More Emissions Violators is Good News for Volkswagen

The chattering classes are puzzled as to why Volkswagen stock has rebounded so strongly in recent weeks, up 30% on no apparent news: Furthermore, at the same time, it has come to light that additional manufactures have emissions violations, namely Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi. Italians halt VW diesel sales, Audi admits 2.1 million… Continue reading More Emissions Violators is Good News for Volkswagen

Economics Myths, Part 6: Alan Greenspan Caused The Financial Crisis

Greenspan: Fed Not Responsible for Financial Crisis If a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth, and there are few better examples than the tar and feathering of Alan Greenspan for his purported role the housing and financial crisis. But the preponderance of evidence suggests his culpability is limited or non-existent. In other… Continue reading Economics Myths, Part 6: Alan Greenspan Caused The Financial Crisis

Economics Myths, Part 5: QE (Quantitative Easing) Misconceptions

Few subjects cause as much confusion as QE. The confusion arises due to the politicization of the issue, as well as common misunderstandings and misconceptions about QE that reverberate throughout the blogging/media echo chambers. There are three major misconceptions about QE: 1. QE is money printing 2. Stocks are rising because of QE – and… Continue reading Economics Myths, Part 5: QE (Quantitative Easing) Misconceptions

IQ and Morality; IQ and Job Performance

From Henry Dampier, Sucks To Your IQ: It’s a profound mistake, however, to act like it’s the only thing that matters, to say that grouping people into a country or institution based on their innate intelligence alone is the way to make the Tower of Babel political construct work properly. // In a similar way… Continue reading IQ and Morality; IQ and Job Performance

NRx Should Be Anti-Populist

As discussed earlier, NRx is almost indistinguishable from Red Pill, both of which also share many similarities to paleoconservatism. IMHO, the problem with Paleoconservatism is that, like the far-left, it tends to be populist. For the far-left, it’s ‘the prole vs. the rich, big corporations’; for the populist right, it’s ‘the prole vs. big govt.,… Continue reading NRx Should Be Anti-Populist

The Millennial Mindset, Part 2: Philosophy and Wealth

Pertaining to the third ‘great debate’ topic, economics, the meme above about baby boomers being materialistic, spendthrift hypocrites went viral today on Imgur, with thousands of smart millennials on Reddit and Imgur up-voting and commenting in agreement that baby boomers are at least partially to blame for the mess that millions of millennials find themselves… Continue reading The Millennial Mindset, Part 2: Philosophy and Wealth

The Daily View: #pissforequality Hoax, Expatriated Cash, Unions Need More Money, Huge Web 2.0 Salaries

NSFW Feminists Fall For #PissForEquality Hoax According to Right Wing News, a few n’er do wellers on 4chan had a brilliant idea: see if they could convince people to, “publicly piss/sh*t their pants in the name of ‘Equality?’” Site likes 4chan are leading the post-2013 SJW backlash, with great success as thousands – maybe millions… Continue reading The Daily View: #pissforequality Hoax, Expatriated Cash, Unions Need More Money, Huge Web 2.0 Salaries

Economic Myths, Part 4: Job Creation is Good

Dyseconomics, developed in 2011, describes how an economic system that is optimal for growth and technological expansion is one where, counterintuitively, the economic contributions of the majority of individuals goes to zero relative to the size of the overall economy, a version of the Pareto Principle as applied to macroeconomics. It also describes the counterintuitive… Continue reading Economic Myths, Part 4: Job Creation is Good

The British Origins of HBD

This story is kinda old, but UK TV presenter Katie Hopkins recently got into hot water by the UK liberal left for suggesting that dementia patients ‘blocking beds’ is an ineffective use of public resources, especially since they have little or no sensory perception. I agree, public goods (such as public healthcare) should be optimized… Continue reading The British Origins of HBD