Regardless of whether you think TikTok is good or bad, the odds of it being blocked are about zero. The overwhelming likelihood is either Trump will change his mind upon realizing the frivolity and impracticality of the proposal, or the courts will strike it down, or the ISPs will not comply. I think the courts… Continue reading TikTok is not going anywhere

The $600 weekly unemployment benefits checks under the CARES act have expired yesterday. Not surprisingly, the liberal media is predicting things will get worse if they are not renewed, and that this is a big crisis: Cutting off the $600 boost to unemployment benefits would be both cruel and bad economics Millions of Americans risk… Continue reading Failing to renew $600 unemployment checks will not hurt the US economy much

Tesla, along with Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are laying the digital and physical (in the case of Tesla) groundwork and infrastructure for the type-1 civilization transition that futurists for decades have been predicting, although few have offered any specific investing advice to profit from this transition. This is not to be be confused for… Continue reading How big can the tech giants become?

The article Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 went viral. I’m a huge fan of capitalism and free trade, as laid out in Adam Smith’s genre defining book The Wealth of Nations. The first core component of capitalism is the understanding that when everyone performs the work they are best at, then trades with each… Continue reading The UBI Debate: Mixed Socialism

I think we are going to be entering a news drought soon. Last year at around this time Jeffery Epstein died, which was a huge deal. And then shortly after, the Trump impeachment process also began, also a big deal. There is not really much to look forward to to kick the lull, until the… Continue reading Blame mega-corps for woke agenda, not activism and NGOs

Over the past few years so so, there have been grumblings by conservatives that Drudge is anti-Trump, that Drudge is working with the left, or that Drudge has lost his way, etc. Just two days ago, Tucker Carlson called Matt Drudge “firmly a man of the progressive left:” “For decades, Matt Drudge was one of… Continue reading In Defense of Drudge

My inclination is to believe that things will not be as bad under Biden as many on the right are assuming. One would be hard-pressed find a single issue in which Trump has actually successfully resisted the left. I cannot imagine things being worse than they are now in terms of tech censorship, campus radicalization,… Continue reading If Biden Wins…

The article Buffer Overflow: the Ghastly Future of Work by Fred Reed went viral. It is little surprise his article was a hit: automation and its effects on the US economy and society is a topic that is hotly debated by intellectual-types online in recent years, but also offline in regard to Andrew Yang’s 2020… Continue reading The labor buffer overflow

Lion is confident Trump will lose and likens the administration to a slow-motion trainwreck in regard to its mishandling of Covid-19. In regard to Trump losing, Lion has no way of knowing yet he speaks with such confidence. As discussed a few weeks ago, in spite of the negative press (since when has the press… Continue reading Countering arguments why Trump will lose

Martin put out this video about “Why Colleges Are Collapsing,” arguing that certification is a better deal than getting a degree. Predictions of the collapse of the college/higher-ed ‘bubble’ due to Covid are vastly premature, and possibly wrong. Coronavirus bursts the US college education bubble Bursting the College Bubble COVID-19 May Be the Needle That… Continue reading There will be no post-Covid higher education collapse/day of reckoning