Tucker summarizes it better than I can: What we’re witnessing now is a narrative collapse by the left. The full video footage, which is over an hour long, exonerates any possible wrongdoing by the Covington kids. Between this and the backlash to the Gillette ad, outside of their insular Twitter blue-check bubbles and Buzzfeed, online,… Continue reading Tucker: MAGA hat-wearing students smeared by media

Regarding politics, for 2019 I predict no wall or any meaningful reform or legislation on immigration. Trump should have declared a national emergency weeks ago, but so far any sort of progress/negation has stalled. Trump’s Sunday ‘huge announcement’ was predictably a dud, which is why I didn’t even bother writing about it here. Amnesty for… Continue reading 2019 Predictions, Part 2, and the rise of the alt-middle/center

The article ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’ went massively viral, getting hundreds of votes and comments on Reddit and Hacker News, which is how I heard about it. The reason it was so viral is because readers could relate its central themes, those being loneliness, ennui, inadequacy, ‘being average’… Continue reading The Rise of Non-Judgmental Conservatism

Another huge week for the stock market. The S&P 500 is now at 2660, a gain of 40 points from my earlier update and a YTD return of now 6.5% in just 18 days and a 12.5% return off the lows. Although the market is still 10% off the highs in September 2018, I am… Continue reading Why the stock market is going higher

Psychologist Dr. Patrick Lockwood wonders why there is so much discussion about IQ, when other factors such as the “big 5” and emotional intelligence are (according to him) more important. I disagree that the “big 5” is important or useful. The reason is, unlike IQ, personality scores can be faked by any reasonably competent person… Continue reading Video: Re: Stefan Molyneux, Nassim Taleb, Race, IQ, Twitter

Saw this interesting question and discussion on Reddit: You have (probably) never encountered a Chinese shill on Reddit, in which the author explains why Chinese shills on Reddit likely don’t exist. The economics of it don’t make sense.   Being fluent in English at a high enough level to debate politics with someone else on… Continue reading The China-U.S. Cultural and Economic Connection

Is it too soon to be celebrating correct 2019 predictions? Earlier in the week I predicted that the Euro would fall against the US dollar, and indeed over the past week it has fallen mightily from 1.154 to 1.139, which is one of the strongest reversals in a long time. In January 2018, the Euro… Continue reading The Daily View 1/16/2019

Yes, there people who are successful at business without having a high IQ, such as in retail or auto, by applying ‘social skills’ such as negotiation to get what one wants, but this is very few people. Trump used negotiating skills to build his real estate empire and to negotiate better terms for his loans,… Continue reading IQ: Still the Best Predictor of Upward Mobility

Venture Capitalist Howard Lindzon makes his 2019 predictions, writing: I believe that we will have a different President of the United States by the end of 2019. The catalyst for this change will be a devastating report issued by Robert Mueller that outlines a history of illegal activities by our President going back decades, including… Continue reading What Is Going To Happen In 2019

There is tentative talk about Trump wanting to fire Fed chief Powell, which I don’t believe will happen. The consensus by pundits is that this will have serious negative consequences. From Forbes, How Trump Could Fire Powell And Rebuild The Fed: And from Vox, Trump’s perhaps correct critique of the Federal Reserve, explained: Premature interest… Continue reading Why the Federal Reserve cannot do much