay Area Real estate, stock market, bitcoin, and web 2.0 valuations will keep going higher with no end in sight.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Fed Reveals New Concerns About Long-Term U.S. Slowdown

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      This is still the bush, paulson, bernanke bull market. thanks TARP and QE

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Slow growth, low inflation and perpetually low interest rates is the perfect recipe for higher stock prices. dow 20000 soon

      the rational part of your brain is keeping you poor. There are reasons for this huge rally that may not be obvious now but in retrospect will be. Been long stocks and bitcoins and making $ hand over first this year like taking candy from a baby. Bay Area Real estate, stock , bitcoin, and web 2.0 valuations will keep going higher with no end in sight.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why I Wouldn't See <em>12 Years a Slave</em> With a White Person

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      i appreciated this article because of the author's honesty even if he seems 'divisive'

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Hail to the Panderer-in-Chief

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the GOP needs to 'own' this economic and stock market boom instead of giving the libs an unearned victory. It's not a bubble.

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      but it doesn't bone well for his successor

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Reid the Rat

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      We're going to have more spending regardless of who is in power

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Save the Sequester

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      the debt binge is here to stay. sorry

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      People like me were part of the minority that predicted, correctly, that the economic impact of the sequester would be a drop in the bucket and that stocks would keep surging higher

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    What a Good Budget Deal Will Look Like

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      regardless of the outcome, stocks are guaranteed to go higher. buy any dips.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    The Government's Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      don't worry, it will never happen.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Hail to the Panderer-in-Chief

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      Obama's polls keep falling. His loss is the free market's gain

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      anyone see bitcoin lately? now above $1000. like the stock market, the libs said itwas a blubble and it keeps going up

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      agree. time to cut regulation, entitlements, and taxes.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Orders for U.S. Durable Goods Drop as Shutdown Hurts Confidence

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      stocks surging again, no one on wall st. cares about this

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Is Nasdaq 4,000 for Real This Time?

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      dow 20k soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Fall to Lowest in Two Months

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      better to have too few jobs created and more QE and fatter profits than too many jobs and higher inflation

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers and the Economy

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      The marketplace dictates the wage. Even minimum wage its too high in many instances which is why companies are trying to export or automate as much of it as possible.

      We're in an era of limitless prosperity for some and just getting by for most. The future will be like today, but even more extreme. So we can expect permanently high unemployment, high gas prices, extremely high tuition cost, super high stock market, record wealth inequality, etc. We will have higher Bay Area real estate prices, higher valuations for web 2.0 companies, more exports, more record profits & earnings, more technological progress.

      There will be very little civil unrest or strife despite rising inequality.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Banks Read Fed Minutes, Have a Little Freakout

    • Economics Institute • 3 months ago

      stocks keep going up, lib perts lol dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    High Hopes: The Marijuana Movement's 2014 Playbook

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      legalization will hurt everyone
      it will create a monopoly of growers, raise rices, reduce quality etc

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    From Super-Predators To 'The Knockout Game'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      what happened to your teeth? implants or did you find them on the sidewalk

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Food Stamp Costs Are Decreasing Without The GOP's Cuts

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The economy today is in much better financial shape even with more graduates competing for fewer jobs. And look at the current stock prices which tell you this industry could be a coiled spring once the global economy gets some more traction. My only suggestion would be to keep adding to your skillset by adding more math, statistics, and some programming courses. The kids behind you will all know how to code so be ready for them.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Thanking the Fed, Reservedly, for Investors' Bounty

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Thank you Bush, Bernanke, and Paulson for this unrelenting bull market and economic boom.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      spoken like a sore loser that missed out. If the huge gains in my trading account and gains in home equity counts as 'theft' and 'treason' then by all means give me more.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Black Friday Bear: Are Holiday Retail Forecasts Way Too High?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Every year the libs underestimate the strength of the consumer and every year they are wrong

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Here Is a Little Quiz for You/ Can You Distinguish Blue From Blue?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      slow news day blue

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Perhaps the Strangest Photo You'll Ever See and How It's Related to Turduckens

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      was this on 4chan or somrhitng

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'It Feels Like Education Malpractice'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The problem is were wasting tax dollars with mandatory schooling for those that occupy the lowest quintile in IQ. let them drop out. In other countries kids that lack the aptitude or motivation drop out early leaving more resources for everyone else, and hence better scores and better schools.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Start-Ups Trying to Kill the Credit Card

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This is paid pr, folks or the journalism version of Payola. Coin had a similar story on Wired and yahoo finance.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      i thought we were living in a post cash society. now a post plastic one? need to keep up

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Air, Trees, Water, and Murderous Animals - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Liberals are drawn to crisis/mayhem as a means of redistribution and retribution against the bourgeois class and they will do anything in their power to foment it, whether it's race wars, regulation, raising taxes, etc.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Art of the Comeback - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      these are great keep em coming

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The <i>American Idol</i> Electorate

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      they voted for a teleprompter reader, and a very poor one at that

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Behind <i>60 Minutes</i>’s Bungled Benghazi Report

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama's oversight on this alone is an impeachable offense.. It's too bad this didn't get even a fraction of the media attention as the shutdown. The problem is obama's corruption, lying & failing have become so pervasive the media & public is becoming numb to it.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin keeps going up..$960..been telling folks on NRO to buy since $100....i sure did

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Coin Wants to Fix the Way We Pay — But Is It Really Broken?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      given wired's terrible track record for predicting stuff, i would say this is going to be a success

  • Discussion on Wired: Opinion

    Once You Use Bitcoin You Can’t Go Back — And That Irreversibility Is Its Fatal Flaw

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin keeps going up everyday. When will the left learn that bitcoin is here to stay, like paypal? Whether it's criticizing tesla, facebook, bitcoins, or wall st. the libs are repulsed by success and drawn to failure.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The War on Human Nature

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left is still waging a war against prosperity and success. They want to spread the wealth form the most productive of society to the least.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion in U.S. Technology Sales

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      as if we don't spend enough money on education already?

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    This Is How You Lower Corporate Taxes

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      We need lower taxes, lower wages, and less regulation, says WSJ

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Even Subsidized Obamacare Plans Haven't Found Takers Yet

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama one big awful mistake (again)

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock Futures Little Changed Before Confidence Data

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stocks keep going up ,where's the crisis, libs? lol

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Why Are Women So 'Bitchy' to Each Other?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      hormones and lower aptitude on the high-end

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The War on Human Nature

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left is still living in the 19th century. they want a return of inefficient over-paying manufacturing jobs and protectionism. They seek a proletariat revolution that will never come.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The President Who No Longer Feels Your Pain

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Aloof teleprompter reader in chief. He's always shooting hoops, golfing, deferring to his press sec., or on vacation .

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Qi Bono?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Phony conservative Kevin Williamson in agreement with the left endorses evolution being taught in schools. no shocker there

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The <i>American Idol</i> Electorate

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama's presidency has only divided the nation - even more so than Bush and Clinton. Whether it's obamacare the NSA, syria, the shutdown he has succeeded in uniting both parties in opposition to him.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stocks and bitcoin keep going up with no end in sight. Up 400% on my S&P 500 Options. this is still the bush bull market

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Hunting the Domestic Polar Bear - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      and some 4.5'' exit holes

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Death of <i>Star Wars</i>

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      hmmm.. i think i stumbled on the wrong website. i thought this was national review instead of film review

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Front Man

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Liberalism is the problem instead of big government; the government did help keep America safe after 911 and other programs like TARP, QE, and tax cuts have been hugely effective. What we need is pro growth policy from Washington in the form of increased tax cuts & defense, and less regulation by repealing doddfrank, obamacare and volker rule

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Youth Unemployment Crisis Might Not Be a Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Everything is a crisis for members of a certain political party

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Katy Perry's 'Geisha-Style' Performance Needs to Be Called Out

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stuff white people like: being easily offended

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Real Reason Music's Gotten So Loud

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      lol

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the article is about the production instead of the instruments

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Republicans—Yes, Republicans—Are Joining the Battle Against Big Money Politics

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      hmm obammi spent over $1 billion on his campaigns. where was the outrage then?

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    In Iran, Obama Achieves 50 Percent of His Goals

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama's weakness on terror showing again

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    What If Rich People Got More Votes?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Voting should be limited to those who aren't recipients of any welfare program with the exception of veterans.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      there was an overblown crisis that the libs exacerbated to get Obama elected

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left wants America to be less competitive by raising wages and bringing manufacturing back to America. We need more productivity and lower wages.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    10 Monday Reads: Fear Bubbles and Gas Gushers 

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The libs say everything is a bubble. dow 20,000 soon

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    Why Bitcoin Will One Day Take Over the World

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left have been making these seem tired arguments against bitcoin since 2011 and they still keep being wrong.

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    Why Bitcoin Will Never Expire

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      $2000 soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Life Without Antibiotics Would Be Nasty, Brutish and Much Shorter

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the libs want healthcare rationing

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Hungry Americans Less Productive as Budget Cuts Deepen: Economy

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      housing prices keep going up where i live #norecession

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      another lib seeking crisis and collapse as a marxist catalyst for wealth restribution

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      cry me a river

      This is good news. It's an established fact that workers are more productive during period of high unemployment for fear of being fired. We're becoming a nation of crybabies seeking crisis and failure under every stone

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Make Bad Decisions

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      a lot more expensive as well.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    No Renaissance for U.S. Factory Workers as Pay Stagnates

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the libs want another recession & market crash like 1929, 1987, 1973, 2001,2008 so the 1% lose money. Not gonna happen. dow 20000 soon

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Knockouts High and Low

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      part of obama's culture of corruption

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Stuck in the Past - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      lol

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      "One, the right needs to get over gay marriage. Rush Limbaugh admits that battle has been lost and even Bill O’Reilly says gay-marriage proponents have a good argument. Let’s let it go. "

      That's the problem. We cannot give up on the culture wars because then we embark on a slippery slope of depravity and where do we draw the line? If gay marriage is acceptable is bestiality next? So no, let's not let it go.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Taki's Magazine -

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      mcamnesty and America is finished

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Make Bad Decisions

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      in america poverty is becoming the national pastime

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Legacy of John F. Kennedy

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bush's hair turned grey; clinton's turned from grey to white

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    ?What Happened to Immigration Reform?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Yea one can argue it's not fair how immigrants get the same services for free that American citizens pay out of their taxes for. Since immigrants have no assets they don;t have to pay for anything, have legal immunity, and any money they do make get sent back to Mexico to the tune of $50+ billion a year.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea even on New York ties - a bastion of liberalism - there is a lot of opposition to immigration reform

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      follow the money out of the hands of workers into the the pockets of the eite

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Even paul Krugman is tacitly opposed to more immigration because he has never endorsed it.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The problem is wages are still too high, says the Wall St. Journal and Cato Institute. Immigration could help the economy by lowering wages, improving productivity, and increasing consumption & home ownership.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What It's Like to Be a Middle-Aged College Student

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the problem with mnemonics is you have to remember the mnemonic

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    <em>Catching Fire</em>: A Leaner, Hungrier <em>Hunger Games</em>

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      i thought Elysium was political or at least every blogger and pundit tried to politicize it

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    The Worst Investment Advice I've Heard All Week

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      If a stock falls 50% you have to have a 100% gain to break even. those type of swings are common with small caps so your average return is lower even if your expected return is higher.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      that is not true because small caps are exposed to idiosyncratic risk and are very volatile meaning that it's easy to get whipsawed

      large cap companies with wide moats are a better investment with much less volatility even if the returns are slightly smaller. A better risk/reward or sharpe ratio

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    Sudden Progress on Prime Number Problem Has Mathematicians Buzzing

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      wish i thought of it

      i'm sure terrance tao sure does

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Bitcoin Goes Pro - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      there is a marketplace ..anyone with coins can convert them into cold hard fiat

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin going to $2000 soon, perts

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea. just sell them for $ on an exchange like mtgox or bitstamp or coinbase

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Bipartisan Branding Problem

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      that's why the GOP needs to follow the Reagan and G. W. Bush playbook of endorsing tax cuts

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    The JPMorgan Settlement Isn't Justice

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      wah wah cry me a river

      the libs are the party of wealth spreading, recession, crisis, failure, regression etc

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Bitcoin Goes Pro - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      libs, keep bashing bitcoin. u guys no different than arch liberal paul krugman.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin has surged 300% since you last bashed it on taki a few weeks ago. since you have no skin in the game you can keep calling it a bubble with impunity in the tiny possibility you will be vindicated. meanwhile, bitcoin will keep going up and folks like myself will keep making $.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Bipartisan Branding Problem

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The GOP doesn't have branding problem. the libs will continue to self destruct over obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the libs are the party of wealth spreading, recession, crisis, failure, regression etc

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      GWB was at least as good of a president as Reagan, maybe even better. The problem is the media tends judge our leaders not on their demonstrable competence and efficacy of policy but by some amorphous narrative based on underlying biases and misunderstandings of the facts.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The moral of the story is partisan politics is a waste of time. Economics is the only reality. buy bitcoins & stocks and make money.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    You Can Now Pay Your University Tuition In Bitcoin

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      what a waste of bitcoins

  • Discussion on Wired: Design

    These Anti-Google T-Shirts Just Make Microsoft Look Pathetic

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      at least microsoft doesn;t make you verify your phone for every s.h1ty little thing

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Americans Recover Home Equity at Record Pace: Mortgages

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Housing prices going gangbusters in the Silicon Valley but not a bubble.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Did the Recession Make You Stupid?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      It helped turn us into a nation of crybabies seeking crisis, regulation and wealth restitution as retribution against the rich and breathing life into useless conspiracy theories about the fed.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Advance Before Jobless Report

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      another huge day for stocks & bitcoin. Dow >16000 ..here comes 17,000

      It’s like the crisis of 2007-09 was just a blip in a relentless progression of technology, innovation ,wealth creation, and prosperity. If you told people five years ago that the dow would cross 16000 they would think you were nuts; even 14000 would elicit an awkward response, and yet here we are today. We can thanks Bernanke, congress, bond holders, and the tireless, ever-reliable US consumer for getting us there.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Musk Claim of Fewer Tesla Fires Questioned in MIT Report

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The pro-union left is sure desperate to defame the capitalist success story, tesla. All of this is being blown way out pf proportion. Three fires versus 160,000 fires a year for internal combustion automobiles.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Uh Oh: Boeing's Huge Cargo Plane Lands at Tiny Airport by Mistake

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      oh snap. wrong airport

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Why Small Business Is Divided Over Hiking the Minimum Wage

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The problem is wages aren't low enough, says the Wall st. Journal. We need to make America more competitive by increasing productivity and lowering wages.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Minimum-Wage Myths

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The problem is wages arent low enougih, says Wall st Journal

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Don't Give Up on the Lecture

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      From my own experience the problem with lectures are the redundant and off-topic questions.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Fidel Castro: 'Oswald Could Not Have Been the One Who Killed Kennedy'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      no such thing as a literal communist

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Bitcoin Is the Segway of Currency

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      seems like just another leftist like Krugan basing bitcoin because they missed the rally. $2000 soon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How John Kerry Could End Up Outdoing Hillary Clinton

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Progressives, including women, would probably prefer Kerry in 2016 over Clinton, that's for sure

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 'Flickering, Fragile Flame' of Richard Pryor

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      David Henry: Well, Richard had a meltdown. He was up on stage, saw Dean Martin sitting down front, and looked at the rest of the audience, which was white. He said he realized that his grandmother wouldn’t be welcome in that room. He told Paul Mooney, “It hit me that all those motherfuckers out there wouldn’t make room for Mama if you put a gun to their heads.” Richard said that the only way he could enter that room was through a stage door or the kitchen.

      maybe the audience was all white because they happened to have bought tickets? it has nothing to do with underlying racism. It's not fair for him to make such a presumption

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The GOP's Cruel Crusade Against Food Stamps

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      where in the constitution does the govt. give you free food?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      A good compromise is to make food stamps only applicable to healthy food. No sodas or candy. It would be better to eliminate them entirely but it's relatively a small price to pay to prevent millions from going hungry and possibly revolting. or maybe employers could pay better wages and increase hiring, but that's too much to ask for because it would hurt profits.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the problem is tax payers down the road will be subsiding his dental care when his teeth are filled with cavities and later his insulin when he gets diabetes

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    JFK's Deeply Perceptive Harvard Application Essay

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      or maybe his dad was Joe Kennedy lol

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare-Speak

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama's polls still in free fall, WSJ

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      register your account

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama felt more sympathy for the thug treyvon than the Benghazi deaths and did everything possible to cover up the later and pour salt in the former.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin rallying again this morning The libs have been predicting the demise of the US consumer for years and they keep being wrong. the left wants housing prices to fall so that the 1% lose money. its' just another form of redistribution-ism like raising taxes, raising interest rates, or regulation.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    They're Watching You at Work

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      In recent years companies have become obsessed with productivity and profits to a fault and will look for any excuse to get rid of employees that aren't putting in 101%

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Five Senate Republicans Back Yellen for U.S. Fed

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      QE was a huge success. let's hope it will continue

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    'Little Box' Stores Vie for Black Friday Shoppers

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The libs have been predicting the demise of the US consumer for years and they keep being wrong. the left wants housing prices to fall so that the 1% lose money. its' just another form of redistribution-ism like raising taxes, raising interest rates, or regulation.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Claims for Jobless Benefits in U.S. Fall More Than Forecast

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      It's better to have more jobless claims than too much job creation. the left wants housing prices to fall so that the 1% lose money. its' just another form of redistribution-ism like raising taxes, raising interest rates, or regulation.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Americans Recover Home Equity at Record Pace: Mortgages

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the left wants housing prices to fall so that the 1% lose money. its' just another form of redistribution-ism like raising taxes, raising interest rates, or regulation.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Advance Before Jobless Report

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      dow 17000.where's the crisis, libs?

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Wal-Mart Is Having a Very Bad Week

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      If Obama's polls keep falling fannie and fredie mac stock will surge on the possibility the dems will lose the exec branch and the new republican president will relinquish the conservatorship

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    The Rise of the Rob Ford Idiocy-Industrial Complex

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      another republican hypocrite

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Fidel Castro: 'Oswald Could Not Have Been the One Who Killed Kennedy'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      patton oswald

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Just another article trying to fan the flames of class warfare. The elite create economic value through their creations, consumer spending, technological advances, etc. Years ago, economic value was created by going to work and creating a business; nowadays, it's mostly through investment in things like stocks & real estate, harnessing network effects (snapchat, web 2.0, dropbox), and consumption. Maybe individuals contribute more to the economy as reflected by higher valuations and profits & earnings through passive consumption such as using snapchat, posting on facebook, downloading from netflix,etc than going to an overpaid job that could be outsourced or automated

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Fed Taper Likely in ‘Coming Months’ on Better Data

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Didn't the fed intimate at tapering 6 months ago and the media and blogs jumped on the bandwagon, only to have the red renounce tapering in September? This is no different. I was right 6 months ago that there would be no taper

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Are Little Changed Before Fed

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      face it libs, the fed is never gonna taper. dow 20000 soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Fed Taper Likely in ‘Coming Months’ on Better Data

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      high unemployment,massive productivity & consumer spending , and perpetual QE is a recipie for a long bull market

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Are Immigrants Being Deported for Minor Crimes?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      how do you know I live in America?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      still the 3rd most populous country in the word and more population than all of the EU. I mentioned public resources, not natural resources or living area.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      America has already exceeded carrying capacity. we don;t need more people with already stretched public resources.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Florida Congressman Arrested on Cocaine Charges

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      rob ford..another Republican pill popper and his twin Rush Limbaugh

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      family values

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Centenarian Has Spent Her Whole Life 'Leaning In'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      watch rachael maddow? i'd rather be dead

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What the Brosurance and Creepy Uncle Sam Ads Don't Get About Millennials

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea..hardly 'invincible'
      ultimately, someone has to pay the bill

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Lady Gaga's $25 Million Art Machine Can't Buy a Real Hit

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      no one can move albums like eminem

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    This Market Is Going Higher, Warns Jeremy Grantham

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      dow 20000 soon

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Jarrett File

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      looks like Joe Wilson was right all along about obama being a liar

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Oprah, Obama, and the Racism Dodge

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) should not have shouted “You lie!” (whether or not it was a lie) at the president during his health-care address to Congress.

      why..the truth hurts.

  • Discussion on Wired: Autopia

    Tesla Tweaks The Model S Wirelessly As Feds Investigate Battery Fires

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left is defaming tesla to prop up the inferior domestic union labor cars

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Black Folks Tend To Shout

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The author is using this story as retroa 'evidence' that GZ's temper resulted in the murder of treyvon. But the courts already settled that matter. The best approach is to move on. I'm not saying GZ is innocent but it's water under the bridge now

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Tipping Is a Disgrace, but Where Did it Come From?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Go to Walmart. cheap food and no tipping.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The problem is you're paying people extra to do the job they are originally supposed to do. That costs the customer more money for food that is usually overpriced to begin with. A better solution is for the restaurant to lower prices or pay employees a regular wage.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    Is the Only Choice Bubbles or Recession?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      How how about a Goldilocks economy of neither bubble or recession?

      Kurgman keeps repeating the same tired argument about how the economy is weak due to high unemployment and weak consumer spending when the empirical evidence suggests that consumer spending has thrived or decoupled despite a weak labor market. Look at stocks like Chipotle, Netflix, Google, and the S&P 500 retail spider- the last of which has surged 300% since 2009. Foreign consumers and the top 20% are compensating for any weakness in the lower & middle class, in accordance to the Pareto Principe. Krugman is proposing solutions that soak the rich for non-existent problems.

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    Toronto Mayor Stripped of Power Vows to Run Again

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      another republican hypocrite lol
      i

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    10 Tuesday Reads: MF Global's Missing Millions

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stocks keep going up

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      It seems to be only republican tweeters doing this. Democrats, to their credit, still try to type things out completely.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      next time you try to correct someone else's grammar don't make grammatical mistakes or your own lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Universal Healthcare Doesn't Mean Waiting Longer to See a Doctor

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      also survival rates for major diseases such as cancer are lower outside of he USA

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The War Against Achievement

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Liberalism is predicated on the Marxian beleif that crisis should be used to channel power from the elite to the proletariat. They succeeded in in the 30's but fortunately largely failed in 2008. Now the left, including the libs on zero hedge want another crisis so that the 1% lose money.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama Loses His Cool

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      never col to begin with

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Noble Lies

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      'Very, Very Angry' Piers Morgan Rips Obama's Lies; Calls ObamaCare Rollout 'Unmitigated Disaster'
      Liz Cheney rips Obama on health care, says he 'lied'
      Lies, Damn Lies and ObamaCare
      Now dropbox is worth 8 billion and snap chat 4 billion but still not a bubble. the libs also said facebook was a bubble at $15 billion in 2007. they were wrong then, too.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Dropbox Seeks Another $250 million and $8 billion valuation

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the libs also said facebook was a bubble at $15 billion in 2007. they were wrong then, too.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    TV Since JFK - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I wonder if Jim Goad has a tv?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s ‘5 Percent’ Con Job

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      obama's failure is America's victory in 2016

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin $730 .ask me how much i made lol

      where's the crash, libs? lol $1000 soon. Peter Schiff, another lib, thinks bitcoin is a bubble in agreement with Paul Krugman

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Why Rob Ford Happened

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      another GOP hypocrite ..like the pill popper rush

  • Discussion on Bloomberg

    U.S. Stock-Index Futures Are Little Changed

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      libs want crisis and yet stocks keep going up lol

  • Discussion on Wired: Threat Level

    Slow and Steady: How the Feds Closed in on Silk Road

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin keeps going up..where's the crash, libs? lol $1000 soon. Peter Schiff, another lib, thinks bitcoin is a bubble in agreement with Paul Krugman

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Dropbox Buys Supercomputing Startup — and That Makes Perfect Sense

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      dropbox now worth 8 billion, says experts. not a bubble

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Case Against Cars in 1 Utterly Entrancing GIF

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      driving less? no kidding. gas & insurance costs have skyrocketed even as wages & employment flat-lined

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    There Really Are Two Americas: Republistan and Democravia

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Kurgman keeps repeating the same tired argument about how the economy is weak due to high unemployment and weak consumer spending when the empirical evidence suggests that consumer spending has thrived or decoupled despite a weak labor market. Look at stocks like Chipotle, Netflix, Google, and the S&P 500 retail spider- the last of which has surged 300% since 2009. Foreign consumers and the top 20% are compensating for any weakness in the lower & middle class, in accordance to the Pareto Principe. Krugman is proposing solutions that soak the rich for non-existent problems.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      adjusted for inflation

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      What an incredible time we're living in. Whether it's bitcoins, stocks, web 2.0 (snapchart, instagram etc), speculation, or Bay Area real estate it seems people are getting richer than ever, very quickly and with relatively little work or effort.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Liz Cheney Became the Black Sheep of the Family

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      blame congress. they voted on it

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Did Fetal Pain Become Pro-Life Doctrine?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      next its gonna be embryo pain then sperm pain

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Fed in the Age of Yellen

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This caricature of an elderly person living entirely off her dwindling savings isn't real. Either she would have higher yielding investments though a financial adviser or live off social security.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Fed in the Age of Yellen

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      He is referring to the bond inflation which is stubbornly low. I agree that the benchmark of inflation excludes of the very items that are inflating the most.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Seldom is there an elderly person that subsides entirely off compounded interest. Either they have stocks or bonds or live off social security. Rising real estate prices benefits everyone through the wealth effect and increased consumer spending.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      umm but $500 dollars can buy me a computer with 5000x times the computing power of a $5000 computer 2 decades ago

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin and stocks surging again this morning. Still no crisis. No recession. Despite all the whining from blogs, QE, TARP, and zero percent interest rates have been a success, indirectly creating trillions of dollars wealth through rising stock & real estate prices. Profits & earnings, exports, and productivity keep being blowout. Inflation is perpetually low. We don;t need to end the fed; instead, we need more tax cuts for the most productive members of society, such as the rich ,deregulation, and entitlement reform. Liberals like Nicolas Nassim Taleb, Peter Schiff, Ted Cruz, etc want to end the fed which will result in the destruction of trillions of dollars of wealth through market crashes and recession.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s ‘5 Percent’ Con Job

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      john Roberts..let's not forget him

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      If I like your plan you can keep it ..that sums it up perfectly

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      -

      Bitcoin and stocks surging again this morning. Still no crisis. No recession. Despite all the whining from blogs, QE, TARP, and zero percent interest rates have been a success, indirectly creating trillions of dollars wealth through rising stock & real estate prices. Profits & earnings, exports, and productivity keep being blowout. Inflation is perpetually low. We don;t need to end the fed; instead, we need more tax cuts for the most productive members of society, such as the rich ,deregulation, and entitlement reform. Liberals like Nicolas Nassim Taleb, Peter Schiff, Ted Cruz, etc want to end the fed which will result in the destruction of trillions of dollars of wealth through market crashes and recession. Why should we heed the advice of those that want failure? The GOP needs to return to the time tested formula of optimism and growth that worked for Bush, Reagan and Nixon instead of becoming the 'we are all doomed' party.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Thus Spake Obama

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      At least obama secured his legacy as the worst president ever (even for future presidents)

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      wow bitcoin now >$500 ..up 300% since i mentioned it here
      with the market making news highs everyday, up 400% on my S&P 500 calls on my forecast the govt. shutdown wouldn't hurt the economy and that the USA wouldn't default.

      The libs want wealth redistribution yet everywhere you look whether it's on the stock market, bitcoin, web 2.0, Silicon Valley real estate, etc ppl are getting richer than ever. viva la capitalism! Even with a terrible president we're still in the best of times

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Elizabeth Warren: Not Ready for Presidential Prime Time

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The nominees are always centrists aligned with big $ interests; otherwise they don't get much media coverage, delegates, and certainly not the nomination. That includes her. sorry. So it will be Christie vs HIlary

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Lectures Didn't Work in 1350—And They Still Don't Work Today

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The problem boils down to compulsory schooling. A century ago kids that either didn't excel school could drop out early make a living doing manual work.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Batkid: A Heartwarming, Very 2013 Story

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Will make a wish grant an airline hijacking redition? maybe they can close SFO for a day

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      nice to see tax dollars being put to good use

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Thus Spake Obama

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Even Alec baldwin isn't safe from obama's brownshirts

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the good news is foodstamps are being cut but its not enough

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      cry me a river. just more blaming the 1% for your perceived injustices

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      sounds like class warfare rhetoric from the left

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      People are getting richer than ever, says WSJ. Average Is Over—But the American Dream Lives On, much to the discontent of the left who want wealth spreading and recession.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Like the stock market, the left has been been predicting a bubble or crisis in bitcoin for years and they keep being wrong. Bitcoin is going to $1000, Dow going to 20,000

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    Feds Reveal What They Really Think About Bitcoin

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Like the stock market, the left has been been predicting a bubble or crisis in bitcoin for years and they keep being wrong. Bitcoin is going to $1000, Dow going to 20,000

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Apple Cores Are a Myth

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      how about eating cardboard box? why just eat the cereal?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      we can save another $30 billion eating the entire banana and orange (including the skin)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    More Bad News About Student Loans From the Fed

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      They stopped paying because they realized they got scammed into a getting an overpriced liberal arts degree and without any viable job prospects they have turned the tables on the creditors, and without debtors prisons it's not like the loan companies can do anything.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Most Americans Hate Partisan Politics

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      since when did reporting the failings of Obamacare and Obama's baldfaced lie over keeping your plan becomes partisan? It's not a partisan issue- it's reality. If you go on sites like slate or even the comments of Atlantic, liberals are expressing frustration over Obamacare.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      . The only people that want more regulation are doom & gloomers that will benefit such as Schiff and Nicolas Nasism Taleb , and Bill Gross or liberals that view economic failure as a repudiation against capitalism and wealth inequality.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The failure of obamacare is bittersweet revenge for the shutdown . Obama thought it would be smooth sailing, but the Obamcare mess makes the shutdown seem like child's play in comparison. Its a malignancy that is of Obama's own creation and it cannot be undone

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    10 Friday Reads: Google Goes Solar

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      dow 16k here we come

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    TSA Spent $878 Million on Screening Program That Probably Doesn't Work

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      no kidding it didn't work. that what ppl were saying years ago

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    John McCain Thinks John Kerry Is a 'Human Wrecking Ball'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      mccain : we need more countries to bomb

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why Liberals Are Panicking

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The GOP can;t derail obamacare because it was doomed to fail from inception. that's what the tea party was warning everyone about in 2009-2013

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Clickbait Crusaders: Upworthy's Viral Factory

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      typical success-hating leftist irrationality

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Cancel Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The libs want crisis and failure and it refuses to happen because our economy is fundamentally sound. stocks and bitcoin still keep going up. ppl getting richer than ever.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why Liberals Are Panicking

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin and stocks surging this morning . obama's failure is a win for free market capitalism

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama in the Dark

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Keep Spying on Foreigners, NSA

      They have no right to privacy from U.S. surveillance—and they shouldn’t.

      The United States is richer than other nations and has invested more in espionage, and the U.S. government also benefits in this arena from its influence over American Internet companies because of its regulatory authority over them. As long as we retain these advantages, we will usually gain more from spying on other countries than we lose from being spied upon, and so we do not profit from a deal in which all sides refrain

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Parents Yank Their Kids Out of Standardized Tests

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      well at least it's informative. thank you

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      umm... if you don;t teach kids the basics such as reading & math how can they make use of these resources?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Parents can't take the harsh reality that without grade inflation his/her kid is kinda dull

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Alan Greenspan Tells Us What We Should Be Worrying About

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      from greenspan nothing to see here. move along

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Yes, It's Weird That Airbnb-ers Are Willing to Trust Total Strangers

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the left is up in arms over air bnb because they want higher wages and ownership of the means of production. Air BNB fills a useful niche

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    All Bullies Are Narcissists

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bu no one looks at it from the bully's perspective. maybe the bully feels like the victim?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Maybe It's Time for Lady Gaga to Disappear

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      of maybe she should vanish because , most importantly, her music sucks

  • Discussion on Politico

    The Robots Are Here

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      i wonder why this has no comments yet?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Bill Clinton Is Wrong: It's Okay That Some People Can't Keep Their Insurance

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This is why bill Clinton is and was a great politician . He is uncompromising and isn't beholden to any particular ideology. He says what he means, and is right most times than not. He was right to criticize Obama about being unqualified in 2007, about raising taxes in 2012 and now about Obamacare.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will Republicans Save Obamacare?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I'm afraid the only way to fix obamacare is to defund it completely. it's just not ready for prime time

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare Schadenfreudarama

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This is Goldberg's most important article yet. well said

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin going up again...can;t keep a good thing down
      Obamacare & Obama bin laden crashing and burning

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      there's chatter that Obama's lying about obamacare could be grounds for impeachment .

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Jumping Off the Global Tiger’s Back

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      his articles are like a collage of sound bytes and fortune cookie messages mixed together into something that barely passes as useful or coherent

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      After five years of near-record budget deficits, we are struggling with the highest level of national debt as a percentage of GDP since the immediate postwar period. That dismal fact is known to both allies and enemies who expect the U.S. military to limp homeward.

      wrong again, pert. Your ignorance about economics is showing. The debt isn't a big deal and doesn't weaken our economic and military resolve. Keep in mind we're paying less in interest on the debt than in the 90's.

      The left wants to believe in the comforting, but incorrect Marxist narrative that America's economic & political influence has been slighted by the financial crisis in 2008; actually, the opposite has happened American eceptionalism is not only unassailable, we're running victory laps around the rest of the world in terms of economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation. Stocks, profits & earnings, web 2.0 valuations, bitcoin, and Bay Area real estate will keep going up with no end in sight.

  • Discussion on CNBC

    Bitcoin is tulip mania 2.0—not gold 2.0: Schiff

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      it's bitcoin , not bit coin
      learn how to spell it ,pert before you criticize it

  • Discussion on Wired: Autopia

    Elon Musk’s Next Big Thing: Electric Pickup Trucks and Supersonic Jets

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea he's nuts

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    Why You Aren’t as Creative as You Like to Think

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      why u mad bro

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Starbucks' $2.7 Billion Decision to 'Control Its Own Destiny'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      keep buying stocks on all the dips . dow 17k soon

  • Discussion on Bloomberg View

    How McDonald's and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      so you're denying black people use welfare?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      We've become a nation of crybabies seeking crisis & recession and blaming Washington and the fed for our problems, as evidenced by the comments in this article. Whining about the economy is the new national pastime. It's time to reign in entitlement spending but not raise wages.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Corporate welfare is better than regular welfare. Corporations have shown to be better at managing money and creating value than welfare moms. if wages rise too much then it hurts profits and companies respond by raising prices, which hurts everyone.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama deserves exactly 0% credit for the rip roaring bull market. This is still the Bush economic & stock market boom thanks to TARP and Bernanke. Thank the US consumer for tirelessly spending when the leftist media and doom and gloom blogs said they were, incorrectly, 'maxed out' due to stagnant wages, etc. Thank the Bush tax cuts for giving the economy a tailwind in 2009 and beyond. Thank Bernanke for being the first out of all the central bankers to begin cutting rates in 2007. Thank foreigners buying our currency for keeping rates perpetually low and for buying homes to buoy the real estate market in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Thank web 2.0 and free market capitalism for creating companies like snapchat , tesla, twitter, facebook that brought us many wonderful innovations. Thank congress for not doing too much, but just enough to pass TARP and keep the free market humming with as little disruption and regulation as possible.

  • Discussion on Businessweek.com

    Yahoo's Latest HR Disaster: Ranking Workers on a Curve

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      cry me a river. we need more productivity and less whining

  • Discussion on CNBC

    Look Ahead: Could Fed's Yellen sound like a hawk?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      not gonna be a correction. sorry

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    106,000 Enrolled in Obamacare, 27,000 through Healthcare.gov

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      It's all over the news: Obamacare is a disaster

      First Take: Obamacare data are simply grim
      USA TODAY
      17 minutes agoWritten byAamer Madhani
      WASHINGTON - The White House set low expectations for early Obamacare enrollment numbers, but the cold hard data offer perhaps the grimmest picture yet of what President Obama faces as he tries to breathe life into his troubled health care law.
      Obama admin. posts low health care signupsSan Francisco Chronicle
      Obamacare numbers are finally out, and they're low. Time to panic?Christian Science Monitor - byLinda Feldmann
      Featured:ObamaCare Enrollment Far Below Government ForecastsInvestor's Business Daily
      Opinion:Sharing the cost for the mother of all health-care servicesWashington Post
      In Depth:Health Law Enrollment Figures Far Lower Than Initial EstimatesNew York Times - bySusanne Craig

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Elizabeth Warren Slams Regulators for Keeping Banks "Too Big to Fail"

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama deserves exactly 0% credit for the bull market. This is still the Bush economic & stock market boom thanks to TARP, the Bush tax cuts, and Bernanke. Thank the US consumer for tirelessly spending when the leftist media and doom and gloom blogs said they were, incorrectly, 'maxed out' due to stagnant wages, etc. Thank foreigners buying our currency for keeping rates perpetually low and for buying homes to buoy the real estate market in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Thank web 2.0 and free market capitalism for creating companies like snapchat , tesla, twitter, facebook that brought us many wonderful innovations. Thank congress for not doing too much, but just enough to pass TARP and keep the free market humming with as little disruption and regulation as possible.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    106,000 Enrolled in Obamacare, 27,000 through Healthcare.gov

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      obama - one big awful mistake (again)

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Will Democrats and Tea Partiers Derail Obama's Secret Trade Deal?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      cry me a sea of tears

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Failure of Failures

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      make an a@s in out of himself with foreign leaders..check

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stocks and bitcoins..those things keep going up
      this is the Bush bull market., thanks to TARP and Bernanke

      Obama's polls keep falling

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Uber's Taxi App is Changing Cities

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      that's internet journalism for ya

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      these jobs create economic value in contrast to overpaid traditional jobs. Even uploading pictures to facebook creates value. Average is over. Companies are cutting slack and fattening profits.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The McRib: Enjoy Your Symptom

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      mc donalds is a ripoff anyway. you're paying $5-7 for a few onces the absolute worst quality of meat

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      not when i'm paying $5 for it plus taxes
      if i want animal innards i'll go to a chinese foodmarket

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Are Gas Prices Falling?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      don't worry. the speculators will bid that s .h it up in a hurry and then blame the usual suspects like Iran/Syria, weather, etc

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Failure of Failures

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      unemployment isn't the problem. it's excess entitlement spending

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Anyone see bitcoin lately? wow look at it go

      No democrats want to wear the scarlet letter of Obamcare in 2014 & 2016. We should be fortunate to have Chris Christie running since he has the best chance of beating clinton

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Richard Cohen's 10 Worst Moments, Counted Down

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Wolf BLitzer's twin?

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Will Democrats and Tea Partiers Derail Obama's Secret Trade Deal?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      democrats opposing free trade? what a shocker

      bitcoin keeps going up. i bet it makes the left green with envy lol

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    In Two Charts: Why Hillary (and Bill) Clinton Damn Well Better Hope Obamacare Succeeds

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      "better hope"

      sorry but it won't. Now most democrats want to distance themselves from the disaster. Obama can take comfort knowing he has lucrative career giving speeches while millions of Americans lose their insurance

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Meet the Former Punk Rocker Who Can Liberate Your FBI File

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      burning laboratories and slaughterhouses for example

  • Discussion on Wired: Design

    A Foolproof Solution For Saving the Earth: Shrink All Humans

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      no, it's physics

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Bill Gates and Bill Clinton Revolutionized Philanthropy. Now They Talk About What’s Next

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left wants to believe in the comforting, but incorrect Marxist narrative that America's economic & political influence has been slighted by the financial crisis in 2008; actually, the opposite has happened American eceptionalism is not only unassailable, we're pulling further away form the rest of the world in terms of economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation. Stocks, profits & earnings, web 2.0 valuations, bitcoin, and Bay Area real estate will keep going up with no end in sight.

  • Discussion on Critical-Theory

    NFL Player Quits Because, You Know, Noam Chomsky

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      why not continue the contract and then use the $1 million to retire early . now he'll have to find a regular job which means less time to read

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    23 Petty Crimes That Have Landed People in Prison for Life Without Parole

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      they can buy enough shares to takeover the board and then improve conditions by putting in a golf course, cuisine, etc

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    23 Petty Crimes That Have Landed People in Prison for Life Without Parole

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Come to think of it, i better return that wrench i borrowed.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      not always so. Between March 1–June 18 of 2008 alone: 406 people were arrested for mortgage fraud in an FBI sting across the U.S., including buyers, sellers and others across the wide-ranging mortgage industry

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    New Movie, Same Old Skin Game - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      "if I had a son he'd look like Treyvon" Or in other words, if I had a son he would be a thug. I concur.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Counterfeit Confederate - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      arabs run hollywood lol

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Tea Party Must Learn from Mistakes

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Thomas sowell's condescension from the peanut gallery of his ivory tower while everyone else is in the trenches is off-putting .

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The tea party to its credit knew Obamacare would be a dissaster and did everything in its power to stop it; and lo and behold it was

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      He's wrong about a lot of things like race & intelligence testing, minimum wage, tea party, govt shutdown
      He advocates a right of center stance on a lot of issues which makes him indistinguishable from a typical RINO

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    A Deal With Iran—or War With Iran? - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      anyone see bitcoin lately? it's going stratospheric. made so much $ with it. the left wants crisis but just not happening. The debt binge is here to stay which is bullish for bitcoin and stocks.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Lying about Lies

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin going nuts today. if you bought bitcoin when i first recommended it here you would have tripled your money

      On slate, twitter, & salon, for example, there are many stories about Obama's key voting bloc losing their existing plan or being unable to sign up.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Watch Out, Your Character Is Showing

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left up in arms over social networking privacy because they tend to be amoral and are afraid the public will find out about their depravity and decadence.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Failure of Failures

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Chris Christie will sweep 2016 given the disaster of Obamacare
      the democrats will have to distance themselves from it

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin keeps going up..ask me how much $ I made lol
      This is the American dream .. to get rich quickly with little effort. The left wants to spread the wealth while people are getting richer than ever with web 2.0, stocks, bay area real estate, etc. The ownership society is thriving.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Is Childcare Getting So Expensive?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      For the same reason airfare is so expensive: there are no alternatives. Just like you cannot drive 5000 miles to a business trip, you cannot bring your kid to work.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    XKCD Is An Amazing Thing. Its Latest Comic Is Wrong.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea but Carlin is funny. XKCD comics make you scratch your head and then click the back button

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Yet Another Partial Transcript From Darrell Issa

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      On slate, twitter, & salon, for example, there are many stories about Obama's key voting bloc losing their existing plan or being unable to sign up. So what some call trolling is reality.

  • Discussion on CNBC

    Bitcoin is tulip mania 2.0—not gold 2.0: Schiff

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Peter schiff a liberal that wants the fed to prematurely raise rates so people lose money

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea especially his predictions about a bear market (didn't happen) hyperinflation (didn't happen) foreign currencies would outperform the US dollar (the opposite has happened). We are so fortune to have him show us the light

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      given shiff's track record , buy with both hands. this guy is worse than a broken clock

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Stereotypes About Math That Hold Americans Back

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the failure rate is so high because students in the < 60% IQ/SAT percentile are going to college where in the past college was usually only for the best and brightest.So you end up with a lot of dull students filling the ranks, taking on debt, etc. It great for the college because more $ for them, but bad for the student who takes on debt and bad for the other students because resources are wasted on individuals lacking the intellectual capacity to benefit from higher education.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Gates Essay

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      'how you can help'

      buy Windows, obviously lol

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Truth about the 1 Percent

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the world is getting smarter and richer at a frenzied pace. now is the time to teach yourself or your kids to code, or at least learn how to write about people who code, or be left behind. Blaming the 1% for your problems won't get you anywhere

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Stereotypes About Math That Hold Americans Back

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      so PHD students are not really qualified? How would they pass the qualifying exams? Also, if the exam is a couple hours long how is it possible to test students with an oral exam and written exam if some complicated math questions could take hours or days to solve?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      so i take it you didn't like the article lol

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Most importantly there are degrees of competence and those with less tend to be relegated to lower paying professions.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the world is getting smarter and richer at a frenzied pace. now is the time to teach yourself or your kids to code, or at least learn how to write about people who code, or be left behind. Coding, web 2.0, buying stocks, bitcoin, service sector, and Bay Area restate are examples of growth industries in the 21st century.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Yet Another Partial Transcript From Darrell Issa

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the the unusable website, the failure to meet the lowest of enrollment expectations and Obama's lying about keeping your plan renders Obamacare an unmitigated disaster. Even the bi-partisans and fact checkers are saying ,so .It;s not just the tea party.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Latest GOP Efforts to Gum Up Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      obamacare was gummed up from day 1 beginning with the unusable website and then the mass cancellations even though Obama promised you could keep your plan. the gop had nothing to do with it

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Hurray! Google Has Solved The Mystery of the Noisy Tab

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      unless you have dozens of tabs how can you not know here the sound is coming from?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Unlikely Alliance That Ended Sunday Mail Delivery ... in 1912

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      now the left is waging war on Sunday in addition to war on Christmas

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Medium Will the Digital Revolution Destroy Next?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the world is getting smarter and richer at a frenzied pace. now is the time to teach yourself or your kids to code, or at least learn how to write about people who code.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Fallout for the Left

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      slow news cycle. now drudge is trying to front-run the 2016 results and the war on Christmas is off to an early start

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The idea that QE is monetization is a myth. Rather, QE serves as an interest rate operation that serves to lower long-term rates in a manner very similar to the way monetary policy works at the short-end of the curve.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea but she would have to learn to pronounce ' amorphous' first . would probably confuse it for amphibious lol

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      good let them be harmed. the more damage, the better

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the constitution makes no assurance that a rising tide has to lift all boats

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin and stocks keep going up
      there isn't much substance here besides usual preaching to choir
      partisan politics is a waste of time. both sides are the losers

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      99% of scandals fizzle because there is a tacit agreement to just not rock the boat for fear of retaliation. The impeachment of Clinton was revenge for Watergate.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Truth about the 1 Percent

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      We've become a nation of crybabies seeking crisis and recession when none exist. the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer and that's just the way it is.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why Won’t Jimmy Kimmel Apologize Some More?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      maybe get some better joke writers

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Kay Hagan on the Ropes

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      obama's polls still in free fall following disastrous healthcare roll out

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Fallout for the Left

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      obammi failed on all counts

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Theres a lot of hyperbole in this article and manufactured outrage, for example, “Angie” Merkel’s reaction to the wiretap was indifference. It seems like VDH is elevating Snowden and being some insurgency force when he pretty much didn't have much incriminating data to begin with. The reality is the media is 99% hype on either side of the spectrum and should just be ignored.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ron Johnson’s Rejected Plan

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      law of the land? not that baloney again

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Moms Demand Actions Shannon Watts: Open Carry Texas 'Like the Taliban'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The Problem With Populist Democrats Like Elizabeth Warren and Bill de Blasio. they appeal to emotion than logic and reason

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    23% of Americans Would Prefer a Female Boss (and That's a Record High)

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      if she were good looking i guess it would be ok by me

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Think the Republican Party Is Uniquely Anti-Science? Think Again

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      New Age, horoscopes/astrology, Scientology, Taoism/Buddhism are widely coveted by the left despite being unfounded in any science.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Republicans are more likely to embrace science and technology than democrats. The entire neo-Luddite anarchist socialist movement, for example, consists of far left liberals. Liberals are more likely to oppose advancements in technology on premise that it will destroy jobs (also known as the Luddite fallacy or similar to the lump of labor fallacy). Neoliberals like Friedman and Summers are more of the exception than the norm.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Should Food Stamps Buy Soda?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      agree. bad food causes health problems which is passed on to tax payers in addition to the cost of foodstamps and everythign esle

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      to answer your last question it doesn't do either because with or without foodstamps they dont have much odds of ever becoming rich

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Anyone Else Bummed Out by Lady Gaga's <em>Artpop</em>?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      its pretty much been all downhill since the first album
      amazing how much $ she makes despite modest sales and mediocre music

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Exposing Rich-versus-Poor Demagoguery

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      funny you mention that because your post is devoid of statistical evidence, unless you would include vapid OWS slogans to be evidence.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      There is no evidence whatever a high trade deficit is a drag on the economy. In 2008 & 2009 when the economy was weakest the trade deficit narrowed considerably. I don't think unemployment is a big concern and we shouldn't waste time trying to remedy it.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I agree with everything except the part about the fed. Bernanke is creating wealth which is why so many liberals like Schiff, Schiller, Stiglitz, Reich, Mauldin and Taleb etc want him gone.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      they pay taxes but to say they should pay a certain tax rate to match your own tax rate shows naivete in economics and business.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      you mean real wages have not risen. It's better that large cap companies have bigger profits than overpay workers. The market dictates the price, pert. If you want more expensive goods and a lower standard of living move to Europe.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      sounds like you're a lib. companies like Google & Facebook create economic value, unlike welfare leeches

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      TARP, QE, 0% interest rates were a resounding success. the left are the ones opposed Larry ummers nomination

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      but the intelligence gap is a pretty important one
      technological progress benefits the intellectual elite with all else being equal

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Lesson: Don’t Fight the Global Fed. Don't fight wealth creation. Why did the markets begin to go up in 2012 and never come down? Why was 2013 one of the best years for stocks on record? Why did the left's desire of a FDR resurgence go up in smoke?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Background Checks as the New Racism

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin going nuts again today. Obama's polls keep falling due to Obamacare disaster

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Exposing Rich-versus-Poor Demagoguery

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      more like the top .1%
      15% is just upper-middle class
      We're becoming a smartist nation . Wealth is created through web 2.0, speculation, coding, Bay Area real estate, and stocks. The era of working your way up the cooperate hierarchy and a comfortable retirement are over. Never before in the history of civilization has it been possible for smart, ambitious people of any background to reap such grand monetary and social rewards for their efforts. To give a few examples: instagram & tumblr, two companies that were founded by 20-somethings, were sold for $1 billion each just a few years after inception. Or Snapchat, a photo app worth $4 billion after being launched in 2011. The GOP should be celebrating these capitalism success stories instead invoking OWS populist rhetoric. The left wants regression. It's time to be the party of growth.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin, Bay Area real estate and stocks keep surging with no end in sight. People are still getting richer than ever while the left's shrill crisis for crisis, fiscal restraint and regulation go unheeded. To those who say the American dream is dead or that we're in decline, consider that for 5 consecutive years or 20 quarters, 70% of S&P 500 components have blown out earnings estimates. Or that exports, productivity, and consumer spending keep making new highs. This is in spite of Obama, not because of him. We can thank TARP, Bernanke, the Bush tax cuts, and free market capitalism for this economic boom. Do we want to be the party of recession and regression, or do we want America to remain the wealth creation capital of the world? That's why we need to shift our priorities to upholding pro-growth values such as tax cuts for the rich and de-regulation instead of obsessing over the deficit or the fed.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The New Segregation

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      they obv. aren't listening , but they don't care anyway

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Record inequality isn't a harbinger of unrest of depression, nor does it need to be remedied. It's simply a byproduct of capitalist system that rewards The Creators for their contributions. You have a lot of poor but they seldom vote, and that the way it was intended in the constitution. It's called capitalism because those that have the most capital should wield the most power. Blasio won because the pool of candidates was terrible not because of a referendum against the elite.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Getting In to College Became Such a Long, Frenzied, Competitive Process

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The rise of the meritocracy and dissolution of the WASP ivy league hegemony in the mid 1900's made it harder for everyone now. Equality only meant everything became more competitive and difficult for everyone.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Putting Veterans on a Pedestal Isn't Helping Anyone

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I will continue to support the troops even if it means taking heat for it, and the least I can do is offer my gratitude.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      2 days

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Should Food Stamps Buy Soda?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      make water and vitamin enriched water plentiful, but no to soda because the obesity and other medical costs are passed on to taxpayers

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    People Support Social Welfare When They're Hungry Themselves

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      this is how those starving kids ads on late night TV con you out of our money

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Republicans’ New Obamacare Squabble

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      You look at Obama's polls and the damage is already being done

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The New Segregation

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      that's why we need to stop fixating on the deficit and instead press for more pro-growth policies like tax cuts, deregulation & defense. We need less Cruz and more Norquist. As I said dozens of time before, we have a liberalism problem instead of a debt problem.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Background Checks as the New Racism

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the problem is with a record number of ppl with some form of criminal background it's gonna be increasingly hard to find workers if you use this as a screening method. Something like 2-5% of Americans have either been convicted or on parole and that number will only grow.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Richie Incognito's Accidental Racism: An Apologia

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      He's mentally ill. normal people don't talk like that

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Year

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      sounds like we got an obama cool aid drinker here
      only a couple dozen valid applications, lots of glitches & cancellations
      http://www.reuters.com/article...

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Pretty much most presidents have a bad 2nd term after reneging on all their campaign promises. It didn't help that the economy is perpetually crappy for 90% of the country or that Snowden upended the NSA or that Obamacare failed. Some of this is Obama's fault but a lot are duu to macroeconomic factors..

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Nowadays, presidents are elected to uphold the status quo. Those that don't won;t make it through the nomination process. Because the status quo sucks for 95% of ppl, the president will rightfully take the blame for it, and yet nothing changes because that is the way it was designed.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Putting Veterans on a Pedestal Isn't Helping Anyone

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      you have no idea what you're talking about
      insubordination & desertion in the military have severe consequences

      Snowden was never completed his traning and Manning affirms my earlier point

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      my naive opinion is that if you can survive bootcamp you can survive a boss

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      if only that duke fellow hadn't been shot all this could have been avoided

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea those 'they' people should do that
      we can always count on them

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Massive Fraud

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      -
      wow
      Look at bitcoin go. $350/coin and no signs of slowing. made so much $ with bitcoin. Bitcoin will keep surging as people all over the world seek a safe haven from hyperinflation

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      "The Justice Department is notoriously aggressive when it comes to material omissions by public corporations. "

      they did a real bang up job on enron and worldcom, huh? only after everyone lost their money

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Year

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Look at bitcoin go. $350/coin and no signs of slowing. made so much $ with bitcoin. Bitcoin will keep surging as people all over the world seek a safe haven from hyperinflation

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      a bad year? more like a bad decade.all downhill since 2000 (for the middle class ,etc)
      It was a great decade for technology companies, real esate, speculators, wealth creation, NSA govt. industrial complex, stocks, etc

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will China Really Become the World's Greatest Power? Don't Bet On It

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Ii's funny how the left never predicted the downfall of the USSR but for years ,incorrectly, have been predicting the downfall of China. For some reason they want hold this belief that China's economy is a house of cards when its just not true.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Coldest War

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      i think colonize implies remoteness or disjointedness from the center of power. remote rule

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Joss Whedon's Ignorant Argument Against the Word 'Feminist'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      if feminists were less truculent maybe they would achieve the equality they so seek

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Drift toward Despotism

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The good news continues. still no crisis, libs

      James Pethokoukis: The US government shutdown failed to shut down the US economy. AEI

      Andrew Kohut: The GOP is in better shape than you think.

      Stocks surge to record highs to end the week

      Twitter IPO a huge success; stock surges 75% on its debut

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      That and Obamacare and it's no surprise his polls keep falling every week.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    It’s Not Miley’s Problem, It’s Ours - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      his avatar is ironic given the Eurozone is liberal regarding sexual matters

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Drift toward Despotism

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I've only been non NRO for a few months but I think these type of articles such as by Victor David Hansen and Mark Steyn are a new ' populist angle' that I'm guessing NR normally didn't publish in the past. The question is will NRO continue to publish these type of stories if a republican is president?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This article is too depressing ..could barely finish it

      Frankin said it best

      Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

      Anyone that looks into the matter know the police don't save lives. They exist to impugn on the rights of free citizens and aid in the prosecution.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      It's the obligatory weekend paradigm shift column that will get 3K+ comments by Monday. Are we entering an era of despotism? Is America in decline? Not by any stretch of the imagination, although such beliefs are cathartic to those who hold them in rationalizing a world they don't like, and by the nature of beliefs, are based on anecdotal evidence or historical analogies instead of empirical evidence of present data.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Future Superdelegates Are Already Kissing up to Hillary 2016

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      You don't speak for all democrats.

  • Discussion on Wired: Autopia

    Third Tesla Fire in 6 Weeks Could Spark Federal Inquiry

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      two words: Obama Motors (GM)
      the Luddite left backs the unions and stifles innovation with regulation

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      cars catch fire for all sorts or reasons which includes new ones as well

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Can the Defense Budget Shrink Without Risking National Security?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      except that neither the police nor the military protect lives

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Boycott on Normalcy - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      another case of vodka, obviously

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Myth of Poverty - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      It's called the poverty scam with the victims predominately being upper middle class professionals and entrepreneurs. When you take into account all the deductions and other benefits many of the poor actually have more discretionary income than most of the middle class. How else do hispanics send 40+ billion dollars a year back to Mexico?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    One More Campaign: Obama Stumps for the ACA

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama one big awful mistake (again)

  • Discussion on Wired: Autopia

    Third Tesla Fire in 6 Weeks Could Spark Federal Inquiry

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      To put things in perspcitive, there are 150000 car fires a year. Tesla only had three

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Like Lulumon, Walmart, and Starbucks, the left is sure desperate to drag Tesla through the mud in their their unending war on success & capitalism.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Twitter IPO: Why the Rest of America Doesn’t Care

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      hmm the left said the same thing about Facebook and Linkedin and those stocks have surged since their IPOs. Twitter has huge growth and investors are willing to pay a large premium for it.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Workforce Is Even More Divided By Race Than You Think

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      too late. you're making too much sense

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Twitter’s Big Day: Why Zero Profits Make for a Great IPO

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Profits can wait a loooong time and of there is enough growth, wall s.t is very forgiving if profits are slim, as in the case of Amazon and Tesla, for example.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What If Rand Paul Were a Woman?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Any female politician as sloppy with matters of fact and attribution as the Kentucky senator would be laughed out of Washington.

      how can the author be obvious to the numerous counterexamples such as Sarah Palin, bachman, etc. Maybe it;s best to stick to the evidence than construct a comforting, but incorrect narrative.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Future Superdelegates Are Already Kissing up to Hillary 2016

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      this brings back fond memories of 2008 . anti- Clinton bias from the obama administration? impossible. How the Obama campaign dragged Hillary and even Sarah Palin though the mud was a step back for the feminist movement.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    We All Start Out as Scientists, But Some of Us Forget

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      it's not really true. they are just learning the basic skills that adults take for granted and as you grow older the rate of acquisition of skills diminishes as the skills become more advanced. it's not like they can grasp abstract concepts more readily than adults.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Mitch McConnell at War

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      He's a pragmatic republican that would rather compromise than have the nation default.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Father Fed Knows Best

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea but the fed govt. ballooned under GWB

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Father Fed Knows Best

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Stocks keep going up. still no crisis, libs. The good news is twitter surged 70% on its IPO and the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.3% from 7.2%, which mean more QE from the fed. The job report showed that the shutdown had zero impact on hiring, in agreement with my prediction last month that the shutdown woudn't hurt the economy at all.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    Why Twitter is Worth $12 Billion

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      13 billion? more like 100 billion in 5 years. everyone is using it, including major institutions and companies. it's becoming the biggest media company in the world in terms of disseminating news

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Psychology of Giant, Disney Eyes

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      uncanny valley. make em' look too human and it creeps ppl out

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Chris Christie Does Not Have a Likability Problem

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      It's funny how on sites like Slate, Atlantic and Salon the democrats love to give the GOP advice on which candidates to run or policies to adopt, but you never see the GOP giving the dems advice in return.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Germany Has an Official Third Gender

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      TMI

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Twitter's Up 75%? Bah, That's Nothing Compared With 1999

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      ummmm....but it's 30 billion dollars or about 60-100x the average IPO size of a dotcom stock in the 90's

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Best-Case Scenario for Twitter

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I don;t understand its appeal but I am bullish on the stock.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Needed: A Different Sort of President

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      no offense, but this article is lacking in substance and wrong. west point is essentially the same as an ivy league in terms of the low admittance rate and prestige. Truman continued FDR's new deal

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Young People Are the Brokest, Most Jobless, Most-Welfare-Needy Workers in America

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Hmm but there are plenty of young people taking control of their lives and making millions with real estate, bitcoin, web 2.0, coding, stocks, etc. This article doesn't speak for all young adults. The doom and gloom is cathartic, but let's not become so indulgent that we lose hope.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Chris Christie and Terry McAuliffe: America Loves a Blowhard

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      that depends on his performance in the primaries

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Needed: A Different Sort of President

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      6 years it too long and having two terms allows the president to get more done in the second since campaigning is no longer a priority.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Wow look at bitcoin.up huge again made so much money with bitcoin. the left's shrill cries for crisis and recession keep being ignored. People have forgotten the innovation economy that’s driven us forward for the past 200 years. Or that stocks, the US economy, and Bay Area real estate is booming. They only remember yesterday’s lying doom & goom headlines.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bush 1 & 2 were competent, or at least compared to Obama. We need a president that will keep America safe and promote pro-growth policies, regardless where he want to school.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Forget the Backdoor: The Government Now Wants Keys to the Internet

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      seems like much ado about nothing. sorry

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Christie Challenge

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Chris Christie is a traitor, but i suppose he's better than any democrat Stocks going nuts this morning. Where's the crisis, perts? The regional fed surveys, manufacturing, consumer spending show zero indication of any impact from the shutdown. just the opposite is happening.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      We have a liberalism problem, not a debt problem. The solution is to reform entitlements, repeal dodd frank, volker rule & obamacare, and tax cuts for high income earners.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Clinching Second-Term Victory, Christie Urges Washington to Look to New Jersey as a Model

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I knew the GOP establishment would come around and support Christie even though after Hurricane Sandy it seemed like he was excommunicated frm the party. now they're welcoming with open arms.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Cut Spending by . . . Cutting Spending

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The solution is to cut entitlements and cut taxes on high income earners

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    The Civil War Battle That Explains the 2013 Elections

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This is not the 30'. I know the left is nostalgic for another round of new deal socialism, but it's not going to happen.

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Former Gay Propagandist SpongeBob SquarePants Is Now a Conservative Darling

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stocks keep going up. why does the left want failure when success is better?
      w'ere becoming a temp. nation, sorry. The era of stable, well-paying jobs is over for most people.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Christie Challenge

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Stocks and bitcoin keep going up. Good thing I sold neither. For years, libs like Krugman have been saying bitcoin and the stock market is a bubble and yet they keep making new highs. My S&P 500 options have more than tripled since I bought them at the bottom in Oct. when everyone was freaking out over the govt. shutdown

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Where Did Airline Fees Come From, and How Did They Get So Bad?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      umm
      let's see. business depends on travel, including overseas where distances can exceeds thousands of miles. For such distances the alternatives to flying are impractical. So the airlines know they have the economy over a barrel and can price their fares accordingly. That's why airline stocks are a good investment if you can weather the volatility and why international carriers got bailed out after 911. The economy depends on them them and they function as a cartel.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Memo to Merkel: Tell Obama to Take a Hike - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama trying to turn America into the EU with more regulation, less growth , and class warfare

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Pot Taxes, GMO Labels, And Other Ballot Questions Voters Are Deciding Today

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin going gangbusters this week

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    I Can’t Believe Terry McAuliffe is Going to be Governor of Virginia

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the best democracy you can buy

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Maybe Ken Cuccinelli Shouldn't Have Built His Campaign Around Sodomy

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin going nuts. Like the stock market, libs like Krugman called it a bubble and yet it keeps going up everyday.

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    MTV2 host Lil Duval on Obamacare: ‘The f*ck I’m getting charge more for already having insurance?’

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The wall st. journal is right about obama being a failure

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Endless mock-fodder: Check out Woodhouse’s ‘packed house’ photos, ‘Godfather’ tweet from OFA summit

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The lib are waging futile war against the 1%. They want recession and crisis and it refuses to happen. stocks will keep going up/

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    D is for douche: David Axelrod screws up fat joke about Chris Christie

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      obama's polls keep falling . he's the wealth spreader in chief that is helpless without a teleprompter and pre-screened questions

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Hillary’s Odyssey

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stocks and bitcoin keep going up. where's the crisis ,perts? didn't happen lol
      another quarter of blowout profits & earnings despite the shutdown. consumer spending and exports at historic highs.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Hillary’s Odyssey

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      bitcoin going bonkers this week. bitcoin- the one form of wealth libs can't spread

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      To the Clinton's credit they were among the only democrats to see past the Obama facade in 2008. They knew and correctly so that the 'great orator' is a bubbling, incompetent amateur that is shipwrecked without a teleprompter and pre-screened questions.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The left is waging a losing war against the 1%. It's funny watching them spin their wheels like OWS or the failed predictions that the govt. shutdown would hurt the economy.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Hillary is not beyond reproach by any stretch of the imagination, but it seems like VDH keeps writing articles attacking rich people such as the Silicon Valley elite and other 1%-ers. I hate to break it to you, VDH, but there are a lot people richer & more successful than you and life is too short to go after all of them.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin keeps going up. made so much money with bitcoin. Gonna buy a tesla roadster with all the money I made.We're still in a wealth creation feeding frenzy. the left wants crisis and failure and yet people are getting richer than ever with bitcoin, stocks, web 2.0, and Bay Area real estate.. Were in a hyper meritocracy where smart, successful people are reaping mind boggling amounts of money with relatively little effort and time. The american dream is alive and well

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will Studying Math Make You Richer?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      by that benchmark i should be a genius. obv. i'm not

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Are Today's Cops Too Quick to Shoot?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      your tax dollars at work

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Eminem Matters Right Now

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      he's crazy

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Are American Schools Still Segregated?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Students tend to self-segregate, anyway

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    If I Like It, You Can Keep It

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama's polls keep falling due to Obamacare fallout

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    11 or 12 Things I Learned About Life While Daytrading Millions of Dollars

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      good post. how much did you make

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Getting a Grip on Extremism (and Massaging it to Completion) - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      usual leftist doublestandard

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Is Everyone Throat Punching Everyone Else?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      must be a slow news day

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Write the Worst Possible Column About Millennials

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      if they are struggling it sure isn't evident given how much time they spend on social networking sites, watcing TV and playing video games

  • Discussion on Mother Jones

    Why the Left Sucks at Trolling

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the left is enamored with failure and redistribution. They are waging a futile war of class warfare. They wanted 2008 to be a civilization ending crisis and within a year after the passage of TARP is was over. FDR 2.0 ended before it began.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The 1% will always win. get used it, perts. that's reality.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Uniting the Right

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      surrender the donut or die

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I, for one, give the do-nothing congress a round of applause. A historically low congressional approval rating is a sign that activists on either side are losing and the free market can maintain its autonomy without having to worry about overbearing regulation from Washington. The government that governs least is the one that governs best.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will Studying Math Make You Richer?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      because rich ppl are more important. that's why they get bailed out

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea this pretty much applies to every intellectual endeavor
      but on the other hand, there are many educated, successful people that are only mediocre or even poor at math.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is America Less Moralistic Now, or Has Its Code Just Changed?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      We have to ask ourselves what we value most: freedom or morality?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Immigrants and the Welfare State

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      These journalists and pundits are insulated from the consequences of the policy they advocate. The English skills required to be a professional writer aren't as readily transferable as other skills such as manual labor.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Puppycide

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      I guess this is one angle of addressing police brutality

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Uniting the Right

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      He lied when he said you could keep your healthcare plan

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Fool me, you can't get fooled again

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bitcoin going nuts again...made so much $ with bitcoin even though the libs like Krugman said it was bubble. People are gettign richer than ever. Twitter IPO soon, but not a bubble. My home keeps going up where I live. Dow 16,000 soon. Obama's polls keep falling due to failure of Obamacare. Wealth creators will prevail; wealth spreaders and libs keep failing.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      he's a necocon

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Lady Gaga's <em>Artpop</em> Is an Attention-Freak's Manifesto

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      6 years and endless hype for just 2 albums ?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Phalanx of Lies

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      let me be clear and I mean this with absolute clarity. If you like your plan you can keep it. um umm hhh ahh i cant read the teleprompter..uhh I been to all 57 states auuh uhh

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Boot-licking fail: You won’t believe NYT’s excuse for Obama’s ‘you can keep your plan’ lie

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      let me be clear and I mean this with absolute clarity. If you like your plan you can keep it. um umm hhh ahh i cant read the teleprompter..uhh I been to all 57 states auuh uhh

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Taki's Magazine - mommas_got_a_brand_new_bag_john_derbyshire

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      barney frank libtard queen
      people like him want regulation & wealth srpeading at the expensive of the most productive members of society

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Television Is an Evil - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      TVs? pthh that's so 20th century. i have a holodeck

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Phalanx of Lies

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      obama lies, people die

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No, Government Should Not Give Student Loans for Unpaid Internships

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      "There was a time in this country when corporations were actually expected to train and pay their entry level employees. But now, apparently, that's beyond the realm of imagination"

      Typically the amount of training is inversely proportional to the cognitive demands of the job. So companies like google and facebook, for example, don't train new hires to code; if you don't know how to code in the language required you don't get a coding job at google. period. Low paying service sector jobs, on the other hand, have a lot of training because it's not like people learn to bus tables in school.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    10 New Rules for Radicals - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      ", “I wish I could say what you do but I’d lose my job.” Musicians and artists seem especially desperate to come out of the “not liberal” closet. We live in a culture of fear where a very small number of shrill infants with no idea what they’re talking about are silencing the voices of the majority."

      A first Amendment indemnity clause for the private sector needs to be ratified .

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Why it it every time I read a taki article the comments are already many, many hours old? Is there a conspiracy to make me the last to comment? I'm going to make a goal in life to be among the first to comment on a taki article even if it means having to stay up all night an refresh the website every 5 minutes for new articles.

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    Where Is the Next Data Science Rock Star Hiding?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      sounds like a lot of hype

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Daylight Savings Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      here's another plan: change the tilt of the earth so it's not longer fall. or just suck it up and quit complaining

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: The Myth of the Master Strategist

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      a terrible negotiatater yet he keeps getting his way. thank Boener mcconnel and other house moderates

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Twitter Marks <em>Philadelphia City Paper</em> as Spam, Breaks All Links to the Site

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      twitter sucks but i would still buy the IPO

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The U.S. Needs a Constitutional Right to Vote

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The decision to not vote is a rational one because your vote cannot affect the outcome, especially if your Favorited politician isn't going to win or you live in a predominantly blue/red state. Voting could have impact for smaller local elections and ordinances.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Breaking Bad: America Has Used Walter White Logic Since 9/11

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      false equivalence. America was never at risk of 'dying penniless'

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Facebook Has a Maturity Problem

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This is more evidence that in retrospect buying instagram was a brilliant business move

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea i wonder who owns instagram? exactly.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Piecemeal Movement

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      a pathway to lower wages, crime, and deficits

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Hang the Dissidents!

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      why is there a paywall?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Credibility Gap

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      apparently not because that would require effort, something which VDH put little of in his column

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Seems like VDH is repeating the same leftist tired lies about Katrina, Nixon, Reagan etc . It's good that Guantanamo is open; that's at least one thing Obama has done right. The Katrina response was adequate , according to numerous experts on the matter. It's not like administration officials were physic and could know that the levees would break. the responded with the information they had on hand. Reagan only had minimal involvement with the Iran Contra scandal in that he was aware of Israel sending weapons but didn't sign off on it.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Study Theology, Even If You Don't Believe in God

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Dawkins calls it a God delusion, but many people that don't believe in god believe in other delusions.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Big Lie

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Still waiting for crisis, libs? lol even the fed says the shutdown was much ado about nothing. FED: ECONOMY IMPROVING DESPITE SHUTDOWN, NO LONGER WORRIED ABOUT FINANCIAL CONDITIONS

  • Discussion on Wired: Wired Enterprise

    How To Save Bitcoin: Take It Mainstream

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      wrong, pert

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      made so much $ with bitcoin. like the stock market, the libs called it a bubble and yet it keeps making new highs every week. bitcoin is here to stay. it's changing the world. choose yourself.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Big Lie

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Fake conservative list: david frum, david brooks, andrew sullivan, josh barrow (the later two whom are gay) any others?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obamacare is a gift for the GOP. it's failure & bad press has the potential to turn millions voters away from the democrats.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Stock market keeps going up . this market is insane but still not a bubble. Obamacare is good for insurance and hospital stocks and bad for middle class.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Delay Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      No, let it stay. Obamacare is a gift for the GOP. it's failure & bad press has the potential to turn millions voters away form the democrats.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    End the Debt Ceiling

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Agree. we need more spending on tax cuts & defense and entitlement reform. We have a liberalism problem instead of a debt problem. We shouldn't waste of reserve currency status by quibbling over a non-existent deb problem.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The New Problem With Obamacare Isn't Socialism, It's Creative Destruction

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Don't get sick and if you do make sure you have lots of money. Or no money. Middle class gets screwed though higher premiums and inadequate coverage. The lowest classes get everything for free since they have no assets and hospitals cannot deny treatment under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. The rich get exclusive plans or can pay out of pocket for everything.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half (It's Easy)

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the problem is this would give many on the lower income bracket or unemployed an incentive to not work or pursue better employment

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare’s Unlikely Coverage Goal

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      except it's not so simple or obvious. if this were inflationary it would be reflected in the bond market which it isn't.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Do Good Athletes Have Bad Teeth?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      elevated growth factor..obviously

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half (It's Easy)

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      even i'll admit it's funny how the tea party supporters want the govt. out of the way except for social security checks and medicare

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Algebra Doesn't Have to Be Scary

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      part II of Atlantic's teaching math series

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Selfies at Funerals

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      the names are blocked out and these profiles are public anyway

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Is Obama Still President?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama's polls keep falling due to Obamacare and NSA fallout.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Bush's legacy as a competent leader is being restored as Obama continue to demonstrate his naivete on political and economic issues. Foreign leaders view Obama, unlike Bush, as pushover and ignorant on polity, in addition to being a hypocrite.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare’s Unlikely Coverage Goal

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Stocks post yet another record high for the 4th week in a row. what happened to the shutdown hurting the economy? didn't happen? lol The libs want crisis and it refuses to happen.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare Is the Worst-Case Scenario

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      stocks going nuts again today. there's the crisis, lib perts?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      yea this is mostly true. engineers aren't solving formulas. instead they use software with numerical analysis methods derived by mathematicians. we may as well be teaching students how to use software

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Charles Murray agrees. genes play a much bigger role in intelligence than liberals and most conservatives want to admit(except hmosexuality). A person with a sub 100 IQ generally won't accomplish much in life, with a few exception such as professional athletes.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Redemption of Clintonism

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      deindustrialization was innevitable

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      wasn't that transformational figure supposed to be obama? and how did that turn out?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      calculators should fix that problem. i find it hard to believe someone can learn the rules of grammar but cannot learn algebra

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The nature deniers are a persistent bunch and there's a loyal audience for their delusions (as evidenced by Gladwell book sales)

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      also it is full of gladwellisms like nurture supersedes nature and the malleability of IQ

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      "self-destructive idea in America"

      that's hyperbole. even more destructive than the idea of shutting down the govt cuz you don't like a law that was passed and signed and upheld by the court?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      oh i missed that

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      this isn't the 90's,. you can get internet anywhere in the world with satellite

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Against Despair

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Obama's polls keep falling due to Obamacare and NSA

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The GOP doesn't need to reform. Young wil stay home in 2016 because Obama let them all down

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Against Despair

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      NR drums up support for shutdown and then cut and runs when it's convenient for them. The shutdown hurt the democrats more than the republicans, according to numerous polls while emboldening GOP support among key constituents. The disaster that is Obamacare is dominating the headlines with reports of people being unable to use the site, crashes, glitches, termination of existing insurance policies, and rising premiums. This is why NR keep losing all their good writers. they either fire them or they quit.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math'

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      japan has a very low unemployment rate
      and if they are unemployed out of which income would they be shelling out of?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      This story is going to get a lot of comment because just about everyone can relate their own good/bad math experience.

      Math can be better taught by going through all the steps and use of more explicit notation instead of abbreviated notation common in a lot of books. dy/dx is the same as y=f(x)d/dx but the former notation can be confusing because it isn't obvious where the y comes from.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will the Left Turn on President Obama Like the Tea Party Did on President Bush?

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Yea but bush wasn't in office when the tea party was created. So technically they could have never turned against him, not is there much evidence they have disavowed his ideology.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      Unlike cruise missiles, there's a large grey area with regard to when and when drones can;t be used. The controversy is if drones can be used on American citizens. but if the end result is a dead terrorist I don't see the distinction

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Writing for Free

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      "In short, there seems to be a constant race to the bottom in all fields with a few people doing very well and everyone else doing really not well."

      What you are describing is the Pareto Principle that is characteristic of all meritocracies, especially in the USA. The best and the brightest reap disproportionately large returns because of the economic value they create.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      The pay of a writer is determined by several factors: supply and demand, name recognition, and skill; all else being equal a skilled writer will generally be paid better than an inferior one. Huffingtonpost doesn't pay its writers because most of their writers don't have notoriety/name recognition and supply vastly exceeds demand. Additionally, the writer promotes his own brand through the traffic his article receives, so both sides mutually benefit. If a disgruntled writer quits there will always be another one to take his place. Someone with name recognition will be paid even if his skills are inferior to an unpaid writer, only because his name will draw more traffic and revenue to the publication.

    • Economics Institute • 4 months ago

      grammar error in the first sentence

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Our Fear of Terrorism Hurts Us More Than Terrorism Does

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Like a hostage situation, the government doesn't want you to leave because they need your tax payer money and unconditional cooperation. They will open the borders to anyone who can't speak a lick of English, yes, but try to leave and they will make the process intractable. Pre-screening crimes is definitely in store for the future.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      yea this story is an example of the fetishisation of intellect - that smart people can reduce complex systems to a set of finite rules when it's not possible.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why We Live 40 Years Longer Today Than We Did in 1880

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Misleading article doesn't take into mortality for the first few years of life.
      the anti-climatic reality is that exponential gains in technology have only resulted in diminishing returns on life extension

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      hmm 2/100 according to actuarial data isn't 'great odds'

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Shocking Number

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      That number is misleading. When you take into account generous govt. benefits and other services subsided by the middle class they are almost as well-off as the middle class, if not better than most.

  • Discussion on information processing

    Information Processing: Annals of psychometry: adult cognitive skills by country

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      china is not an OECD country so it wasn't included in the study
      assuming the established distribution of IQ scores and the tendency of Asians to score as well if not better than whiles, China is indeed a contender by virtue of their population alone.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This is probably the 2nd dozenth time i've seen this study blogged and each time I reply is that the USA has a much bigger population than all those countries so not only do we produce a lot of dull kids but on an absolute basis more brilliant ones, too. If you selected only the US students with IQ >110 or some threshold we would rank #1. So we we have 100m students that' still 2 million potential MENSA members or 50% greater than the total population of one of the countries in the study, Estonia. even if you adjust for influx of lower scoring Hispanics, it's still not even close..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Hairy Chest Makes a Man

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      nah.how many pro bodybuilders have hairy chests? i rest my case

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      yea this a rotund person and the guy contemplating the pushing has already ascertained based on his superior mental calculating ability that the mass of the fat person is sufficient to stop the train. This thought experiment is not applicable to real life because it assumes priori knowledge when such knowledge cannot exist in any reasonable situation.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      watch some Carlin and it will all make sense

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare’s Magical Thinkers

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      nah..whoever designed healthcare.gov was much more effective at subverting obamacare than 'cut and run' ted cruz.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Auschwitz All Around Us

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      the number of thumbs down i got for a seemingly innocuous post shows that even individuals that perceive themselves as being 'moral' can succumb to the same heard mentality & persecution synonymous with Nazism. how ironic isn't it.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare’s Magical Thinkers

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The problem is we're losing focus. we went from arguing about the unconstitutionality of obmacare to complaining about the website being a POS. This is good. let it fail. We shouldn't be decrying this failure but celebrating it instead.

  • Discussion on information processing

    Information Processing

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      America in decline or the next Rome? Hardly.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Report: American Education Isn't Mediocre—It's Deeply Unequal

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The work of Charles Murray and Arthur Jensen has been supported by independent research whereas Stephen Jay Gould
      has mostly been debunked and dismissed by researchers as partisan demagoguery.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      what is the error? forgetting Washington in front of D.C.?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      the problem is biological differences in cognition can not be ameliorated by better schooling. If studies show certain people have a lower IQ then lower test scores are to be expected

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Amazon Mystery: What America's Strangest Tech Company Is Really Up To

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The are developing the infrastructure for our new era of hyper-capitalism and globalization.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Auschwitz All Around Us

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      pardon my ignorance but i read and re-read this article and didn't get the point
      it seemed like the author started writing the middle of an article without an introduction or conclusion.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Can Your Genes Predict Whether You'll Be a Conservative or a Liberal?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      or liberals get more liberal as they get older

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Goldilocks Curse: How America's Job Creation Story Got So Boring

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Hmm the last image seems to exalt the Bush Tax Cuts. The tax cuts helped in the economy in numerous ways, such as broadening the tax base (increasing total revenues), growing the economy, softening the blow of the 2008 crisis, and speeding up the subsequent recovery.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Luckiest Generation

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      with multiple variables it would be a surface or volume integral

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Luckiest Generation

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      re-read, pert. I said coding and a good idea. You don't need to make millions from your website to be an internet millionaire.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Looks like Kevin is trapped in the negativity bubble he blew himself. America has and always will be a land for winners. Our meritocracy is unassailable. Some say the American dream is dead or that we're decline. Hmm tell that to the Twitter folks who are going public. Or facebook and google - two companies that are worth a combined $500 billion that 12 years ago didn't even exist. Wealth is being created everywhere - in stocks, real estate, speculation and web 2.0. People are getting richer than ever. Anyone with a good idea and some coding can become a millionaire in months. If that's not the embodiment of the American dream and a capitalist system that rewards talent & hard work, I don't know what is.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    A Harangue About Slang - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      werd

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Battle for Power on the Internet

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      very simple solution: stop using facebook & google

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Audio: McDonald's Tell Its Employees to Sign Up for Food Stamps

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      well someone did get rich spilling their coffee

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    12 Years Ago: 'Apple's iPod Spurs Mixed Reactions'

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The iphone is a much bigger deal with much longer staying power. The ipod has quickly became obsolete

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Beware of Beautifully Misnamed Laws

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      " wealthy farmers "

      For some reason VHD keeps taking these pot shots at the perceived 'wealthy' in most of his articles. If no one else calls him out on it, I will.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Beware Obamacare’s Huckster “Navigators”

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obamacare is collapsing under its own weight

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Early Skirmishes in a Race War

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      thankfully for me , race plays a non existent part of my life. for some reason authors like sowell keep dwelling on it. i'm agnostic to the whole issues. i just don't care if races clash with each other. just leave me (and my cash flow) out of it. Judge on merit of contribution instead of color

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Iran Through Saudi Eyes

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      well let them pound sand

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Breakdown on Bitcoin - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      " pulled down 5% of the net worth "

      actually the opposite happens because the coins are removed from circulation

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      wow look at bitcoin go. up 12% today. 1+ billion ppl in china, 400+ million internet users. huge potential here

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The ‘No Excuse’ Administration Has a Whopper of an Excuse for Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The last housing bubble was attributed to the proliferation of ill qualified subrime loans & speculation in locales such as northern California, Arizona and Miami. The emphasis was quantity over quality. Fast forward to today and lending standards are much more stringent, so while we're seeing rapid appreciation in desirable areas such as the Bay Area, subrime regions remain well off the 2005 highs. Today's home buyers have better credit in addition to large firms like Blackrock buying billion of dollars of homes in expensive areas for the long term instead of flipping. A second tech boom is also buoying home prices in the Bay Area in all cash bidding wars.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Libs like Peter Schiff and Robert Shiller are fanning the flames of crisis by calling housing a bubble. The housing market is firing on all cylinders, with homebuilders like KB Home and Lennar trading close to their 52-week highs. According to Rush Limbaugh, the fear of a housing bubble is the figment of the imagination of the left wing drive by media.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Funny how healthcare.gov did a better job failing obamacare than ted cruz

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A War That Might Happen

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Hmmm but healthcare stocks have surged since Obamacare became a law. I'm not defending obamacare but if you think you know something and smart money is oblivious, by all means please go ahead short healthcare stocks. Obamacare is rotten and there will possibly be bailouts (death spiral) but also keep in mind insurance companies have big profit margins and like student loan debt somehow it keeps rising and even collapse seems inevitable it doesn't happen.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Off topic here, but Bitcoin is going nuts today. Up 12% due to Chinese demand. GOP war , or no war I'm making a killing off bitcoin.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Trouble With Texas - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      that's mean
      his writing is succinct laced with devastating sarcasm. I would rather read one of his 500 word essays than a bland New Yorker article that rambles.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    College Prices Rose at the Slowest Rate in 30 Years

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "But it goes back down as soon as the economy starts humming again. But college prices increase are more or less permanent. They just keep going up."

      ur comparing apples and oranges. college prices are falling due to to the expectation of low inflation

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Next time the economy tanks, they'll shoot up again."

      Apparently the author cant even read his own chart because the smallest increase came in 2008/09 when the economy was... umm.. tanking

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Trouble With Texas - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Tyler Cowen bores me. None of what he says is new or particularly deep. His whole thesis is that there will be 10-15% of the population that are 'extremely wealthy' (which is wrong because extreme wealth is more like .1%) due being able to work with machines while everyone else has to move to Texas to enjoy cheap, abundant entertainment and bland food. He reminds me of one of those ppl on reddit that can't take criticism and gives negative karma for everything.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Breakdown on Bitcoin - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      A lot of bitcoin haters here. I thought bitcoin was popular with the small govt. folks

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Visa is not minting money"

      um every hear of transaction fees, pert?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      hmm, pert, but I can sell my bitcoin for $212 or enough to buy enough coke to last a year

      this has been a very profitable defect that i'm willing to accept

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Like the stock market, the libs called bitcoin a bubble and here we are making new highs every week. made tons of $ so far with bitcoin

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Soylent Is (Not For) People: Silicon Valley Will Fund Anything

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Some thought the computer mouse or GUI was a gimmick. innovation is a bottom up process of many people making small contributions

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      i'm sure the name violates a trademark by the studio

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Investing in facebook & google stock is like investing in the company that will build The Matrix in the films ..I imagine it would be a great investment until you're rotting in a pod of goo or turned into fertilizer.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Teachers Are Supposed to Assign Harder Books, but They Aren't Doing It Yet

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I probably would have failed HS if i took it today. I feel sorry for the kids in the upcoming decade with these increasingly difficult core & testing requirements. The authors intended these books to be read by the general public. If they want arcane texts maybe some books on general relativity will do.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    12 Years Ago: 'Apple's iPod Spurs Mixed Reactions'

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      My question is why bring this up now than 2 years ago? is the 12 year particularity special? will we have another article like this for every multiple of 2?

      If Apple hadn't invented the ipad and iphone it would probably only be modestly better off than it was a decade ago instead of the juggernaut it is today.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Three Kinds of People Who Live in the United States

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "open, reserved,"

      aren't those contradictions?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Build a Happier Brain

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      like most pop sci this article kinda states the obvious

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The ‘No Excuse’ Administration Has a Whopper of an Excuse for Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      ironically she is much more effective than ted cruz ..now average ppl are waking up to the disaster that is obamacare.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A War That Might Happen

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The thing is, the tea party isn't even an actual party. It's not registered on any ballot. it's a political movement backed by some wealthy donors consisting otherwise of disaffected republicans. So technically they are still republicans like Ron Paul is a republican. They will still defect to the front running candidate because it's better than the alternative, which is what happened in 2012 when most of the tea establishment backed Mitt after the others dropped out of the race.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      So some of you guys would rather support a candidate that cannot win in a national election , resulting in higher taxes and regulation upon losing than support a candidate is viable that will lower taxes, even if it means deficits have to rise. The debt isn't a big deal, provided we spend $ on things that help the economy grow like tax cut and cut back on stuff that doesn't like entitlements.. The GOP fixation with debt is bad economic policy and will cost it elections.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Excuse me for wanting the GOP to win. I dunno when 'country club' became pejorative, but Reagan and Bush would today be called country club republicans.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      i mean in the presidential election

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Don’t Feel Too Bad, Americans, Gridlock Is Global

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      One could make an argument that it's better to have a govt. that does too little than too much (extreme examples being Hitler who did too much)
      But national & state governments tend to be slow to react whereas local services like the police are the opposite. So even if govt. is slow on the top, the American people are well controlled nonetheless.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Ron Wyden: The Quiet Hero of the Battle Against the Surveillance State

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      America is becoming more like South Africa in terms of corruption of power and police brutality

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    At Last, the Supreme Court Turns to Mental Disability and the Death Penalty

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I guess that's one advantage of having a low IQ

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A War That Might Happen

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The GOP is doing fine. According to numerous polls, approval for democratic leaders has fallen since the shutdown. We don't have a large riff or a need to reform. All political parties have factions, but the extremists tend to get weeded out during the primary processes. A 2016 candidate that isn't out of touch- but more down to earth like Reagan or Bush that promotes pro-growth policy, deregulation, pro-defense and tax cuts has a good chance if the dems nominate another milquetoast candidate like Kerry or Gore.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Top Ten Obamacare Disasters to Come

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Hospital & insurance companies love Obamacare so don't expect any resistance from them

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Hats Off to Mr. Tea-Tard - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The govt. shutdown was essentially a paid two week vacation on the tax payer's dime resulting in inconvenience for many people affected for the aggrandizement of ted cruz. Furthermore, it failed to reduce spending and will expand the debt due to the additional costs of restarting the govt.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Superstition Works

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The funny thing is that even atheists hold superstitious beliefs

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Study: What You Would Be Doing If You Spent Less Time Online

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The internet is cheaper than TV and other entertainment and the ads can be skipped or ignored without obstructing your work flow

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Bay Area’s 1 Percenters

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Seems like VDH is fanning the flames of class warfare against 1% of Silicon Valley. True that they may be hypocrites, but still reads like class warfare rhetoric.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      California is an economic powerhouse. brown withstanding

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Peggy Noonan's Advice to the Tea Party: Be Less Gullible

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      and the seeds

      tea party gold worth approx ~60% quoted price of real gold. thank you liberty reserve

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I'm still skeptical that a tea party actually exists. It's an AstroTurf moment for the only purpose of opposing govt spending under democratic leadership. IT's not a real political party since they aren't registered on any ballots.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Jamie Dimon’s Original Sin: ‘America’s Best Banker’ Was Overrated From the Start

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Now, JP Morgan owes a record $13 billion federal fine and is still on the hook for criminal penalties for its mortgage-backed securities trades."

      Look at the stock..it makes new highs every week. A fine is just the cost of doing business. Like when google gets sued every year by the EU or DOJ ..just chump change

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Bay Area’s 1 Percenters

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      up 200% on those S&P 500 calls I bought a week before the Oct. 18th default deadline.

      The unemployment rate is 30% when you include those who wish they earned more and 60% when you include those that don't like their boss. So what. You can get any number you want depending on your criteria. Even a republican like myself will concede that with McCain or Romney we'd still have a bad labor market. Small business has high failure rate and employs too few people and large businesses are choosing not to hire high paying workers and instead either automating or outsourcing everything. It's not a partisan issue, it's simple economic reality. When the system collapsed in 2008 lending standards became very strict, hurting small business the most, but large caps were immune to this by benefiting from historically low corporate yields. The financial sector keeps reporting blowout profits so they see no financial incentive be more generous with lending.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging again..wealth creation is unstoppable. VDH is jealous that he's driving a honda while the creative class can afford foreign luxury cars

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Steve jobs held some beliefs that would be considered liberal, but many conservatives like Rush revere him, so things aren't always so cut and dry on the political spectrum

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Silicon Valley optimizes the meritocracy that republicans should be celebrating. Even liberals knows know this and that's why they don;t send their kids to public schools if they can afford not to. Some guys thought of an app that adds filters to digital photos. It's called instagram and they sold the company for a billion dollars.

      " But Silicon Valley zillionaires apparently support President Obama’s efforts to raise taxes, grow government, and provide more entitlements and services — at least if their inordinate donations to his two campaigns are any indication."

      Not all of them. Silicon Valley's elite has many libertarians and republicans like Peter Thiel and Ron Conway. Keep in mind that the business elite tend to support both parties because they want to get on their good side, regardless of who is in power. When you have billions you can afford to make friends with everyone, and it makes good business sense.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Long Can Netflix's Amazing Run Last?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Much longer
      most people only watch a few movies a month or none at all and pay the fee because they are too lazy to cancel

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Look Inside a Chicken Nugget

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      If you cut a McDchicken nugget in half it looks like a sponge. Chickens don't have sponges.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Meet the Republicans Who Want to Be the Next Ted Cruz

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Alan Simpson wants to kill the economy like OJ Simpson killed his wife

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Al Queda for the next Ted Cruz. with the exception of religion the share the same destructive, extremist ideology. The damage inflicted on the country from a default would be as bad as a terrorist attack

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Much Money Could John Boehner Make If He Left Congress?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      newt Gingrich

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Feeling Good vs. Doing Good

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Seems like this author is concern trolling. The GOP doesn't have a popularity problem or identity crisis. The author fails to mention that Obama' approval rating plummeted during the shutdown and that the GOP still polls favorably in many areas of the USA. Another uncharasmatic candidate like AlGore or Kerry and the GOP should clinch 2016

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Trojan Horse

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Many of these Texas conservatives want amnesty for the cheap labor

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Don’t Let Obamacare Crisis Go to Waste

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      tax cuts

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Bay Area’s 1 Percenters

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      he's jealous . no other explanation
      he thinks he can sell his class warfare rhetoric by attacking the Bay Area liberal strawman

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This is going to be today's NRO article with the most comments

      Seems like VDH liberal streak is showing again like in that last article where he praised Obama for opposing raising the debt ceiling in 2006. He's lumping in all of the Silicon Valley rich with the progressives when many of the creative class actually hold libertarian or conservatives beliefs. The america dream is alive and well. People are getting richer than ever. Anyone with some coding skills and a good idea can become a millionaire in a matter of months. Bay Area home prices, stocks, and web 2.0 valuations keep going up. Just yesterday Netflix posted blowout earnings. Last week Google surged 12% on its earnings report. Facebook stock has doubled since 2012. We should be celebrating the success of Silicon Valley's elite instead of berating them for not being inclusive. If they want to send their kids to expensive private schools good for them!

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Reality Check for HealthCare.gov

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The failure of healthcare.gov could delay the fine , hopefully

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      As someone who does some programming and works with computers I can say without hesitation programming very hard and requires a lot of money, people, and time to make a database driven website capable of handling large traffic volume. Seems like a lot of armchair quarterbacking by people with little knowledge in the field (not that i'm defending obamacare) Yea the website is buggy and slow but keep in mind it's only been up for a month and it has a lot of traffic volume and back-end operations. Companies like google and facebook have had years to optimize their sites.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Barack Obama, Insurance Salesman in Chief

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      not quite 'universal healthcare' or singlepayer
      America will never have true universal healthcare
      obamacare is a boon for insurance stocks. It's extortion because you have to pay a fine if you don't enroll or you aren't already insured.
      America has too many people, too many republicans, and too much immigration to have universal healthcare.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    NSA Surveillance: The 21st-Century Panopticon

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      If someone can list at least 5 innocent ppl that have been detained due to NSA data collecting I will change my mind about this not being a big deal

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Should Journalism Schools Require Reporters to 'Learn Code'? No

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      ah, the teach the kids to code trope. please, for the love of god, do not try to teach kids to code.. It's hard enough teaching them algebra. As someone who has tried coding I can say with certitude that it is the most frustrating and difficult thing I have ever done. Way harder than any math. Like 50 lines of code for something as mundane as making a ball move across the screen. Programming is hard, becoming a good programmer that can make useful programs is taxing.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    <i>12 Years a Slave</i>'s Reminder: Slaves Didn't Win Freedom by Being Manly

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      spike lee is that you?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Maligned Tea Party

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      well at least you learned something. I suspect he used that word because words like 'libel' 'slander' or 'defame' are too strong.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Robert Shiller says markets are irrational and prone to bubbles which can be identified ahead of time. Fama is right in that bubbles cannot be predicted except in hindsight and that markets instantly digest all public information (efficient). Libs said Facebook was a bubble when in 2007 Microsoft bought a small stake valuating the company at $15 billion; it's now worth $150 billion. The Shiller folks were crying 'bubble, irrational, wha wha' and smart money was right yet again.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      90% of the ppl on liberal sites like washingtonpost, nytimes, huffingtonpost

      roubini, robert reich, krugman, robert shiller, nassim taleb etc

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The liberals that predicted in 2008/2009 a permanent downshift of the american economic & foreign policy hegemony and a new era of frugality and fiscal restraint were 100% wrong.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Reality Check for HealthCare.gov

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      yea it's a failure like the rest of the administration.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Potemkin Parliament

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      or seth rogan

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Libs' shrill cries for crisis and recession still being ignored. dow 16000 soon

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The economy is global and US labor costs are unrealistic. The era of the lunch box worker has passed. Unions are an artifact of a by gone era as well..... The left wants higher wages to the detriment of wealth creation and free market capitalism.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Can Rand Paul Learn to Tell the Truth?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      ineptocracy - rule by the inept to serve the interests of a few

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Needy Americans Will Save Obamacare From Itself

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      it will get bailed out. healthcare stock are surging so investors don;t share your negative outlook

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Needy Americans Will Save Obamacare From Itself

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Just like social security.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      'Don't get sick' Sorry, Kids. We Ate It All. by Thomas Friedman, NYT

      Today's young generation is left with little show but debt due increased competition, rising costs, and falling wages, but our economy is better off that way, says Thomas Friedman of the New York Times 'Unless you're willing to pay a hefty premium or have a good employer, affordable, quality healthcare will remain out of reach. The best healthcare policy is don't get sick..cont. We need to be grateful for record profits and rising stock prices and stop blaming the 1% ..cont.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Taki's Magazine - fads_follies_frauds_and_floccinaucinihilipilifications_john_derbyshire

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The GOP is making a big mistake by devoting too much energy on debt reduction instead of pro-growth policy like tax cuts. Tax cuts are a great way to win voters, instead of giving govt. employees 2 weeks of paid vacation at the inconvenience of everyone else.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Potemkin Parliament

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Libs love Europe because its what they want America to become. High taxes, low productivity, hihg regulation, early retirement, and poor healthcare

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      again another false analogy. the roman empire failed because of inability to control its borders, corruption, low exports, economic stagnation, rise of Christianity, etc. America , on the other hand, is much less corrupt than most countries and is an export powerhouse and has a very effective means of generating revenue & controlling its monetary base through the treasury and fed. It's also becoming more secular and has the most most military spending.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      false analogy . the drunk has a finite lifetime whereas a nation doesn't

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      There's hope that unemployment, gas prices & oil prices will spike in the last year of his term . I would not be surprised if that happened, and if so, the dems can kiss 2016 goodbye.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      last week made tons of $ betting on a debt resolution by being long stock options. Now making tons of $ this morning being long bitcoin (which is up $20 so far). People are still getting richer than ever. The GOP needs to emulate the optimism of Reagan & Bush instead of being the party of debt crycbabies. By becoming deficit hawks we're playing into the hands of the liberals that want economic recession and crisis/ we don't want to be that party. We want to be the party of tax cuts and wealth creation. Judging by the bond market, it's evident we have a liberalism problem instead of a debt problem.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      So obamacare and higher taxes makes no difference to you

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I wonder how he's getting all these weekend headliner articles? He does generate a lot of clicks and conversation, i'll grant him that

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Potemkin Parliament

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      What matters is that yields are historic lows making is very easy to borrow. I'm sorry but the debt binge is here to stay but under GOP leadership we can have tax cuts and reform so we would be spending money on things that help the economy grow while cutting back on the stuff that doesn't.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "
      After America: Get Ready for Armageddon
      Book by Mark Steyn
      Optimistic About America's Future?Don't Be. In his giant "New York Times" bestseller, "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It," Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. .."

      When did doom and gloom become the new national pastime? I'm rationally optimistic about America's future. Google reported blowout earnings . Consumer spending, exports, productivity, and Bay Area home prices are surging. We're witnessing the rise of the west and the decline of the rest. China, india, japan,EU, brazil, russia etc are plagued with ++ high inflation, falling currencies, and economic stagnation. America's hegemony has been strengthened since the crisis of 2008 and it continue to be that way. If we can survive 8 years of Obama, then we can only go up from here. For example, 90% of the world's largest companies are from America. Our central bank was the first to lower interest rates in early stages of the financial crisis and only later did Europe follow our heed.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Harrisburg Leads the Way

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      . If inflation was a concern would be reflected ahead of time in the bond market which it isn't. The data shows that yields fall when QE ends - the exact opposite of the predictions of hyperinflation. We need entitlement reform to help control spending and tax cuts to broaden the tax base and increase revenue & economic growth.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We have a manufactured crisis by the doom & gloom media The USA is paying less money on the interest on its debt than in the 90's.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      actually there was not a single spelling error in the passage

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Great Eclipse

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Norquist was right about Cruz. Oct 9, 2013 - Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist has ratcheted up his criticisms of Sen. Ted Cruz, calling the Texas tea party hero a poor ...s

      The GOP needs to focus more on tax cuts and less on debt, imho. The shutdown hurt both sides, but tax cuts are great for getting undecided voters

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      companies are thriving with fewer workers due to productivity, automation and globalization. get used to it

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stock market going nuts again today. Crisis averted. good thing I took my own advice and didn't sell into debt induced fear. In fact ,I added to my long positions last week with Facebook and S&P 500 calls and doubled & tripled my money on both

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Sanity Caucus vs. Kamikaze Caucus: A Cheat Sheet for the GOP Civil War

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      compared to Cruz he's rational

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Conservatives Misunderstand What Went Wrong Under Bush

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Of recent former presidents, GWB will go down as having the best economic policy , second to Reagan. The bush tax cuts, TARP, CAFTA etc helped the economy greatly and unlike house republicans he understood that the debt binge, while undesirable, was sustainable and non-inflationary. Bush's post 911 response such as the invasion of Afghanistan and dept. homeland sec. also helped keep America safe by foiling potential terrorist plots such as the 2010 Times Square bombing attempt and capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He forged strong economic bonds and friendships with foreign leaders, commanding mutual respect even if there was ideological disagreement.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Americans Felt Betrayed by the Shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      for the dems it was a pyrrhic victory

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Americans feel betrayed, but their voices don't matter much, sorry to say.Facebook and Google stock going nuts today. S&P 500 notches yet another historic high. Looks like for Silicon Valley the shutdown was much ado about nothing. Ppl still getting richer than ever . real estate prices still going bonkers in Bay Area & Manhattan. Also there was a grand bargain in the last minute as I predicted there would be.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Are Private Schools Worth It?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Expensive private schools will hold your hand, obviously because they have a financial incentive to do so. public schools are cutthroat since no such incentive exists

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Upside of a 'De-Americanized' World

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Quite the opposite, actually. Americas economic influence has strengthened since 2008 as countries such as India and China have begun to lag due to high inflation . Maybe the author wishes we were in an de-americanized world but the facts suggest anything but. sorry.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Tea Party’s Wasted Energy

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      defund GOP/defund everything

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      jonah's comments about derb tell you all you need to know

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The GOP doesn't need to reform. the libs are doing an adequate job destroying their own party as evidenced by sharp decline in approval for democrats following the shutdown. The media is ignoring the story about how the liberals are the losers of the shutdown instead of of republicans.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Great Eclipse

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The problem is cruz tried to pass a doomed bill and gave up on his supporters when failure was eminent. We need a candidate that will simply uphold the GOP values of wealth creation, strong defense, tax cuts, border security, and free trade.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Study: 48% of Public School Students Are Low-Income

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      No kidding. America is a low income nation

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Grilling the Park Service Bullies

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      eco fascists

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Harrisburg Leads the Way

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Anyone that understand econ 101 it's apparent we don;t have a debt problem. We're not greece , sorry. We need more tax cuts, entitlement reform, and more economic growth.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Case for Optimism

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obama's polls still falling. The GOP came out ahead on this shutdown

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Grilling the Park Service Bullies

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      liberalism is a mental disorder. go figure

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Tea Party’s Wasted Energy

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks hit historic high. as predicted the shutdown had zero negative impact on the economy in terms of consumer spending, exports, etc.We have a liberalism problem instead of a spending probably.We need more grover norquist tax cut pledges and less boo hoo hoo over the debt being too high,

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Google reports blowout earnings,: New Proof That We're (America) Number 1

      The left is still waiting for the crisis that will never come. They want recession and wealth spreading.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Great Eclipse

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      and to think you can get the same intellectual depth from the back of a $5 cereal box

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Conservative War on the GOP

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Despite billions in funding and perpetual news coverage the TEA party hasn't actually done the paperwork to become a registered party. This suggests the movement is temporary created solely in opposition to Obama and if the republicans win in 2016 it will go away being that it has no reason to exist anymore.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Greatest Risk to the U.S. Economy Are the People in Charge Of It

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      doom and gloom = more clicks

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why China Is Relieved the Debt Ceiling Crisis Is Over

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I'm relived as well. Punting the can is better than default and everyone is happy with this outcome except the usual crybabies that keep whining about the debt being too high, but there's no pleasing those folks.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Sensitive Tea Partiers Need to Stop Taking Criticism So Personally

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The tea party is astroturfed. there is no such thing as a real tea party member. If the dems lose in 2016 it's the last we'll hear about it

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Greatest Risk to the U.S. Economy Are the People in Charge Of It

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks still going gangbusters with the S&P 500 at historic highs. Another quarter of blowout profits & earnings and unstopable consumer spening. The good news is that the economy is generally impervious to the whims & folly of politicians. S&P 500 multinationals such as Google and Apple are indifferent to Washington. That's why Im a rational optimist.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Oreos Work Like Cocaine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      BS..otherwise we could cure drug dependency &smoking with junk food.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Conservative War on the GOP

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      ummmm it already works that way in the house & senate
      there's no rule in the constitution that forbids 3rd parties from casting votes, provided it can win a seat

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Against Grand Bargains

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The tax cuts broadened the tax base and with treasuries yields at near historic lows following 911 the money used to pay for the tax cuts was essentially free, producing a net economic gain.

      In fact, taxpayers reported so much more income than was anticipated, it likely offset as much as 40% of the revenue that was lost by lowering the top two tax brackets, the paper, authored by a vice president for economic policy at the Tax Foundation, Robert Carroll, and economists Gerald Auten and Geoffrey Gee of the Department of the Treasury, found.

      http://www.nysun.com/business/...

      The treasury is paying less interest on its debt than in the 90's. The recent obsession over debt threatens economic growth. Instead we should be spending $ on things that promote growth like tax cuts for the rich while cutting back entitlements.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      you're in a bubble of negatvity

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Buy stocks on the dip this morning. we're going higher. American exceptionalism is here to stay. wealth spreaders lose.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We have a liberalism problem instead of a spending problem. Bush & Cheney were right to expand the debt, not only because we could afford it, but because it was good for the economy. It's too bad so many republicans would rather have higher taxes than more debt.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    U.S. Adults Have Mediocre Reading, Math, and Tech Skills: Does It Matter?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      As I mentioned earlier, we have a substantial larger population than those other countries and hence more smart people as well as more dull people, too.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama, Heed Thyself

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Terrible article and a false equivalence. Bush's spending on tax cuts & defense kept us safe and the economy robust. Obama's spending, on the other hand , is purely wasteful and makes America less safe. Most economists now admit that the Bush tax cuts helped soften the blow of the 2008 crisis and boosted the subsequent recovery. Programs like TARP were a huge success, while the Obama stimulus failed.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Don’t Call It a Shutdown: How the Crisis Could Still Come Back to Bite Democrats

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      good news crisis averted again .just as predicted.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the GOP Slowly Went Completely Insane

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I guess this helps vindicate Bush. At least the govt. didn't shutdown during his tenure.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Tea Partiers Don't Believe in the Debt Ceiling Emergency

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      like not believing in evolution

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Republicans Shut Down the Government for Nothing

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging again .. crisis has been averted. FB stock keeps going up. I was correct that this would be resolved, to hold my stocks, and to not cave in to fear.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Civil Disobedience: Citizens Pushing Back

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      crisis averted, perts lose

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obama's approval rating notches a new low, according to poll.. A report by a bipartisan group of economists rate Obama's handling of the budget impasse as 'inept' and 'incompetent'.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The democrats are looking worse for their unwillingness to compromise.They are being blamed more than the republicans for the park closures , according to a recent poll.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Move On, Everybody It Just Doesn't Matter

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      umm ,, pert, Bush won against al gore despite his proposal to make private SS.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Boehner: House Won't Block Senate Plan

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The radical left wanted default in holding the economy hostage, so this is a victory as far as I'm concerned.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Deal

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging again. The Major indexes have risen 3% since the shutdown began which is wall st's way of indicating how economic unimportant these govt. workers are, despite the pronouncements of doom and gloom from libs like Krugman and and Robert Reich. People like me were right that the shutdown would just be a blip in terms of econ impact.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    How to Screw Up Your Marriage On Purpose

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      dropping a bowling ball on her feet

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Civil Disobedience: Citizens Pushing Back

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      #2,3,5,7,8, 10,11,13, 14,15, 16,17,18 would remain unchanged under a a republican president. to imply otherwise is wishful thinking/ delusion. the mass layoffs began during bush's last year. With the exception of Obamacare & shutdown your list consists of already established economic trends that are insulated from partisan politics.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The libs want crisis & recession and it won't happen. In 2008 they fanned the flames of crisis to get Obama elected. They are doing the same now to punish the 1%, -the most productive members of society.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging. there's not gonna be a default, u liberal perts. lol

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      this seems like the tail wagging the dog. not sure why everyone on either political spectrum getting all worked up over the temporary closure of some parks and memorials. i'm like meh park is closed? watever.

  • Discussion on Wired: Design

    This Desk by Jony Ive and his BFF Marc Newson Could Fetch $300,000

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      for 300000 it should be invisible..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Washington Went From Hope to Despair, in One Day

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Own some bitcoins. those should do well if we default

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    If We Hit the Debt Ceiling: Default Is Unlikely, Recession Is Certain

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This will hurt the middle &lower class and small business the most. Large companies, especially those with foreign revenue steams and the rich will be insulated .Stocks will probably keep rising since most profits are derived overseas and through business to business commerce. Will we hit recession ? Probably not but if so it will be mild and the market will shrug off. Consumer spending, productivity and exports wont be hurt much.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Cosplay's Reassuring Message About Geek Culture: It's OK to Be a Fake

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      seems like a waste of time imho

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No Pinpricks? We <em>Only</em> Do Pinpricks

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      If you look at the total deaths & injuries of civilians & soldiers and $ spent since 2001's more of a cudgel than a pin

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What World Bankers Fear Most

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Thy don;t have much to fear. We won;t default and they can resume paying big bonuses and risk taking

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Latest Crazy Plan to Prevent a Default—Turn the U.S. Into Greece*

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      why do you want to see the economy fail ,pert?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Here Is the Deal to End the Shutdown, and Here's How It Could Still Go Wrong

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Bring an eminent default, stocks will keep rising. so its all good for me at least . kicking the can down the road is the best we can hope for

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Divided and Uneasy

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stooks rallying again. libs want crisis and it still wont happen lol. Some on the right want to prepare for a bleak future by buying guns & ammo. I am prepping for prosperous future for our Creative Class by buying stocks and holding. So far doubled my money on some SPY calls in anticipation of a quick resolution to impasse.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The great depression would have resolved itself without FDR's new deal. But he used crisis to push socialist policy that remains to this day. Obama is trying to induce a crisis by not giving up some ground on Obamacare, in order to use the crisis as a basis for more socialism.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The left want crisis and hyperinflation from default neither will happen.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      hate to burst your bubble of negativity but this i more like a mistake or a bump in the road.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      There won't be a crisis. I'm so confident that I am not selling any of my stocks .This will be over in a week

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The shutdown was stupid in that the costs of repaying the employees and restarting the govt. defeats the original goal of debt reduction, but I disagree that the fringe right threatens American capitalism, the credibility of our democracy, or our economic leadership. The bondholders know this is temporary and that America's inability to pay its debts is due to exogenous factors rather than endogenous fundamental factors. They will be paid when this passes, and it will soon only because the absurdity of deliberate default will compel action.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Folly of Doomsday Economics

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Greece is an economic weakling. false analogy

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      As I said before, we have a liberalism problem instead of a spending problem. We shouldn't under-utilize our position as the number one reserve currency by quibbling over debt, especially if the GOP regains the exec. branch. The issue is not if we can afford to spend more; the answer is yes, but on what should be spending? We need more tax cuts & defense and less entitlement spending.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Inside the Conservative Bubble, It Looks Like Ted Cruz Is Winning Big

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Cruz, whom could do no wrong a few months ago, has become severely marginalized. Like Palin he'll retain a loyal following, but his aspirations for higher office are limited by his betrayal, erratic behavior, and Canadian birth. Most notably, Cut & Run Cruz already lost most his his supporters by getting the house to pass a doomed bill and defecting in the last minute when all hope was lost. The GOP establishment want nothing more to do with him, and for good reason.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The debt binge is here to stay. That's why I made an option market bet last week that this would be resolved before breaching the limit, and I've already doubled my money. Most likely obama will offer a small concession and the can will be kicked down the road until after midterms. Or the GOP will give in. But we're not going to default.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Everyone Thinks a Deal Is in Sight, but No One Knows What It Will Be

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      that is true. our obsession with debt threatens economic growth

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the National Parks Became the Biggest Battleground in the Shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I guess this tells up how little regard Washington gives to of us (the average people)

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    It’s Gotta Hurt

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      the left is always fanning the flames of crisis to push a recessionary agenda

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Focus on the Debt

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The left wants recession and for America to be less safe from terror

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We have liberalism problem instead of a spending problem. Shutting the govt. was a bad decision that backfired by creating more debt in terms of the costs of restarting it and paying back wages. What we need it to get GOP control of all branches to push pro-growth policy like more tax cuts & defense.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Congress Might Raise the Debt Ceiling but Keep the Government Closed

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      yea the govt. stays closed. this is just to pay the bondholders

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Rise of the Sugar Babies - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "ways to supplement their."

      anyone else notice this sentence is a fragment?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    According to Ted Cruz's 'Unskewed' Poll, Republicans Are Winning

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Cut & Run Cruz already lost most his his supporters by getting the house to pass a doomed bill and defecting in the last minute when all hope was lost.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Janet Yellen's Triple Mandate: Unemployment, Inflation, <i>and</i> Wall Street

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      sometimes throwing money at the problem is good enough . sometimes you need a wield a hammer instead of a pickaxe

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "At the Fed's June 2007 she warned that the failing housing sector was the "600-pound gorilla in the room." That was only a month after Bernanke, in congressional testimony, said he saw only a "limited impact of subprime mortgages on "the broader housing market.""

      -

      I'm sure he'll do a good job (compared to Volcker at least) , but what matters for the fed is not predicting crisis, but reacting - a skill Bernanke demonstrated superbly. he was the first to cut interest rates as the crisis was in its nascent stage, and only when things became overtly bad did other central banks follow. He pioneered the QE programs that were also big successes.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    More Conservative, Less Republican

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      But RINOs keep winning the primaries. they get all the funding and don;t screw up on life television (herman cain, rick perry)

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      sounds like ur a liberal. what we need is lower taxes, strong defense, free market capitalism, which are h main political positions of GOP. Abolishing the fed, resumption of gold standard, and Austrian economics would doom the economy and destroy trillions of dollars of wealth.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      All we need is GOP control of all three branches and we'll return to the prosperity & stability of the Bush years. (ginsberg departing would help, too). The tea party will effectively dissolve and align itself with the mainstream GOP.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The Bush tax cuts didn't cause republicans to defect . The tax cuts were regarded as a resounding economic success, and most republicans want them continued

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      simple solution: nominate better candidates

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama Will Cut a Deal Sooner than Later

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I hate to say it, but the debt binge is here to stay. All that will be done is kick the can down the road, and the debt will rise nevertheless. What we can hope for is a continued GOP majority in the house 2014 and gop control of exec in 2016. The spending will continue, but at least with a GOP controlled govt. the $ can be spent on stuff that helps the economy such as tax cuts and possible repeal of obamacare.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The October 1 Brigade

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      week two of the shutdown and stocks are posting the largest gains in months. here's the crisis, lib perts? lol

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Democrats’ Debt-Limit Doubletalk

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      While the stocks were crashing in 2008 and republicans & the fed were scrambling to save the financial system, liberals were clicking their heels in joy that Obama would likely becomes president. The NYT exacerbated the problem by running back to back headlines about the bad economy, falling stocks, and the alleged insolvency of financial institutions. Chuck Schumer caused the second largest bank failure in US with a letter on June 27, 2008 inducing depositors to make a run on Indymac

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Democrats’ Debt-Limit Doubletalk

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      As I've said before, we have a liberalism problem, not a spending problem.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The October 1 Brigade

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Last week liberals were drawing analogies between the debt ceiling and Lehman collapse, in order to scare the republicans into acquiescing. it appears those fears were unfounded. Numerous GOP congressmen and economists have noted that America's ability to pay its bond holders isn't jeopardized by a small delay attributed to Obama's intransigence. Even with the delay, treasuries are much safer and sought after than Euros and yields aren't expected to rise.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stock futures surging this morning on renewed optimism of a budget compromise that will ensure the bondholders re paid on time. The liberals want a crisis to enact socialist policy, and thankfully that won't happen

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Americans are Dumber Than Average at Math, Vocabulary, and Technology

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The Gladwell Effect- The mass regurgitation and consecration Gladwell's un-falsifiable narratives, due to the acceptance of Gladwell's anecdotal evidence as a substitute for scientific rigor.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The system is in dire need of repair

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Kochs Reap the Tea Party Whirlwind

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I don;t think Koch can hold a candle to Ron Paul or Garry Johnson

      http://www.economicpolicyjourn...

      The Koch bros only donate to politicians that are congruent to their financial interests, not the most libertarian.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    False Equivalence That Leans on Public Opinion Is Still False Equivalence

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Probably due to confusion between budget deficits/surplus and national debt

  • Discussion on Breitbart News Network

    Reid Tries to Kick Debt Fight Past 2014 Elections

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The tax payers are the losers in all of this . they are subsidizing 2+ weeks of paid vacation for overpaid bureaucrats. The shutdown is a farce because nothing changes.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Our Peeved President

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      He won't even compromise on the medical device excise tax
      The longer this continues, the worse the democrats' 2014 prospects. Also weighing are the stories of Obamacare either raising premiums for existing insurance plans , the termination of plans, and the difficulty of using healthcare.gov

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      10-1 odds the can gets kicked down the road until after the midterms

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Cell Phone in Every Pot

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      this idiot made $13k last week. how about yourself? Obamacare is for lower income bracket chumps like yourself lol

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It's crapolla that would be exposed from a MIlton Friedman disciple.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This is NRO, not Neo Liberal Online. This myopic optimism belongs in a Thomas Friedman column.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    1 in 5 U.S. Workers: I'm Too Educated for My Job

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Here's an idea: make two resumes; one for advanced work where you list all your accreditation and another so you aren't overqualified.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is Janet Yellen the Most Powerful Woman in World History?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      he would do a good job

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Nobel Prize in Physics Is Really a Nobel Prize in Math

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      should be a fairly strait-forward read

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      All abstract math eventually breaks down to elementary math, so technically you're right

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Kochs Reap the Tea Party Whirlwind

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Most real libertarians will concede the Koch brothers are part of a phony hypocritical branch of libertarianism that isn't representative of the majority.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Grad Students: The Few, the Proud, the Indebted

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      you cherry picked low paying professions to bolster your flawed argument. The overwhelming evidence is that master degree holders earn much more than those with a Bachelor's degree. Student loan deferment and forbearance isn't fair for tax payers (i wish i could defer my taxes for 20 years lol)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Americans are Dumber Than Average at Math, Vocabulary, and Technology

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Yea but America graduates A LOT of students. Our advantage is that statistically ,we're going to have more really bright students than other countries. Most will graduate with the skills necessary for a low paying service job, and is all we can reasonably expect. Those with more aptitude can continue higher education with the prospects of better employment.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Self-Sabotage of Small Government Republicans in Congress

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      There's no such thing as a 'true' small govt. republican. They are advocate shrinkage of the stuff they oppose (social programs, entitlements, education) and proliferation of the stuff they like (defense, homeland sec., wall st). If the GOP gains control of the exec. they will become normal 'big govt' republicans again. like they were in 2003. The debt ceiling was raised under Bush numerous times with no resistance by the GOP controlled congress.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Americans are Dumber Than Average at Math, Vocabulary, and Technology

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      agree. we have and abundance of bright minds as evidenced by the creation of Twitter Facebook, Google other companies. America has a very script compulsory education system guaranteeing a lot of dull students in the mix but many bright ones, too.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This study is crapolla and doesn't mean anything. The differences between most countries are insignificant enough to be attributed to statistical or procedural error, rendering such a conclusion that Americans are 'dumber than average' circumspect at best.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Note how the countries with the highest populations - China and India are omitted. America has a higher population than the other countries on that list so an absolute basis we have more educated people.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Janet Yellen's Coming Showdown With Congress

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      he will make a very good fed chairman

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Grad Students: The Few, the Proud, the Indebted

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Today, former students who enroll in an income based repayment program can have their loans forgiven after twenty years." That's a pretty good deal when you consider how much $ they can make

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Graph Explains Why Obama Rejected the Piecemeal Approach to Funding Government

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We're not going to default. Expecting an 1th hour compromise to pay the bond holders

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Cell Phone in Every Pot

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Umm and how about healthcare, transportation, education, rent, gas prices, insurance, and healthcare? You can't cure cancer with a cellphone, pert.
      He have a higher standard of living as measured by gizmos, but increased anxiety as far as everything else is concerned.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Our Hobbesian Left

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "But our so-called liberals are committed Hobbesians." This is a misinterpretation of Hobbesian philosophy. Hobbes was arguing that life without a governing structure was more inhospitable than with it. His writing was a critique of human nature and the need for structure (social contract) than an endorsement of a specific political ideology. Hobbes and Locke laid the groundwork of social contract theory that was later adopted by the founding fathers with a constitution to limit the powers of state.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare and the Ratchet-Effect Myth

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Like all neocons, Jonah ignores the effect of immigration. If we tacked our immigration problem and cut back some of the excess defense & homeland security spending, we may have have enough to fund social programs for average Americans, like other developed countries. The typical neocon modus operandi is to stir up a fear (like terror or spending) and turn a blind eye to any solution that conflicts with their financial interests. Fearful voters elect them, but nothing happens.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Our Peeved President

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The biggest mistake is giving these workers pay. the shutdown is paid vacation on tax payer money, and the house republicans allowed this to happen. Now it will cost more money to resume the govt. than if things had been left the way they were.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Moment When Nobel Prize Winner Peter Higgs Learned That His Particle Had Been Found

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      the problem is science is that recognition is issued on a winner take all basis

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Do Politicians Care If They Get Caught Lying?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Paul Ryan proves there is a threshold where lying hurts credibility

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Paul ryan is one example of a politician that lost most credibility (including even on the right) from incessant lying.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      in in the case of paul ryan fact checkers eventually did him. even republicans were conceding that some of his examples like Obama being responsible for the closure of a GM plant in 2008 were bunk.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      lol @ the picture

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The GED Test Is About to Get Much Harder, and Much More Expensive

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I find the argument that a GED leads to a higher paying job to be unconvincing . the market is saturated and even a college degree is becoming insufficient.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Problem With Prolonging Life

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      sometimes you have to know when to let go

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers, and No One Knows Why

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Umm one word: obesity

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Super Committee Worked So Well Republicans Want Another One

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The super committee of pencil pushers that (in agreement wit everyone's predictions) accomplished absolutely nothing , at a waste of taxpayer money.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    America Need a Debt Ceiling—But Not This One

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      just get rid of it

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Many Americans Are Averse to Unironic Expressions of Patriotism

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Because it's on a false pretense. Highest incarceration rate in the world and harsh minimum mandatory sentences for non-violent , victim-less crimes. Torture under the guise of 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. Yea its a joke

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Republicans Still Have No Idea What They Want

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Only today did i learn that they would be getting full compensation. yea so in other words, it was a net positive. vacation and pay.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      If they wanted to give 800,000 workers paid vacation on our dime they succeeded.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    America's New $100 Bill Is Awesome (But Still Nowhere Near as Awesome as Kazakhstan's Currency)

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      but our $100 bill will at least retain most of its real value

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Medieval Liberals

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      So the shutdown becomes paid vacation. in that case, i'm opposed to it.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Conservatives Wary of Deal

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We have a liberalism problem, not a spending problem. We should't let our irrational fear of debt impede economic progress & national security.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Tyler Cowen’s Future Shock: No More Average People

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Cowen predicts the masses won’t revolt. They will have comfortable lives and good entertainment — bread and circuses."

      Even that is too generous. Why would things suddenly become cheaper and accessible? Has he seen the price of a Comcast bundle plan lately? I agree they won't revolt but it wont be a comfortable or entertaining life ,either.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      or implant the hope of advancement

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We're in a super-meritocracy of limitless wealth creation - if only for a few- and serfdom for most. Smart, ambitious, pragmatic technocratsare remolding every aspect of society and those who cannot keep up will fall between the cracks to be forgotten or institutionalized. There will be scant social safety nets or empathy from our political leaders in response to this inexorable phase transition and weak resistance from the masses, in contrast to liberal desires of a new French Revolution. Future generations have illustrious future in the service sector or in private prison - either as a prisoner or working there. A society with limitless rewards for the most creative, intelligent and ambitious and penury & insecurity for most of everyone else. Where would consumption come from if so many have so little? Foreign markets, the wealthy and business to business.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Tyler Cowen’s Future Shock: No More Average People

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It's not a partisan issue -it's simply reality. The wealth gap would have continued to widen under another eight years of Republicans or Obama. The wealth gap has widened under every presidency of the last half century. But this a byproduct of an economy that rewards the most productive, or The Creators, with monetary compensation proportional to the economic & technological advancements their innovations bestow.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare Snake Oil

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      So in other words, a politician over-promised and under-delivered. That's unheard of.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Thirty Obamacare Fails

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obamacare - it's bad for you

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Medieval Liberals

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Libs want equality of outcome in contrast to equality of opportunity.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Today's liberals want to spread the wealth around instead of creating it . Other liberals want to make America vulnerable to terror. What thy have in common is that the resent American exceptional, a want for for technological & societal regression, and a disdain for America's most productive - the rich, technology, Wall St. etc.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The 14th Amendment and the Debt Ceiling

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Now Mount Rushmore will be draped due to the shutdown
      Obamas approval rating plunging as shutdown enters 2nd week, according to Wall St. Journal. Dems seen exacerbating Washington standstill

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    How to Avoid the Coming Middle-Class Meltdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This is nothing new. I've been writing about a bifurcated economy for years and how such a system is not only sustainable due to globalization, but optimal for economic growth. We're in a meritocracy in overdrive where a super intelligent and ambitious elite are shaping all aspects of economic & political policy to benefit them, exclusively. Wealth creation is unstoppable. Anyone with some coding skills and a good idea can be a millionaire or a billionaire in a couple years. The left says we're in a stagnation or that America is in a state of decline; this is wrong. American exceptionalism in the form of technological progress, profits & earnings, consumer spending, social media, exports & productivity is unstoppable.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Happy Birthday, Income Tax!

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      " That’s why it’s so fitting that the shutdown battle is happening right now."
      Income tax is legalized theft/strong-arming. The govt. should have to compete for our $, like any other business/entity rather than forcibly take it from hard working Americans to fund crony capitalism contracts or the growing welfare state. Or at least make income tax fair so that the lowest earners are paying, including low income families with children. Lower income families paying a pittance of income tax end up having MORE discretionary income than most of the middle class after govt. subsidies are factored in.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Shutdown Simulacrum

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obammi's approval rating falls to record lows 4 days into the shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The shutdown is phony , anyway. The employees return with full pay, like a big vacation on our dime.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Shutdown Simulacrum

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      not losing sleep over shutdown. The same libs calling twitter a bubble are spreading undue fears about the govt. shutdown hurting the economy when there's no evidence this or any other shutdown having had a deleterious economic effect.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Hagel's Back-to-Work Order

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      this and all the others

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "
      Why the Shutdown Is Hurting All of Us, and Why That Doesn't Matter"

      not me. Facebook stock up huge last Friday and twitter IPO soon. I would consider myself and the internet & web 2.0 ecosystem to be immune from the shutdown, but disagree that it doesn't matter. It does matter if furloughed workers don't get paid, but they probably will which means they get paid to do nothing.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The same libs criticizing twitter are spreading undue fears about the govt. shutdown hurting the economy when there's no evidence this or any other shutdown having had a deleterious economic effect..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the NSA Thinks About Secrecy and Risk

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I wonder how someone would know if they are begin served an exploit by foxacid? What clues would there be?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Spectacular Simplicity of <em>Gravity</em>

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      ummmm it's not Shakespeare. it's movie about a space disaster. how much dialogue and character development are you expecting?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the Broken Media Helped Break the Government

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      only part of the government or 'non essential' services

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Here's Exactly How Much Twitter Makes Each Time You View Your Feed

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Twitter stock will be a big success like LNKD YELP Zillow and FB. the left keeps dismissing everything a bubble .

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Twitter Files for IPO (Updating)

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I would buy this stock

  • Discussion on Wired: Underwire

    Don’t Even Read This Article. Just Go See Gravity

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Or you can read the book

      http://www.amazon.com/Gravitat...

  • Discussion on Wired: Autopia

    Calm the Hell Down About the Tesla Model S Fire

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The left is trying to incite panic about tesla, like they did about the govt. shutdown. They are always trying to fan the flames of crisis or turn mountains into molehills.

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Twitter Opens the Kimono — and World Yawns

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      That means more room to grow. I'm as emphatically bullish about the twitter IPO as I was about LNKD and FB

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Liberal civility, Cher-style: Deranged diva suggests killing off Tea Party politicians

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      4 days into the shutdown where's the crisis u libs? lol

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Democrats Chose the Shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The republicans are already coming out ahead on the shutdown; public opinion for Obama and the democrats is falling.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What if Default Isn't a Disaster?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "The reason why U.S. bonds are so attractive may in part be a false sense of security, but it is also a reflection of genuine U.S. economic strength compared to almost anywhere in the world. "

      This , and technological progress are just a handful of examples of America's exceptionalism. The bond holders know that eventually they will get paid once this partisan brinkmanship is over, and rates will remain low. There's no need to panic because America's ability to pay its obligations isn't in jeopardy. That' why stocks are rallying and yields are low.

      Finally, we're running a budget surplus of around $100 billion so even if the ceiling isn't raised we may not default.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 9 Ways That Twitter Could Fail, According to Twitter

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I hate to be the bearer of good news, but twitter will succeed as a public traded company, much like i predicted about Facebook and linkedin. It's not a bubble , sorry.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Age of Internet Empires: One Map With Each Country's Favorite Website

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      google & facebook no surprise there

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Give the Tea Party Credit: Their Grassroots Tactics Worked

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Had McCain been elected there wouldn't have been a peep from GOP establishment. There's no evidence mccain had any intent on reigning in spending.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      No, around 2009 the media began to spin a a false narrative about a non-existent debt problem.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This is today's big click bait story. It's not grassroots when the Kotch bros & fox news news you endless funding and 24/7 coverage.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Budget Fight and Obama’s Vindictive Streak

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The tea party, mitch McConnell, boehner control the national debate.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      My solution: keep govt. closed and pay the bond holders & military.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      C'mon u libs. you promised a crisis lol

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging again. Where's the crisis, u liberal perts? Facebook trading above $51. Twitter IPO soon. no one losing sleep over the overblown govt. shutdown in Silicon Valley or Wall St.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Shutting Down the Shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      My solution: keep govt. closed and pay the bond holders & military

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Twitter's $1 billion IPO will value the company at over $20 billion, but this is not a bubble. The left wants crisis, regression & recession and it refuses to happen.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Who Locked Little Johnny out of Yellowstone?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging again. Where's the crisis, u liberal perts? Facebook trading above $51. Twitter IPO soon. no one losing sleep over the overblown govt. shutdown in Silicon Valley or Wall St. people still getting richer than ever. American exceptionalism is here to stay.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    If Congress Won't Raise the Debt Ceiling, Obama Will Be Forced to Break the Law

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We have a manufactured debt crisis, compared to Greece or Spain, for example, which have actual debt crisis. We're paying less $ on the interest on our debt than in the 90's and inflation is at historic lows. We do know who controls the debt; it's institutions, the fed, foreign governments. There is, and always will be, huge demand for treasuries, and since we control the printing presses we cannot possibly default, baring political ineptitude.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Twitter's IPO: This Is Everything You Need to Know About Its Filing

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I told folks to buy Facebook stock in the 30's and 20's; now its at $50. I am emphatic about Twitter. No competitors, huge growth, fat margins

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Here Is the Short GOP Quote That Perfectly Defines the Shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I never denied he was correct; I agree with him to some degree about the shutdown, but I'm also making an observation about what I perceive to be hypocrisy on his part..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obamacare And The Conscience Of A Radical

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I think he means wealth = asset minus liabilities

      the typical black household had just $5,677 in wealth (assets minus debts) in 2009

      http://www.pewsocialtrends.org...

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Here Is the Short GOP Quote That Perfectly Defines the Shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      at least I know how to spell it... lol

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      but it's coming from Thomas Friedman. his wife is a major shareholder of general growth properties, a NYSE traded company. obv. he wants a quick resolution so he makes more $. Only when his personal interests are at jeopardy does he complain. never has he stood up for the rights of govt. workers, or any workers in general.

  • Discussion on The Wire

    Developing: The Capitol Building is On Lockdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "my life threatened at any point, ever"

      you only die once

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      so much for the shutdown..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    If Congress Won't Raise the Debt Ceiling, Obama Will Be Forced to Break the Law

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Feel like this is groundhog day or something. like i'm reading the same debt/gop articles over and over.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      he's right :
      Buffett speaks out against DC's 'extreme idiocy'

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Beautiful Code

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      and you thought normal math was hard...

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    HOW TO CURE JEALOUSY

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      nine hours is a lot of sleep . does that include reading or watching tv?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why a Grand Bargain or Anything Else Won't End the Shutdown Soon

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      its only been three days and some pundits are already acting like it's the end of the world or permanent. This will end in a couple weeks when the debt ceiling is raised in an 11th hour compromise, in order to pay the bond holders. The shutdown has to end because the longer is continues, the worse it makes both parties look. Also the GOP doesn't want Obama to intercede and raise it himself which will demonstrate leadership on his part.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Republican Hardliners Aren't Conservatives, They're Radicals

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      in the eight years Bush was president we never had a debt crisis and everyone was paid with zero shutdowns. You can't have it both ways.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I hate to say it, but the best thing for the best thing that can happen for the economy and our political discourse is to get a republican in the oval office. that will placate the hardliners.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Seedco: Obamacare’s Fraud-Stained Navigators

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      death panels & rationed healthcare coming

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare’s Privacy Nightmare

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      didn;t hear a peep about privacy concerns from the GOP during last administration

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Boehner to House Republicans: Grand Bargain In the Works

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obama's polls already falling on the 3rd day of the shutdown

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The longer the govt. remains shut, the more incompetent Obama will appear

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Grover Norquist slams Ted Cruz
      "He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away."

      we need lower taxes instead of defeatism

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Iran and the Syria Model

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Cut & run Ted Cruz

      Grover Norquist slams Ted Cruz
      "He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away."

      Grover is right. We need more tax cuts, more defense spending, and less cowardice in the party.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    No Enrollees in Louisiana Obamacare Exchange's First Day

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      no one will sign up until the deadline and the system will crash...this is no different than when u a term paper and you delay it until the last minute

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obamacare will go down as the biggest legislative failure ever

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Real Debt Ceiling

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      hs arguments are nothing new; fears over debt are as old as the country itself. America, unlike other nations, thrives on debt because of a high ROI and low inflation. our debt load is manageable, but we need to get entitlement spending under control. in fact ,we're running a surplus. What we need is to broaden the tax base and increase revenues through lower taxes instead of quibbling over a non-existent debt problem. If Obama really cared about the best interests of the economy, he would acquiesce to the demands of the republicans.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      there wont be a crash of if there is one it will be brief like in 2008/09

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The debt ceiling is a much bigger deal than the govt. shutdown. Fortunately, the saner heads will prevail and bond holders will be paid.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It should be lower; the mass introduction of women into the labor force drove the labor participation rate artificially higher.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      take all the major currencies (including the emerging market ones) and plot them on a graph. the US dollar has outperformed 90% of them. The worst performers have been emerging market, especially Turkey (lira) and South Africa (rand).

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      We've become fixated on debt , instead looking at the broader economic picture. The left, as you should remember, was the first to spread the debt hysteria regarding the Bush tax cuts. A decade later, we're not bankrupt and our economy is ,in fact, thriving. The bush tax cuts helped soften the blow of the 2008 crisis and was a tailwind in the subsequent recovery.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The good news is that the bond holders will be paid and default is not inevitable, not now or 10 years down the road. America pays less in interest on its debt than in the 90's http://www.businessinsider.com... and has lower rates then any developed country, and although some of this is attributed to QE, the safe haven status or exceptionalism of our currency cannot be discounted. I don't buy into the wishful thinking that we can payoff all our debt because it would not only inflict unduly hard to the economy, but is simply unnecessary. Instead, we should be taking on debt for things that will improve our economy such as tax cuts & defense.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Study: Stress Linked to Dementia

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      nonsense

      rita hayworth & reagan died of dementia and I don;t think they lead stressful lives.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    When Democrats Shut It Down

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      America is is spending less $ on its interest payments than in the 90's http://www.businessinsider.com...

      We've become fixated on debt, instead looking at the broader economic picture. The left, as you should remember, was the first to spread the debt hysteria regarding the Bush tax cuts. A decade later, we're not bankrupt and our economy is ,in fact, thriving. The bush tax cuts helped soften the blow of the 2008 crisis and was a tailwind in the subsequent recovery.

      Some cite the low labor participation as evidence of a weak economy. It should be lower; the mass introduction of women into the labor force drive it artificially higher.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Fact-Checking Obama on Health Care

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      obama - one big awful mistake (again)

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Government Shutdowns, a History

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obama's spending, unlike Bush is to expand the welfare state. bush's deficits helped create economic growth with defense & tax cuts.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Irony of Michelle Obama’s Water Campaign

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      MO has the intellect of a potted plant, and even this is generous.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Shutdown Problems: Brought to You by Big Government

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It's the tendency of the left to spread FUD about things that otherwise pose little risk to our economy and or are beneficial, such as derivatives, Wall St., bankers, multinationals, and the occasional govt. shutdown. . . Since 2008, libs like Krugman, Robert Reich, Stiglitz, Roubini, etc said that without more stimulus or useless job creation programs the economy would fail - or that America's economic hegemony was over, and here we are 4 years later with stocks, exports & consumer spending at near historic highs and 16 consecutive quarters of blowout profits & earnings.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: Transforming America

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Nixon, not Reagan played a pivotal role in shaping the GOP to what it is today. The right should lionize him instead of Reagan.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      America is becoming a giant Geico commercial

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      This bull market is attributed to TARP ,the bush tax cuts, & appointment of bernanke (and his deft handling of the crisis). Most economists concede the Obama stimulus generally was a failure and obama is ignorant about economics.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      lib media make a big fuss. rest of the country is like whever

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      more debt is inevitable. i don't buy into the wishful thinking we can repay our debts. but we should be running deficits on pro-growth things like defense and tax cuts instead of more entitlements.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Saddest Paragraph You'll Read About the Government Shutdown Today

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      To make the news less painful, keep in mind that clinical trials have a very low success rate (hence they are trials in contrast to conventional treatment)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Washington vs. D.C.: How the Shutdown Pits the Government Against Its City

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      As i predicted yesterday, stocks rallied on the day of the shutdown and will continue to rise. The sky didn't fall. A compromise is coming and bondholders will be paid.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: Transforming America

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The left wants failure and crisis if they cant get their way.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      As much as Obammi is trying to undermine the free market ,America will remain prosperous. Twitter IPO soon. The American exceptionalism the left despises lives on,

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks post large gain with additional gains after the close, rebuking the liberal belief that the govt. shutdown would hurt the economy. 52 week highs soon.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I think you mean real wages. nominal wages always rise. The health economy as a whole is detached from the individuals that comprise it. To believe you can extrapolate the health of a macro system from a micro one is the fallacy of composition.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Took the most prosperous, powerful nation in world history and wrecked it all in only a generation or two."

      I hate to burst your bubble of negativity , but we're still a prosperous nation and an epicenter of innovation. Twitter alone has created many millionaires & billionaires. But this prosperity is in spite of Obama, not because of him. People are getting richer than ever.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The left said there would be a crisis ; the libs have predicted 10 of the last 2 crisis. Nothing will happen and bond holders will be paid.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    I Flew 75,00 Miles Last Year—and I'm Never Flying Again

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "A one-way flight from New York to San Francisco (2.23 tons of CO2) has nearly the same impact as driving a Hummer the same distance (2.81 tons)."

      Some googling shows that the production C02 per passenger is 0.17 kg/km for air. JFX to LAX is 4500km. Taking the product we have 765 kg or roughly 1700 pounds of CO2 or a little less than a ton per passenger.

      But driving takes much longer and additional CO2 is consumed indirectly though extra consumption of food and lodging for a longer journey.

      This is not exactly a compelling environmental argument to choose driving over flying

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      crying over a CO2 report? grow a pair, man

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Democrats Go Nuclear on John Boehner

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The good news is that the GOP understands the importance that bond holders be paid, and will enable the raising of the debt ceiling accordingly. that's one reason why stocks are rallying today.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Now Is the Time to Halt the ACA

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging in approval of govt. shutdown. Where's the crisis libs? Why aren't planes falling from the sky?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: Transforming America

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging in approval of govt. shutdown. Where's the crisis libs? Why aren't planes falling from the sky? lol

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It's the best of times for some and the worst of times for others. It will end badly for the welfare state; however, American exceptionalism is unstoppable. I envisage a world of more IPOs, technological progress, and wealth creation. Companies like Facebook, google, twitter intagram as notable examples.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obama's presidency has had the unintended consequence of making the nation much more partisan than it would have been under another eight years of republicans. Obama is more polarizing then Clinton, Reagan or Bush.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      But we're not imploding. We have problems, but this type of doom & gloom rhetoric was common among the left in the 2000's during Bush' tenure, in particular about how the tax cuts would bankrupt the nation. Since 2008, the GOP have become the doom and gloomers. We can;t let our aversion to debt impede economic progress.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stock futures surging this morning. Looks like the liberals' best efforts to hold the economy hostage are failing. The left has been spreading the lie that the govt. shutdown will hurt the economy but the evidence says otherwise.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Federal spending. We are $6 trillion more deeply in debt. And there are record numbers of Americans on food stamps, unemployment insurance, and disability insurance, or simply disengaged from the work force."

      The problem isn't the debt ,but how we get there. Debt used for defense & tax cuts creates economic growth.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Shutdown's Only Winner: Star-Crossed Obamacare Survives Again

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Obama can technically override congress to raise the debt ceiling but it may not be legal, although the courts would most likely decide letting the country default would more inimical than overriding congress.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      yea i predicted that despite the doom & gloom, the fiscal cliff would be a speed pump and that stocks would keep rallying - a view yielded a lot of criticism, but was correct.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Response to Richard Dawkins

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      But how religious people interpret what god deems 'evil and 'good' is in itself subjective.An example is the Salem Witch trials in which Puritans interpreted certain behaviors to mean that young women were possessed by Satan and had to be burned, although this was also common in medieval Europe and motivated by Christianity.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    100 Unintended Consequences of Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      the consensus seems to be that obamacare will lead to increase in temp work and less permanent jobs

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: Transforming America

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      A handful of reasons why the US economy is doing so well relative to the EU and the rest of the world is due to TARP, the appointment of Bernanke, and the Bush tax cuts and if anyone is trying to undermine the post 2008 recovery it's the liberals with higher taxes, class warfare rhetoric & regulation. The research shows that lower taxes on high income earners generates more tax receipts and this could explain how we exited the crisis in a better economic position than the rest of the word. Instead of giving incentives for consumers spend more, Obama wants to tax them with obamacare. The regulations imposed by Obamacare on businesses and consumers hurts the economy.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Shutdown Watch: The Final Hours

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The left is asking too much. The want all their personal needs met, and a plurality of power. Governance involves comprise. would you rather have a GOP control all branches with all spending needs met for everyone, or a divided government with some needs unmet? Do you want a benevolent democratic overseer, and just scrap the constitution?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      maybe it would be better to have a republican pres if it means no more of this crap. Bush spent with reckless abandon .. obama comes in and sudden we have a debt crisis.

      "democracy in name only"

      because it's technically not a direct democracy but more of a representative democracy/constitutional republic

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The shutdown itself isn't a big deal; it's more symbolic than calamitous and although the delay of payments is unfortunate, the economic impact or the impact in average people is negligible, as past shutdowns such as in 1996 have demonstrated. The biggie is when we hit the debt ceiling in mid October and this does have potential economic ramifications. Obama could raise the debt ceiling without congress but most likely an 11th hour deal will be stuck and bond holders will be paid and stocks & treasuries will rally. We could see a relief rally in equities tomorrow with a shutdown because a deal will probably be eminent. The bad press will bring both parties the bargaining table.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Countdown to Shutdown: A Primer on Where Budget Wrangling Stands

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Our economy isn't a leaky boat. Spain and Greece, yes, but not America. We're running a budget surplus and this hasn't stopped 70% S&P 500 companies keep beating estimates. US GDP growth still exceeds the 17 countries in the Eurozone. Running up against the debt ceiling does not mean there will be less total spending. It just means that we have to produce a surplus to maintain the existing rate which is already happening.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Aren't Washington Leaders Negotiating to Avoid a Shutdown?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      obama doesn't need to act because the shutdown will make gop look bad, and there isnt much he can do in 24 hrs anyway

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 10 Stealth Economic Trends That Rule the World Today

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      going from 7% to 4% doesn't change the overall parabolic shape and far exceeds the CPI

      Asian immigration maybe new to the author but has been occurring since the first wave in the mid 1800's. Politicians focus on Mexican immigration because it constitutes the bulk of illegal immigration.

      in 2005, 56% of illegal immigrants were from Mexico; 22% were from other Latin American countries, primarily from Central America;[3] 13% were from Asia; 6% were from Europe and Canada; and 3% were from Africa and the rest of the world.[3]

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      7. Old Trend: Skyrocketing health care costs, skyrocketing deficits.
      New Trend: Creeping health care costs, creeping deficits.

      ummm...come again? heathcare costs are will remain parabolic

      ? Lots of people, but Asians more than anyone. Asians are moving here at a rate of about half a million a year, and the Asian-American percentage of the population has already reached 6%.

      How this is a stealth trend when it's obvious to anyone living in Northern California, for example?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It bears repeating I've been long this 'dog' since the low $20's and been recommending it on my blog since mid- 2012

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "You do realize that that long gap was the result of regulations that were put in place after the Great Depression --"

      I understand that argument about how the repeal of glass stegall made the fin. system more prone to collapse but we don;t have nearly enough datapoints to draw a definitive conclusion that the system is truly more vulnerable to collapse. I suspect tighter lending standards implemented since 2008 may be sufficient to stave of crisis for many many decades.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Walter White Is Not Dead

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      thanks. i been wanting to watch this after all the hype but never got around to it

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      So it ends with Walter dying. That saves me 48 hours of having to watch the entire series

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Germany’s Politics Are Much Saner, Cheaper, and Nicer Than Ours

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Much saner but less exciting. Not as much at stake. No wedge issues.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Germany doesn't have a 1st amendment, but also less consequences socially and economically for making unsavory comments. In America you do have free speech, but the consequences of exercising it can leave your jobless and homeless quickly.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Should American Consumers Worry About Chicken Imported From China?

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      probably

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 10 Stealth Economic Trends That Rule the World Today

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      cracks? wern't the same perts predicting crisis since 2009? they keep being wrong.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Some my economic predictions/trends:
      Facebook stock goes to $100
      Twitter IPO is a huge success; stock eventually triples with a $100+ billion market cap
      Stocks and bay Area real estate keep surging
      Republicans & Dems strike a comprise before debt ceiling is breached
      Healthcare Education, and Transporations costs keep rising beyond the rate of inflation
      Wages remain low relative to inflation
      Continued downgrading of labor force from higher paying technical jobs to lower paying service jobs
      Wealth gap continues to widen with no slowdown

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No Grades, No SAT Scores, Just Essays: Bard's Misguided New Admissions Plan

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "where wealthy students get a 500-meter head start thanks to SAT prep courses,
      "
      So many people keep getting this wrong. you cannot prep for the SAT, beyond becoming familiar with the test format. The underlying math on the SAT is elementary (for example, no logarithms typically found in elementary algebra); a 6th grader can do it, but the questions test applied understanding, rather than rote memorization or plug and chug.

      For the verbal section, it's impossible to cram enough words to get a high score, or develop the skills to regurgitate the meaning of a dense prose in small allotted time limit imposed by the test.

      Elite, wealthy students get in through their connections, not SAT scores.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Failures of Crowdfunding: No, Kickstarter Cannot Support an Opera Company

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      no kidding. just a ton of hype

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The First Casualties of a Government Shutdown: Public Workers, Scientists, and Sick People

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Long & strong stocks. long facebook. Fading treasuries or the dollar is a bad idea since market volatility will increase demand for safe havens such as treasuries. I would bet against the republicans but not America

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Countdown to Shutdown: A Primer on Where Budget Wrangling Stands

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      im a pragmatic realist beholden only to reality

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Facebook stock is rallying again. So glad i didnt sell. Sectors such as social networking, web 2.0, retail, B2B will be unscathed form the shutdown. The good news is there is enough $ to payoff the most urgent needs (such as bond holders) and a debt ceiling bill can be passed back and forth in the ensuing months until both sides agree to a compromise before crunch time.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Other Defunder

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Stocks surging positive as liberals' efforts to take economy hostage fail

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Mike lee's tax plan would soak homeowners and contribute to the overpopulation of the underclass, whom are already straining our public resources.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare: Wrong in Practice, Wrong in Theory

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The left wants to take the economy hostage to preserve Obamacare. Obama's refusal to compromise shows immaturity and is endemic of the self-destructive left.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      stocks surging into the green again. the libs want economic collapse if they can't get their way. stocks (in particular Facebook) will rally even with a govt. shutdown. our economy is booming.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Look, Obama might be right, and before we know it exchanges will work as smoothly as Amazon or Expedia."

      To entertain such a possibility shows James Pethokukis is a socialist shill and a proponent of crony capitalism, as I have been saying for years.

      'Amazon' is a e-commerce website, not an exchange. An exchange implies price negotiation where buys & sellers have equal role in market making ability. Amazon's pricing is heavily tilted in favor of sellers, like all merchants. Maybe a better example would be ebay. An exchange means having a choice to opt out; obamacare doesn't leave such a possibility without paying a fine.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Speaker’s Slog

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      If the government shuts down it will be Obama's fault for refusing to compromise

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Civility Is Overrated

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      How many people has the tea party killed? 0
      Islamic fundamentalism? Thousands

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Not Raising the Debt Ceiling Would Be Either a Disaster or a Historical Calamity

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      u do realize that it's the 99% that are the most affected by a shutdown?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Not Raising the Debt Ceiling Would Be Either a Disaster or a Historical Calamity

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The good news is that republicans are spearheading a bill to pay bondholders first if the debt ceiling is breached. If we pass the limit, most likely the stock market will fall a little but treasury yields will paradoxically not rise. There is enough $ in reserves until March 2014 due to a budget surplus of around $120 billion. I;m 99% certain there will be an 11th hour compromise.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Gold-Plated Ambulance

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      He gave the examples of seatbelts and airbags of how the wealthy are the progenitors of innovation. I give counterexamples. But there also some examples where Kevin is right. A pharma company will spend billions for trials and when it passes it's typically available for the masses if there's a high demand. If a drug doesn't have large demand (orphan drug) will be very expensive and hard to obtain and this is possibly where Kevin is right.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      My point is that the WWW was initially available to researchers and soon thereafter the masses at a relativity affordable price. The inventors of the WWW didn't realize its commercial potential.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      My point is that the needs or wants of the wealthy isn't always the catalyst for innovation.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      So you admit they are beliefs, rather than immutable truths? Therefore, that opens the possibility of them being wrong, or room for disagreement? That's progress. Good job.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The author is implying a casual relation between what rich people want and innovation. He gives non-medical examples of seatbelts and airbags. There are numerous counterexamples. We don't know what drives innovation, but it's a combination of many factors such as public & private sector demand, serendipitous research, meeting a regulation, etc. Steve Jobs didn't know there would be such an insatiable demand for the original ipod, only after he debut it did people want it . Sometimes mass production proceeds the demand. Sometimes, demand proceeds production.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      proto-Internet invented at PARC ( by non-billionaires for fellow non-billionaire researchers). WWW invented by TIm Berners Lee in CERN, Switzerland for researchers leading to the Mosaic browser. Eventually, Internet Explorer & netscape debut the web browser in early 90's for masses. Nowhere in this chronology did a rich person demand the internet, nor was the internet made only available to such a person.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Wikipedia: Georges Mathι, a French oncologist, performed the first European bone marrow transplant in 1959 on five Yugoslavian nuclear workers whose own marrow had been damaged by irradiation caused by a Criticality accident at the Vinca Nuclear Institute, but all of these transplants were rejected.[3][4][5][6][7] Mathι later pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in the treatment of leukemia.[7]

      Were these billionaire nuclear workers? hmmm

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Worse Is the New Normal

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "no production"

      http://autos.aol.com/article/f...

      I disagree that QE is the only driver of this stock market rally & economic boom .It's only a part of it, but the rest is fundamentals. We can thank Bush's appointment of Bernanke, CAFTA, TARP and the tax cuts for the bulk of the post 2008 resurgence.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Maybe you should skewer yourself because you're obviously confused.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Gold-Plated Ambulance

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      sometimes the are and sometimes they aren't. Kevin cites seatbelts and airbags are an example of innovation that initially benefited the rich, but G.M. (not a rich people's car company) discontinued the option for its 1977 model year, citing lack of consumer interest. I cannot find any evidence that rich people demanded airbags or seatbelts, and many wealthy people still choose not to wear seatbelts.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      The Oldsmobile, not Porsche or Benz was the first vehicle to include a passenger airbag. The 1973, Oldsmobile Toronado was the first car with a passenger air bag intended for sale to the public. http://inventors.about.com/od/... Alth

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      "Very wealthy people can do things like that — that is the definition of being very wealthy."

      How did such a clumsy writer publish a book? No, you are describing a consequence or characteristic of being wealthy, in contrast to the definition itself. For example a car is a mode of transportation. As a consequence of its internal combustion engine, it can travel very fast relative to a human.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It's articles like this is why Kevin Williamson is a joke. Anyway, we can name many instances of immensely wealthy people that met their maker, despite cutting edge living savings procedures. Drug companies, doctors, researchers WANT patients to use their innovations; they have no financial incentive to wall off treatment to only a wealthy minority. Cures bring good publicity and more business. For example, 100's thousands of people die every year of cancers such as Pancreatic, Stomach, Lung and Acute Leukemia. If a cure existed, drug companies wouldn't hesitate to get it to market; the windfall would be enormous.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Worse Is the New Normal

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Rising economic inequality if a byproduct of a dynamic, growth-orientated economy that rewards innovation by its creators. It's just a coincidence that record inequality coincided with the Great Depression, and its a fallacious reasoning to assume that the former must proceed the later.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Getting Into Kindergarten in New York City Will Remain Stressful

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      nowhere in my post did I mention class

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Is your keyboard broken? S&L was more of a problem than a crisis. A big exaggeration to call it a crisis.

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      It's pretty much true

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The One Weird Law That Dictates How Government Shutdowns Work

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      our government is an embarrassment

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will a Government Shutdown Chill Congressional Republicans Out? No

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      I'm not losing sleep over a shutdown (and neither is Facebook stock), but it's idiotic that its come down to this. Between 2002- 2006 when the GOP controlled much of of the three branches there was not a peep about debt.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will a Government Shutdown Chill Congressional Republicans Out? No

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      Matt Yglesias should stick to making pop music. f'ing moron

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Six Things That Will Determine Obama's Success With Iran

    • Economics Institute • 5 months ago

      the last president wasted trillions on a quagmire that ended in civil war so Obama cant do much worse

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Democratic Leadership Is Feeling Lonely for the GOP

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the dems give pointers to the GOP (Matthew Yglesias ). you rarely see the opposite. a stronger GOP simply means more resistance instead of better leadership.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Who's Going to (and Graduating From) College, in 7 Charts

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The problem is we're sending too many unqualified applicants to college, but we don;t have good ways of accessing readiness, so we send everyone , which is great for colleges but bad for dropouts who are left with debt and little in return.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Ted Cruz, Leninist

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Like Sarah Palin and Rand Paul, Cruz has found a niche of loyal supporters that he can milk later on book tours, PACs etc. If this was his intent, he succeeded.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      As Newt learned the hard way, one man cannot make a movement.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    19 Charts That WIll Restore Your Faith in the World Economy

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      We have a bifurcated economic system with a minority reaping an increasingly large amount of the fruits of economic growth and breadcrumbs for most; this is not new nor is it reversible. sorry. Obama's biggest mistake was setting unrealistic economic expectations, but this was also necessary to get him elected. The bulk of jobs created since 2009 have been in lower paying sectors, with many workers taking home smaller paychecks than before 2008.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      America's pre-crisis economic & political hegemony has been emboldened, instead of weakened as so many experts (like Krugman, Bill Gross, El Erian, Roubini, Talleb) incorrectly predicted. A combination of superior demographics, productivity, technological advances, and super-effective fiscal & monetary policy out of the Fed & Washington have been the drivers of this economic boom. in 2007 & 2008 the US Fed Reserve was the first central bank to respond by dramatically lowering rates; only many months later did other countries take our heed. Although the world economy is thriving, I would rather put my $ in America due to low inflation & strong cooperate fundamentals.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Leading Scientists Weigh In on the Mother of All Climate Reports

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      When predictions fail to be realized, its like algebra class: just shift the graphs to the right/left as desired.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Also, there's no crisis that can't be fixed simply by printing money (as far the the USA is concerned).

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "
      This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis
      In giant, complex systems like global financial markets, terrible accidents are inevitable.
      "

      Let me peel back the veneer of hyperbole and infuse some economic reality. In 2008 they called it the worst crisis since the Great Depression to highlight its severity , but it's also a testament to the overall stability & resiliency of the financial system because we're looking at an eighty year gap between two crisis, or about three generations! We may have to wait decades before a repeat of 2008; I would rather just stay long stocks like Facebook than wait for something that may never happen in my lifetime

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Getting Into Kindergarten in New York City Will Remain Stressful

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Prestigious schools on the primary, secondary, and tertiary level are interned to produce academic, political and business leaders by selecting the best and brightest among a large pool of potential entrants.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Was Hillary Clinton's Week—and Her Moment Is Just Beginning

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      A Hillary nomination would be a major blow to progressives. She's pretty much a neocon with the exception of some social issues.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Clinton Foundation rife with fraud http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G...

      however, pantsuit in chief would probably do a better job than Obama with less of the class warfare rhetoric we've become accustomed to.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Leading Scientists Weigh In on the Mother of All Climate Reports

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      They want society to regress; what else could it be.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      he's a carbon hypocrite

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      it's the tendency of the left to turn molehills into mountains or to fan the flames of crisis. A debt impasse becomes an economic catastrophe; global warming becomes mass extiction, wall s.t derivatives are ticking time bombs etc. If I have to choose between an optimistic outcome or the worst case scenario, my money is on the former.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      sorry, but not losing sleep over this. Facebook stock keep going up. bought it in the lo $20's and more than doubled my money. just not a big concern

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Giving Cruz His Due

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Reading Green Eggs and Ham and shoutouts to - of all people- the disgraced John Edwards and class warfare rhetoric about the plight of fastfood workers weren't quite the droids we were looking for.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Before Obama's term is up, we'll see a super spike in oil & gas prices due to Middle East tensions, in addition to an unexpected rise in unemployment. Add $5 gallon gas to the long list of obama failures

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Education’s Gadget Syndrome

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      but you said yesterday those type of companies don't employ enough people http://nationalreview.com/arti...

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Computers (or more specifically the internet) has made me a tidy sum. Technology facilitates learning. Before the widespread adoption of the internet, to look up a technical formula you would have to go to a research library library, find the appropriate book, flip through the pages etc; nowadays you can find it in a few minutes with a Google search and if you have any questions ask an expert on one of many numerous communities.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "As I reported last week, Pearson sealed its whopping $30 million taxpayer-subsidized deal to supply the city’s schools with 45,000 iPads pre-loaded with Pearson Common Core curriculum apps earlier this summer. "

      say the word: socialism

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Giving Cruz His Due

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Still have 2 more years for crap to hit the fan, and things can get really bad faster than anyone can anticipate (2008 Lehman collapse for example)

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      or bush regard to fear of terror to sign PATRIOT act. both are, as are most politicians

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      ya it was ineffective, but this was known ahead of time

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Obamacare Worm

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Obamacare is unbridled socialism. No, we're not all Keynesians; we're all socialists.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Golden Opportunity for Republicans

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The left is desperately trying to spread misinformation about how the shutdown will be 'catastrophic' or a 'disaster' when the past shutdowns have had no negative economic consequences.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Opposing Obamacare Isn’t Anarchy

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      It's socialism, plain and simple. It benefits the insurance & hospital conglomerates and small business & main street pays through higher fees, fines, regulation, fine print etc.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "As Obamacare tears apart the established healthcare institutions "

      quite the opposite. on wall st. insurance & hospital stocks are surging, partly due an increase in signups from the socialist bill. Nearly 70 percent of insurers will sell health plans on the new Obamacare exchanges by 2015.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Giving Cruz His Due

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I hate to say this but the Cruz filibuster will be quickly forgotten much like the Rand Paul's. The best hope for the GOP going into 2016 is that oil & gas prices surge on foreign tensions or speculation and that unemployment increases, creating an overwhelming negative economic backdrop that should be sufficient for a GOP candidate to eke a victory.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Terry McAuliffe, the Redskins & the Big Lies of Liberalism

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      after the thomas sowell drubbing earlier this week, all the NRO authors that antipathetic towards Cruz are writing about banal non-obamacare stuff like this

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      both parties are socialist. in who's pocket do you think the trillions spent in the Iraq war/homeland security went during the last administration?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Aren’t More Ph.D.’s Teaching in Public Schools?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      maybe the author meant public college, but a phd teaching HS would be an under-utilization of skills. However ,the pay is decent with lots of benefits down the road.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      that makes more sense. my bad

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      early on there's a lot of pressure but often the output diminishes in later life and if the prof's field becomes less relevant or obsolete the university is stuck.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Leftist “F” Word - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      neocons & neoliberals have pretty much merged, even on the social issues

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the neocons still have an iron grip on wall st., multinationals, etc. Without a charismatic 2016 candidate of the caliber of Obama, the GOP stands a pretty decent chance of winning with a moderate like McCain or Romney. Rove still carries a lot of clout in the party and is not to be underestimated.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Schools Are Not Parents

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      go figure. liberalism is a mental disorder

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Late, Great Middle Class

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I knew this would be today's 'big' NRO article with the most comments which is why I made a bunch of posts early on

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The BRICS Paradox: a Healthy Economy and Bad Healthcare

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I take it this author has never had a medical procedure done in a BRIC country

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Aren’t More Ph.D.’s Teaching in Public Schools?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      " only 41 percent of Ph.D.'s will find tenure-track positions"

      only? that's pretty damn good deal getting a lifetime cushy job with inflation indexed wages. I thought it would be much lower

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Here Are the GOP's Debt-Ceiling Demands, and They Are Insane

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Even I will concede that there's a lot hypocrisy on the right. They want to use tax payer $ to pay Wall S.t bonuses & bailouts and nothing for students, home owners, and small biz.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      iron law of political economy

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    GOP Leaders Aren't Even Pretending the Debt-Ceiling Fight Is About Spending

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I suspect stocks will surge once this gets resolved (and i'm certain it will). good to be long

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    GOP Chaos Isn't Making Obama Look Any Better

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      never mind the lame duck. looking ahead to 2016 the dems still have the upper hand by virtue of demographics.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Put the republicans in a small room and force them to listen to cabinet doors being slammed repeatedly until they agree. (almost as loud as a riffle)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    All the Reasons Why JP Morgan May Be Facing the Biggest Bank Fine Ever

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      like piss in the bucket. JPM stock keeps going up

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Year's SAT Scores Are Out, and They're Grim

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The SAT, unlike most HS tests, is not a plug & chug/ rote memorization test. It's the opposite of the 'factory' analogy liberals keep repeating

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yea like to see you pass a dumbed down physics exam

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    This Year's SAT Scores Are Out, and They're Grim

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      " I wasn't surprised that my SAT score didn't reflect my average academic performance in the end"

      no kidding. College admissions officers know that HS GPAs are almost meaningless due to grade inflation.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      These low scores prove that like standardized IQ tests, you cannot prep for the SAT beyond becoming acquainted with the test format. Test prep is a scam.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Unveiled! Lenin's Brilliant Plot to Destroy Capitalism

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "And a collapsing currency turns the bourgeoisie into the proletariat overnight. "

      if the bourgeoisie is stupid enough to keep their $ in the falling currency, perhaps yes, but often the bourgeoisie own real estate, $ denomintated in US dollars or Euros in foriegn banks, and other asset classes that retain value

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Here Are the GOP's Debt-Ceiling Demands, and They Are Insane

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      If the dems lose exec. in 2016 (and the house & senate) that's the last we'll hear of the debt ceiling. guarantee.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "destroy the country"

      this hyperbole doesn't help your case, not does it instill much fear because it's false. Facebook stock, for example, keeps making new highs (I went long in the low $20's when everyone was calling it a 'bubble' and have more than doubled my money). Silicon valley and Manhattan are epicenters of innovation and wealth creation.. don't see them being affected by Washington's dysfunction. And then you have the backdrop of perpetual fed liquidity. The GOP is just playing to their base before the 11th hour bargain to kick the can a little further. As an investor I'm not losing sleep.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Late, Great Middle Class

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      There will always be need for 'hands on' jobs but the wealth/income disparity between the shrinking middle class and the creative class will keep widening. However, this will not result in a crisis and is sustainable. The reality is that the economic role of the US middle class is being supplanted by the highest income earners and the emergent global middle class.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I hate to bust the bubble of negativity, but there will never be a debt crisis. Japan has been at 0% interest rates forever and they have a higher debt/gdp ratio than the USA and yet demand for the Yen, lik the US dollar or the Euro, remains in high demand. http://www.forbes.com/sites/pa...

      This is just economic reality .Its not a partisan issue.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      ummm CAFTA?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Franklin said it best. death & taxes. No way out of it. Smart folks learn to get long term capital gains and mortgage interest deduction (which big govt. Mike Lee wants to repeal)

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Even the post 2008 stock market & economic boom is attributed to Bush's tax cuts, Bernanke's appointment & TARP. Obama just taking credit, like he does for everything.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Late, Great Middle Class

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      " down the tubes."

      Maybe for you and the liberals, but not for folks who own stocks, real estate or the creative class. The good news is that we are a prosperous nation and our best days for the successful are ahead.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "Never has it been so lucrative to work in banking or on Wall Street. And never has it been so bad to try to find a decent job making something real."

      You mean never before has it been more advantageous to have a STEM degree and or an above average IQ, in which case you're correct.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Facebook stock, Bay Area real estate, web 2.0 valuations, and stock market keep rising. The upcoming Twitter IPO will mint a new set of instant millionaires & billionaires. We're still in the smartist, hypercapitalist era of limitless wealth creation- if only for a few- and stagnant wages for most. People getting richer than ever. Anyone with a good idea and some coding can become a multi-millionaire overnight. The left's shrill cries for crisis & fiscal restraint still being ignored as S&P 500 companies report quarter after quarter of blowout profit & earnings and the national debt keeps climbing. There will be no repeat of the 2000 dotcom crash, 2006 real estate crash, or 2008 stock market crash. America doesn't make many jobs or 'stuff' anymore, but we're leading the world in technological innovation, financial innovation, exports, productivity, consumer spending, fed policy, and earnings per share growth.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Kermit Gosnell, Our ‘Monster’

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      probably voted for obama, too

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Wrong Numbers

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Neither party has a viable plan for healthcare simply cause it cannot work . too many people in America. Fix the immigration problem and healthcare will be doable.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ted Cruz and the Power of Conviction

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      this was great promotion for Ted CruZ, much like Rand Pauls' ineffective fillibuster

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      cruz gave a shout out to john Edwards. nice to see he has his priorities in check.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Ted Cruz's Senate Speech Revealed His Softer Side

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      sounds like a liberal, especially the part about about john edwards and fast food
      he's confused

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    You Really Ought to Be More Terrified of the Debt Ceiling

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      agree...and also Investors are getting worried about US debt, so they’re buying US debt
      in 2011 treasuries actually surged after the debt downgrade

  • Discussion on Wired: Design

    Could a “Respect” Button Help Squash Internet Trolls?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Facebook stock keeps going up . seems like the 1 % win again (not that they were ever in jeopardy)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Are Tenured Professors Really Worse Teachers? A Lit Review

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      if your mug says 'genius' you probably aren't one

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      thanks. teaching is probably pretty repetitive especially for hs teachers who have to keep teaching the same curricula over and over

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Men That Others Forgot - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      sorry for not understanding

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      umm..the article is about forgotten soldiers, not the cause.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Claim: Twitter Is 2,013 Years Old

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      stupid article. this would be any text less than 140 character is a 'twitter'

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    You Really Ought to Be More Terrified of the Debt Ceiling

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      technically, tax payers don't owe anything. We've racked up trillions in debt for tax cuts & war and yet income taxes for 99% of the country have not budged since 1993. the oft. repeated quote that individuals ow $xxx in debt is wrong. It's the fallacy of composition to use a personal debt as an analogy to the national debt.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The USA cannot default on its debt. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Fall of the Heritage Foundation and the Death of Republican Ideas

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The anti-immigration route is more popular than the author is implying. Even if immigrants do create a net economic gain, Americas are tired of the additional competition immigrants bring, especially in a perpetually bad labor market.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      ven with moral hazard TARP was a huge success. even fellow liberals like Krugman concede the stimulus was a letdown. obamacare wont be any better. The rand paul wing wont have any new ideas.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    China's Richest Families Have $720 Billion in Unreported Wealth

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      IN America we make it a crime and then give you a pithy tax cut

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    You Really Ought to Be More Terrified of the Debt Ceiling

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yea the author is wrong. the GOP strategy emboldens their base.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Sorry, but not losing sleep over this. If my memory serves me correctly, stocks have surged 40-50% since the impasse in 2011. The DJIA bottomed at 10400 in Oct. 2011; it's since gained a staggering 5000 points. For equity investors this is a hiccup. Buy the dip. Impedance in Washington means prolonged easing from the Fed. Treasury holders ain;t selling either.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Playboy With Pubes - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      We have the Alred E neuman equivalent in the oval office now

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Men That Others Forgot - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Is this Tacki mag or Fox news? another Fascmile tribute to a wars that the author omits were unjustified. what's next ? an eulogy to Norm Schwarzkopf?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ted Cruz, the GOP’s Barack Obama

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Between this and the Sowell piece, looks like NRO is turning against Cruz

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    5 Reasons the Media Is Covering Ted Cruz's 'Filibuster' Differently Than Wendy Davis and Rand Paul

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Cruz is non compos mentis, an embarrassment to the party

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Stranger in a WASP Land - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Jon Stewart is obviously a WASP; to suggest otherwise is anti semetic lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How New York City Turned Into Michael Bloomberg's Test Tube

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      blooberg adopted the bush doctrine on a microcosm

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'The First Time a Tumblr Has Been Used in an Argument in a Supreme Court Brief'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      tax payer dollars at waste

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Bad Data Warped Everything We Thought We Knew About the Jobs Recovery

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      BLS = bullshit labor statistics

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Did Rouhani Say ‘No’ to Obama?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Why does Iran have a supreme leader and a president? Why doesn't Ali Khamanei fire Rouhani and assume both roles?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Double Absurdity of Ted Cruz's 'Filibuster'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Looks like Cruz is losing his support due to his insanity; the GOP establishment will exile or marginalize him, much like Bush did during 2000. Cruz is unpredictable, overbearing, overeager, impertinent, arrogant, etc

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Parent-Teacher Night Devolves Into an Anxiety Fest

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Growing up I was under no pressure to be special; no instrument,s no sports, no extracurricular activities. Spent time reading and watching TV.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Are Tenured Professors Really Worse Teachers? A Lit Review

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      as someone who tutored algebra in a community college, teaching is boring. don't waste the best talent on pedagogy.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Fall of the Heritage Foundation and the Death of Republican Ideas

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The GOP is running off the same ideas that worked wonders in the last decade: low taxes, defense and wedge issues. This strategy is quite effective- so much so that Bill Clinton had to run as a moderate to have any chance winning. The GOP doesn;t need to chance it's strategy.. Once Obama is gone it will be back to low charisma candidates like Kerry and Gore.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ted Cruz, the GOP’s Barack Obama

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Facebook stock, healthcare stocks, defense stocks and housing prices will keep going up with or without obamacare. Regardless of the outcome, I make $. That's the best position to be in.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      cruz will fail to live up to expectations like obama too

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Three Defunding Myths

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The shutdown is more symbolic than calamitous . stocks will keep going up, including Facebook stock which I own from the low 20's (already doubled my money). Liberals are spreading undue fears that a shutdown will hurt the economy, when it wont have any negative impact.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Case For Banning Internet Commenters

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      although we disagree I found him to be reasonable

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Keep the comments. Sure, there's a lot of crappy comments, but many times commenters will make incisive observations that the author completely overlooked.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Case For Banning Internet Commenters

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The nice thing about disqus, unlike reddit, is that there is no loss of posting privileges or loss of points from getting down-votes.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    My Insane Homework Load Taught Me How to Game the System

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yea then why do people score lower in the GRE on the verbal section? tough filler, indeed

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I get down-votes. for defending humanities on this thread and thumbs up for defending them elsewhere. The nice thing about disqus is, unlike reddit, you don't lose points or posting privileges from getting down-votes.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Is Marissa Mayer Actually Doing?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      welcome

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the search engine , yahoo mail and flickr is still terrible . yahoo
      s future lies in its ali baba stake , much like ebay depends on paypal for releavance

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Do We Go to Space, Anyway?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "The rockets we send into space will be guided by human dreams."

      that's the problem. we need to look think beyond rocket technology which is inadequate for extrasolar human travel

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Sarah Palin With an Ivy League Pedigree: The Brazenness of Ted Cruz

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      nah..better pray for more guys like mitt and McCain winning nominations. cruz is too vainglorious to be taken seriously. Cruz is probably cruising for a Fox deal if this doesn't pan out.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Bad Data Warped Everything We Thought We Knew About the Jobs Recovery

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      that is correct. replacing a QE with a slightly less aggressive one is still keeping the foot on the gas

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Tea Party Is Winning—the Liberal Agenda Is Being Suffocated

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      sigh..more concern trolling from The Atlantic

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Defunding Distraction

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yup

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Defunding Distraction

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The American Conservative, LewRockwell, Drudge, Hotiar

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Sowell doesn;'t mention that the republicans have other options such as forcing the Keystone pipeline into the debt ceiling bill

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Is Marissa Mayer Actually Doing?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      read the Dilbert Principle or Putt's law. yahoo's alleged turnaround had nothing to do wit her most of the stock gains are from the ali baba stake in 2005, years before she became CEO and general market frothiness.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Single Switch That Saved the East Coast From Nuclear Disaster

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yea that's why with gun safety catch there are no accidental deaths..oh wait

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      kinda like guns..most deaths are due not to killing bad guys but from accidents

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    My Insane Homework Load Taught Me How to Game the System

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "My friends and I realized we didn’t have to do everything assigned to us in order to succeed in high school."

      i know in my HS failure to do all the work meant a lower grade and lower GPA

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "They look something like this: my email, the NYU homepage, and my online banking statement."

      got my online bank statement up. 5 figures ...7 including the decimals

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "intellectual weaknesses in the same way"

      not true. a challenging humanities course can be just as humbling as a hard math course.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Now Is the Time of Cheese

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      healthy ,cheap and filling

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Schools Shouldn't Pay Teachers Well to Improve Student Learning

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      author seems to state the obvious here

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Defunding Distraction

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      we have to stop calling him 'brilliant'; he's not . he wrote a bunch of books on some trivial matters, he's really old which we equate with being wise, he's drawing a lifetime pension at an ivory tower to produce middling output the most brilliant people don't get into politics at all upon realizing its futility

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the S in STEM Is Overrated

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the problem is lab techs are being lumped in with real scientists

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Or TEMP (p for physics) . lab techs don't make much. a theoretical physicist has a lot of income potential

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the UN Matters This Time

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the cons will waive it when they get their guy in

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Vladimir Putin's American Fan Club

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      that's how Obama got the women vote

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      he seems like a bad ass until you realize he's 5.2' . it's not hard to look 'buff' when you're really short.
      or he rode a tricycle Harley for a photo-opp

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the Poor Don't Work, According to the Poor

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Or because gas& transportation , daycare prices are at historic highs and not working a menial job means you don't have to squander your $ on gas & daycare while having more time with your kids or doing whatever you want? The opportunity cost of going to work exceeds the wage for the lowest of income earners, and even higher earners depending on cirsumstance Oh but Krugan says those costs are transitory and non inflationary. And going back to school is the ticket to getting a good job (nevermind the cutthroat competition and surging tuition). Unless we can turn back the hands of time to the 20th century, there are no solutions. Its not a partisan issue you can just blame on Obama. We're becoming foodstamp nation.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Goodlatte and the Gang of Eight

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Also known as the 'gang raped by eight bill' or the 'cheap labor bill' 'cheap labor for billionaires bill' etc

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Time for Muslims to Confront Muslim Evil

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      You got 1/7 world population Muslim..good luck purging the rotten apples,and there are a lot of them

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    America’s New Isolationism

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      but nowadays there are no threats comparable to the likes the Hitler and Nazi Germany. Iran, N Korea, Syria are the three most problematic counties off the top of my head but do they want to risk total destruction by engaging in war? probably not. more likely their leadership will be overturned in a coup.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Defunding Distraction

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I don't like how he dismisses it as a 'distraction' when this has such large ramifications. it's belittling.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      he's a pragmatist with an academic background; they typically don;t like to get their hands dirty

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      NR firing derb just another blow to readership

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      This type of defeatist attitude is how we get candidates like MCain and Romeny winning primaries with real conservatives lose

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I told ya'll... the avuncular Sowell is a sellout
      its all feelgood , pro-government, big goverment, pro-minority, factually devoid rubbish written of a cereal box

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The First Four Obamacare Train Wrecks… With Many More to Come

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Obamacare will go down as an unmitigated failure. uninsured rate will surge in the years to come, on an absolute basis and relative to population . BUT this would still be the case without obamacare, it's just that Obama care is completely ineffectual.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Our Truest Lies

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The truest lies: the idealization of the "American dream"
      the war on terror's non-existent WMDs
      Obama 's red line in Syria
      benghazi

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    ‘What difference does it make?’: Hillary featured on New York Magazine cover

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      look at those teeth

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No. 1 in Wine and Porn! The Idiocy of State Rankings

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I love CA. I can use what little money after my taxes to put bars on my windows. awesome

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Sarah Palin to Chris Wallace: Expose which GOPers are trying to ‘trash Sen Cruz’

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      mike lee wants home owners to pay for welfare precipitants families; another GOP hypocrite that wants to soak the middle class.

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Sarah Palin tells gutless GOP senators to ‘Woman up’ and stand their ground on ACA

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      mike lee wants home owners to pay for welfare precipitants families; another GOP hypocrite that wants to soak the middle class

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Sarah Palin to Chris Wallace: Expose which GOPers are trying to ‘trash Sen Cruz’

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      cruz chickened out..no shocker there.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Boom Towns and Ghost Towns of the New Economy

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "The American economy is enormous, and enormously complicated. "

      not really. it's a system that typically rewards the already successful increasing rewards for diminishing effort while everyone else gets diminishing returns for increasing work.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      conservatives are tax hypocrites. no shocker there

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Kids Shouldn't Have Phones Because They Need to Learn Empathy and Experience Sadness

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      no, it's genius because he said it; otherwise it's kinda trite. Warhol could draw a red line across a piece of paper and it sells for millions; i do the same and no one cares.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Losing Is the New Winning

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      just noticed this story is 3 days old

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Taki's Magazine - unified_theory_of_left_liberal_hegemony_john_derbyshire

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      and always 'keep it real'

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Myth America Pageant - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I find the twitter slurs about her victory amusing when viewed from a deconstructionist or satirical point of view.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I find the racist tweets about her victory amusing when viewed from a deconstructionist or satirical point of view.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Real Meaning of This Week's Shocking Fed's Decision: 'There is No Certainty, Get Over It'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "The reaction was swift, vociferous and excoriating. The financial community reacted as if it had been stabbed in the back. One longtime trader and respected commentator announced that he was “absolutely disgusted” by the decision or lack thereof. "

      then why did stocks instantly surge 1% in jubilation? Sounds like sour grapes from traders that were caught short. If you read my earlier posts, I predicted Beranke wouldn't do anything and to keep buying the dips.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Kids Shouldn't Have Phones Because They Need to Learn Empathy and Experience Sadness

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I coudn't watch the video because it's not available in my country. yea but a typical phone call is four minutes; how could this be sufficient to render one unable to appreciate sadness? Maybe we'll leave it to professional physiologists using the scientific method to draw such conclusions instead comedians. Americans felt pretty sad about 911 or Sandy Hook shootings for example, despite widespread cellphone usage.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I fail to grasp how having a cellphones impairs your ability to feel sadness.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    As Freedom Destroys Itself

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Although I agree with her message it isn't fair for NR to give her preferential treatment. I thought the republican party didn't support affirmative action, but merit and I don' think she's as qualified as other writers who had to build up long resumes as professional journalists and intellectuals to get their views published.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    American Banana Republic

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      you look at politician like Boener and you have Spinelessness, as exemplified with his 11th hour deal to avert hitting the debt ceiling back in 2011. and you wonder why things keep getting worse.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      America was already in banana republic trajectory when Bush left office. Obama may have made it worse, but a McCain victory would still mean more bank bailouts, QE, inflation lagging wages, record high gas prices, nosebleed healthcare & tuition costs, proliferate defense spending etc.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      in all fairness, it wouldn't be much better under a republican; we would have no Obamacare but still record high debt & healthcare costs , surging gas prices, bad job market, etc. With regards to #8, a little known republican named Bush set if you don't remember. # 9. Agree obama has actually made the nation more partisan.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Make Food Stamps Make Sense

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      As long as companies don't feel compelled hire enough average people with good wages to counterbalance the increase in population growth, America will remain foodstamp nation and no amount of banal political platitudes will change this. Understandably, companies want more productivity and fatter profits which means lower wages and less employment - hence more foodstmap usage. Unlike the 50's and 60's ppl with average abilities are finding it increasingly difficult to find jobs good wages. Sure if you have a high IQ and advanced degree or expertise in a specific trade, finding work is easier but this only applies to maybe 25% of the working population at most.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ted Cruz Punches Back

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      thumb up for you. I was the first one to make this connection. I was suspicious of his career politician cred and the doleful look in his eyes that spells DEFEAT

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      here's the post I made 3 months ago warning that Cruz would eventually sellout.

      http://www.nationalreview.com/...

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    In Defense of the Humanities Ph.D.: It's No Crazier Than Becoming a Journalist

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      you write dozens of posts a day and you are gonna get typos

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    In Defense of the Humanities Ph.D.: It's No Crazier Than Becoming a Journalist

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      My point is that the extra effort to get a PHD usually isn't for naught. A PHD typically makes as much as a master's degree with the added benefit of having published material under your name. We seem to be in an anti-education bubble due to libertarian doom & gloom propaganda- the same Cassandras that said we would have hyperinflation due to QE or that stocks would crash.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      As I said in an earlier post, getting PHD makes you an expert in your field.Read any serious article and experts usually the only ones quoted. Think tanks, publishers, journalists, Wall St, and institutions seek these experts, and sometimes pay pay big money for thier expiertise.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Did Competitive Sports Take Over American Childhood?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      hmm i dont think my childhood was taken over by competitive sports

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    From Boulder, Colorado: Notes on a Thousand-Year Flood

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the rule of thumb is that a thousand year flood happens every 100 years; a 100 year flood every decade etc

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Economy Poll: Adults Are More Anxious Than Ever, but Teens Are Upbeat

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      they are upbeat cuz parents pay for everything . no shit Einstein

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Weeds Amidst the Ivy: Can For-Profit Colleges Give Up Their Predatory Pasts?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      what part of 'for-profit' do you not understand? It's spelled out for chist sake. Their whole business model is to dupe single moms and dropouts into overpaying for mickey mouse degrees

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    An Unstoppable Progressive Future? Maybe Not

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The problem is Obama oversold the efficacy the stimulus & obamacare and now he's further aliening his base with regards to NSA and Syria. Obama's failures may not bode too well for his successor, but demographics still favor the dems.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ted Cruz Punches Back

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Cruz is just another flip-flopper like seni`or Rubio. Soon he'll concede on immigration reform when he sees the opportunity for a quick buck, or to advance his nefarious globalist motives. He's a sham, guys. You got duped, but I didn't.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      cruz is lawyer from Harvard like Obama..go figure

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      It's a civil war between the pragmatists and ideologues; the former will win. The debt ceiling will be raised and stocks will keep going up.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is There Life on Mars? No

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "and to the many non-scientists who prefer to think of Earth as unexceptional."

      that doesn't preclude life or earth like planets elsewhere in the universe. we just don't know. Most cosmologists/exobiologists actually believe earth isn't exceptional due to the vastness of the universe

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Decline of College

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      revisions. proved my point

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Anyone can puts words to paper, but to be an impactful and incisive writer is an art unto itself that few have the time and discipline to master. A good writer may have to make numerous reversions to a single paragraph making sure it not only conveys his intended message but impels the reader for more.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Nobody Escapes the Progressive Inquisition - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      He was fired because BI has a predominantly female staff.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    In Defense of Neanderthals - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      ", but we need more positive depictions of Neanderthals throughout popular culture. "

      the tea party isn't helping

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Mark Zuckerberg, Regular Dude

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I knew after Facebook when public and the media began lambasting the botched offering the subsequent plunge in stock price that Zuck would have the last laugh. Fast forward a year and Facebook stock is at $45 a-a historic high, and a gain of 100% in just one year. Facebook is a juggernaut. Would not bet against the kid in a hoodie.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Sequester Is a Disaster, and Congress's Next Move May Be Worse

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      That is the overarching theme of the economics institute. I'm not denying we're in a two-track economy, but due to globalization and productivity, stronger half no longer needs the masses or proletariat to thrive. That's why there's so much indifference from Washington to fix these problems, mainly because they are insulated from it.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Price of Politics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      those are my taxpayer dollars, putz. I pay state tax for that college.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Poor Students Need Homework

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      in such circumstances students will have a high GPA and low SAT score. most admission officers are aware of grade inflation and the tenuous correlation between HS GPA and college GPA.

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    The Lost Art of Stasis - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      '
      parenthetical ' always learn good words reading derb

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Poor Students Need Homework

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      hours of homework won't make a dull student a standout one.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Case Against High-School Sports

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I kinda agree. Unlike most other countries, America has compulsory education which means that dull or inattentive students that would have otherwise dropped out are forced to stay, and this depresses overall scores. On an absolute basis, America produces more math & science geniuses than any other country. Also, universities and private companies have no trouble finding enough foreigners to cover any shortfall of qualified American workers.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What We Have Here Is a Fed Failure to Communicate

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yo, jar jar binks what failure? hasn't bernake made it abundantly clear he's never gonna end QE? that's why stocks keep surging. not rocket science

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Sterilizing a Child, for a Better Life

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      let's not go down this slippery slope.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Price of Politics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      What I mean is that universities and other public institutions have access to research equipment or infrastructure that individuals wouldn't be able to obtain on their own. If I wanted to model the early universe after the big bang I could buy a super computer but this would be prohibitively expensive, however a university would have the necessary hardware to run such simulations a relatively low cost for myself.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Sequester Is a Disaster, and Congress's Next Move May Be Worse

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      My prediction is Obama will cave into republican demands to the to build the keystone pipeline to avert further problems.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the republicans are more adamant about stopping obamacare than defaulting on the debt. If I had to wager, there will not be a crisis, but more of a hiccup. I am optimistic that we will get through this relatively unscathed.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      about 50% of US citizens own stocks and rising stock prices help in other ways ; for example, companies with rising stock prices are less inclined to have mass layoffs.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      looks like new highs to me http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RY5q...

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

      i'm not minimizing the impact of these job cuts, but it's not an economic disaster as the author is implying.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Food (Stamps) for Thought

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the same could be said for food stamp recipients; one in 7 uses them so they can 't all be low lives. I'm sure many of them are nice charitable people that fell on hard times. capitalism is tough - industries and individuals fall between the cracks the tough decision is knowing when to pull them out.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      both parties eat from the same trough. cons want corporate welfare for defense companies, Wall St. banks; libs want it for construction/infastructure companies, health insurance

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Addled by the AR-15

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The libs want to take our guns to make america less safe. fortunately, their efforts are failing wit the senate refusing to capitulate

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Sequester Is a Disaster, and Congress's Next Move May Be Worse

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      " But I could see small signs of the deterioration caused by the budget cuts — facilities closed or curtailed, maintenance deferred. In several parks, such as Yellowstone, private contributions kept the worst disruptions from occurring,"

      this is unfortunate, but it's not a crisis or a disaster . using unnecessary sensational language erodes your credibility.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "Then there is the FBI, which faces staff reductions of 3,000 and two-week furloughs without pay for 36,000 agents and their support teams. As a consequence of stupid and destructive sequester cuts, the FBI,"

      isn't the FBI (and the the entire govt. complex) already over-funded? Who wants more big brother interfering with their lives?, or taxpayers paying the obscene high six figure pensions of retired bureaucrats? I say cut it more.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "is a disaster"

      umm let's see... stocks are at yet another historic high, with the S&P 500 surging 30 points in the past 3 days alone and up 18% since the original sequester.

      S&P 500 companies reported yet another quarter of blowout earnings for the zillionth quarter in a row

      Exports, consumer spending keeps hitting new highs

      Real estate rebounding, with certain regions like the Bay Area and New York going gangbusters.

      Shares of Facebook , linkedin , zilliow and dozens of tech companies hitting record highs.

      Muti-billion $ valuations and buyouts of web 2.0 companies such as tumblr, instagram, snapchat, airbnb

      So if the sequester is supposed to be hurting the economy, you won;t find it where it counts - in the actual data itself. It's FUD by Kragman, etc to spread a distorted partisan agenda detached from any economic reality. Our economy can handily weather Washington dysfunction/. We did it in 2011 with the debt downgrade, we did it in 2013 with the fiscal cliff and we'll do it again if push comes to shove. Buy stocks on the dips. Buy FB and GOOG. We don't need to be sheeple to the shepherds of misinformation.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Destroy the Chemical Weapons

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      maybe we should launch airstrikes on ourselves since we used chemical weapons & WMDs on innocent people; you can cut the hypocrisy with a knife.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    How ‘Good Girls’ Succeed

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      quite the opposite. abortion among the elite existed long before clinics though private arangements, although clinics helped bring the issue of abortion to the forefront of politics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      This article reeks of elitism and pretentiousness and reflects a distorted world view that somehow admittance into Harvard is the pinnacle of success. So by the authrs logic the other 99.99% of people who don't score perfect on the SAT or have no inclination to go to an Ivy League school are morally defective and or come from at risk homes etc.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Not Too Soft, Not Too Hard

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The left wants to believe that a government shutdown will hurt the economy; their shrill cries for recession and crisis keep being ignored as stocks plow higher day after day.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Sanity on Food Stamps

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      America is becoming food stamp nation and politicians are powerless to reverse this trend. $80 billion a year is a relatively small price to pay to stave off potential civil unrest from the masses of millions of disenfranchised unemployed people, which explains the difficulty in reforming this program.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Food (Stamps) for Thought

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      stocks keep going up. Liberals like Krugman keep spreading unnecessary fears about how a government shutdown will hurt the economy when there's no evidence it will, just like the sequester and fiscal cliff had no negative impact

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Can Washington Do for Mark Zuckerberg?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I been telling folks to buy Facebook stock last year when it was at $24; now it's at 44. Everyone said it was a bubble, a fad, the next myspace etc. The adds are annoying, but adds haven't stopped people from watching TV or listening to the radio. It't not that I condone Facebook's business ethics, but i wouldn't bet against it.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yea the middle class shoulders the tax burden of the growing underclass while the super rich pay very little relative to 'net worth' (the richest typically don't earn income, but long term capital gains taxed at a paltry 15%). it's why the savings rate is so low for millions of people, including the middle class. the system needs reforming, but this is unlikely because such a system is paradoxically optimal for economic growth.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      " He's no Ford, Gates, Jobs, etc."

      yea but he's not even 30 yet. imagine what he'll be doing in 30 years. facebook could easily be a multi-trillion dollar company and he will wield more negotiating than those aforementioned names once the country is dependent upon fb more than it already is.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'I Don't Want My Children to Go to College'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      reread the last statement. I said 'average' people. The examples you listed of college dropouts have vastly superior intelligence and or wealthy backgrounds. Correlation does not automatically mean causation. But the actual statitics makes causation suddenly look a lot more probable.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Intelligence and income tends to be correlated. While few highly intelligent people are super rich, very few super rich aren't highly intelligent. You go through the forbes 500 or 1000 list and you won't find too many dull people, except the occasional heir. A college education provides the best shot for an average person enter the middle class.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Social and Legal Arguments for Allowing Women to Go Topless in Public

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      go on ...

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Simplest Income Inequality Policy: Raising Taxes on Investment Income

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      ": Help Washington keep more low- and middle-income families free of federal income taxes while raising rates on capital gains from global "

      Such programs already exist, rendering the effective tax rate for the lowest of income earners nearly 0%. The problem is the middle/upper middle class bear a disproportionate amount of the tax burden; a more equitable system is needed to relive this burden. Perhaps raise capital gains taxes to 33%, like regular income tax. The most frustrating part about the US tax system is how little ROI payees get compared to other countries with similar tax rates. No universal healthcare, for example.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Mark Zuckerberg's Advice for the NSA: Communicate

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      like having the fox watch the hen house. Facebook is as draconian- if not more- than the NSA

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Haven't Humanities Ph.D. Programs Collapsed?: Some Answers

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Or maybe because:

      They enjoy it
      All else being equal, someone with a PHD will have a greater likelihood of being hired than with just a bachelor's degree, even it it isn't in a STEM field. A PHD indicates the candidate is highly competent at analytic thought.
      With a PHD you become an expert in your field which brings respect among other experts, speaking engagements, lucrative public sector employment or employment in a think tank, book deals, journalism gigs, etc

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Next Step on the Path to an Online-Only Education?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      MIT that desperate for money

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Can Washington Do for Mark Zuckerberg?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      feed the Constitution into a shredder, dissolve America's sovereignty and form a wolrd government where he and other like him will rein supreme in a globalist craphole. is that asking too much?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      He wants lower wages and eventual subversion of the constitution in an unquenchable pursuit of power and control. They- these tech giants- see us as consumers, not as equal citizens.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Did the Decline of Sampling Cause the Decline of Political Hip Hop?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      probbly NIcki MInaj is a pretty easy target . You sue where there's money. Or maybe rappers can create original beats; is that really so hard to do when it's your profession? Being original doesn't preclude being political.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Price of Politics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      not a democrat; just economic reality.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'I Don't Want My Children to Go to College'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "The president of Buzzfeed recently questioned the value of a traditional college education when so much information is available online. "

      easy for him to say. probably makes $1m+ a year , plus whatever millions he has in equity of the company

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Also, unlike the $200k figure touted by critics, the average debt for a graduate is only $25k , or about the cost of a new car, which unlike a college education loses half its value as soon as you use it.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      These college critics fail to grasp or simply gloss over that many professions such a surgeons require the intense training college provides in order to perform the job competently. Would you rather have doctor perform your heart surgery or someone who took some DIY courses online? For example, if you want to be a professional programmer the college has access to the latest computers and software that may be very expensive if your purchased them on your own.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Capitalism’s Triumph

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the majority of poor have little home equity. pretty much the bank owns the home. If you define wealth by the nominal value what you own, the poor own very little (hence poor). I'm not suggesting we redistribute wealth to fix this, instead I'm criticizing the author for lumping wealth with standard of living, when the two are not the same.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Minimum-Wage Laws Have Consequences

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      " How is personal spending increasing without more people in the workforce? When home builders and small businesses report some improvements in the economy and the workforce participation rate continues to fall there is something amiss. "

      that can be explained by

      1. falling personal savings rate.

      2. subsidies and social welfare programs for unemployed/low income earners

      3. increased consumption by foreigners and high income earners compensating for diminished spending by lower class. For example, private equity firms like Blackstone are buying up homes.

      Only percent of small business owners surveyed by Small Business Majority “listed government regulation” as one of the biggest problems they face. “Almost half said their biggest problem was uncertainty about the future course of the economy — another way of saying a lack of customers and sales.”

      For small business the issue isn't regulation; instead, it's high borrowing costs, lack of demand, and poor pricing power.Large companies can enter emerging market faster than small businesses, have much more competitive borrowing rates, and have lower marginal costs.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      but what if you are hiring 1000 welders? would you assess the skill or 'worth' of each welder, or just pay them all the same wage based on the market-rate of a welder? The minimum wage can be treated as a market rate for lowest skilled unit of labor, which makes it easier for employers to access costs, make decisions.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Engaging with Hispanics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      politician: A politician, political leader, or political figure (from Classical Greek p????, "polis") is a person who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making.

      A good politician sets policy that will benefit the common good- not policy that will get the most votes, or a specific voting block.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    An undergrad who knew, &c.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      pubish is a verb; publication is a noun. this is 3rd grade stuff

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "While an undergrad at Harvard, Cotton did a lot of writing for publication"

      Hopefully his writing is better than this. The noun 'publication' is missing an article

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Leading on Tax Reform

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      lower income families get enough tax credits; why should productive middle/upper class shoulder the burden of a growing underclass?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Price of Politics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      It's still a govt. initiative. Imminent domain is a good deal by bypassing the tedious process of selling property in what is typically an illiquid market.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Capitalism’s Triumph

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      "Throughout most of human history, nearly everyone was poor. Even our wealthiest ancestors enjoyed lower standards of living than ordinary people in America today. It"

      'wealth' is a relative concept. The author seems to be conflating wealth with living standards. Rising living standards doesn't eliminate poverty. Being rich in the 15th century meant you had a lot of gold and owned land; being poor meant you ate maggot infested food and owned nothing. The same applies today, but without the maggots.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      OWS was more of an indictment against crony capitalism than capitalism in general.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: I Meant to Do That

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      According to cons like Goldberg, anything short of total war will end badly for America. installing a puppet regime against the will of the people always ends badly.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Price of Politics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Second, the argument that more debt reduces growth is wrong because our debt is pretty much free, in contrast to countries like Greece and Portugal that pay nosebleed rates on their debt. Record high debt didn't stop companies like Facebook, twitter, or instagram from being created or prevent 70% of S&P 500 companies from reporting yet another quarter of blowout earnings. The CBO is making ASSUMPTIONS about things that could POSSIBLY happen, but empirical evidence or economic theory suggests otherwise; their warnings aren't applicable to the USA and can be safely ignored. Also ironic how the libertarian like Kevin is relying on a govt. agency (CBO) to pad his argument.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Umm how about highways, roads? Or the polio vaccine, developed by a university researcher? Why do so many advances come from the public sector? One word: infrastructure. Someone working in the public sector (such as a university or NASA) would have access to the expensive equipment such as laboratories required to make breakthroughs. An individual cannot possible raise enough money to produce a vaccine or simulate protein folding unless he got a job at a well endowed private company or a university. If government programs didn't create roads or put out fires, could we rely on the private sector to assume those roles? We wouldn't know unless we tried, but the consequences if were wrong could be disastrous. Even I rely on the government for my own business; for example, I use university computers to run my online business because the internet there is so much faster and cheaper than services like Comcast. I sign up for an easy course and use the computer there all day for my work.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Leading on Tax Reform

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Without preconditions, this will cost tax payers a bundle. If anything, America is overpopulated,no less – thanks to conservatives talking tough on immigration and turn a blind eye to companies that profit off them. America has enough people; it's time to start making the tough choices as to what we what our future nation to look like. For example, do we want to incentivize welfare dependents, or drug abusers having more children?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Engaging with Hispanics

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      memo to priebus: voters don't want more jobs; they want Better paying jobs. Flooding Amerika with low skilled labor doesn't help, although the myth that Hispanic immigrants only come to work is also false. Illegal aliens constitute over 25% of the federal prison population but only 5% of the general population.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Cons like priebus take that while male Christian voter for granted; the republican party deserves to keep losing national elections for betraying its principles and base. Bush transformed the GOP into the cheap labor/homeland security/preemptive war party. No shocker it keeps losing.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Save the Hospitals

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Even Reagan realized mass institutionalization was unconstitutional. This author is just anther neocon condoning the proliferation of the nanny state to sweep the streets of people it finds 'undesirable' or infringe on our rights under the false pretext of security. ..hmm didn't that try that in Germany in the 30's? Funny how these 'red flags' that seem so obvious have an inexcusable number positives when we try to implement them. This is why your party is losing the young vote, or

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Crazies, Creeps, and Criminals

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      good reading http://www.jewishworldreview.c...

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Minimum-Wage Laws Have Consequences

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Sowell's arguments are as usual oversimplified, laden in feelgoodness and glosses over the intricacies inherent in the issues he's discussing. I'm not endorsing the minimum wage, but then how do we establish a wage? Does the employee and the employer negotiate what the wage should be, or could the employer pay 1 cent an hour to to someone irredeemably unskilled (which isn't any better than being unemployed)? But below some threshold wouldn't this become exploitation? Minimum wage laws eliminate the hassle and potential legal pitfalls of setting wages, especially when dealing with 1000's of employees. It's not done out of altruism, but efficiency.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Fed Favorite Janet Yellen Is No Dove—And That's A Good Thing

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      admittedly, ordinary people benefit from rising stock prices and home prices

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Mike Lee's Tax Reform: Pro-Growth, Family-Friendly

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Another neocon that wants to turn America into a banana republic with wars paid for by the middle class, surging living expenses, and falling wages. If anything, America is overpopulated,no less – thanks to conservatives talking tough on immigration and turn a blind eye to companies that profit off them. America has enough people; it's time to start making the tough choices as to what we what our future nation to look like. For example, do we want to incentivize welfare dependents having more children?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    America's Lost Decade Turns 12—And Even the Rich Are Losing

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Not true. The success of Facebook has spawned many secondary industries designed to help businesses optimize their social networking campaigns. If 1000 businesses, for example, each hire a dozen people to manage their social networking campaigns that is 12,000 jobs. There are entire companies such as Zynga and King Games that owe their existence to Facebook.

      I agree with your first point in that the highest of income earnings have seen the greatest percentage or real gains although this isn't necessarily unsustainable over the long run, nor is it bad for the economy. All advanced economies have a power-law of income distribution.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Lost decade? Hardly. S&P 500 Earnings have literally doubled since 2009, alone. Facebook went from being nonexistent to being worth 100 billion (with no signs of slowing) in just 5 years. Nominal GDP up 30%. Real estate is still substantially above 2000 levels with some areas posting massive gains Believe it not, we're not in an economic slump, but instead a boom when you consider 20+ consecutive blowout S&P 500 profits & earnings and the massive gains in real estate, stock market, exports, and productivity. The fed knows that unemployment in an intractable problem, but it using it a an excuse to keep its foot on the monetary pedal longer than usual when every other sign indicates the economy is thriving.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Rising Tide Lifts Mostly Yachts

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      america becoming lockdown nation

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Fed Favorite Janet Yellen Is No Dove—And That's A Good Thing

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      job creation is pretty low on the totem pole of priorities, sorry

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Believe it not, we're not in an economic slump, but instead a boom when you consider 20+ consecutive blowout S&P 500 profits & earnings and the massive gains in real estate, stock market, exports, and productivity. The fed knows that unemployment in an intractable problem, but it using it a an excuse to keep its foot on the monetary pedal longer than usual when every other sign indicates the economy is thriving.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    McAuliffe Bombs with Virginia Tech Gurus

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Anther example of the left putting welfare ideology over the best interests of the economy and national security.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Congress Fights Hard to Exempt Itself from Obamacare

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      liberals rejoicing after Summers dropping out, but it's the economy that will suffer.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How a Small Team of Democrats Defeated Larry Summers—and Obama

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      the role of the fed is stabilization , or a lender of last resort - not to engage in disquisitions over the long term social consequences of its policy. He;s being tarred and feathered for things that are either out of his control or not his job to control.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      'baggage' just another word for 'experience'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I don't understand why the left is so critical of Bernake and Summers then they help get Obama re-elected by staving off financial contagion n. The stimulus may not have been big enough, but at the time it was still unprecedented. The left wants to take credit for the Obama recovery, provided the 1% cannot participate in it?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How a Small Team of Democrats Defeated Larry Summers—and Obama

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I am not necessarily denying his possible role, but we must also examine the unintended consequences of too much regulation. Keep in mind that the fed is very capable of nipping crisis in the bud-so much so that foreign central banks have begun to emulate our model of low interest rates and financial recapitalization.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      This is another example of the left putting social pettiness (such as the overblown comment about women or supposed arrogance) above the best interests of the economy. One could argue that the deregulation championed by Summers precipitated the events of 2008, but an argument could also be made that with more regulation the economy would be worse off, even with fewer crisis. Summers has demonstrated unwavering competence in handling crisis, which by itself would make him the most qualified.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Libertarian Republicans and Liberal Democrats: Marriage or 1-Night Stand?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      neoliberals generally support Syria intervention, but welfare and social liberals do not

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      we're seeing an alliance amung the far left and far right over other issues such as wanting to reduce deficit, student loan reform, opposition to free trade, and opposition to bank bailouts.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Message Voyager 1 Carries for Alien Civilizations

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      this is your tax dollars being burned like hydrogen propellant. folks.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Black T-Shirts: The Original Invisibility Cloaks

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      george carlin

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Homework in the classroom and classroom at home? I wish I had that growing up.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The U.S.-Russian Deal on Syria: A Victory for Assad

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      The author's logic: If its someone else's kid dying , by all means proceed

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Employment Down, Profits Up: The Aftermath of the Financial Crisis in 1 Graph

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      in retrospect, the overblown crisis was just a blip in the American hegemony and wealth creation boom. America exited the crisis in a better economic position than any other developed nation in terms of consumer spending, low inflation. exports, profits & earnings, stock market & real estate gains. many 'experts' predicted a downgrade or downshift of America influence post 2008 ,and the exact opposite has happened. Bernanke's 0% interest are model has been emulated by the European Union, in addition to embracing austerity measures that we also pioneered.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    Creating Wealth Through the Mundane

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      he who tries to please everyone pleases no one

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    China's Looming Diabetes Epidemic

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      that;s their problem

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Employment Down, Profits Up: The Aftermath of the Financial Crisis in 1 Graph

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Stocks surged 30% from the August 2011 lows during the debt ceiling debacle. ironically, fear over default will cause rates to fall because we have a safe haven reserve currency that tends to gain strength during times of uncertainty. Finally, there will be an 11th hour compromise to kick the can a little further. The USA, unlike Greece or Spain cannot default on its debt. It's just not possible, as much as the left may want it to.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I hate to admit it, but TARP was many magnitudes more effective than the Obama stimulus. Five years later and stocks are still surging. Facebook at $45, Twitter IPO soon, Bay Area real estate still going gangbusters.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Day John Boehner Admitted He's Totally At a Loss

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      um, pert, stocks surged 30% from the August 2011 lows during the debt ceiling debacle. ironically, fear over default will cause rates to fall because we have a safe haven reserve currency that tends to gain strength during times of uncertainty. Finally, there will be an 11th hour compromise to kick the can a little further. The USA, unlike Greece or Spain cannot default on its debt. It's just not possible, as much as the left may want it to.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      stocks will keep going up not losing sleep over this.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    American Ineffectualism

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      What is means is that Obama has made America ineffectual. He knows Obama is a weak leader, a pushover, naive, etc. Had Bush been in power he would have handed over Edward Snowden.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'We Made It': Humanity Has Arrived at Interstellar Space

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      so we sent a lump of metal to the edge of the solar system, and it only took us 35 years. whop dee doo

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What If…? Looking Back at 2 Paths Twitter Didn't Take

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Would be a buyer of twitter stock.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Twitter Just Filed a Secret IPO—Why 'Secret'?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Twitter stock is a slam dunk. huge growth, huge margins, 0 competition . the left said LNKD and FB were bubbles and those have surged

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Brogrammer Effect: Women Are a Small (And Shrinking) Share of Computer Workers

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      what is mathematical worker? a mathematician? that seems too high

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Without Honors

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      they are all pretty bad but just pointing out double standard

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      these are the same liberals that bemoan student loans rates going up and call it a 'bubble'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      ". Screaming obscenities in the face of a visiting professor would be, at a self-respecting institution, a cause for disciplining the students involved — harshly. "

      had this been Noam Chomsky, for example, we woudn't hear a peep from NR

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Putin has a lot more respect for G.W.Bush than Obama, whom he deems naive and effete

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Damnable Lie, One Year Later

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      it's water under the bridge; we shouldn't have been there to begin with.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Putin Is Wrong

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      America’s national security should focus on providing for our security without violating our liberties.

      The two are not mutually inclusive; one has to come at the cost of another. What he means is we have the freedom to cede our rights for security, in which case this is reassuring to know.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Myth of a Californian Renaissance

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Detroit is better.. at least the real estate is affordable

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      he's comparing apple an oranges. detroit is a city, CA is a state.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      false analogy
      Detroit = city
      California = state

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Zero Sum: Americans Must Sacrifice Some Security to Reform the NSA

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      'suspected; is as little as thinking of a crime. thoughtcrime or thinking of having them thoughts thought up

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Uncredited Collaboration Behind the <em>New Yorker</em>'s Iconic 9/11 Cover

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      good thing about 9/12 : fewer stories about 9/11

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Designed in California vs. Made in Texas

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      careful . 123markW will call you a liberal

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Kevin is a phony that condones crony capitalism- also known as privatized profits and socialized losses.. Koch Industries, whom he defended in his last article as being stewards of 'libertarianism' won massive government contracts using their close relationship with the Bush administration.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Zero Sum: Americans Must Sacrifice Some Security to Reform the NSA

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      lol u must be deluded if u think CIA and FBI have 'reformed'

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Anthony Weiner Exposed the Insecurities of the 1960s Generation

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      he's part of the entitled generation , which we're still in.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Story of the Only American Not on Earth on September 11th

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      that picture is profound

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Witchcraft Is Facebook?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      slow news day , huh

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Science of Snobbery: How We're Duped Into Thinking Fancy Things Are Better

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      marketing 101:

      perceived value > intrinsic value

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Does “Open” Mean? One Academic Weighs In

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      online classes are a poor substitute for in person teaching because it's hard to get help if you have a question.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Victory in Colorado

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Can you believe CNN is still beating the war drums for Syria, but they did this in 2003, too. So much for liberal media, more like pro-defense contractor media since energy & defense companies make up a large bulk of their sponsors.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Fitful Signs of Progress on Syria Make Obama's Speech Even Harder

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      giving Russia chemical weapons. what can possibly go wrong? lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Before You Listen to Obama Tonight, Read His Nobel Peace Prize Speech

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      wouldn't go that far

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    HOW TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I seriously regret not buying
      CRRS when you recommended it

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Confessions of a Failed Slut - Taki's Magazine

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      can't tel if srs. is takimag a right wing version of the onion?

  • Discussion on Taki's Magazine

    Taki's Magazine - you_cannot_be_syrious_john_derbyshire

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      why so srs?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    3 Reasons Not to Get Excited About Assad's Agreement on Chemical Weapons

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      they want mainstreet to foot the bill in higher taxes, more debt, lives lost, injuries, civilian deaths, etc

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    5 Years Later, We've Learned Nothing From the Financial Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I can refute all those on a line item basis

      1. asset prices and economic fundamentals (with some possible exceptions like late 90's technology bubble) tend to be highly correlated.
      2. you are right. unemployment hasn't recovered, but that's not high priority for Wall St. or policy makers nor is it indicative of overall economic health; financial stabilization, consumer spending, housing market , profits & earnings has shown immense improvement.
      3. cheap money is sustainable. yields are still at near historic lows. China cannot buy enough of our debt, in addition to massive demand from institutions and pensions for treasuries, helping push down yields.
      4. The real is real, hate to bust your bubble of negativity. We've seen 16 consecutive quarters of blowout out profits & earnings for S&P 500 companies. Earning have more then doubled since 2009.
      5. lending standards are significantly more stringent than pre-2008; ask anyone wanting to fund a business or buy a home

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      those are instinctual . humans are born with an innate capacity for language, although not literacy

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Chemical Weapons Are Different

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      um agent orange anyone? we're the worst offenders

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Awkward, All-American Marriage of Anti-Interventionism and Racism

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      sounds like the neocons, except they go out of their way to not sound racist and frequently accuse their critics of being racist

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Can Your Language Influence Your Spending, Eating, and Smoking Habits?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      or maybe those cultures are more indulgent and lack self control to not overeat, smoke, or gamble

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    5 Years Later, We've Learned Nothing From the Financial Crisis

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      pretty much sums it up

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      We didn't learn anything because we don't need to. Policy makers have the tools to keep crisis as brief and contained as possible.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      but those things you mention are concomitant .

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Stocks have surged 135% since 2009 under Bernanke's tenure and stocks rose 1000% under Greenspan. The experts- for all the criticism by the liberals - seem to know that they are doing. Too big to fail policy & bailouts are effective because when there's a crisis in confidence short & long term interest rates plunge making the cost of the cost of the bailout cheap with a very high ROI when confidence does return, as was the case in 1987 with Black Moday, 1998 with Russia's crisis or 2008. Why inflict unduly harm on the economy by quibbling over moral hazard when any problem can be remedied effortlessly by printing money?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    A Faux-Pas Foreign Policy

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Syria handing over its chemical weapons to Russia. phew i feel much safer lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Much Should It Cost to Find God?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      A sucker is born or 'converted' every minute.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      maybe you could use some more schooling yourself. The correct grammar would be kid's for the singular possessive, not kids'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      how else do you learn if you cannot memorize even the basic rules? you can't

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    'Apple Has Quietly Become a Leading Camera Company'

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      except 99.9% of photos on instgram are crap, so there will still be demand for professionals

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Universities Are Trying to Stop the Next Mark Zuckerberg From Dropping Out

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      they want your tuition . no shit

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    HOW TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I found a way to read james altucher articles a few days before they are published here (quora.com)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      with the exception of syria, the past month news cycle has been somewhere between watching paint dry and grass grow.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Study: Tenured Professors Make Worse Teachers

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      In highly prestigous schools undergrads are tyically not taught by tenured staff

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Male Holocaust Survivors Lived Longer Than Those Who Escaped Europe

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      post traumatic growth disorder

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How the Military's 'Bro' Culture Turns Women Into Targets

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      but women by definition cannot be comrades, which implies fraternity
      women are a necessity for procreation but not combat, sorry

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Oprah's Oscar Buzz and Hollywood's 'Sassy Black Lady' Problem

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      hmm hmm oh no u didn't

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    How Not to Win Over Congress

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Obama one big awful mistake (again)

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Public Opinion and the Syria Strike

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      pubic opinion just doesn't carry much weight, unfortunately

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    ‘It’s Looking Horrible’

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      bonehead supports Obama and the lemmings will follow

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    ‘It’s Looking Horrible’

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      'looks terrible'
      speaking too soon. 9/10 odds strikes will commence. bought oil futures last week and already made $3,000; will make much more if oil goes to $130 (which is inevitable but will be hastened by strikes). War is coming and our opinion doesn't matter.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Cars Aren't Just Crushing the U.S. Recovery—They're Defining It

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      0% interest rates

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      because while technology has';t eliminated employment, it has eliminated a lot of high paying middle class jobs and replaced them with lower paying service jobs

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      that was my defense of the TARP program in that it was money very well spent, but also unfair.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      gimmie a loan. mainstreet/small biz gets nothing unless you put up massive collateral. obama motors get's 40 billion and it's an economic miracle.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Capitalism Is Cooperation

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      No true libertarian would dismiss Ayn Rand; this author is a phony. Maybe if you can sell 1/100 the number of books she has, we'll reconsider your opinion. Also you use the word 'sophomoric' to describe Rand's viewpoint when the more appropriate word would be 'solipsistic'.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      If your book was so awesome you woudn't need to plug it incessantly

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Republicans Can't Win With White Voters Alone

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      sorry but this article was too long

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Syria and Rand Paul's Israel Problem

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      but it makes the entire region unstable

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Obama is bad but congress isn't any better so war here we come

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Keep the Conversation Going

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      NRO is free but the paper is pretty bad, too

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Unserious Commander-in-Chief

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Obama is incompetent but this is nothing new. War is coming .buy oil & gasoline futures.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Attacking Syria Is the Least Popular Intervention Idea Since Kosovo

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      as if what we think actually matters and the masses are going to go along with it anyway, as suggested by the subheadline.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Senate's Syria Resolution Has a Huge Secret Giveaway to President

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      War is coming; buy oil futures. I did and easiest $3,000 ever made. $120 target for oil with or without war but if strikes commence it could go to $130. Kerry pretty much set the ball in motion and now everyone is going along now with the plan with little resistance. Stocks will surge, too because this means more defense spending and less resistance by republicans to raise debt ceiling.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    I Will Not Check My Son's Grades Online Five Times a Day

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      yea because we'll all going to grow up to be Elton John . And Einstein didn't do poorly in school and his alleged 'failing' in math is attributed to an urban legend that refuses to die.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Human Rights Groups Don’t Agree on What to Do About Syria

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      and then they will bring their family and before long we have another 20-40 million immigrants in an already overcrowded country

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Cars Aren't Just Crushing the U.S. Recovery—They're Defining It

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Hard to not have a recovery when the govt. give you $40 billion bailout

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Syria and Rand Paul's Israel Problem

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      This cooperate welfare for defense companies paid for by the middle class.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      they are the most important ppl of all, says the Wall St. Journal, economist, and businesssweek. These jobs creators cant create jobs if their interests are not protected unconditionally. lol

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Unfortunate, war is Syria is inevitable and is bullish for Oil prices and stocks due to increased defense spending and GOP support of raising of the debt ceiling to help fund it.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    How To Be a Slave

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      here's an interesting fact that many on the 'left' may overlook, but low income/ no income people actually have MORE discretionary income than the middle/upper middle class. How is this possible? lower standard of living,/upkeep and very generous govt. subsidies (out of the nosebleed taxes strong-armed from middle class). If America was so inhospitable to these immigrants they wouldn't keep coming. How else do immigrants send $40 billion a year back to Mexico?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Beautiful essay, man.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama Bet the Farm on the House—and He's Losing

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      This is a mistake from a strategic perspective because he's showing his hand to an adversary. He says he will potentially use limited force no sooner than mid Sept. giving Assad enough time to prepare. Clinton laughed strikes in Kosono and Sudan against terrorists without congressional approval. it would have been better to do nothing, but Kerry's reckless statements and this 'red line' rhetoric obviously didn't help, and now the president is in a box. The best outcome will be if congress does not give approval, and another 10 year occupation and a couple trillion in tax payer $ may be averted, until at least the next term.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      With regards to Libya, NSA/Edward Snowden etc Obama's 2nd term was already circling the drain. Like the NSA scandal he's alienating both republicans and democrats, and the public in general. Obama has shown himself to be little more than Bush's 3rd and 4th term.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No, Iran Doesn’t Need Assad

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      remove assad and you have a power void & instability that will take another decade to fix

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Rebuild an Attention Span

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      tldr; strait to comments.

      I have found it useful to take breaks of a day or longer on abstract tasks such as mathematics because i find errors that I overlooked when in deep concentration. Putting your work aside and returning to it in a few hours or days later is illuminating. Multitasking is productive because not all tasks need your undivided attention, so you can accomplish more overall if you split them into smaller chunks and return to an earlier task as needed.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Miley Cyrus and Ugly Sex

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      she got the attention she so sought. in that regard it was a success

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Better Storytellers, Better GOP

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      between the bailouts of banks and mortgage companies, tax payer subsidies of wall-mart workers, Boeing, GE, LLL, etc it's all socialism. privatized profits subsidized by the tax payer, by decree.

      Socialism - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster ...
      any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      what about the story of the socialist amalgamation of power between defense contractors, dept. of homeland security, dept. of defense, and major political parties?

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      bring back derb (yea it's a long shot but his views resonated with so many people, and is a very thoughtful person)

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama's Redline Problem -- and Ours

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      that's great/ maybe we should set an example with regards to the WMDs? Nuclear proliferation is inevitable. we have to accept that there will always be some people hostile to US interests, and no amount of draining the swamp will change this.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      war is coming. oil $140 soon. gas $4.4 gallon. buy oil futures. congress will go along like lemmings.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    When the Tea Party Speaks for the Majority

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      I have resigned myself to the inevitability of war. 2003 all over agin and another 10 years of tax $ squandered money of perpetual occupation of fruitless national building for people that don;t want us there.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    President ‘Present’

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Congrats, Obama you succeeded in unifying the democrats and republicans - against you.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Effete empty suit in chief

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      We can thank G.W. Bush for the present economic & stock market boom and post 911 security. His legacy is being restored as Obama's presidency continues to erode.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Obama's polls keep falling. He perceived as being weak and ineffectual.

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Even foreign leaders admit Obama is a pushover and a doormat, unlike his predecessor whom may have not been as 'liked', but commanded much more respect and authority. Putin, Merkel, David Cameron and Xi Jinping think Obama is naive about foreign and economic issues, spineless, and pliable

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Feds’ Assault on School Choice

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      hyperbole much?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Miley Cyrus and Ugly Sex

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      Funny how all the liberals are turning gay with outrage over the performance. Maybe the 2014 VMA performers must perform wearing burlap sacks as to eliminate the possibly offending anyone. Liberals -particularity feminists were the only ones making a stink about the VMAs on twitter.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Benefits Outweigh the Costs in Syria

    • Economics Institute • 6 months ago

      another con that wants the hard working ppls tax dollars and lives squandered for pointless intervention. neocons want welfare for big defense and higher taxes for mainstreet.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Support the Troops? It's About Courage and Sacrifice, not Ideology

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      umm you mean associate professor

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Even if we disagree with the mission we support the troops for their bravery and sacrifice.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Who's Got the Power to Use Force?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      mr yoo, yoo are wong

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Mr Yoo is defending Biden & obama. classic NRO speaking both sides

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama Voters Like 3D Movies, Rom-Coms, and Horror Films More Than Romney Voters

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      covertly bring your food into the theater

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Goldberg: Losing Vote on Syria Intervention Would Make Obama Look 'Ineffectual and Weak'

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      stocks and oil prices, and gas prices will keep going higher. the NYT & WSJ will sell the case for war like they did in 2003. here we go again

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Israeli Spring

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I hate to bust your bubble of negativity but America isn't in a state of decline whatsoever. we're doing better than ever, especially compared to other developed countries.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Joe Biden's Case That Waging War Without Congress Is an Impeachable Offense

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      the same republicans that are criticizing Obama for his impertinence will later criticize him for not doing enough

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      except rich people

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    If Miley Cyrus's Twerking Is Racist, Isn't Janis Joplin's Singing Also Racist?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      so black people being backup dancers for a white performer is tantamount to a minstrel show? sherly you're joking

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Miley Cyrus VMA performance.. giving unemployed liberal arts majors something to write about

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why the Fast-Food Worker Strikes Are Doomed

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      WWMFD (what would Milton Friedman do)

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      with his plushy journalist job . probably never lifted anything heavier than a pencil

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      when it's more competitive to get a job at McDonald's than get into Harvard, management has little to fear from strikes.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      these low paying jobs create economic value. Paying too much wages or benefits would erase this net economic gain.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Fast food, street sign holder, Walmart door greeter have become growth industries

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Facebook stock, Bay Area real estate, gas prices, healthcare, rent, and insurance keep going up. Wages? not so much. But fear not, says Krugman because we're not Greece and inflation is non existent. True, unless you're buying appliances or apparel your dollar won;t go nearly as far as it did just 5 yeas, but we can't call it inflation

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Obama's Immigration Nuclear Option: Stopping Deportations Unilaterally

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      every other country in the world has citizenship laws; why should America be any different? Think about it: there's a finite amount of public resources and we flood America with more poor immigrants what happens? Everything is diluted for everyone and everyone is worse off, especially existing citizens.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    On The Death Of Dreams

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      c'mon don't drag the Kennedys into this . they have been champions of progressive politics
      yes there was some trepidation, but it was the 60's for peat's sakes

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Krauthammer's Take: Nostalgia For Civil Rights Movement

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      yea or otherwise obama would have won - oh wait

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Morality of Immigration

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      It's called the cheap labor for billionaires bill for a reason

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Corey Booker’s Imaginary Friend

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      he's not all that bad. he did a much better job defending Mitt's record than even Mitt himself

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Goldberg: Losing Vote on Syria Intervention Would Make Obama Look 'Ineffectual and Weak'

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      intervention into Syria is inevitable. buy oil futures

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      that pretty much sums it up
      is it good for America? no, but the major political parties wrote us off us long ago

  • Discussion on The Wire

    Has Kris Jenner's Show Been Canceled?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      i hope so

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Maj. Nidal Hasan Sentenced to Death

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      make him watch dr. oz

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama Embraces the Imperial Presidency

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      congress and journalists are disparate groups. the dissenters were there but didn't have clout. i'm not defending Obama but questing the notion of a political plurality about the iraq invasion.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      mao was an authoritarian, in complete contrast to MLK

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      yea but wall s.t needs the money more. they create innovation in ways we cannot fathom and occasionally we need to bail them out, for the common good.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Persistent Economic Gap Between Blacks and Whites—in 3 Graphs

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I'm sure the black people you hold in high esteem would take umbrage if they read your post. We can make the same generalizations about white culture.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      asian overachievement has more to do with selection bias and personal motivation than superior parenting .

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      You have to look at the historical context of when King gave his speech. Things were much worse back then in terms of Jim Crow laws, lynchings, overt segregation and rigged judicial system resulting in the acquittal of murders; i.e. Emmett Till.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Class Became More Important to a Child's Education Than Race

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      agree with this. no amount of test prep will squeeze a high SAT score out of a dull student

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      "wealthy (in the 90th percentile)"

      since when did upper middle class become wealthy?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      how are you qualified to judge what is junk or not? agree there is a lot of fluff or dubious findings but there need to be some mechanism for filtering out stuff that is dreck or unsuitable for publication for the intended readership.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama Embraces the Imperial Presidency

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      it's not that cut and dry. in 2003 many liberals (i.e Christopher Hitchens) supported the war and several notable conservatives opposed or questioned its efficacy , such as the founder of this magazine.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      but they would if given the chance. both are avowed interventionists, like most mainstream republicans.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How an Insular Beltway Elite Makes Wars of Choice More Likely

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      oh and lets not forget about Judith Miller beating thee war drums for the NYT in 2003

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Forgotten Martin Luther King: A Radical Anti-War Leftist

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      MLK has become the political equivalent of clay; he is molded to fit whatever agenda one seek to advance

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama Embraces the Imperial Presidency

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Five articles today on front page of NR about MLK. Why is NRO so enamored with MLK? it seems like every month has become MLK/civil rights month. Is this NRO or white guilt online?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Marching in Time

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      welcome to post derbishire PC NR)

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      it seems like every month has become MLK/civil rights month. Is this NRO or white guilt online?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Rise of Rafael Cruz

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      "8 more years to break-even on jobs" why isn't this being covered by NRO? When sites like huffington post/Washington post are doing a better job scrutinizing Obama's job record than NRO you got a problem.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      A lot of people get this wrong. Balmer didn't steer MSFT into some creative oblivion , but maintained the already successful course paved with Window, Office, and Enterprise technology- albeit with a few well publicized failures along the way. MSFT stock has actually outperformed the market when you include it's very generous dividends, such as a one-time 10% or $3 dividend in 2006.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    More Money Won’t Win the War on Cancer

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      More money may not win it, but it doesn't hurt. In the past decade CML ,- once a lethal cancer- can now be treated as a chronic condition like Diabetes, so progress is being made. Progress is being made.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic Cities

    A Brief History of How Living Alone Came to Seem Totally Normal

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I read another article that says more people are living with their parents and NOT moving out.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    George Will Is Not A Scientist, Man

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      The income of HS graduates and college graduates is converging for non-STEM majors which underscores the necessity of gaining in-demand skills. For many people four years of college means more debt without much improved job prospects. it's not a panacea.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      " There need to be jobs out there for guys who just want to graduate high school and go to work."

      such jobs exist. they just don't pay very well, on average but then again, a lot of college graduates are unable to find good paying jobs.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      "whole poont"
      typo

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    George Will Is Not A Scientist, Man

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      deleted

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Ruthless Global Battle for Your Back-to-School Shopping Dollars

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Can someone please explain the intricacies of online etiquette?When I make even slight jokes people seem to get offended easily yet I see others do it with impunity? Who are these people that get so easily offended? This culture of cynicism, skepticism and curmudgeonliness seems to be the new wave. Question everything, everything is rigged, everyone is out to get you.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama Embraces the Imperial Presidency

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      If mitt or mccain had done this there would be no discussion by NRO

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I fail to see the irony here. Unfortunate, yes, but ironic? Seem like John Fund had an alanis morissette moment

      How ironic it would be if this country were to be plunged into a possible “war of unintended consequences” by the actions and will of a single man while the British prime minister thinks it important to consult with and receive support from his nation’s elected representatives before undertaking such a momentous act.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      typical NR pro-war double standard

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    People Who Need to Retire: Pat Robertson Edition

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      we can add Rush to the list, too

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Attacking Syria: Mission (All but) Impossible

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      if we do invade it's going to be another 10-yr commitment

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Do Liberals Deserve Larry Summers as Fed Chair?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      they aren't qualified tor lack the requisite skills to judge the efficacy of Summers' being the fed

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Starting and Running Your Own Business

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      snapchat, instagram, webstagram, tumblr, bebo, facebook, ..need more?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Video Didn't Kill the Radio Star, But the Debit Card Killed the Check

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      As anyone versed in consumer finance will tell you, debit cards are for suckers. little fraud protection, no overdraft protection, high fees. The card that 'debits' you

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The 2 Biggest Things the Washington Post Got Wrong About the Budget

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      The good news is that the house republicans aren't going to take us over the cliff. A grand debt ceiling compromise will come about

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      The republicans are as culpable for overspending as the dems, if not more though tax cuts, war, homeland sec. , defense etc. But I agree with Krugman in that America is not Greece and the debt doesn't pose a risk to the economy but disagree in that we do need to get entitlement spending under control.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    My March on Washington: What I Saw and What Still Hasn't Been Achieved

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      it is safe. one well-publiciszed exception doesn't made a rule

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    No, This Stock Market Is Not the 'Next Great Bubble'

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      but the market was up 30x from 1982 to today. it pays to stay long

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Condensed Classroom

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      this article was too long

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Formula That's Ruining Teen Movies

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Adding to the Chosen one trope: ender's game

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Real Reason to Worry About the New Batman

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I just thought the use of word worry in the headline was funny. People worry about things like healthcare, war, dying, unemployment, cancer- but a movie?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      i dunno

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Jesse Jackson: 'The Tea Party Is the Resurrection of the Confederacy'

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I wonder if his riotous morals rubbed of on his son? all too well

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      This doesn't merit a response. He feeds of the attention from these prosperous statements into speaking engagements and donations. He's a one man PR machine.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    An American Satyricon

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Love Rush's feigned outrage over VMA performance i'm sure he really thought 'hmm not bad' EIB or EIT excellence in twearking

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      another NR article about such pertinent issues like the confederacy and VMAs. scant coverage of the obama economic disaster .

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Miley Cyrus Doesn’t Have a ‘Race Problem’

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      All musicians are indebted to the caveman who realized that banging a bone on stretched hide yielded a better percussion than a stone.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      the left is turning gay with outrage over the performance, in terms of race appropriation and her outfit. they want to bring sharia law to america

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Do Liberals Deserve Larry Summers as Fed Chair?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      the fed has never been a democracy. It's not a jedi council or a jury. The chief says something and the other committee members nod in agreement , save maybe one or two dissenters, but their option doesn't matter much anyway. Pretty much everyone in the FOMC is on the same page

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      the fed answers to wall s.t and multinationals first. mainstreet & small biz isn't much of a priority. sorry

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      anyone who wants the economy to thrive, for stocks to go up, for America to remain exceptional would support his nomination with no equivocation.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Makes Employees Work Harder: Punishment or Pampering?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      sad but true statement about america

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Case for Impeaching Obama

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      or maybe the GOP can run better candidates, or at least candidates that don't openly profess loathing for half the country?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Real Reason to Worry About the New Batman

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      yea this is a pressing issue. right up there with syria and NSA

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Starting and Running Your Own Business

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      i love this list. so candid, but true . no holding back here

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Nowadays the list is much shorter
      1. can i scale my website indefinitely?
      2. can i achieve exponential adoption of my app?
      3. can i potentially sell this for $500M in 3 years?

      you don't need customers or a masthead. you just need people to use & share whatever your service is. some coding and a little buzz and you can be worth millions overnight (or a couple months).

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Affirmative-Action Failure

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I understand the author's point, but now i find myself rooting for Kashawn hoping that he succeeds. Even though his grades were not up to par I'm sure the experience made him a better person, and that in itself is worthwhile. Not going to lose too much sleep if someone like Kashawn takes the place of someone more qualified if the lesser qualified student can derive the same benefit; .i.e. work ethic as the more qualified one. I will lose sleep if pressed with a sufficiently difficult math problem, however.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Was Miley Cyrus's VMA Performance a Failed 'Blurred Lines' Criticism?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      The left is turning gay with outrage. If you don't like it don't watch it. Her raunchy act is hugely successful among its intended demographic . "Cyrus's troubling appropriation of black culture" oh not this debate again if white people stole Black music. Music is all derivative. No one owns anything.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Study: Less Time at the Office Doesn't Make People Happier

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      did kotch bros & big tobacco sponsor this study?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Amazing and Astonishing Decline of Homelessness in America

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      yea they are all going on welfare/foodstamps
      america's underclass is exploding

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Bring Back Doofus Batman

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      serious batman sold $1 billion in tickets in the US alone . so I think the experts know what they are doing

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Outsiders: How Can Millennials Change Washington If They Hate It?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      sorry but I tldr this article
      the left says this about every generation.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Secretly Conservative MTV VMAs

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      u know viacom has other channels that do play a lot of music?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      I dint see it but i want to now. Liberals turning gay with outrage. they want to bring sharia law to America.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    America's Imperial Disdain For the Emerging World

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      ummmmm you mention "The European Union "

      and the article is titled "America's Imperial"

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Which Colleges Should We Blame for the Student Debt Crisis?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Why to liberals call everything a crisis when it in't? Facebook stock hit a historic high yet again today. If there's supposed to be a crisis you wont find it in the bay Area or Wall St. People getting rich than ever, and a college education is more important than ever in getting ahead in today's hyper-capitalist, results-orientated economy.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    Five Things You NEED to Know Before Buying a House

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      and with renting you got noisy tenants separated by some 6 inces of drywall

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      exactly
      renting may be ok for temporary traditions (such as moving out of town to a university), but after many years it's going to dawn on you that you wasted a lot of money making someone else rich.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Gonna have to disagree with this article, but I enjoy your writing or otherwise I wouldn't visit your blog everyday. I hope no one commits suicide over their mortgage payments. Take heed from celebrities and walk away. Rent isn't cheap, ether. $1200 rent a month in close proximity to a good job will set you back 17k a year, or money that you can use to buy a home in a rapidly appreciating area (Bay Area for example). Only the landlord get rich when you rent.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    If You're an Old Republican, You Probably Want to Go Back to the '50s

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      the 10's all the way

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Social Media Is Changing The Way We Approach Death

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      depressing stuff

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    More Is More: Why the the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      go figure. more TED pseudo science debunked

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    3 Questions for Larry Summers about the Fed

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      that's what you get when people don't buy newsapers anymore

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      America has become successistan the rich get richer and the successful get more successful and everyone else stays in a perpetual rut grasping at the dangling carrot or the american dream under the tyranny of the meritocracy.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Jobs Go Unfilled Even in Times of High Unemployment

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      it's a 2-way relationship. the worker has to give, too

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      laziness,false sense of entitlement , bad attitude, unreliable etc. a lot of qualified people don't like to be told what to do. they think they are above work or reproach.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    America's Libertarian Moment

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      maybe social libertarian (canada) but not economic

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      The status duo is here to stay. We're going to have more defense spending, drones & wiretap , more QE monetary policy, rising stock prices, falling bond yields, and foreign interventionism. Rand Paul will be a big disappointment for true libertarians if elected as president because he will continue these aforementioned trends and put u only token symbolic resistance. Ron paul is a true libertarian. look to the last 20 years to see what the next 8 will be like

  • Discussion on Rolling Stone

    The Poorest Rich Kids In The World | Culture News | Rolling Stone

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      reality show 'meet the dukes'

  • Discussion on National Journal

    Why Jobs Go Unfilled Even in Times of High Unemployment

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      here's an awesome idea: companies train the employees

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Entrepreneurship: The Ultimate White Privilege?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      sarcasm?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Many decades ago people believed things that were on TV or the radio, often without questioning its veracity. Nowadays, 'working papers' have become the new means of disseminating dubious findings to the masses, or 'if it's in an academic paper it must be true!'.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      delete cookies, disable flash, use a virtual private network

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    body image

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      i feel gay just reading this. if Andrew Sullivan can get laid so can you

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The ‘To Hell with Them’ Doctrine

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      'to hell with them is back'...um if NR hadn't turned out the republican critics of the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation this would not be news.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Tacking Back the GOP Debates

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      a little early to be worried about the debate although i agree it's an important issue. right now we have obama presiding over the worst recovery in years and hardly any mention of this by NR.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Barack the Lawgiver

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      krauthammer wants everyone either poor, locked up, or oversea dying in a pointless war or occupation. sign me up lol

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      invest in America but live abroad. most people got it wrong to live in america and invest overseas. do it the other way

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Cruz Threat

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Bring back Derb

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      whaa?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    I Regret The Error

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      And Jonah Goldberg tweeted, “For the record, I find my colleague John Derbyshire's piece fundamentally indefensible and offensive. I wish he ..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Share Everything: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Entrepreneurship, the Sharing Economy, and Its Limits

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      whopeeedeee phukin doo

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Globalization and Technology Crush Middle-Class Workers From Opposite Directions

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Cashier, Walmart door greeter, street sign holder are growth industries

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Irony of Tech Giants Anointing Public Figures

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      To get money. why else

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Don’t Know Much About Geography

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      "An ignorance of history creates the same sort of self-imposed exile, leaving us ignorant of both what came before us and what is likely to follow."

      russia. afghanistan. too easy, man.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      This article sounds like a lot of nitpicking. I don't think knowing the difference between Maldives and Malvinas constitutes basic geographical knowledge and perhaps it would be more productive to criticize Obama's politics.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What's the Matter With the Global Economy? Europe's Recession Finally Ends Just as China Fades

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      repeat after me: china was never in a recession
      slowing growth (a negative 2nd derivative) does not equal smaller economy
      very basic concept that so many fail to grasp

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Cruz Threat

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      you mean a pro-amnesty sellout like Jeb?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      The GOP is going to run another moderate . the losers will be anyone that believes in non-interventionist foreign policy and sound money.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      he's too smart and will probably triangulate if given the chance. i would just prefer someone of average credentials to run for president. doesn't take a genius to grasp these issues.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    magic feather syndrome

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      planes and snails. what's next a movie about talking toilet paper?

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How American Culture Kills Life’s Meaning

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      This author sounds like a liberal that wants america to downgrade its standard of living and become less competitive. America is not in decline whatsoever. Consumerism is what keeps the economy going when other countries are still stuck in borderline recession.

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    Possible Hints of Consciousness After Death Found in Rats

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      if this is what passes as 'wired' time to cancel the subscription

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      that' been knows forever. no need for an article about it

  • Discussion on Wired: Underwire

    Breaking Bad Recap: Don’t Cry for Walter White, He’s Already Dead

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      more suspense than the sopranos

  • Discussion on Wired: Threat Level

    First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Al of this could have been prevented. tragic

  • Discussion on The Wire

    Erin Burnett's Cringe-Inducing Discussion of Oprah Winfrey's Zurich Incident

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      with terrible rating and the magazine existed before she quit the show

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    <i>Breaking Bad</i> Blood Money Roundtable

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Does anyone remember he has cancer? maybe it will finally kill him

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      good tldr this sorry

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Fake an Instagram Girlfriend, in 8 Easy Steps

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      instawhat? another fad

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Is Bottled Water So Expensive?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      a sucker born every minute..pretty much sums it up

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    On Punctuality

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      kevin owes me an hour

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      There's a couple flaws with this article. Many employers DON'T want you early or to stay late because they don't want to be liable for overtime.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    breaking bad moral injury

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      the show is not real you know

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    On Punctuality

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      SO(3) agree too

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Watergate Cover-Up Trial: Justice Denied for Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichmann?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      must be a slow news day

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Fannie, Freddie, and the Destructive Dream of the 'Ownership Society'

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      We don;t need affordable home ownership says the Wall st. Journal. we need higher rent, higher tuition, and healthcare costs. we need higher sales tax and lower income tax

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      The ownership society is booming. People are getting richer than ever. Stocks at record highs, Facebook above the IPO price, a second internet boom, home prices surging in the Bay Area, and record wall st. bonuses means plenty of private property to be had. The American dream is not dead by any stretch of the imagination.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Most Powerful Dissent in American History

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      must be a slow news day

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Are Seniors Souring on the Republican Party?

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Seems like everyone is getting richer than ever

  • Discussion on The Wire

    Erin Burnett's Cringe-Inducing Discussion of Oprah Winfrey's Zurich Incident

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Anything for ratings . all downhill ever since she left her show

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      yea she's pretty dumb. not much smarter than the typical oprah viewer

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      You would think that a woman of her fame and fortune would either buy it anonymously such as online or have private shopper do it. Anyway, this is such a non-story

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      yea how tall are you>

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Rand Paul Knows Nothing of Milton Friedman's Work

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Too big to fail policy is here to stay. Printing money is here to stay, no mattar who is in power. It's because it works.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      that would be marxism

  • Discussion on Politico

    Opinion: Why can’t we talk about IQ? - Jason Richwine - POLITICO.com

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Yea I've seen this on other websites, too. People are obsessed with IQ. Wired had an article about IQ and it got about 10x the comments as a typical article. An article about gifted education in the NYT recently got a zillion comments.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      i thought the GOP was anti science

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Standardized tests are a proxy for real IQ tests; SAT & IQ scores are highly correlated.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      "why can't we talk about IQ"

      yes we can talk about IQ, including stupid statements about IQ such as this:

      "In terms of group differences, people of northeast Asian descent have higher average IQ scores than people of European lineage, who in turn have higher average scores than people of sub-Saharan African descent. "

      This first statement about asians being smarter is questionable at best. For example, cheating is rampant in South Korea http://www.koreabang.com/2013/...

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Cantor: 'No One Is Advocating a Government Shutdown'

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      no shutdown because the GOP spineless sellouts.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    On Punctuality

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      This is an important issue but not topical. i think NR is neglecting to sufficiently cover the economic failure of the Obama administration probably because they supported the bank bailouts and a general indifference to those unemployed etc

      i'm getting tired of iraq, culture wars, irs, trevon and stuff like that. lets talk about economic failure. it's a big deal too.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Know Thine Enemy

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      This is an important story but not topical. i think NR is neglecting to sufffciently cover the economic failure of the Obama administration probably because they supported the bank bailouts and a general indifference to those unemployed etc

      i'm getting tired of iraq, culture wars, irs, trevon and stuff like that. lets talk about economic failure. it's a big deal too.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Loveliest Short Story You Will Read Today Was Published On Craigslist

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Walk down the streets of NY, filled with electricity, tourists, and office workers living out their lives. So much intellectual capital, all in one place. If you don’t feed off the energy in this city, you are probably already dead. (The 7 Train: Deserves its own mention for being so fast and damned reliable).

      • My Co-Workers are great: I work with some terrific people. Today was the last day for our summer interns — they get some R&R before returning to Amherst and University of Pennsylvania. My colleagues are smart, funny, pleasant people to work and hang with. We are doing good things for people and bringing the truth to those who need (Preach it, brother!) I am thrilled to be part of this team.

      • Technology is Magic: What we can do with software today was simply beyond imagining 10 years ago. It is a wondrous time, your life is better when you can appreciate these things.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Rand Paul Knows Nothing of Milton Friedman's Work

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Even he concedes TARP and QE worked. Stocks keep going up. Facebook at record highs. The economy is booming, in part due to the hard work of Paulson, Geithner, Bernanke and Bush.

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      Looks like ranpaul is a another sellout. sorry

  • Discussion on NFIB

    13 Reasons You’re Not As Successful As You Should Be

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      good list

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Autism and Dating

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      it used to be simply called 'retarded' and they got the necessary care, but with this new labeling they are neglected because there're assumed to have 'normal' intellectual functioning

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      it seems nowadays as part of the PC movement we're creating new labels for atypical behavior and deficiencies

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    On the Death of John Ferguson

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      he'll finally meet his maker

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Jeff Bezos' (Growing) Media Empire

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      cool beans

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    So Does McDonald's Make a Profit In Australia, Land of the $15 Minimum Wage

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      australia is how america should be. we're kinda fixated on profits and productivity though. it's the american way it seems

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Front Man

    • Economics Institute • 7 months ago

      obama..8 years of failure (technically only 5 but it's safe to assume the reamaning three will be be as bad as the five so far)

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The GOP's Totally Reactive Reaction to the War on Women

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      I'll trade my war on christmas for your war on women

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Whataboutism: The Soviet-Era Strategy That Partly Explains Why Russia Took Snowden

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      all he needs to worry about is being captured and returned to the US..extraordinary rendition

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Good and Bad of Commenting Systems in Online Media

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      imho, it's better to under-moderate than over-moderate.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    For Better Health, Find Meaning

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      No amount of money is a substitute for a purpose driven ife

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    (this is where my jobs report post would be)

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      ' Name one item you would buy today, in inflation adjusted dollars, that would be comparable?'

      any medical procedure, rent, tuition, groceries etc etc

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      this is another buy the dip opportunity though it is kinda pathetic that unemployment has stayed at 7.4-7,5% since at least Nov. 2012

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Janet Yellen Did and Didn't Get Wrong About the Housing Bubble

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      I've written numerous times that economists don't need to predict, if they have the tools to react and keep crisis as brief as possible - a skill they have demonstrated with the resounding success of TARP, for example.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Barack Obama, Media Critic

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Why is the left so obsessed with trying to save obsolete industries

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      People are getting richer than ever. stocks and bay area home prices are on fire. the winner take all economy is sustainable; there will be no crisis or recession despite record inequality.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will Iran Get a Bomb or Be Bombed This Year?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      nothing will happen

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Plan to Take Down Immigration Reform

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      the GOP really doesn't care that much.ultimately they want the cheap labor

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Plan to Take Down Immigration Reform

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Immigration reform will help the economy but little, if any, of those gains will trickle down to the lower classes. PRetty much all economic policy in the past 30 years has been based on the trickle down premise- that main street's pain is supposed to be repaid in dividends down the road, if we're just patient enough to wait our turn. Meanwhile, more immigrants will push up the costs of healthcare and other services.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    I Don't Worry About the Little Things

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      must be a slow news day

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Presidential Hopes and Hopefuls

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      that's the wrong attitude to have

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      it could be jeb bush..ughhhhhhhhhh

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Me and My Obamaphones

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      probably voted for obama too

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      if you build it we will take it - obama

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      why do you keep seeing all these 'poor' people that are being 'taken advantage of' with iphones, ipads etc.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Death of Populism

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      "The poor are not so affected. They are more often borrowers than lenders, and they are sometime beneficiaries of federally subsidized debt relief."

      It's called the poverty scam. When you take into account all the deduction and other middle class subsided benefits, many poor actually have more take home pay and discretionary income than many of the middle class.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Even though I'm a republican I'll concede we'd still be having the aforementioned problems (surging gas prices, healthcare & tuition, foodstamps, high unemployment) had Romney or McCain been elected. The economy would be be doing better in terms of higher stock prices and less regulation and no Obamacare, but to imply gas prices would not have budged under a GOP administration just patently false, unless the stock market and economy made no recovery. Asset inflation is unstoppable. The CPI index is a sorry measure of inflation, - by design.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    What Do You Do When You Find a Dead Body?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      having fun. that's the most most important of all.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    What Do You Do When You Find a Dead Body?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      good article as usual.. gonna give you an F

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    lol | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      market making new highs but the enthusiasm on the blogs and other sites coudn't be more muted

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Zone: This Is Where You Go When You Just Can't Stop Looking at Pictures on Facebook

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      sounds like you're resentful of facebook's success

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Economy Just Grew 1.7 Percent, But It Should Have Been Much Better

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Its still better than all of Europe

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      There's an estimate that windows 8 took .01-.03 off the GDP from reduced PC sales and lost productivity

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    E-mails Suggest Collusion Between FEC, IRS to Target Conservative Groups

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      'The poverty scam: How America's 'poor' are ripping off the middle class and what we can do about '

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Bending the Trayvon Martin Tragedy to Fit

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      IRS, religion & trevon safe subjects to appease the base
      so few articles, however, about how obama messed up the economy, encroaching socialism, proliferation of government industrial complex etc

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Was jonah in a coma or does he get his news via telegraph? this is so 3 weeks ago

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Can Anyone Stop John McCain?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      'grand bargain= kick the can a little further

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Yes, the Christian West

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      i'm sorry

      there i just apologized.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    E-mails Suggest Collusion Between FEC, IRS to Target Conservative Groups

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      NR is going overboard deleting comments again

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    My interns are smarter than you | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      pretty much the same as the FOMCs in 2010 & 2011
      amazing how little things change when the events in 2008 were so cataclysimic

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Sexist Attacks on Janet Yellen Have to Stop

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      she got bounced from the dailybeast too
      \

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      We don't need to be able to predict crisis; we only need to have to tools in place to make them as brief as possible which is a lot easier and resonable. All the folks that 'predicted' the 2008 crisis were blindsided by the huge recovery, that is still raging strong to this day. the dow is within 40 points of historic highs. It's safe to say fed policy was a resounding success. Bernanke's successor doesn't need to be an oracle; he only needs to wield the cudgel of monetary policy to nip problems in the bud as they arise.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      it was an off the cuff remark that was blown out of proportion and distorted by the liberal media

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      "Bernanke is the most competent man of the decade, says experts. 'He saved the economy while liberals fail to give him due credit'.."

      Summers is the most qualified successor to Bernanke in terms of his experience in such circumstances His occasional impertinence is forgivable

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Fissures on the Left

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Pastor Mocked for His ‘Biblical Money Code,’ Gets Last Laugh

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How Musicians Really Make Money in One Long Graph - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      steely dan ..2 years = 7 tracks

  • Discussion on The Atlantic Cities

    The Steady Decline of Homeownership, for Everyone, Everywhere

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      not really. a home gains equity whereas that's not possible with renting

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Grassroots Anti-Drone Movement Begins: 'If They Fly in Town, We Will Shoot Them Down'

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      obama done commander in chief

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Sexist Attacks on Janet Yellen Have to Stop

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      in all fairness, she may be asexual

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Universal Free College Would Be a Regressive Scandal

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Higher student loan rates helps the economy in several ways; it encourages students to major in high paying STEM fields and it increases spending which goes into GDP. A college education is invaluable in today's consumerist and hypercapitalist society, but we shouldn't make it more affordable.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Fissures on the Left

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The libs don't have a charismatic replacement for Obama. 2016 should be easy for the GOP, especially if gas & oil prices surge in the final 2 years of Obama's term, which i'm sure they will.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Avoiding Another 2012

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      THe libs don't have a charismatic replacement for Obama. 2016 should be easy for the GOP, especially if gas prices surge in the final 2 years of Obama's term, which i'm sure they will.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      sign..these pundits think the GOP is supposed to be a monolithic entity

      all political parties have fissures and variations or else it wouldn't be a party , but a decree. Why this is a new concept to some people. There's different variants of conservatism for different elections. Moderates tend to be the front runners of national elections with more variation between far right and moderate with state elections. the GOP is not tearing itself apart. there's not a civil war. the political process is working exactly the way it's supposed to.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      This market is still in autopilot mode . You can take the earnings headlines from 2010 and they would be the same as today in terms of the high beat percentage, high profit margins, cost cutting, and tepid guidance. The earnings shock from Europe, China, higher taxes or the sequester many had predicted in 2012/2013 didn't happen.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Undisputed Champion | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      i will wager that this time it's different. there will be no repeat of 2008 eve if there are some similarities. Lenders have done a much better job managing and assuming risks.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Needed: A Tragic Hero

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      or suggesting that we need such a figure.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A New Deal Witch Hunt?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Pretty much both parties are guilty of socialism and erosion of individual rights. We've witnessed the inexorable buildup of government and its merging with the private sector since FDR and it's only continued ,unabated. Liberal racism and hypocrisy is just as real as any other form of racism.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Manning Verdict Is a Mistake

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      the irony of foreigners leaving an oppressive government to spread their oppressiveness here

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Regionalism: Obama's Quiet Anti-Suburban Revolution

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The liberals want to turn America into Detroit. Regression and regulation is the liberal way.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    NBC Pres Behind Hillary Series Put ‘HIstorically Questionable’ anti-Reagan Film On Air in 2003

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Vincent price would do this movie justice

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Needed: A Tragic Hero

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      reading some of these NRO articles you get the impression they're running out of ideas of stuff to write about.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Can we stop calling everything a CRISIS when it isn't? if you keep crying wolf people just learn to ignore you. Let's see..the stock market is at historic highs. Facebook stock did what few (except me and a few others) thought was possible and finally closed with 20 cents of its IPO price. We have 70% of S&P 500 companies beating estimates and record high corporate profits and the financial sector is flush with more cash than even before the 2008 crisis. We're not Greece,; we're not Detroit.. If we can survive 8 years of Obama, we can survive anything.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Daniels vs. Zinn

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      I'm sure mr. zinn has made a pretty penny off his book. wonder how much he donated to charity?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Fissures on the Left

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      all political parties have fissures and variations or else it woudn't be a party , but a decree. i dont know why this is a new concept to some people. There's different variants of conservatism for different elections. Moderates tend to be the front runners of national elections with more variation between far right and moderate with state elections. the GOP is not tearing itself apart. there's not a civil war. the political process is working exactly the way it's supposed to.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Ashamed of Patriotism

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      must be a slow news day when we're talking about a 9-11 related subject and it isn't even September

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Country Party

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      it's called socialism. How does Walmart get away with paying so little? govt. subsided healthcare and food stamps . Pretty much every component of the Dow 30 depends in large part on government contracts or some sort of subsidy at tax payer expense.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      read What's The Matter With Kansas. pretty much both parties answer to the same masters, albeit in differing ways.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The GOP Wants to Slash Food Stamps: Here's Exactly How Many of Their Constituents Would Suffer

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The problem is that companies are so obsessed with with productivity and cutting costs that ordinary Americans are felling between the cracks and have to turn to unkle sam for help. It's not that Americans have gotten lazier and stupider; its that they cannot keep up with the relentless progression of globalization and hypercapitalism.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Country Party

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The wedge issues is designed to distract voters from economic issues.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The meritocracy has become an oligarchy of technocrats that seek control of all aspects of our daily lives in a relentless pursuit of total power. They want we, The American People to pay more for our insurance, rent, food, healthcare, nutrition while insisting there's 0% inflation according to some bogus CPI index. They want to bleed us dry, financially and spiratually.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Trickele down economics is optimal for economic growth. There's a lot of misinformation about how increasing wealth innequality supposedly poses a threat to the economy when there's no actual objective data or ecomic thoery that suports this.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      it's not about moving money around; that is just one part of the equation. it's about increasing productivity and consumption through the development of new technologies and new markets.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The sequester was obama's fault. I agree with Krugman in that the US economy doesn't need to get its fiscal house in order, but we need more spending in the form of tax cuts and less class warfare rhetoric. This is where I differ with the democrats and agree with the republicans.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Even Bush supported too big to fail policy. The government does pick winners and losers - only if the economic consequences of letting important institutions fail exceeds the costs of the bailout. it's ruinous policy to let the economy fail and not so anything to try to fix it. Obama is taking credit for Bush, Bernanke and Paulson saving the economy and is trying to undo their hard work.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Mitch Daniels Was Right

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      the problem is public universities are using taxpayer $ for liberal indoctrination courses

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Stupidity of the Crowd

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      This sounds like another article advocating neoludism, liberalism, and economic regression. Facebook stock surged another 5% today. Technological progress, crowdsourcing, wealth creation, smartism, spendism, consumerism is unstoppable.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The News vs. <i>The Newsroom</i>:

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The sequester was obama's fault. I agree with Krugman in that the US economy doesn't need to get its fiscal house in order, but we need more spending in the form of tax cuts and less class warfare rhetoric. This is where I differ with the democrats and agree with the republicans.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Get Ready for the All-Hail-Hillary Movies

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Hillary ..would this be a zombie movie?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Making Noise in Rio

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      catholic church..giving cover to pedophiles the world over

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Fact-Free ‘Middle-Out Economics’

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      We're becoming a nation of crybabies seeking crisis and recession. Detroit's problems are NOT emblematic of America, whatsoever. OUr economy is booming , in spite of obama not because of him. The problem isn't government spending or the fed, it's liberalism. Even Bill Clinton says Obama is clueless about the economy for wanting to tax the rich.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Lew: Yes, IRS Scandal is 'Phony'

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Even i'll concede the sandals were mostly bark and no bite and the media abdicated any shred of journalistic integrity by overblowing what was pretty much a non-story. It would have been nice to watch Obama twist and squirm , but it wasn't a scandal.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Black CNN Anchor Agrees with O'Reilly on Black Culture; Gets Criticized by White Guest

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Oreilly is another big govt. neocon that wants everyone either poor, in jail or overseas fighting some war for oil

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      economist: Obama won't finish term with the bottom dropping out

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Get Ready for the All-Hail-Hillary Movies

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      it can survive if we stop the class warfare

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Bill Clinton says Obama is clueless about the economy for wanting to tax the rich.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Paul Krugman and the Mysteries of Pittsburgh

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      We're becoming a nation of crybabies seeking crisis and recession. Detroit's problems are NOT emblematic of America, whatsoever. OUr economy is booming , in spite of obama not because of him. The problem isn't government spending or the fed, it's liberalism.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    The Earnings Comeback | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      we're been hearing that argument since 2010 or so and stocks keep going up. the pe ratio still very low, and i imagine if revenue doesn't rise sufficiently to match the rise in stock prices we may see some PE expansion but wit ha PE of 15 we're far, far from overvaluation. Cost cutting overdrive is here to stay. companies realized that they were incurring a lot of unnecessary expenses in the 00's and 90's combined with rapid gains in cost saving technology.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    How much time do you have? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      "obsessing over financial news "

      that's why index funds are such a great investment because it eliminates the idiosyncratic risk. 99% of financial news is minutia and can be ignored.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    How much time do you have? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      cool story bro, tell it again

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Who Is Roger Ferguson and Could He Be the Next Fed Chair?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      if the ron pauls of the world had their way the dow would be at 20..points

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      not really. the data suggests the economy and financial sector is thriving

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Bernanke saved the economy and Obama wants to replace him? Bad idea

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    How to Self-Publish a Bestseller: Publishing 3.0

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      good guide, thanks. i wonder i could do it for $1000

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    David Einhorn: The New Game is ‘Beat and Lower’

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      sounds like sour grapes from someone who happened to pick the absolute worst stocks to short
      The PE ratio of the S&P 500 is still stubbornly low despite this huge rally.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Could The Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The surveillance state is in your head

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    Genius

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      it's already been done. terman study . google it.

      “At any rate, we have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated[33]”

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      yea cuz an average IQ of 100 has stopped humans from attaining ..total domination

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      no biggie. he'll invent a cure for lung cancer

  • Discussion on Wired: Science

    Genius

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      this article is pseudo scientific rubbish and is covertly advocating social Darwinism and eugenics. This article implies that there is some scientific consensus about the role of IQ in determining the outcome of life or the efficacy of IQ tests in measuring intelligence, when no such consensus exists.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Inside the NSA Fight

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      ummm....no

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      the big govt. faction of the GOP holds a lot of clout. they care more about securing business interests than winning elections, or what people like us think. we don;t matter too much.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      the con response is that means we're not doing enough, not question the efficacy of the program to begin with

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      it certainly wasn't obama. We can debate if the economy is better or not, but it's clear obama is unjustly taking credit for the work done by the prior administration.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      that's why the wedge issue was invented

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      cons like Krauthammer beat up on easy targets like Detroit while more covertly supporting the desecration of our constitutional rights though war, wiretapping, nsa, patriot act etc

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Happened to Economic Mobility in America?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      America's wealth is being concentrated at the top, and this trend is irreversible. In 1929 it culminated with the Great Depression but there won't be a depression this time around. Stocks will keep going up.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      obama doesn't care. congress doesn't care

  • Discussion on Wired: Business

    Why Facebook Is Still a Risky Stock, Numbers Be Damned

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      blah blah
      strait to comments. didn't read the article, because i know it's wrong.
      Facebook will be a $90 stock soon and Google the first trillion dollar stock. Unstoppable growth, no meaningful competition, huge margins, recession-proof

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Stein’s Law

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      cons like kruthhammer beat up on easy targets like Detroit while more covertly supporting the desecration of our constitutional rights though war, wiretapping, nsa, patriot act etc

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Inside the NSA Fight

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Bernanke, Paulson & GW. bush saved the economy, but obama taking credit just like the OBL death. Any success of this administration is off the heels of the prior.

  • Discussion on National Journal

    Untitled

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      you mean anyone with a brain? 

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    <i>The Way Way Back</i> May Be the Best Movie of the Summer

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      sounds like a meh

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    What Happened to Economic Mobility in America?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      According to the evidence, too big to fail policy- much to the disappointment of the left-was a big success. Stocks began a huge rebound just eight months after TARP. Our bear market lasted just 16 months and the US has the best performing stock market in the world since 2009. It's incontrovertible these unpopular policies were a success. We;re in a new age of prosperity, but too many people are stuck in a recession 2008/09 mindset and can't see the forest for the trees.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Nowadays we have downward economic mobility, but this is still compatible with a booming economy as evidenced by 16 consecutive quarters of blowout profits & earnings for S&P 500 companies. Facebook stock surged 25% this week and my home keeps going up in value. If there's a recession, you wont see it in the earnings, web 2.0, and housing market. Lots of ppl falling between the cracks but that's their problem. Not the job of congress to fix it.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Tragic Drama of Anthony Weiner

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      sounds like you are using this article as a soapbox to unload your liberal views on the unsuspecting public

      i hate to break it to you but the system is not rigged.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Facebook Strikes Back | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      i think Josh was referring to end-users. the extent of coding for most endusers is customizing a profile, which is a feature myspace & tumblr

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      FB ain't a roll-up. I would buy those shares back. good luck

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Soo many people got facebook & LNKD wrong, except for me and a few others. As it turns out, the cannibalization theory was false; users are spending more total time on facebook instead of switching off the desktop version. They have kicked mobile ass. This is running to $90 once the $38 IPO overhead is cleared. Look at LNKD, Priceline, Angie's List, Zillow, Trulia, Amazon, Google..dotcoms are among the best performing stocks of the past year.

      The long-term negative is that I still think the company becomes AOL as new generations skip it and go right into buidling gtheir own networks and sites outside of the walled garden

      The thing is, facebook offers a superior user experience to tumbler and other DIY platforms. Young people aren't going to be coding social networks anytime soon.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Plantation Theory

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      he's a concern troll. maybe wealthy black people vote democrat for issues unrelated to economics such as abortion, education and perceived leniency for crime & punishment, although this doesn't invalidate the 'plantation' theory.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      doesn't change the fact the lib strategy is to buy votes, or gifts as Mitt called it

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      "Cornel West is a very smart man "

      stopped reading after there. fyi not gonna buy the book either

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Are the Suburbs Where the American Dream Goes to Die?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      I hate to break it to you folks, but the US economy is booming- especially in the private sector where S&P 500 companies continue to report quarter after quarter of blowout profits & earnings with no end in sight. You have home prices up 25% YOY in the bay area. You have companies like twitter and tumbler being worth billions of dollars that a few years ago didn't even exist. If some coding and a great idea can make you a multi-millionaire then I would say the American dream is still alive and well.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Will Republicans Lose Primaries Over Immigration Reform?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The GOP knows the tradeoff between cheap labor and open borders is worth it

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    SiliconValley

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Another article trying to fan the flames of class warfare.
      The harsh reality is that the economy doesn't need you(the middle class) to thrive. But nonetheless, the economy is still booming due to tireless consumer spending, exports, and productivity. Corporations shouldn't feel forced to waste money hiring overpaid employees if they don't want to. We're becoming a temp nation, and this is good because temp workers provide more economic value than overpaid regular employees. Oh, and then you have Obamacare casting pall of uncertainty for businesses that would otherwise want hire.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Middle-Out Economics: Why Conservative Supply-Side Dogma Is Wrong

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The harsh reality is that the economy doesn't need you(the middle class) to thrive. But nonetheless, the economy is still booming due to tireless consumer spending, exports, and productivity.
      Corporations shouldn't feel forced to waste money hiring overpaid employees if they don't want to. We're becoming a temp nation, and this is good because temp workers provide more economic value than overpaid regular employees. Oh, and then you have Obamacare casting pall of uncertainty for businesses that would otherwise want hire.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Even though i'm a republican, i'll concede that it's a coincidence that the economy boomed under Reagan. If Romney had won in 2012 or Mccain in 2008, we'd still have the same problems as we do now. But perhaps the economy would be doing even better because we would not have Obamacare or the sequester.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Words of Wisdom

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      that's what he did title it. correct. was just expecting his own words instead of someone else

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Racial Realism

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      there is no problem. the left is constantly trying to fix problems that don;t exist or are very small

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Deficit Is Not Fixed

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The GOP is not some monolithic organization. there are moderates and kneejerks for different types of elections

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Some Porn Should Be Censored

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Another big guvt. neocon wanting censorship. social conservative = big government socialism

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Words of Wisdom

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      oh snap, now we're too lazy to write our own article, are we? i wish i could have done this in high school. it's like i'm too lazy to write my report, so I'll quote a dozen people that sound like something I would want to say. type it up and send it in.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Racial Realism

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      i think that can be interpreted as promotion

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      BTFD! period, end of story

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Washington Suddenly Notices the Economy Still Stinks for Most People

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      no kidding. still recession for 90% of America

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obamacare’s Branch of the NSA

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      arrest jesse jackson & al sharpton for racoteering

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Neighborhood Zimmerman Watched

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      "treyvon could have been my son' becomes 'i could have been treyvon 35 years ago' ? huh those are distinct . obama is a compulsive BS er

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Washington Suddenly Notices the Economy Still Stinks for Most People

      no kidding. it's still 2009 for at least 75% of america. a phony recovery .

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Chart o’ the Day: Rotation Now Undeniable

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      historically , rising rates doesn't spell doom for longer term treasuries

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Kate Middleton Is Giving Birth to Nearly $400 Million in Economic Stimulus

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      a fool and his money...

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Huge Threat to Capitalism That Republicans Are Ignoring

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      But the problem with this argument is that 5 billion is just a rounding error that can be attributed to one of many things, not just speculation. Even if you eliminated the speculation there can be some other factor . Just changing how many figures you round your calculation can produce seemingly large numbers, but these are insignificant even if they appear large.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The lesson is we cannot predict

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    Living the Counterfeit Life

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      My dream is to achieve fulfillment, whatever that may be.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Stay at Home Mom

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      gonna have to tldr this article. sorry

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Untitled

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      A PE of 20 is fair value but if the economy picks up PE ratios may contract. You may not pay for 20x earnings but many others will.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      You can make 20% from the stock AND 3% from the dividend. Everyone getting richer than ever it seems. stocks keep going up. feels like the 90's again but the fundamentals are much better. So many people are still insisting we're in a recession,. ok whatever..keep insisting. good for stocks to have the backdrop of doubt.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Vitamin Myth

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      ray kurzwiel another genius turned supplement pusher

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Detroit Goes Down

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      obama: Romney wanted Detroit to go bankrupt...ahem

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Posh Populist

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      doesn't everyone rent silverware? lol

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    The Case for Brazil, the World’s Most Hated Stock Market

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      nasty little thing called mean reversion the problem is you don't know where it is

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Politics and Justice in Florida

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      still trying to defend the failure the obama economy

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      It's easy for economists to see things in a purely positivist perspective when they make more money than most of the people that are affected by economic policy. Eco-nomists want more productivity and effi3ncy, yet it's the middle class & low class that bear the brunt of this.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Detroit Files for Bankruptcy | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      will this hurt muni etfs tomorrow? probably not because this was long time coming

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    HOW TO BE AN ULTIMATE FIGHTER

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      i would not worry about it. coffee is safe

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Which Bond Kings got fixed income wrong this summer? (hint: all)

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      commissions commissions commissions..it's how you get paid to be wrong. lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Evangelicals and Immigration Reform

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Evangelical traitors. States like CA and AZ are being flooded while evangelicals in the bible belt are unaffected. They'll change their tune when their states become flooded, too but it will be too late. The good news is it probably won't pass in the house

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Vexatious Word

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      HS GPS is pretty much meaningless due to grade inflation.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      On twitter and other media, fellow African americans thought she was an embarrassment and counterproductive to the prosecution.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Rachel Jeantel, and How 'the System' Is Failing Blacks

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Jaba the jeantel

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Rand Paul’s Paleo Problem

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      These journalists and pundits advocating immigration reform aren't the ones that are going to be affected because they have a skill- superior English and writing - that the majority of immigrants don't have. Other jobs such as programming, healthcare, hospitality, and physical labor can be readily supplanted by immigrants because they are not culture specific.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      So in other words, Jonah Goldberg wants more conservatives to sellout to the cheap labor FWD lobby. A wrestling mask and some animus towards the legacy of Lincoln from an aid related renders Rand Paul to the unelectable loony bin. Most conservatives in America agree paleoconservative positions, but the problem is in the national elections the moderates keep wining the primaries because they keep getting the funding and media coverage by the equally moderate, pro-immigration globalists.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Immigration Fight Is the Battle for the Soul of the GOP

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      These journalists and pundits advocating immigration reform aren't the ones that are going to be affected because they have a skill- superior English and writing - that the majority of immigrants don't have. Other jobs such as programming, healthcare, hospitality, and physical labor can be readily supplanted by immigrants because they are not culture specific.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      If you're a globalist what is keeping you from achieving total domination: people that are aware and laws. So how do you circumvent this? Dilute the country with people that are ignorant (doesn't necessarily mean uneducated) and then use this to eventually change the law.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      We don't need to deport them or even build a giant fence -we just need to make America less hospitable for illegal immigrants and enforce our immigration laws, like all other countries do.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Angela Corey’s Checkered Past

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      libs should use her face for a public school abstinence campaign

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Notes from Delivering Alpha, Part II

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Chanos agrees with Hohn on the Japanese auto stocks bull call. Also mentions he still thinks Hewlett-Packard and Dell are f*cked - "there is no savior for these companies in the server business." He is still short HPQ he says.

      Chanos is a one trick pony- Enron. There's a night and day difference between an obvious fraud and a company like Dell and HP thath have viable, profitable businesses and compliant accounting. Chanos could conceivably lose everything. Look at Best Buy, for example, which the pundits in 2011 & 2012 had written off for dead due to show-rooming and poor customer experiences or healthcare & defense stocks that were supposed to be hurt by Obamacare and sequester, but have been among the best performers in 2013. The point is that a company like Dell or CAT that is just 'bumbling along' can still slay a short seller.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Why Television Is the Closest Thing to a Non-Mandatory Tax in America

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      But a tax is not voluntary. Anyone can choose to not watch cable TV. ur Not missing much anyway.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    How to Be Wrong About the Fed in 2 Easy Steps

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Sigh another 'no inflation' article.

      I can name a dozen things off the top of my head that are not only more expensive since 2008, but have exceeded rate of the the CPI. Inflation is even higher when you factor in lagging or falling wages for most Americans.

      These 'geniuses' that saved the economy apparently forgot to save main street, too. Now we have to pay the bill in higher living expenses and high unemployment so large caps & bank can horde more money and wall st. can continue gambling with bailout funds..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Would an American Jury Even Convict Edward Snowden?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      I wouldn't because it would never go to a jury.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Immigration Fight Is the Battle for the Soul of the GOP

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Cheap wages are a part of it, but a lot of these globalists have no deference to god, family, heterosexual marriage or the other values of the GOP. They seek to overturn the white Christian hegemony by flooding America with ill-informed immigrants so they can gain unfettered power and turn America into a Banana republic. The strategy is two fold: win enough states in the midwest to control the house and split the senate, but flood the written-off states with immigrants.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The acquittal of Zimmerman could help turn liberal sentiment against immigration reform. Employers are in a race to the bottom with the losers being the middle class.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      I make $1000's of dollars a day. not losing much sleep over this. liberals and libertarians getting worked up over nothing. chose your destiny,. get paid, have fun. live life. don't sweat stuff you cannot control. that's how i make so much $. These poor curmudgeons whining about NSA and PRISM still end up in the same spot where they began. If you don't like , leave the USA. Sever your online presence. Send snail mail.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      /this again?/meme

      if you don't like being spied or having your data collected, get off facebook and don't post incriminating things online or send suspicious email. It's really not that hard. With 400 m US facebook accounts and trillions of emails and tweets sent daily, there's simply not enough resources to filter the signal from the noise, anyway. Not a big concern.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Listening in on 'The Talk': What Eric Holder Told His Son About Trayvon

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      GZ's life is pretty much ruined. He'll probably have to move and assume a new identity

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Immigrant Healthcare Imperative

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      You cannot ascertain the prognosis of a malignancy or if a patient is 'doomed' just by feeling it; more tests are needed. Any doctor should know this.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    McDonald's Literally Cannot Imagine How Its Workers Would Survive On Minimum Wage

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      It's very easy: taxpayers subsidize everything from healthcare, housing, recreation and schooling. The result is many minimum wage workers have more money sans expenses than some people in the middle class. Why else do you see morbidly obese poor people, poor people with flatscreens and new iphones//ipads?

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    two choices | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      this bull market that just wont quit

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Delivering Alpha Conference – July 17th 2013

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The stock market keeps kicking ass. This is going to be another BTE earnings season. 16k soon

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    ‘The 21st-century Glass-Steagall Act’

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      pethokoukis is a well known shill for too big to fail, wall st the fed, the .01%

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Injudicious Criminal Justice in Florida

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The good news is we wont have to hear about this anymore

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Speaker Boehner’s Piecemeal Problem

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      but american citizens aren't fertile enough, aparently

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Law and Justice and George Zimmerman

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      This GZ case is so depressing. i can look forward to our daily report of the middle class falling between the cracks and hopeless stuentent loan debt

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      how is justice being tested, per se? verdict was read, case closed.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    When Do Women (and Men) Stop Leaning In?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      i dont lean in. i lean back

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    HOW TO WIN AT MONOPOLY EVERY TIME

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      You look at insta-successes like zuckerberg's facebook, snapchat, instagram, twitter and google guys and you realize that either the 10k hour rule either doesn't work or produces very uneven outcomes.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Acquitting Zimmerman

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      GZ instigated it . the dispatcher told him to stop. self defense =fail

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      That's Michael Savage's logic, in which I agree. You can see the guilt in his face. NR apparently condones murder,against innocent civilians, not too shocking.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      According to NR we shouldn't have a legal system because some cases are sooo obvious.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    It’s the End?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      "But I do not think that it will happen"

      another Pollyanna trying to sucker money out of us

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    How I Helped Kill Osama Bin Laden

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      A month later and I keep seeing stories about the NSA, snowden, the 'encroaching security state' blah blah and I'm reminded of how important it is to choose yourself. Many years ago I chose myself and it's awesome. Whining about 'big brother' won't accomplish anything or improve your own personal situation. The government does't care what you think of it. It may seem selfish, but I would rather concentrate my energy on things where I can control the outcome than stuff I can't.

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Great Wall of Texas: How the U.S. Is Repeating One of History's Great Blunders

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      This is all about one thing: cheap labor

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      China built a great wall. last time i checked they are the number 2 super power in the world. Even the Ming dynasty lasted 300 years after the wall was built.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Walking into the Gang of Eight Trap

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      no one would want him . him and McConnell the two most unlikable people in the world

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why Obamacare Threatens Immigration Reform

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Geithner Reportedly Gets $400,000 for Three Speeches"

      change you can believe in

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    end times | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      We got 80's & 90's era stock market like gains but without the usual headwinds like inflation.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hot Links: Going Gorillaz | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      another better than expected earnings season ahead

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Chart o’ the Day: ETF Trading Volumes

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      onward march continues. this market unstoppable

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    From the Constitution to Pandora’s Box

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      can you tell me. too lazy to look it up

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Derp and Fall of Inflation Fearmongers

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      umm.... most food items, gas, heating oil, insurance, rent, healthcare, tuition, public transportation, cable tv, internet, etc.
      Need more examples, or is 'DERP' the best you got? lol

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Please Don't Be Satisfied With This Jobs Report

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      not much

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    From the Constitution to Pandora’s Box

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      The president doesn't technically enforce the laws. That's the job of police, courts etc.

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      he's only following the example set by his predecessor

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    The Derp and Fall of Inflation Fearmongers

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Denial..hell of a drug. Let's see ... Yes, clothes and electronics are cheaper, but everything else is more expensive.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Left’s Central Delusion

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      TS is a good writer, but i do get the impression he's writing off a cereal box sometimes

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      I agree with the premise of the article, but disagree with the examples. Kenyans do not have an innate quality that makes then better runners, nor do Indians have special qualities that makes then better spellers. This article unfortunately perpetuates tired stereotypes in what is otherwise an effective article about the faulty conflation of equality of outcome with equity of opportunity.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Global-Warming Folly

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Global warming/climate change is one of the biggest scams of the 20th and 21st century. The evidence is that the world is getting colder and windier.

  • Discussion on National Journal

    Untitled

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Profits & earnigns, propping up home prices, and making America as competitive & productive as possible is  what matters. Joblessness is pretty low on the totem pole of priorities. 

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Big Money vs. Bernanke: Who's Right About the Economy?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      stupid article. the hedge funds want the fed to do more

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    John Kerry and Watersports: An Unfortunate History

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      must be a slow news cycle

  • Discussion on The Wire

    The Job Numbers Are Good, but Can We Ever Expect Great Again?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      Foodstamps, posting pictures on instagram, and unemployment are the new American pastimes.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    QOTD: Bank of Tokyo on June NFP | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      this job report was well received by wall st. because unemployment didn't fall but still posted a strong number. We're still a long, long way from the fed's target of 7%

  • Discussion on Business Desk

    Should We Fear "the End of Work"?

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      unemployment , facebook and foodstamps is the new american past time

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Second-Half Happy Ending? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      2013 2nd half outlook: Emerging markets & their currencies: lower
      Large cap dividends, US dollar, oil, high yield, healthcare & defense: higher
      gold: flat

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      like clockwork, goog up and aapl down .Amazing how in the span of just 4 months apple went from wall st. must-have to just another tech company. Google's momentum, on the other hand, is unstoppable and probably won't be subject to the market cap curse that befell apple.
      buy google b4 earnings, aapl sub 400's soon. I would even go so far as to say aapl could fall to $50-70 with 5-8 years after squandering most their cash on dividends and buybacks combined with near zero margins. deadcat bounce is over.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Press and Dr. Faustus

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      michael savage and rush..only people speaking the truth today

    • Economics Institute • 8 months ago

      america is becoming a craphole thanks to pro-immigration republicans. the neocon future of america is like a dirty DMV. crowded, dirty, constant surveillance, no one speaking english..

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Building a Human Wall on the Border

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Why are we giving foreign aid to Egypt and other countries that don;t like us? Why are we granting amnesty when unemployment is so high?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Liberal Apartheid

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      how is exposing the unfair pay at universities anti education?

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    The Hardest Trade on Earth Right Now

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      in America GDP doesn't matter much, sorry

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      This market keeps going up. Only one down day since last monday

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Home Economics: The Link Between Work-Life Balance and Income Equality

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      this is the longest article ever

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Glastonbury 2013: Josh’s Picks | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      52 week highs soon? hopefully

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Free Justin Carter Now

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Funny how neither the liberals the republicans are saying anything . The inexorable march to a police state continues.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Too Big to Fail, Forever

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      This neo kensian author secretly endorses too big to fail. He's stating a problem but doesn't necessarily want to fix it.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Simulacrum of Self-Government

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      even though i'm a republican , i'll concede amerika is kinda a craphole compared to to developing counties , especially in terms of social safety-nets, heathcare costs,business costs, taxes, and infrastructure. The constitution grants Americans certain rights, but private institutions are immune. This has big implication because it means exercising your 1st amendment rights can get you fired from a job like what happened to paula deen, but there's thousands of less notable examples of this happening. Other countries don;t have 'unalienable rights', but instead have generous social safetynets so ppl who get fired don;t have to worry about the economic consequences from making careless comments. Second, the constitution can only be validated in a court setting, so individuals pulled over by a police officer and having their 4th amendment rights violated may not have any resource unless a governing body deems the actions of the officer unconstitutional. Most Americans are too ignorant to even know when their constitutional rights are being violated, and those who do still have to go through the legal proceeding to prove so.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Comprehensive Rejection

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      we've become 2nd class citizens in our own country

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      cheap labor

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      stealing a candybar or protesting makes you a criminal. gambling with a pension fund or entering illegally..not so much

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      all this talk of enforcing security is lip service

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Comprehensive Rejection

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      you can't enforce the laws when the lawyers override them

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      he may be great now, but given the chance he will defect like scalia and robberts. He's a republican version of obama. same credentials.

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      rubio & cruz (or any career politician or lawyer) can't be trusted

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Clips from Today’s Fast Money | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Poor folks that got tapered out of the market ..3 consecutive 100-150 pt days. The last time we had a similar type rally was coincidentally 2 years ago in the week preceding the 4th of july when the dow rallied 100 points a day for five consecutive days for a weekly gain of 600 pts.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    As IRS Chief Heads to Capitol Hill, GOP Rep. Introduces 'Taxpayer Bill of Rights'

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      1. article 1: make taxes voluntary

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Scalia and Roberts are sellouts.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Glue Holding America Together

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      he's painting with a fairly wide brush. it's not like everyone who lives in those areas is enabler of this iodlogy or condones it

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      "So why is the United States not experiencing something like the rioting in Turkey orBrazil, or the murder of thousands in Mexico? "

      1. greater criminal and social consequences for civil disobedience in America than in other countries

      2. multiculralism. notice how the countries with the most protests tend to be ethnically homogeneous.

      3. large geographic area and relatively low population density of the USA makes it hard for protests to coalesce

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hot Links: Tell Me Where to Go! | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      yeezus christ! a THIRD 100+ point gaper in a row . this market is nuts.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    re: The Gold Miner Crash | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Short / buy puts on the miners on any bump

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Marriage: The Court Picks a Side

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      last time I checked the GOP controls the house. 2014 will be another GOP sweep. Obama's polls are tanking due to bad economy, snowden leaks, drones, etc

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      "butthurt"
      cough cough sodomy cough

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      "pro family"

      i found that funny considering homosexuality precludes procreation. hard to create a family when you can;t have children.

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      America is becoming the laughing stock of the world . Obama is making America weak

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Supreme court sellout . between this and Paul ryan, the GOP will be finished at this rate, unless action is taken. let's purge the party of the moderates and get back to real, conservative values.

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      speaking of being gay, i wonder if andrew sullivan has ever made a pass at his dog? would not surprise me

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Chart o’ the Day: The Case for (Real) Diversification

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      This recent selloff has been an exception to long standing inverse relation treasuries and stocks with regards to flight to safety. I'm pretty sure the next time the shit hits the fan in Europe, which it probably will again - that treasuries will stage a major rally.

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      High yield all the way. no bric, no midcaps, no small caps

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    A Million More Millionaires | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Stocks going nuts again, especially in the high yield. Taper who? Seems like everyone is getting richer than ever in an era of hyperconsumerism and hypercapitalism. Real estate in the West and East coast booming in all cash bidding wars. Tech companies that were created just a couple years ago are being sold and or valued at hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. Tumblr sold for $1.1 billion; that's probably a few dozen millionaires right there.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      it' the job of the financial media to attribute every move to some underlying news. they are the 'experts' afterall

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Failing Foreign Policy

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Obama: 8 years of of failure, says experts
      foodstamp president

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The GOP’s Immigration Debacle

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      zuckface still thinks coders get paid too much. everyone's losing their jobs in this race to the bottom

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hot Links: | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      This market keeps drifting higher. It's like the events of last week completely forgotten. Buy & hold wins again

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Mood of 1980

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      yea because the economy didd really great under bush, as we all know . then obama came along and ruined it. oh wait, it was in shambles.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The <i>Fisher</i> Decision

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      this is pretty much a non issue. a non victory for anyone

  • Discussion on The Wire

    Who's Behind the Sad, Anonymous Truth of 'My Startup Has 30 Days to Live'?

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      cry me a river.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      In April 2010 we saw a similar panic with munis. This too will blow over.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    So who bought the dip? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Those DJIA dividend stocks stocks are ripping higher again. JNJ, especially. High yield ain't dead by any stretch of the imagination. You can't find better stocks than most dow components..

  • Discussion on The Atlantic

    Is Obesity Really a Disease?

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      james gandolfini obese and dead at 51

  • Discussion on Howard Lindzon

    The History of the Internet, The Beginning of Web Video, The Government and Gatekeepers…All in One Blog Post

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      seems like everyone is getting richer than ever in an era of hyperconsumerism and capitalism. The liberals are preoccupied with inequality and opportunity , while the creative class is running loops around the whiny middle class. anyone with an idea and some coding can be worth a 100 million dollars in just three years. It's a meritocracy in overdrive, a smartest society of limitless wealth creation if only for a few,

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Greatest. Research Note. Ever. | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      QE is over? not so fast. All bernanke has done is give a tentative timetable for the possibility of less QE. I would not be surprised to see the dow back at 15500 in a month or so

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Bernanke Era’s Second Error

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      fool

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Immigration-Reform Scare Tactics

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Upchuck Schumer

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      McCain: amnesty and anyone opposed gets waterboarded

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Marco Rubio, We Hardly Knew Ye

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      ay caramaba!

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Immigration: If the Bill Passes

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Agree with the author The elite 1% are sheltered from the ill effects of mass amnesty

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Amended or Not: No

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      To the cheap labor lobby, legal citizens should have fewer rights than illegals.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    As Ye Sow

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      It as unfair. Why should wealthy farmers get a bailout?

  • Discussion on The Wire

    Paula Deen's Unlikely Defender: Bill Maher

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      a warning and suspension would have sufficed. the outrage economy is booming and no one's job is safe (unless you're in the .1%)

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Rewriting FISA History

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      tl;dr

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Bernanke Blinks, Taper Gets Tapered

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Market way oversold though

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Drudge Report hails ‘SuperCruz’ in fight against Gang of Eight

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      maybe cruz can deport himself under his new law?

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Nutball Alex Jones: ‘If they kill me … aggressively GET THE WORD OUT’

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      how about the conspiracy behind how his clothes keeps shrinking. the Illuminati must be behind that, too

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      if thy wanted to kill him just throw a cheeseburger over an overpass

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Sarah Palin: Bill Maher not free to attack my child

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      or what will happen? Send to quantanomo? 1st amendment is a doubled edged sword. you can;t just protect the speech you like

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Lessons from the Farm Bill Collapse

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      good riddance to the farm bill

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    My So-Called Bitcoin Life

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      yaaawn. not news

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Bernanke Jumps the Gun

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Larry..biggest tool since mr goodwrench

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Syria: America Sidelined

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      shown a map of the world

      'what does the blue represent?'

      'the areas we can't invade'

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    Sharyl Attkisson: State Dept. has released seven new photos of Bengazi aftermath

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      this is a big deal

  • Discussion on Twitchy

    President reopens White House to tours (virtually, that is)

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      we need education better, says Michelle obama

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hey you! | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      just more evidence the people who collect the fees make all the money, not the clients

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hot Links: The Best Time to Invest

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      bernanke did what everyone expected and we get a 300pt selloff

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Stocks are Retweeting Bonds | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      another day of APPL falling and Google rising

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Getting to Yes on Gang of Eight

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      yes to jobs. no to amnesty

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The NSA’s Impossible Position

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Too long

  • Discussion on Howard Lindzon

    Why I am Quitting Twitter and the Social Web

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      ???

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Bill Nygren on Google | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      google going to $2000 soon
      if you want to buy it cheaper just buy a very deep in the money call

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Too Big To Wean? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      probably see dow 16k soon
      the taper was just as i predicted-unfounded hype by various perpetrators of the financial media

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Christie Blasts Congress, Obama

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Judas

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Is Ted Cruz Lying Low?

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      C'mon cruz. yes to borders. no to immigration reform.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Jason Zweig: UR Doing It Rong | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      market back in always go up mode

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    The Notorious Ber-Nan-Ke | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      oh snap. shit just got real

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Americans: High-Immigration Republicans Are Just Not That Into You

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      just another cheap labor globalist

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    WHY I’M NOT RUNNING FOR CONGRESS

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      no income tax? just for that you would have my vote

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Data Watch for this Week | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      That's the biggie. If the meeting is uneventful, options are going to be bleeding a lot of premium

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Here’s why the Fed is in no rush | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      " it if it isn't having the desired impact on inflation or employment? "

      Even an equity bull like myself will concede QE does not help the unemployment situation, though I doubt it was ever intended to. That's just the line Bernanke gives to justify doing it. The real reason is to make stocks & real estate go up to create a wealth effect, but that's harder to sell to the public. Inflation is rampant but conviently on the stuff omitted from the CPI index such as food, phone service, ISP & cable TV, insurance, rent, transportation, gas, healthcare, education, and on and on.

  • Discussion on TheStreet

    Rising Interest Rates to Test Berkshire Outperformance, Buffett Legacy

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      story fail. no specifics

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Chart o’ the Day: A Higher Low, but….

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      If you manage money for long term investors, technical shouldn't matter too much

  • Discussion on Howard Lindzon

    Stocktoberfest – Year 2 – October 17 and 18 – San Diego

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      no new posts?

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hilsen-rescue | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      The path of least resistance is up. fight market = lose money. Economic policy is engineered to make stock go up; stuff like job creation, small biz on the backburner. I guess dow points have become the new benchmark of economic progress. Sucky policy, yes,, but good for longs. But the fundamentals in terms of profit & earnings are bullish. Hard to deny that fact.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    The Tape is Exhausted | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Japan has virtually no correlation with US indexes. it pretty much exists in its own world. japan would have to fall 6% for it to drag the futures down 60 pts (which it did last night). The rest of the world is a mess and the US just hums along with these S&P multinationals producing these huge profits quarter after quarter.

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      A solid rebound off the lows this morning. IMHO, all this talk of taper, bond selloff, rotation, etc will pass. Bulls should stay the course; I know I am.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Krauthammer’s Take: ‘Where Is the President?’

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      where was bush during katrina?

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    Claudia is Worried I Will Be Killed for Posting This

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      "Middle Eastern royalty" that alone should be a major red flag. I worry about you, james.
      wow close call..amazing story

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Pick Your Scandal

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      author is overlooking Bush scandals, predictably.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama: Just Keeping Us Safe?

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Another NR article advocating the forfeiture of constitutional rights for alleged security

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Why President Obama Became a Snoop

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      NR pandering to big brother again? not too surprising

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Just so you know. | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Looks like the market is within points of going green. Bernanke ain't gonna do anything. Nothing changed fundamentally between Jan 2013 and now with the exception of some overseas macro hiccups and higher yields- while potentially problematic- is more likely going to blow over. The large cap dividend play will return to favor soon; emerging markets will remain weak.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    How to Be King of the World

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      oh that's pretty tricky. i found the full story here ;
      http://www.businessinsider.com...

      Evan proposed buying back Odeo investors' stock, and, eventually, the investors agreed to the buyback. So Evan bought the company – and Twitter. The amount he paid has never been reported. Multiple investors, who had combined to put $5 million into Odeo, say Evan made them whole.

      Five years later, assets of the company the original Odeo investors sold for approximately $5 million are now worth at least 1000X more: $5 billion.

      ----
      I wish i had the opportunity to invest in these companies. I'm sure I could do a better job picking the next multi-billion dollar start-up then the average VC. Unlike the 80's and 90's, by the time tech companies go public they tend to be fully valued with a few exceptions like Google.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    How to Be King of the World

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      " “I have a great opportunity for you”, then he is trying to send fuckness in my direction."

      I did not like this part. I recommend at least hearing the person out before you judge. What if someone offered you a great opportunity to invest in twitter in 2007?

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Are You Ready for Dow 150,000? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      I have predicted dow 250k-500k within 25 years based on the interest rate cycle, or about 14% yearly returns compounded for 25 years. The dow is already at 15.2k and interest rates still haven't increased , so if the fed begins raising rates at 20k, we can extrapolate a target of 300k when interest rates finally peak at 6.5%

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    The Bernanke Difference

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Why would NR post this neo-Keynesian rubbish?

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      pethokoukis is deluded

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      pethokoukis world's biggest tool

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Can't tell if this article is a joke, but considering pethokoukis is a known shill for wall st. , globalists, the fed and cheap labor it probably isn't.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hot Links: Destroying Everything You Love

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      can someone tell me what the next crisis is supposed to be, so I can do the opposite? In late 2012, the media spun a seemingly convincing narrative that the fiscal cliff would hurt the economy and looks like that was little more than a speed bump.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Rogues’ Gallery of Social Security Fraudsters

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      corperate welfare is alive and well, NR approved

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      NR is pro-fiat. duh

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      how about those no bid contracts? How about the military being billed $1000 for toilet seat, case of cola or a hammer?

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Dow stocks for the next 17 years | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      American Express, Walmart, J&J, PG, BA, a few others

      AA needs to be given the boot

      cicadas are like equity bears. they are right approx every 17 years

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Why the Super-Rich Love Bubbles | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      an incrasingly small percentage of people are getting all the wealth

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Gen Y and Jobs | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      $25k doesn't seem too bad when you consider a new car costs the same amount and the appreciation of higher education far outpaces inflation.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Time to Dial Up Some Healthy Skepticism

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      never heard these complains in the Bush era by NR

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Obama’s Ethical Gymnastics

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      all power corrupts

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    What’s wrong with you? | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      it's been that way since greenspan. if the bad news completely overwhelms the good the market will plunge like it did in 2008. we're in an equilibrium of good & bad news with the perpetually strong profits

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      I'll confess to being an asshole. .this was a picture-perfect job report

      increase in unemployment rate means QE wont be ending anytime soon but 175k jobs still beat estimates so the economy isn't in free fall.

      but do keep in mind when you factor all the people off the rolls but still looking for work, the real unemployment rate is much higher, making that .1% uptick insignificant in the scheme of things, but it's quite bullish for stocks though,

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Phone Record Gathering Story Blown Out of Proportion

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      So it's OK if it happened under bush and bad under Obama. makes sense

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    The Real Problem | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Oil, gold, and gas prices have rallied strongly this week even with the BRIC indexes showing weakness. USA large caps seem to offer a much more attractive risk to reward ratio than foreign stocks. Investors would rather have slow, steady predictable US growth than headline risks associated with foreign investments. Turkey & Japan, for example, both down 15% in a week. BIRC markets still have most of their enormous gains from the last decade; now the USA is puling ahead after its last decade of sluggishness.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Defending 15,000 | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      broken clock bears either have no skin in the game or are paid to get clients

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Is the Senate Immigration Bill Really In Danger?

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      The plan is to flood the democratic leaning states with immigrants and use majorities in other states to control congress. The neocons' want immigration not just for cheaper labor, but to upset the White Christian hegemony so they can turn america into some sort of banana republic.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    The Days of Wine and Roses | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      hope we get a bid soon

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Lincoln Defended

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      how about that IRS scandal? must be a slow news day if this is the font page story of NR.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Like Toy Soldiers | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Here's one that always works for me: buy any dip on job/payroll related weakness due to increased odds of more QE. Don't think i've ever seen this fail

      the second is called the premarket differential method
      you get a list of stocks with heavy premarket volume like AAPL and GOOG and in 1 minute intervals you calculate the differential between the gain/loss of the stock versus the gain/loss in an index such as SPY. If the premarket trend for the stock is bucking the premarkt trend for the index you buy the stock. There's a good likelihood in the short term the stock will outperform the index

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Rand Paul, the Crunchy Con

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      anyone that believes paul is capable of breaking up too big to fail is dreaming

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      rand paul just another iteration of phony conservatism. hypocrite

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      "At the last of these stops, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 29-year-old founder, made a surprise appearance. After their chat, Paul scribbled a Patrick Henry–inspired message — “Give me liberty to post” — on the Facebook wall, a hallway-size chalkboard."

      . Rand paul a sellout for immigration reform and drones.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Christie Splits the Difference

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      more like split his pants

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Marco Rubio’s Non-Answer

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      The gang of eight vision of America is like a California DMV or Mcdonalds- dirty, crowded, with constant surveillance

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      Bullish on stocks but I don't think there's gonna be a great rotation A weak job number, or hiccup in Europe and those yields are gonna crash in a nanosecond. last month TLT gaped $3 higher on weak job numbers even though the broader indexes were flat. Bernanke will never relent.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Christie’s First Test

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      he Split his pants to pick up a chocolate coated peanut

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    A Fact-Based Immigration Discussion

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      we need more people like Thomas sowell and less gover norquest

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Hot Links: Don’t Fear the Taper | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      looks like the bull is back. stocks up for 2nd day

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Amazon should buy Pandora | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 9 months ago

      AMZN can wait a few years and pick this up at $1-2

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Congress Probing Chief Counsel's Office in Washington, D.C. in IRS Scandal

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      The big story is the gang of eight immigration bill. some republicans are trying to create fake outrage over irs so they can fleece us with immigration. not gonna be fooled.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Politics and the IRS: Protesting Too Much

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      doesn't change the facts that the scandal is a dud. if you want to believe it's a big deal, go ahead.

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      i hate to say it, but the IRS scandal is running on empty.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Welcome to the Recovery: Year Five

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      how does one 'do' a rebuttal? You mean write?

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Following Fund Managers | The Reformed Broker

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      Even i wouldn't have been that stupid to buy Zynga. Pandora is also garbage; short to zero. The winners in the social media revolution will be airbnb, facebook, twitter, pinterest, dropbox (probably a few others I'm forgetting). The lack of good social media IPOs is a problem and funds are allocating money to any social stocks instead of paying close attentions to the fundamentals.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Donald Trump Eyes 2016

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      more like 1988

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Welcome to the Recovery: Year Five

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      thanks too

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      thanks

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      James pethokoukis is an avowed shill for Wall St., the fed, congress, cheap labor, and globalists.

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Conservatives: Not Completely Delusional

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      no mention of out of control defense spending, huh?

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    McCain against the ‘Wacko Birds’

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      drop dead, mccain. you sold your party out to the war mongers and cheap labor lobby. go away

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    Oprah’s Commencement Confusion

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      liberal speaker at harvard? no way

  • Discussion on National Review Online

    EPA Honors Fake Employee

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      slow news day, huh? irs scandal was a dud. same for benghazi and AP wire story.

  • Discussion on Altucher Confidential

    Nobody Has Ever Made This Offer Before: I Am Paying People Back If They Read My Book

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      This may seem obvious, but if you only care about spreading the message and you don't care about making money off the proceeds, why not just give it away? Buying a book is no guarantee you are going to read it.

  • Discussion on The Reformed Broker

    Corrections don’t send out invitations or phone ahead

    • Economics Institute • 10 months ago

      There's not going to be a correction. japan & Turkey in the craper is their problem. The USA is impervious to pretty much everything. We have the best consumers, best stock market, best fed, best reserve currency, best demographics, best politicians, best real estate market, and the least civil unrest.

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