Author: smartistone

Some would call this blog elitist, because we don’t wish to have the huddled, uncouth masses tracking their dirty feet on our yellow brick road leading to the technological kingdom of prosperity? Because we wish to pull the bowl of entitlement spending away from the parasitical class, with a sneer and a laugh top it… Continue reading Some Thoughts on Government, Politics & Economics

Outside of the blogosphere, wealth inequality isn’t an important issue to most Americans. From Gallup, fifty-two percent say having rich and poor is an acceptable part of the system. PRINCETON, NJ — More Americans say it is important that the federal government enact policies that grow the economy and increase equality of opportunity than say… Continue reading Wealth Inequality Again

Grover Norquist is right about the need for lower taxes for the rich, more high-tech immigration, and less entitlement spending. Grover Norquist gets 70,000 signatures on no-tax pledge at Burning Man in exchange for one joint. Burning Man is where the educated and well connected go to petition for lower taxes and less regulation, with… Continue reading The Poverty Plan

We’re still in an insufferably slow news cycle, with the biggest stories of the past year being Russia invading Crimea, which occurred six months ago, and America narrowly avoiding default on its debt back on October 2013. Ukraine and Isis, while important, are ongoing and aren’t the kind of breaking news that holds the country… Continue reading The News Cycle and Why Social Networking Threatens the Liberal Media

It’s time for a humble brag to remind myself and maybe the one or two people who read this blog how good I am at predicting stuff. For months, I had been writing that Snapchat is worth at least $10 billion and sure enough: Snapchat Valued at $10 Billion Most people are clouded by a… Continue reading Another Correct Prediction

America at the national level never was, never has been and never will be a direct democracy. Even propositions are often overturned by judges. America is a republic in that people vote for electors to represent their wants and needs, who then in turn represent and serve the elite, which is actually how things should… Continue reading Anti-Democracy

To understand why our economy is so strong, we need to better understand how the modern American economy works. Thanks to the liberal media talking points and an ignorance of modern economics, many people assume a fast growing GDP and robust job creation are the necessary conditions of a strong economy, but this isn’t necessarily… Continue reading The indefatigability of the ‘unparticipatory’ economic boom

The ice bucket challenge is perhaps the best argument yet against democracy. Just think some of these people can vote and may even be driving. A person who partakes in the ice bucket challenge probably has the mental impairment of someone who is intoxicated or on drugs, except it’s permanent. As stocks keep going up… Continue reading Conservative Minimalism

In yet another setback for the crisis-seeing left, stocks close at another record high. All this media fuss over ISIS, Iraq, and Ukraine has absolutely no impact on S&P 500 profits & earnings which is why Wall St. is ignoring it. Just noise that investors should tune-out. Google and Facebook don’t care. Whatever happens in… Continue reading Another Record High For Stocks

This story about kindergarten testing went viral. Not surprisingly, there were many anti-testing comments, especially on the more liberal leaning sites. In the smartist era and in the meritocracy, we need more testing , not less, to help help identify gifted and slow students. Whether it’s an IQ test or a proxy such as the… Continue reading Why We Need More Testing