It becomes immediately apparent to any American who has the misfortune of visiting Britain how much worse of a country it is. Compared to America, everything is miniaturized and more expensive. The same probably applies to much of Europe, as well as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, but for this post I’m primarily going to… Continue reading American Exceptionalism: America vs. Britain
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American Exceptionalism
This post succinctly summarizes why the US stock market ha done so well compared to the rest of the world: If the world is circling the drain, America is furthest from the drain, on the most outer ripple. Wherever the market falls more than a couple percent, the huge funds step in and keep buying… Continue reading American Exceptionalism
Slow Economic Growth Not a Big Deal
From the NY Times: We’re in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here? It seems like since 2009 there have been a plethora of articles bemoaning the ‘slow growth’ of the US economy. Or the usual headlines about the IMF revising its global growth forecast from 2.5 percent to 2.4887% …yaawn it’s all noise.… Continue reading Slow Economic Growth Not a Big Deal
Explaining America’s Economic and Social Stability
Fred Reed ponders the ‘endgame ‘ for America. Things do not look good. The country is disintegrating. The borders are open, against the will of much of the population. Our universities are in sharp decline, the students a rebellious unschooled rabble portending a peasant future. The economy gutters and standards of living fall. Jobs are… Continue reading Explaining America’s Economic and Social Stability
America the Intellectual Capital of the World, or Why Smart People Deserve More
With the Nobel Prize nominations in the news, the alleged ‘dumbing down’ of America is mostly anecdotal, like an old wives’ tale regurgitated by liberal pundits until many hold it to be truth. For example, America leads the world in Nobel Prize laureates, and this is most evident in the high-IQ science categories: The United… Continue reading America the Intellectual Capital of the World, or Why Smart People Deserve More
Economics Myths, Part 2: America Is In Decline/The Dollar Is Weak
This is part two of the ongoing economics myths series. A common refrain among the media these days is that ‘America is in decline’ or that the ‘dollar is going to become obsolete’. The Economist has jumped onto the dollar-is-doomed bandwagon, with the article The primacy of the US dollar looks unsustainable, which offers no… Continue reading Economics Myths, Part 2: America Is In Decline/The Dollar Is Weak
China’s investors find safe haven in American real estate
From Yahoo finance: China’s investors find safe haven in American real estate Commercial real estate isn’t the only type of property seeing large inflows of Chinese money. The country’s investors have also been active in the residential realty. They bought $28.6 billion in American residences, accounting for 28% of all foreign purchases by dollar volume,… Continue reading China’s investors find safe haven in American real estate
Evidence That America Is Not In Decline (long post)
Rumors of America’s decline have been exaggerated. Vox Day, in a recent post, writes: What we are witnessing is nothing less than the gradual demise of the biggest, wealthiest economy in world history. It is truly a privilege and an education to behold. It is rather like being able to witness the death of the… Continue reading Evidence That America Is Not In Decline (long post)
8-Year-Old Girl Makes $127,000 a Month
This 8-Year-Old Girl Makes $127,000 a Month Baking Sweets on YouTube lol, bu..bu..but..isn’t America supposed to be in decline, says the left? How is this possible when, according to the left, the only capitalism that exists is crony capitalism? And the America Dream is dead, too, according to liberals, because rich people killed it. I… Continue reading 8-Year-Old Girl Makes $127,000 a Month
Why Bay Area/Silicon Valley Real Estate Keeps Going Up
Atherton has the highest median property value of any region in America, with Menlo Park and Palo Alto not far behind. The entire Bay Area real estate market has been white-hot since 2012, coinciding with the huge public offerings of Facebook and Twitter and the 40+ percent gains in the S&P 500, and shows no… Continue reading Why Bay Area/Silicon Valley Real Estate Keeps Going Up