Mentally ill Nassim Tooleb continues to double-down on his covid insanity: Excellent idea.You want freedom to infect others; now pay for it. None of the people in parks enjoying their "freedom" should have any priority over and displace other sick people in hospitals. https://t.co/fiL5Ps2OmK — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) May 3, 2020 I have a… Continue reading Nassim Tooleb keeps digging himself deeper

About 6 weeks ago I predicted that Brazil, which at the time only had 1,000 cases/day, would see a huge surge comparable to Italy, due to being low-IQ: But low-IQ nationalistic countries are not safe either. IQ is necessary, or otherwise the people are too dumb to take precautionary measures. Even if governments close the… Continue reading Brazil sees surge in cases…right again

From Lion’s blog April 27 Coronavirus update: No light at the end of the tunnel I generally agree with Lion on most things, including even the virus. I agree that things are going get worse in terms of more cases and deaths, yet I remain optimistic about the stock market, especially tech stocks such as… Continue reading Coming to terms with death

A justification for ending the shutdowns and quarantines is, is that humans are a social animals, and although I oppose the shutdowns and quarantines, I am not so sure about the social animals part. In a recent YouTube video, Ram Z Paul says this like it’s a truism, but is it? I think humans are… Continue reading Questioning the assumption that human are social animals

Vox is yet again prematurely predicting the collapse of the US empire/hegemony, with the Coronavirus as a precipitating factor. Yet again, he is wrong (just a he is wrong about civic nationalism not working, about predictions of civil war and unrest, and a bunch of other things). By his logic, the Spanish Flu should have… Continue reading Decline of the US empire? Yeah right

Inspired by the report, Exceptionally Gifted Children:Long-Term Outcomes of Academic Acceleration and Nonacceleration, by Miraca U. M. Gross, which went viral recently. Gross’ longitudinal study of ‘Exceptionally Gifted Children’ is old, having begun in the early ’80s and ending in the late ’90s, tracks children born in Austria with IQs above 160. If such a… Continue reading America: The rise of the smart

The unz.com article American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?, published by unz.com editor and founder Run Unz, which posits that Covid-19 was a bio weapon by the US against China, has been going viral. For three generations following the end of World War II, America had stood as the world’s supreme economic and… Continue reading Unz is Wrong: Covid-19 was not a bio weapon against China

I can’t believe I’m writing about a virus. I could have never imagined such a situation a year ago. The differences between a year ago and now are so stark. Streets once full of people are empty. Anyway, Nassim Tooleb continues to demonstrate how clueless he is: Illustrates the point that + Governments are not… Continue reading Tooleb keeps being wrong

Sometimes it’s hard to be optimistic about the situation, although I remain invested in tech stocks, nonetheless, as I think it is the sector most immune, and in the long-run (18-24 months) things will mostly return to normal. Yes, we can all agree the virus will eventually die down, and the rate of new cases… Continue reading The virus endgame

Yesterday in part 1, I wrote: Tech investment in Silicon Valley will resume where it left off as if nothing happened. The virus will have no lasting impact. No bursting of tech bubble anywhere. Payment processing companies such as Visa, MasterCard, Square, and PayPal will also continue to thrive. And just today Stripe announced $600… Continue reading Investment and economic perspectives post-Covid, part 2