It seems like everything has been accelerated. 2020 may go down as one of the most eventual years in recent history, or even the past 50 years. 2020 has given us: 1. 2020 presidential election , which will probably be the biggest, most contentious, and most costly to date, pitting two over-sized septuagenarian egos against… Continue reading Everything is being accelerated

The stock market keeps recovering, as I correctly predicted it would. The S&P 500 is at 3070, having recovered most of its Covid losses. All the stockw that for years I have been recommending have done well and some have made news highs, such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Tesla, etc. This is why when… Continue reading The left inciting civil unrest to tank economy and Trump, after Covid fails to do the job

From Time Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses. Related to the link above, a question that keeps coming on on forums and news articles is, why has the stock market seemingly diverged from the economy. The answer is, the the stock market is not the economy. When you buy stocks, you are not investing… Continue reading Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses. Why?

In regard to the Minnesota riots and Black Lives Matter protests, it’s funny how the rules of social distancing and mask wearing do not apply to the causes that the left cares about. Why isn’t anyone scolding BLM for not practicing social distancing, yet hair salon owners are being arrested. The media completely flipped, from non-stop… Continue reading George Floyd and Civil Unrest

Trump is threatening to ‘“strongly regulate” or close down social media platforms’ for bias against conservatives, after Twitter appended special fact-checking notices to two of his tweets in regard to mail-in ballots, which is the first time Twitter has ever attempted to ‘correct’ a tweet by directly intervening. Usually Twitter will delete offending tweets or… Continue reading Trump takes on Twitter

I keep seeing stories about Only Fans, which has seen a surge in popularity attributable to the pandemic. The smart-left and smart-right are unified in opposing moralizing in regard to onylfans usage. Rather than moralizing , which implies imposing one’s values of how society ought to be, the emphasis is on understanding why society is… Continue reading The Only Fans Nation

As I have been saying on the blog for years, I don’t believe there will be any deterioration of US-China relations beyond the usual tariffs and hawkish rhetoric. The media, on either side of the aisle, is hoping for US-China relations to suddenly take a turn for worse, but that refuses to happen. It’s just… Continue reading China-US worse case scenario

Interesting finding Cognitive Capitalism: The Effect of Cognitive Ability on Wealth, as Mediated Through Scientific Achievement and Economic Freedom, by Heiner Rindermann and James Thompson, 2011. Average national IQ correlates well with GDP per capita and other measures of development. But is average national IQ really the right number to look at? “Smart fraction theory”… Continue reading The smart fraction/faction theory of economic growth and success

People talk a lot about government failures, but the private sector is no stranger to failure either, although, overall, in spite of such failures capitalism is superior to communism (again, assuming one much choose between either or, which is never the case anyway), but I will give some examples of capitalism failures anyway. For example,… Continue reading The capitalism vs. communism debate, part 2

Interesting video by Ramz Gates Paul, “Communism Sucks” The problem is, Ramz defaults to a false dichotomy that one must choose between capitalism or communism, when in reality most governments are a mix of social welfare and private enterprise, with varying amounts of regulation and public spending (the so-called mixed economy). Being critical of capitalism… Continue reading Capitalism and its dissident discontents