From Bloomberg The Welfare Debate the U.S. Should Be Having: What does society owe those who are “unwilling to work,” and what do they owe their communities?: But the shift in thinking about safety-net policies primarily as tools to help low-income Americans get and keep jobs is not as straightforward as it seems. Some people… Continue reading The right’s embrace the anti-work movement

Interestingly and somewhat unexpectedly, a lot of pundits and bloggers on the ‘right’ are embracing the idea of a UBI. However, many of thee arguments, for either side, have flaws. From Zeroth Position Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Universal Basic Income: One criticism of welfare programs is that they are dysgenic; they subsidize… Continue reading The UBI debate: criticism and analysis

I’m sure by now everyone has seen Facebook’s memo Standing Against Hate: Our own review of hate figures and organizations – as defined by our Dangerous Individuals & Organizations policy – further revealed the overlap between white nationalism and white separatism and white supremacy. Going forward, while people will still be able to demonstrate pride… Continue reading Facebook: Standing Against Hate

A lot people are wondering if the inverted yield curve means the US economy is headed for a recession: Recessions And Yield-Curve Inversion: What Does It Mean Recessions, and the fear that another one is just around the corner, explained My answer is the same as it was last year (and the year before that,… Continue reading No recession despite yield curve inversion

This article went viral The End of the New Deal Era—and the Coming Realignment For as long as all of us can remember, American politics had always meant the same war between Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats were the party of New Deal liberalism, as they had been since Franklin Roosevelt. The Republicans were the… Continue reading No Coming Realignment

Things have been pretty slow lately. People are wondering if the conclusion of the Mueller investigation/witch-hunt will mean Trump will take a more assertive role in his presidency, and my answer is likely not. I think Trump is pandering extra-hard to Israel in recent weeks in the hope of gaining GOP support for the wall,… Continue reading Alex Jones

From National Affairs, The Great Miscalculator, by Arnold Kling Arnold writes: This distance between our expectations of markets and their actual abilities has numerous implications. It argues for humility about economic analysis and public policy, and for a sense of perspective about what the tools of economists offer us. The work of economists and policymakers… Continue reading The Great Miscalculator: Response (why there won’t be a debt crisis in America)

A common criticism of the AOC plan of a 70% marginal tax rate on individuals earning $10 million or more is that it hurts people who work hard and that therefore it is a dissentive. There are plenty of people who work hard and make nowhere near $1 million, let alone $10 million. Prince Al-Waleed… Continue reading Taxes and Incentives

Vox Day and others argue that IQs are 10 points lower now than they were 50-100 years ago, and that society is getting dumber. A Google search reveals many such studies. But in many ways society has gotten smarter: more technology (such as information technology, biotechnology, and smart phones), as well as advances in math… Continue reading The IQ Decline

Interesting video Yang may be anti-white, but so are the other Democratic candidates, who are even more anti-white. And he’s a gun-grabber, but they all are. A pro-white candidate regardless of party affiliation would never be allowed to win the nomination. Ron Paul is probably the closest recent example of a possibly pro-white candidate having… Continue reading Yang may be anti-white, but they all are