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September 2019

Teach the Unemployed to Code? yeah right • link
Politics are overrated? it depends • link
Why Harvard Is Right to Discriminate Against Asians: Response • link
Don’t feel too sorry for the Reddit moderators • link
The opportunity, lost • link
The intellectual-web, part 2 • link
Why persuasion and negotiation techniques are (probably) useless • link
The intellectual-web: an emergent online culture • link
There is no excuse • link
Hillary would have been worse, but • link
Does diversity + proximity lead to war? Probably not, as far as the US is concerned • link
Some things I learned following Trump on Twitter • link

August 2019

Nassim Taleb is Possibly Wrong about Wealth and IQ • link
The Trump Stalemate • link
No recession soon • link
Don’t expect student loan forgiveness • link
Joe Rogan’s Huge Popularity • link
Intelligence is not additive or multiplicative • link
More Nasssim Taleb lies • link
The ’90s and now, part 14 • link
Why the tariffs are not hurting the US economy • link
Additional arguments against economic stagnation • link
Stop blaming introverts for mass shootings • link
Left-wing reaction • link
IQ and wealth, continued • link
Not worried about latest tariffs • link
Update on Trump Wall • link
Taleb is a liberal, continued • link
Taleb’s latest twitter meltdown • link

July 2019

Woke capital does not make sense. It is not supposed to. • link
The ’90s and now, part 13 • link
Past and future trends for the alt-right • link
The ’90s and now, part 12 • link
Are we in an Era of Stagnation? Likely not • link
Foreign purchases of American homes fall: separating hype from reality • link
Don’t Abolish the SAT • link
The decline and failure of American conservatism • link
A job is not like slavery , nor higher risk than entrepreneurship • link
Eric Weinstein on Joe Rogan • link
The ’90s and now, part 11 • link
Trump’s 2020 odds improve, but victory far from certain • link
No coming collapse, and predictions for next 10 years • link
Intellect as Social Currency • link
Capital rules the world • link
The ’90s and now, part 10 • link
Studies of Exceptionally Gifted Children • link
The Debate Over Free Speech Online • link
The ’90s and now, part 9 • link

June 2019

The Blackpill Files, Part 3 • link
Twilight of the Alt-Right • link
Sanctions on Iran • link
Don’t forgive them their student loan debts • link
The evolution of the online ideological and political landscape • link
Fail • link
S&P 500 makes new highs despite tariff concerns • link
The Blackpill Files, Part 2 • link
Abortion and Crime Revisited • link
The Blackpill Files, Part 1 • link
The Daily View 6/16/2019 • link
Milo’s bid for relevance • link
The ’90s and now, part 8 • link
The student loan debate revisited • link
Media narratives are almost always wrong • link
Vox Media is probably not going away • link
Stock market shrugs off Mexico and China tariffs • link
A deterministic world • link
The ’90s and now, part 7 • link
The IQ Decline, Part 2 • link
An indictment of the alt-right • link
Justice Department Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google • link

May 2019

Can journalists become coders? Probably • link
Explaining the national debt: why I’m not concerned • link
MMA proves that science is BS • link
Tim Pool wrong about tech valuations • link
Trump & 2020 update • link
The ’90s and now, part 6 • link
China’s “Social Credit System” is probably coming to the US • link
The curse of genius • link
No, teaching blue collar workers to be engineers is not a practical solution • link
Treating social media as a public utility is not the answer • link
Tyler wrong about social media censorship • link
Trump Tariffs Update: Not Worried • link
The problem is not a lack of competition • link
Differences between the ‘left and the ‘right’ • link
Clown world meme • link
The ’90s and now, part 5 • link
No coming collapse of America, and the difficulty of using history to predict the future • link
Explaining why America’s healthcare is so expensive • link
Why Ethereum (ETH) is dying • link
Tesla is not going bankrupt • link
Not the Real Marxism • link
The ’90s and now, part 4 • link
Deleted for Truth • link

April 2019

The trans sports debate • link
The Myth that Refuses to Die • link
Affirmative action: much worse than expected • link
The ’90s and now, part 3 • link
More correct tech & stock predictions • link
Trump approval rating holds steady • link
Why the student loan and college ‘bubble’ won’t be bursting anytime soon • link
Jordan Peterson Zizek Debate • link
Peter Turchin is (probably) wrong about crisis, again • link
Were the Victorians smarter? Probably not • link
The Mueller Report, Part 2 • link
Fake Experts • link
The Competence Bubble • link
The ’90s and now, part 2 • link
China’s ‘Fake’ Economic Data: Why I’m Not Concerned • link
The ’90s and now, part 1 • link
Julian Assange • link
On the Difficulty of Predicting the Future • link
The Downfall of Milo and the Rise of the Alt-Middle/Center • link
The trouble with philosophy • link
Trump administration nearly doubles H-2B guest visa program • link
New York elite public schools are not discriminating against blacks • link
Is MAGA over? It feels like it • link
The right’s embrace the anti-work movement • link
The UBI debate: criticism and analysis • link
Facebook: Standing Against Hate • link

March 2019

No recession despite yield curve inversion • link
No Coming Realignment • link
Alex Jones • link
The Great Miscalculator: Response (why there won’t be a debt crisis in America) • link
Taxes and Incentives • link
The IQ Decline • link
Yang may be anti-white, but they all are • link
The Trump Black Pill • link
IQ & Wealth, Part 2 • link
Taleb’s Deception • link
Entrepreneurism is overrated • link
Taleb wrong about IQ and wealth & income • link
College Admissions Scandal: Separating Hype from Reality • link
Is the first term of the Trump presidency already over? • link
Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, a year later • link
The Daily View 3/13/2019 • link
Yang Gang mania • link
The New 30-Something • link
Men not working • link
Not worried about socialism (even though the media keeps talking about it) • link
Taleb: Dr. Peterson is a charlatan • link
No trade war • link
How systems can beat efficient markets • link
Jordan Peterson is Not a Covert Marxist (response to Milo) • link
The end of liberal democracy and the American hegemony? hardly • link
Why America is So Economically Productive • link
The Declining Relevance of Conservatism • link

February 2019

Against Social Media • link
Workism • link
No such thing as free speech • link
What Warren Buffett’s shareholder letter says about America • link
Reforming Public Education: Against Compulsory Schooling • link
Exchange hacks are good for the price of Bitcoin • link
Trump analysis • link
The dumbing-down of Gifted Education • link
On Having Good Opinions (deconstructing Joe Rogan’s success) • link
Trump wall disappointment • link
The Cognitive Aristocracy and the UBI • link
Are we in a post-truth era? Possibly not • link
Blackpilling, part 2 • link
The “10,000 Hours of Practice” Myth (Practice makes better, but not perfect) • link
Paul Krugman Should Not Be Taken Seriously • link
Peter Thiel’s Success: Luck or Skill? • link
Gadwell’s Revisionist History • link
Evolution of Online Political Journalism: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up • link
The Enlightenment has Won • link
Why Soys and Virgins Rule • link
The Benefits of Boredom • link
The Jewish Advantage • link
The Capitalism Quality Paradox • link

January 2019

Explaining America’s Economic and Global Dominance • link
Secular Calvinism • link
Criticism of Taleb (about non-IQ stuff) • link
Trump, wall, and shutdown: what happens next • link
How popular is gender studies? • link
Huge Ethereum delay: another correct prediction • link
Tucker: MAGA hat-wearing students smeared by media • link
2019 Predictions, Part 2, and the rise of the alt-middle/center • link
The Rise of Non-Judgmental Conservatism • link
Why the stock market is going higher • link
Video: Re: Stefan Molyneux, Nassim Taleb, Race, IQ, Twitter • link
The China-U.S. Cultural and Economic Connection • link
The Daily View 1/16/2019 • link
IQ: Still the Best Predictor of Upward Mobility • link
What Is Going To Happen In 2019 • link
Why the Federal Reserve cannot do much • link
Taleb on IQ: more responses, debunking IQ cultural bias, and the philosophy of Taleb’s liberalism • link
The wall & shutdown • link
Are millennials really that poor and struggling? • link
The pundit disconnect • link
James Altucher Wrong About Crypto Currency • link
Ron Unz on Hispanic Crime • link
Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Wrong again!) • link
The Sam Vimes “Boots” Theory of Economic Injustice • link
Jordan Peterson’s IQ…estimate and Vox Day may be wrong • link

December 2018

The Descent of Man: Culture vs. Economics • link
IQ and Politicians • link
Student loan crisis: putting it in perspective • link
Christmas Round-Up • link
Nassim Taleb sticks his foot in his mouth again about IQ research • link
Free Trade and Migration of Peoples • link
The daily view 12/21/2018 • link
High-IQ People are Not Being Inappropriately Excluded • link
America the outlier • link
Student Loan Debt is Not a Drag on the U.S. Economy and Will Not Lead to Crisis • link
End of ‘Trumpism’ • link
Aaron Swartz: I Hate the News • link
Ship of Fools • link
Does Donald Trump Owns This Stock Market? Maybe • link
$50 Bitcoin? Possible • link
The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last? • link
George Bush • link
Are Americans Paying Too Much for Healthcare? It’s complicated • link
Not worried about tariffs, yield curve, and trade war • link
So where is the wall? • link
Thomas Sowell Reason Interview • link
Quitting Social Media • link
Myth of the limp-wristed liberal • link
De-motivational talks • link

November 2018

Trump’s low approval ratings • link
Lopsided IQ scores • link
Against ‘badness’ • link
The pro-life left • link
Trump and immigration: will he act • link
Bitcoin plunges below 3800 • link
Politics and Crypto Update • link
Khashoggi murder will Not stain America and Trump • link
Betting against climate change disaster • link
Higher level thinking • link
Amazon will not fail anytime soon • link
There won’t be a repeat of WW1: a case for stability • link
Politics may seem bad now, but it used to be much worse • link
Young people are not having sex • link
The Mad Rush to College is Killing Our Children’s Entrepreneurial Spirit: Analysis • link
Why America’s mediocre PISA rankings are not a big deal • link
Nassim Taleb endorses ‘reverse-Darwinism’ • link
Intellectual credibility is the most valuable currency • link
The threat is Islam, not China • link
No Red Wave • link
Improving Ourselves to Death • link
What happened to the alt-right • link
Minimum wage • link
Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable? • link
Trump and the 14th Amendment • link
Misconceptions about Student Loans and Student Loan Debt, and How Young People Make Money • link

October 2018

Intellectual Laziness • link
“the great compromise” • link
Another correct Trump prediction (thus far) • link
Stefan Molyneux: Do the Rich Work Harder? • link
Tesla posts surprise profit…right again • link
The genetics of university success: study • link
Disagreeing with Tyler Cowen about Stagnation and Innovation • link
Jonah Goldberg wrong again • link
“the great compromise” • link
Is Trump too Cozy with Dictators? The evidence shows otherwise • link
NPCs • link
Tyler Cowen: Stagnation and Complacency, Part 1 • link
Why we should support Steven Pinker • link
Economics report: tariffs, inflation, stock market • link
Crypto-currency report • link
Khashoggi and Trump • link
Why philosophy is so popular these days • link
Notes: Kahneman System 1 and System 2 Thinking • link
Jordan Peterson vs. Nassim Taleb: Philosophical and Political Differences • link
Black swans and ongoing stories • link
Common themes • link
Your IQ Matters Less Than You Think: Response • link
Jordan Peterson Cult? • link
Jordan Peterson Misfires • link
Deconstructing a viral article: In Praise of Mediocrity • link
Two correct predictions • link
Alt Right- Two Variants • link
The great slow-down • link

September 2018

A Troublesome Intelligence? Response • link
notes: The Kavanaugh media circus • link
Jordan Peterson on Inequality and Hierarchies • link
The only constant is change? Not really • link
Lehman crisis-10 years later • link
Student Loan Misconceptions, Student Loan Debt, and How Young People Make Money • link
Getting Griggs Wrong • link
Economists predicting doom again • link
The millennial search for meaning in a meaningless world • link
The Coddling of the American Mind, as a precursor to the IDW • link
Vox Day wrong about trade, GDP • link
Debunking the media’s smear campaign against Elon Musk • link
Not worried about Trump tariffs, part 2 • link
Wrong About IQ? | Russell Warne and Stefan Molyneux • link
Foreign Stocks Don’t Belong in Your Portfolio • link
Notes: Do you have to be smart to care? • link
My $100,000 Student Loan Debt • link
Anti-Trump op-ed • link
Fukuyama vs. Huntington • link
The Political Circus • link
The elite really are different from the rest of us • link
Blacks and the Media Narrative • link
Is the U.S. Hostile to Smart People? • link
Why isn’t inflation higher? • link

August 2018

Bullshit Jobs, Part 2 • link
Why we’re not happy • link
Short-sellers wrong about Tesla • link
Milo on McCain • link
When is the next recession? Not for a long time • link
Charles Murray: How Today’s Elites are a Failed Product of the 60s Counterculture • link
Trump and social media censorship • link
Cohen investigation: analysis • link
Elon Musk Prediction: Nothingburger • link
The intellectual richness of the ‘right’ • link
Venezuela’s Collapse: Questioning the Media Narrative • link
Alex Jones De-Platforming Part 2: Jordan Peterson’s Response • link
Peter Turchin is wrong about Crisis • link
Alex Jones de-platforming, part 1 • link
Ann Coulter lays off Trump • link
No dysgenic collapse • link
The Third Position • link
Bullshitting with Einstein • link
Normies and Bugmen • link
Trump tariffs: experts wrong again • link
Derek Sivers • link
Bitcoin crashes …again • link
The Daily View 8/8/2018 • link
The China-U.S. Intellectual Connection • link
Vox Day vs. Scott Adams • link
Bullshit jobs • link
Ben Shapiro – Is AMERICA on the BRINK of COLLAPSE? No • link
Tesla Stock Surges on Earnings • link
Crazy idea: should the US Govt. buyout Microsoft? • link

July 2018

Jordan Peterson Truth-bombs Everyone about IQ • link
Meme propagation process • link
Optimism and The_Donald • link
Winner-take-all economics • link
The Wealth Inequality Debate: Why Wealth Redistribution is Not the Answer • link
The Wealth Inequality Debate: Revolution & Living Standards • link
The China Test • link
Putin summit nothingburger • link
The Stock Market Keeps Going Up: More Correct Predictions • link
Trump Impeachment Odds Now the Lowest Ever • link
Is Morality Overrated? • link
Peter Thiel: What is Multiculturalism Really About • link
Elon Musk Schools Twitter • link
Moral Nihilism • link
Trump updates • link
Scott Adams gets HBD Wrong • link
The Craft of Rationality • link
Why Scott Adams is so popular • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 16 • link
The death of neoconservatism? Unlikely • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 15 • link

June 2018

Thomas Piketty Analysis, and the US Economy • link
Trump, threats, & the news cycle • link
Dr. Peterson vs. Jim Jeffries Interview • link
Trump: he’s still in office as impeachment hopes evaporate • link
Bitcoin plunges below 6,000 • link
Trump’s immigration bill • link
Education and workers, part 2 • link
Is the U.S. Education System Designed to Create Obedient Workers? • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 14: the trinity • link
A we in an Economic Ponzi Scheme? • link
Fish Farm Economies • link
Trump and Kim Meeting: Another Correct Prediction • link
The Great Bitcoin Wealth Transfer • link
The High-IQ Homo Economicus • link
The usual suspects are at it again predicting crisis • link
The college debate, continued • link
Redstate.com firing of anti-Trump writers is not a free speech issue • link
The End of History? • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 13 • link

May 2018

Roseanne Barr and the Ambien defense • link
Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) , part 2 • link
Notes on Trump and Policy • link
Anti-Peterson desperation • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 12 • link
Elon Musk vs. the left: Twitter War • link
Bitcoin : Why it won’t be revolutionary • link
Bitcoin idiot Tom Lee finally outed for being wrong • link
Are the elites worried about Trump? Not really • link
Jordan Peterson vs. Michael Dyson on white privilege • link
‘Basic Jobs’ vs. Basic Income • link
Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think • link
‘worst HBD article ever’ • link
High-level generators of disagreement • link
Bitcoin: it’s not decentralized • link
Nash Equilibrium and cooperative games: example • link
Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, Take 5 • link
Trump Slipping Backwards On Immigration • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 11 (evolution of online journalism) • link
Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, take 4 • link
The Intellectual Dark Web • link
Shoddy reporting from Bloomberg View • link
Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, take 3 • link
Unknown unknowns • link
More correct predictions • link
The Kanye West – Scott Adams media backfire • link
Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, part 2 • link

April 2018

Competition necessitates humans • link
Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson on Jewish IQ • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 10 • link
Bitcoin crash resumes…new lows coming • link
A golden age? • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 9 • link
Kevin Williamson responds to his firing • link
Biggest winners of the Trump administration: centrists, moderates; biggest losers: the far left • link
The IQ trap: how the study of genetics could transform education, New Statesmen • link
The accent of the alt-middle/center: how it began • link
Bitcoin update: it’s going lower • link
Does the rise of China pose a threat to the U.S.? Likely not • link
Bitcoin and Rationality, Part 2: Why Bitcoin is not like the lottery, and when to sell • link
Matthew Yglesias regarding Charles Murray and The Bell Curve • link
Society’s Invisible Men • link
Getting the square-cube law wrong • link
Conveying action is as effective as action • link
Reconciling Free Will with Biological Determinism • link
Kevin Williamson’s cold dose of reality • link
The news carousel • link
Interesting Jordan Peterson quote • link
Centrism as a culture • link
Tariffs: more analysis • link
James Woods demands that wall be built, or Trump will lose. But will he? • link
Denying Genetics Isn’t Shutting Down Racism, It’s Fueling It: Andrew Sullivan • link
Bitcoin Update..it’s sinking • link
The Trump Disappointment: Analysis • link

March 2018

Why do people perceive Communism as less evil than Nazism? • link
Facebook…is the sky falling? Probably not • link
Review of the review: Dr. Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life • link
The Economist becomes Woke about IQ • link
Bitcoin falls again. Another correct call. • link
The appeal of Communism and similar collectivist ideologies • link
Trump analysis • link
Dr. Peterson is really smart • link
The FTC investigation of Facebook, analysis • link
The daily view 3/21/2018 • link
The Role of Luck in Life Success • link
A Scenario for how America Falters • link
The coin massacre continues • link
Is America Rome 2.0? Likely not • link
Some random thoughts • link
Do the crime, pay the fine • link
More thoughts on Bitcoin • link
The cards fall: The Truth About the SAT and ACT • link
So long and so much for that • link
Your Antivirus Software is Useless (and what I do instead) • link
Post-ideological era, part 2 • link
More correct predictions: Trump and China • link
Bitcoin keeps falling, another correct call • link
The ‘real’ news is often just as bad as fake news • link
Bitcoin big down day • link
Notes: tariffs=nothingburger • link
Those Overblown Trade Deals • link
Technology and Job Loss: The Debate Continues • link
Physical Removal • link
Kaczynski’s Philosophy • link

February 2018

The running narrative • link
US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse • link
Jordan Peterson’s self-authoring program does not boost college GPAs: study & analysis • link
Tyranny and Guns • link
A better investment than crypto currency: FNGU • link
Predictions for 2023 • link
for every $1 of Bitcoin converted into cash, up to $25,000 of paper wealth is destroyed • link
Why So Many People Like Jordan Peterson • link
Philosophical bites: Empiricism vs. Rationalism • link
Interesting tweet • link
The four horsemen of the alt-middle/center • link
Bitcoin idiot Tom Lee at it again (and when it’s time to buy Bitcoin again) • link
Two nations within a nation • link
Anti-democracy, part 5 • link
Bare-knuckle boxing/fighting is not safer • link
Trump tax cuts & deficits: not worried about inflation • link
Vice Media tries to defame Jordan Peterson, fails • link
My own 12 Rules for Life • link
Notes on Trump Military Parade • link
Stock Market Q&A • link
How people get rich (it’s not Bitcoin) • link
The Autonomous Economy • link
Bitcoin dead cat bounce • link
Accelerationism as an example of opensource, bottom-up philosophy • link
Bitcoin ‘experts’ are often clueless • link
Notes on the ethical dilemma of self-driving cars • link
Is the ‘deep state’ and Facebook trying to censor Jordan Peterson? • link
Bitcoin Update 2/4/2018 • link
Studies of exceedingly high IQs • link
Bitcoin carnage continues • link
Capital in the Twenty-First Century analysis • link

January 2018

Trump speech brief analysis • link
The LessWrong Crypto Autopsy • link
Notes on writing advice: longer is better • link
Sam Harris’ takedown of Nassim Taleb • link
Conflict vs. Mistake Theorists (analysis) • link
Bad Bitcoin Analysts • link
Is NRx Dying? No, it’s moving to Twitter (and other thoughts) • link
Jordan Peterson won’t debate the alt-right • link
Rise of Jordan Peterson mirrors the decline of alt-right • link
Rules for rationalism • link
The govt. depends on the private sector, not the other way around • link
Notes on Sterilization • link
Notes on Immigration • link
The Failed Hero’s Journey • link
The ‘Motte and Bailey’ fallacy isn’t really a fallacy • link
Bitcoin update • link
The post-2009 bull market as restitution for the creative/productive class • link
Trump and ‘shithole countries’ • link
Michael Wolff book,’Fire and Fury’; Prediction: Nothing-burger • link
People should stop saying silly things about IQ • link
Cryptocurrencies are not inflationary, nor is it ‘helicopter money’ • link
The daily view: correct predictions, stock market forecast, accelerationism, and DACA • link
Jordan Peterson plans to unveil an IQ test • link
The bitcoin hedge fund rip-off • link
Notes on Michel Foucault • link
High-IQ discourse: correctness is more important than consensus • link
Playing the Financial Bubble Game, by Arnold Kling • link
Trump, president de jure • link
Don’t Bet Against Bryan Caplan • link
Consider Altcoins • link
Megan McArdle is Wrong About Bitcoin • link
Criticism of the five-factor (big five) model of personality • link

December 2017

Alt coin trading strategy guide • link
Bearish Bitcoin Chart Formation • link
Tuning out of the news cycle • link
Empiricism , Time Preference, and Economics • link
2017: the year in review • link
Nassim Tooleb Twitter: Best of • link
Merry Christmas is now ‘hate speech’ • link
Predictions for 2018 • link
The American Tradition of Waging Culture War • link
Bitcoin SHTF mode • link
Another correct prediction: wealth inequality • link
Not worried about AI • link
Bitcoin analysis • link
Virtue signaling, part 2 • link
Surging stock market a vote of confidence for Trump, America • link
Ann Coulter continues to demonstrate her ignorance of politics • link
Boosting the economy through high-IQ investment • link
Jordan Peterson’s Bland Conservatism • link
Virtue Signaling and Purity Spiraling • link
Jordan Peterson on the power of writing • link
Exponential correlation of IQ and the wealth of nations • link
Shared narratives: summary and examples • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 8 (interlude) • link
The compelling case for working a lot less (if IQ is high enough) • link
The Flynn Effect vs. the Greatest Minds in History (analysis) • link
Notes: The Odds of Impeachment Are Dropping • link
Black pills and tots • link
Normie Conservatism vs. Alternative Conservatism • link
Mr. Money Mustache does not understand Uber or libertarianism well • link
Eliezer Yudkowsky schools the Bank of Japan • link
Optimism or stagnation? A case for both. • link
Flynn story; prediction: nothingburger • link
The configuration of power • link
The stock market just surged past a record milestone thanks to the GOP tax bill • link

November 2017

Why bitcoin is so volatile • link
The media/pundit narrative is almost always wrong, and why • link
Why Trump is Waffling on Immigration • link
Two paths to success • link
notes: The Successor to the United States of America • link
The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective (analysis) • link
What to be thankful for: not smoking • link
Leninism, part 2 • link
How the opioid crisis fixes itself…sorta • link
Biological Leninism • link
Cosmopolitanism elite losing power? Hardly • link
there is an underlying reason for everything that happens • link
Twitter purge 2.0 • link
How High-IQ Millennials Make Money • link
There are always at least two possibilities • link
The Overblown ‘Retail Apocalypse’ • link
The Decline of ‘New Atheism’ • link
The Bell Curve is becoming reality, part 2 • link
Dumbing-down & policy • link
How to Predict, part infinity • link
Not Worried About Tech Valuations, the saga continues • link
Link Round-up Edition • link
No, the far-left and the far-right are not the same • link
Is grit the true secret of success? no • link
Why Intellectuals Like Trump (or at least don’t hate him) • link
Scott and Postmodernism • link
Trump: Managers vs. Commanders • link
Why it does not matter that Tesla is losing money • link
The Postmodernism Boom • link
Bitcoin at $7,000 • link
In Praise of Ineffective Government • link

October 2017

Those worthless humanities papers • link
Automation and Post-Scarcity • link
Trump’s polls are falling, but I’m not worried • link
Another Quarter of Blow-Out Tech Earnings: Not worried about “tech bubble 2.0″ • link
Anti-Trump desperation showing, and the GOP civil war • link
Media Getting NRx Wrong • link
Two IQ links by two Scotts • link
Why 3x S&P 500 ETFs can be held long-term • link
Raven’s test performance of sub-Saharan Africans: Average performance, psychometric properties, and the Flynn Effect • link
Are Successful Writers The Smartest People Alive? • link
The “HBD bull market” is unstoppable, and the persuasion technique I used to helped someone make thousands of dollars • link
Yes, the ‘never-Trumpers’ were wrong, but it doesn’t matter anymore • link
Kevin Williamson’s Elitism • link
HBD & Investing, Part 3 (IQ and the concentration of wealth) • link
How HBD can be used to beat the market, part 2: Predictions & Stock Picks • link
Just own the damn robots • link
Jordan Peterson says not to take notes during lectures. Is he right? Probably not • link
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Merchandising of White Guilt, and America’s Race Obsession • link
Why you should not let politics influence your investing decisions (in one tweet) • link
Trump is still not in power • link
Evidence America is not (yet) dumbing-down • link
Internal and external value systems • link
The Over-hyped Purported Efficacy of Australia’s Gun Laws • link
To change the world, invest; don’t start a business • link
Donald Trump Does Not Like to Read (but so what) • link
Individual Ideological & Philosophical Classification System • link
Asset-based capitalism • link
Grey Notes: Liberal Hypocrisy • link
The revenge-of-the-nerds economy (in 18 charts) • link
The Devil is in the Comments • link
Why the right gave up on the culture wars • link
Why the Trump tax cuts will not be inflationary, Part 2: • link
The problem with white identity • link

September 2017

Debunking IQ Denial-ism • link
Deterministic society & economy • link
What is going on with the alt-right • link
The Backlash Grows • link
Capitalism, part 2: Status as Currency • link
Reconciling capitalism with HBD • link
Meditations on millennials (and gen. z) • link
Brain Volume Strongly Correlated with IQ • link
The Puritanical-Left • link
Not Worried About the Fed Balance Sheet Unwind • link
“Simple Systems” • link
Grey notes: The Triumph of Capital • link
Daca Disappointment • link
Estimating the decay parameters of leveraged & inverse etfs • link
Is ‘musicgate’ payback for ‘memo/Google-gate’? • link
Based Kevin D. Williamson • link
Nassim Taleb spreading more BS about intelligence research • link
They are seeking leadership • link
Equifax Hack: Analysis • link
Debate: Vox Day vs. Andrew Anglin • link
Everyone is a Realist • link
Corporate virtue signaling and holiness investing • link
The Permanent Ascendance of ‘Bobos’ • link
Bret Stephens: Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers • link
Why do some countries fail and others succeed? • link
You Are the Product: Analysis • link
Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux discuss IQ • link
Hurricane Harvey Analysis • link
Getting the correct story is hard • link

August 2017

The ‘Metamodern Condition’ • link
Debunking more white v. black discrimination • link
Jared Taylor truth bombs everyone • link
War with North Korea is certain. The question is when. • link
Anti-activism going mainstream • link
Black-White wage gap • link
On a ‘general theory’ of social behavior and government • link
The left comes full circle • link
Zuck for president? • link
James Damore, STEM celebrity • link
The wall: it ain’t happening • link
Taleb: How to be Rational about Rationality: Analysis • link
The Bell Curve is Becoming Reality • link
Charlottesville: Poor Security To Blame? • link
Defending Economics • link
blackpilling • link
Charlottesville: Why You Cannot Trust the Video Footage • link
Verbal…Harder than Math? Part 2 • link
In Defense of the Journalistic Method • link
Putting Charlottesville in perspective • link
Debunking more STEM sexism • link
Grey Notes: Forget Computer Science…Why are men underrepresented in psychology? • link
The 99% vs. 1%…who is exploiting whom • link
North Korea : What Happens Next • link
Not Worried about North Korea • link
The Google Memo, Part 2: James Damore and Jordan Peterson discuss the memo • link
Will Silicon Valley’s Tech Fortunes Dissolve like the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt Fortunes? No • link
James Damore firing…what happens next • link
The Google Anti-Diversity Memo: Why is it such a big deal? • link
Tyranny advances under the banner of freedom • link
America’s ‘Cold War Philosophy’ • link
Bitcoin at $3,000 • link
Trump is here to stay • link
Whose Sexism? • link
The story of history is a power struggle between elites • link
Christianity, Science, Values, and Morality • link

July 2017

Free Speech and Its Limitations • link
Jordan Peterson and the Evolution of Marxism • link
Patreon CEO Jack Conte Disingenuous Explanation for Lauren Southern Banning • link
Silicon Valley is Eating the World • link
Not Worried About Tech Bubble (and how HBD can be used to beat the market) • link
The Meritocracy Analysis, Part 2: • link
Grey Notes: Debunking STEM Sexism • link
U.S. home sales to foreigners surge 49% to new record • link
How the Media Sells Fear and Outrage for Profit • link
Targeting the Meritocracy : Response • link
Economics and Unintended Consequences • link
The Fumigation Begins • link
Activism and the Imperial Mindset • link
The Four Anomalies • link
How Did Jordan Peterson Become So Successful? • link
Taxation, Libertarianism, and Wealth • link
Status, Universities, and the Elites • link
Updating old posts • link
Neoliberalism and Capitalism • link
IQ, Education, and Upward Mobility • link
The Culture War Is Inescapable • link
Trump Jr. Email Recap: Not Much to be Worried About • link
Postmodernism: It’s about Facts, not Values • link
Murderism and Racism • link
More Commanding and Less Managing • link
High Drug Prices…Putting Things in Perspective • link
Comparative Advantage and IQ • link
Late Stage Capitalism, Part 2 • link
‘Athlete genes’ exist…so why not genes for IQ • link
Late Stage Capitalism, Part 1 • link
Jordan Peterson: 12 principles for a 21st century conservatism (analysis) • link
Steelmanning • link

June 2017

Trump Travel Ban…not much to get excited about • link
The War on Sensemaking • link
Jordan Peterson, The Shadow, and Power • link
Four Jordan Peterson Lectures • link
Pharisees of the alt-right • link
The Healthcare ‘Cost Disease’ Demystified • link
The Atlantic: How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration • link
Political Violence Is a Game the Right Can’t Win, But There is Hope • link
Do big words make you look dumb? How BS spreads on the internet • link
Has democracy become too expensive for capitalism? Part 2 • link
What a Bet Shows • link
Has democracy become too expensive for capitalism? Part 1 • link
The Boomer Backlash, Part 2 • link
Today in stupid: math edition • link
Jordan Peterson, SJWs, and Postmodernists • link
The Necessity of Power, Part 2: weak politicians = stronger state • link
A competent but boring presidency • link
Grey Notes: The great self-esteem con • link
Next Financial Crisis? • link
The Polgar Prodigies–Is Genius Born or Made • link
HBD-as-Destiny Thesis (part 5 of predicting series) • link
Defending Postmodernism • link
Belated election analysis: was it just luck? • link
Jordan Peterson and Postmodernism • link
Is Free Trade worse than Communism? • link
The Permanent Ascendance of the Status Quo • link

May 2017

The importance of IQ • link
Stuck in the quicksand of philosophy • link
System-based rationalism, part 2 • link
The Atomic Bomb as a Hungarian High School Science Fair Project? Hardly • link
A systems-based approach to rationalism • link
How the GOP ‘Establishment’ Lost Its Way • link
Bryan Caplan and Dave Rubin: Anarcho-Capitalism, Economics, and Immigration (Full Interview) • link
The Inescapable Pull of Biology • link
How much should a philosopher be blamed for the consequences of his beliefs • link
Collapse • link
Bitcoin is an asset class first and a currency second • link
Anti-democracy, part 4 • link
Mole in the White House • link
Another low-IQ country bites the dust • link
Not Worried About Comey Memo • link
Accelerationism • link
Masculinity and Risk Taking • link
Silicon Valley’s Reality Check • link
Professional vs. Amateur Writing • link
Clarification of Principles • link
Snapchat and Bitcoin • link
Bitcoin Update: $20,000/coin target • link
Why Stoicism • link
Donald Trump’s IQ is 115 • link
Postmodernism: not just for liberals • link
Society Needs its Weirdos and Nerds • link
Peter Schiff Wrong as Always: How the Trump Tax Cuts may actually be Deflationary • link
Trump disillusionment, part 2 • link
Bryan Caplan’s “IQ With Conscience” • link
Don’t call yourself a libertarian • link
The Healthcare Debate, Part 3: Why America Cannot Be Like Singapore • link

April 2017

On Progress and Historical Change: Response • link
Post-2008 wealth creation boom: recap and why it will continue • link
Jordan Peterson – Controversial Facts about IQ: analysis • link
Teaching Students Failure by Failing Them • link
Classification of groups, and the meme propagation process • link
Notes on Philosophy versus Politics • link
The Merging of Economics with Physics • link
Even an inept king is better than a revolving door of good and bad politicians. • link
Jordan Peterson – IQ and The Job Market • link
The Slow Presidency • link
The Philosophy-STEM alliance • link
Michael Huemer and Terrorism • link
How to Predict, Part 3: HBD, Rationalism, and Trusted Sources • link
Trump and China Relations Strengthen: Another Correct Prediction • link
Law and Morality • link
Most debates are over semantics, not issues • link
Why to Always Short UVXY Instead of VXX • link
Geopolitical Recap & Predictions • link
Grey notes: Why Scientology succeeds even though everyone hates it • link
Intellectualism culture and intersectionality • link
New York Times: The Gig Economy’s False Promise • link
The Misplaced Logic of Attacking the Rich • link
French Election • link
Biology, especially as it pertains to IQ, is still the ‘third rail’ of the social sciences. • link
Saving consequentialism and utilitarianism from the trolley car • link
Jordan Peterson on Rejection • link
The Tyler Cowen-Rationality feud is getting out of hand • link
The Trump Syria Disappointment • link
The ‘Earnership Society’ • link
The Real Truth about NYC’s Elite High Schools • link
Reactionary Future, MacIntyre, and Communitarianism • link
IQ: More Than a Number, Part 3 • link
Gnon’s Wager • link
Global ‘Power Vacuum’ Will be Filled by America and China • link
Defining and Understanding Rationalism • link

March 2017

SJWs, Jordan Peterson, and Democracy • link
Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction • link
Implementation of HBD-based Policy • link
Tyler Cowen the Neoreactionary? • link
YouTube Censorship • link
Is college a big waste of time and money? It depends • link
Guided by the ‘correctness’ of our opinions • link
Upward Mobility Linked to Genes • link
How To Predict, Part 2: The Downfall of the Popular IPO • link
And Fear No Darkness • link
Trump and Neocons • link
Stocks vs. Real Estate Debate, Part 3 (answering objections) • link
Scott Adams is Wrong about Snapchat • link
Malcom Gladwell: poster child of mediocrity • link
Jordan Peterson Discusses IQ • link
Shared Experiences • link
SJW/liberal Cathedral vs. Tehnocommercialism Cathedral • link
Real Estate vs. Stocks, Part 2 (why homes win, and why rent sucks) • link
Josh Barro’s Bad Day • link
Why Gold Fails as a Hedge Against Inflation (and when it works) • link
The Alt-Right Punches Way Above Its Weight • link
Why the Customers Don’t Have Yachts, and Why it Doesn’t Matter • link
Bifurcated Inflation • link
Who is to blame: society or the individual • link
Malcolm Gladwell Continues to Lose Credibility • link
Why it seems like many high-IQ people ‘underachieve’ • link
Why Robots Won’t Take All The Jobs • link
Grey Notes: Your phone or your life • link
A Monstrous Mess (collapse & shared narratives) • link
Math, Physics, and Philosophy: Linked Together • link
Grey Notes: Trump is ‘Junk’ • link
Tyler Cowen’s The Complacent Class: Reviews and Discussion • link
Is the World Becoming Smarter or Dumber? • link
The Industry of Gaslighting Our Culture • link
Disturbing New Facts About American Capitalism • link
Crying Wolf: Holding the Pundits and Media Accountable for Being Wrong about Snapchat and Web 2.0 • link
Grey Notes: Protestantism and Holiness Spiraling • link
There is No Such Thing as the ‘Intellectual Left’ • link
Snapchat goes public: another correct prediction • link
Trump’s State of the Union Speech – Analysis • link
China and America: Closer Than Ever • link

February 2017

Why Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor? • link
The Advantages of Real Estate over Stocks • link
Does America owe its success to exploitation, genocide and slavery? • link
The Decline of ‘Low Information’ Conservatism • link
Why Bitcoin Keeps Going Up: Analysis • link
Grey Notes: No Trump Impeachment • link
Another Correct Prediction: Tesla • link
How To Predict • link
Much Ado About Milo • link
Grey Notes: The Futility of Activism • link
The Best of Times or The Worst of Times? • link
Make The Stock Market Great Again • link
Mark Zuckerberg: a Modern-day Progressive • link
The Healthcare (and Student Loan) Debate, Part 2…Why is everything so expensive? • link
The Healthcare Debate: Confronting Reality (End of Life Care and Costly Chronic Diseases) • link
Rule by signaling • link
Materialism and Empircisim are Easy; Idealism is Hard • link
Trump Presidency Predictions and Significance: Economics, Immigration, Culture, and Endgame • link
A Letter to ‘Trump Haters’ • link
Avoid Individual Stocks • link
The Trump Disillusionment? • link
Why conservatives always lose • link
The Free Trade Debate, Part 2 • link
Getting the Berkeley Riots Wrong • link
Why There Isn’t More Civil Unrest in America, and Why I’m Not Worried • link
The ‘Universal Person’ • link
‘Surprisingly Uneventful’ • link
Why a Wealth Tax is a Bad Idea • link

January 2017

Why Foreign Real Estate is a Bad Investment • link
Trump’s Muslim ‘Ban’ • link
Smart, Optimistic Millennials • link
Doomsday prep for the super-rich • link
The American Dream Still Exists–If You’re Smart Enough • link
Stagnant Inflation-Adjusted US Wages: Putting Things in Perspective • link
Why NRx is Popular on Reddit • link
Trump Presidency: Sober Expectations • link
A Skeptic’s View of Fred’s IQ Artilce • link
The ‘New World Order’ • link
Debunking the 90% Eisenhower Income Tax Myth • link
Why Choose Pacifism • link
Trump and the Alt-Right: A Return to ‘Localism’ • link
The Long Peace, and the Slowdown • link
Inaction and Indifference as Rebellion • link
Idiocracy in America? Probably not • link
Never Apologize to Liberals • link
Why Choose Traditional Publishing Over Self-Publishing • link
Black Lives Commit More Crime • link
The Sweet, Boring Middle • link
Intellectuals choose correctness over consensus • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 7 • link
Freedom vs. Liberty • link
The Post-2008 ‘Philosophy Boom’ • link
Inevitablism • link
What People Fight and Die For • link
Our morally ambiguous times • link
Maths and reading skills found to be 75 per cent genetic • link
The power of the alt-right is not to directly influence policy but rather to influence sentiment • link
Internet Journalism in a Post-2013 Era: Writing Articles that Go Viral • link
The Necessity of Power • link
2017 Predictions and Reflections • link

December 2016

Alt Right Power Struggle • link
More Tooleb Nonsense Debunked • link
Drugs and Tariffs • link
Thomas Sowell Retires • link
Identity, IQ, and Incoherence of the Alt-Right • link
In Defense of Millennials, Part 2 • link
Time Management and The Celebration of the Mundane • link
Explaining America’s Economic and Social Stability, Part 2 • link
No paradigm shifts or changes to status quo • link
Fallacy of Composition • link
Reaction, Pacifism, and Realism • link
The Left’s Favorite Books, Debunked • link
Small-Government Ethno-States • link
New ‘Alts’ • link
Wealth Creation as the New American Religion • link
The Value of Republican Moderates • link
Trump Presidency Analysis • link
Understanding the far-left • link
Nassim Tooleb Loses His Temper Again • link
HBD-Nationalism Conundrum • link
Advice to Ignore • link
NRx Concepts: A Review • link
The Trump ‘Coming Together’ Moment • link
Carrier Deal and Govt. Boeing Contracts are Not the Same Thing • link
Basic Income Alternatives • link
Corporatism with Nationalism • link
Trump’s Foreign Policy Milestone • link
NRx: What it is and Isn’t • link
Alt-Right War of Words • link
Was Charles Darwin Slow-Witted? • link

November 2016

Understanding Marx • link
American Libertarianism vs. European Libertarianism • link
‘I don’t think that candidate is who you think he is’ • link
Trump stimulus is not important • link
The MSM is ‘fake news’ • link
Overton Bubble • link
Hail to the easily offended • link
Alt-Right Twitter Purge • link
Real news or fake news? Give me the fake news • link
Why Progressives Lose Their Minds When They Lose Elections • link
The rise of ‘concern liberalism’ and the decline of ‘identity liberalism’ • link
Why the left is losing, as summarized by a Reddit post • link
It’s Not Okay • link
How the GOP has evolved • link
Jobless America, Part 2 • link
Jobless America • link
Small Criticisms of Trump’s Economic Platform • link
Holiness Spirals • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 6 • link
Big Spender Donald Trump • link
Another Correct Prediction: Trump Wins, Stocks Surge • link
The ‘Zen’ of NRx • link
Make America Something Again • link
Nate Silver defends his methodology as Trump surges • link
Low voter turnout, low enthusiasm portents to Clinton loss • link
Election Outcomes and Market Response • link
No, a Trump victory will not doom the US economy and stock market • link
Trump as Nixon • link

October 2016

The Gender Gap in Extreme Math Intelligence • link
Hillary’s 12 point lead shrinks down to just ONE POINT • link
Clinton crashing and burning as vote nears • link
Corrupt Democracies • link
Michael Moore Endorses Trump? • link
Despite indoctrination, a college degree may still be the best path out of poverty • link
Why Post-Election Revolt and Crisis is Unlikely, Part 2 • link
Liberal Media Trying to Prematurely Declare Hillary Winner • link
Individualism vs. the State • link
Post-election rioting and crisis: It’s not going to happen • link
Non-aggression principle, and where it fails • link
Who Is in Charge? • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 5 (intellectualism) • link
SJW Narrative Collapse, Part Infinity • link
‘Show, don’t tell’ • link
Tim Ferriss, Nootropics, and Accelerated Learning • link
The Financial Media: It’s Still Useless • link
Simulation Hypothesis: Some Thoughts • link
The ISIS Presidential Debate • link
Where Did It All Go Wrong? • link
Trump’s Lewd Comments: Some Things to Keep In Mind • link
Intellectualism as a ‘Passport’ • link
Why ‘Elites’ Don’t Care About Transparency • link
The Internet Stands With Elon Musk • link
For the Left, It’s About Power and Control, Not Free Speech • link
Social Theory and Economics Questions • link
The Elites • link
Analysis of Mark Spitznagel Tail Hedging, Part 2 • link
Hooey and Phooey from John C. Wright • link
Era of the Introvert, and the demise of ‘Careerism’ • link
Reading list • link
Does Tail Hedging Work? It Depends • link
Introverts, again • link
Post-Pundit era and decentralization • link

September 2016

SEO is a Waste of Time and Money • link
The Problem With User Contributed Content • link
Media Mistakingly Attributing Stock Market Rally to Hillary Win • link
Debate Scorecard • link
Trump v. Clinton Debate Prediction • link
Solving the Student Loan/Debt Crisis: A Plan That Can Work • link
Introverts Rule the World • link
Putting White on Black Murders in Perspective • link
Flight 93 Election (analysis) • link
Amazon, Google, and Facebook: Bigger is Better • link
Millennials and Misconceptions • link
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (response) • link
Tooleb becomes self-aware, part 2 • link
Behavioral Psychology and Influence • link
Post-Pundit Era • link
James Altucher’s Top 1% Advisory Report Review (Don’t Bother) • link
In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life (analysis) • link
Cambrian explosion’ of intellectualism • link
Does algorithmic trading work? • link
Lessons from a 45-Year Study of Supersmart Children • link
Obama Cancels Meeting With Philippine President After Being Called Vulgar Name • link
Alt Right: Consumerism, Crony Capitalism, and Immigration • link
To make money online, don’t write about weight loss; write about physics • link
Alt-Right and Internet Journalism • link
Good Podcasts • link
Economics Misconceptions, Part 2 • link
Gatekeepers and Scarcity Will Always Exist • link
Alt Right & NRx: End Game and Action Plans • link
The FOMO Stock Market • link

August 2016

Ep-Ep-EpiPen • link
American Exceptionalism: America vs. Britain • link
Intellectualism, Individualism, and Wealth, Part 4 (philosophy of millennials) • link
Alt-Right: Classifications and Significance • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 3 • link
Did Hillary Commit Insider Trading? • link
American Exceptionalism • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 2 (the obsession with finance) • link
Heuristics for the Post-2008 World, Part 1 • link
‘Shared Narratives’ is not bi-partisanship • link
Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 1 • link
Neoliberalism • link
Philosophy as a STEM Subject • link
Defining ‘Progress’ • link
Why HBD? • link
Politico, Politica • link
The NRx Review • link
Slavoj Žižek-NRx Connection • link
Evidence of Bubbles and other ‘Anomalies’ Does Not Disprove the Efficient Market Hypothesis • link
Slow Economic Growth Not a Big Deal • link
Khizr Khan story: Much Ado About Nothing • link
Gnon Index (turning $10k into $95k) • link
Why They Support Trump • link
Airbnb Files to Raise $850 Million at $30 Billion Valuation • link
Trump the ‘Inarticulate Orator’ • link
U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad • link
Why Thomas Sowell Never Got a Nobel Prize • link
Thomas Sowell Ignores Biology • link
Right Again: Tech Companies Keep Posting Blowout Earnings • link

July 2016

Debunking Libertarian-Socialist Nonsense • link
‘Culture Wars’ give way to ‘Shared Narratives’ • link
Why So Many Millennials Are Struggling • link
The Genius of Ross Douthat • link
Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 5 • link
RE: History tells us what may happen next with Brexit & Trump • link
Peter Thiel • link
How it’s Possible for the US Economy to Be Strong Even if Many are Not Fully Participating • link
Ross Douthat Having a Meltdown on Twitter • link
Artificial Intelligence…or Just Software? • link
Reign of Terror Begins: Twitter Bans Milo • link
Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 4 • link
Robert Shiller…Wrong About Real Estate • link
Malcolm Gladwell – Bait and Switch • link
The Trajectory of America • link
Liberal Smugness, or Something Else • link
Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 3 • link
Fixing the Student Loan Debt Crisis and Reforming Edcuation • link
Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 2 • link
Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 1 • link
There is No Systemic ‘War on Blacks’ by Police • link
The Persistence of the Black-White IQ Gap • link
Correct Predictions, Part 3 • link
Why the News Is Still Mostly Pointless • link
Anaysis of Latest memo from Howard Marks: Economic Reality • link
Anti-Democracy Sentiment Going Mainstream • link
Moldbug on Libertarianism, Neocameralism • link
Scott Aaronson Sees the Light…sorta • link
Why Did Entrepreneurship Become So Difficult? • link
How NRx has Evolved • link
NRx Implementation • link

June 2016

On Writing • link
Re: Kids can’t use computers • link
A bloc unified against ‘low information’ • link
Nicholas Nassim Taleb Becomes Self-Aware • link
Difficulty of NRx Cohesion • link
Brexit Happens • link
Brexit Vote: A Bigger Deal Than the US Presidential Election • link
He’s Right Again • link
Welcome To the Working Class Nick Denton! • link
Correct Predictions, Part 2 • link
Conspiracy Theories • link
FOMC Stupidity • link
The Physics Police • link
Preventing Bad Policy • link
Religion of Peace Strikes Again • link
Measuring the Influence of NRx Bloggers • link
Real World Risk Institute • link
Tyler Cowen: What is neo-reaction? • link
Consider Protestantism • link
Job Report: Much Ado About Nothing • link
Intellectual Solvent, Part 3 • link
Ascended Economies • link
Gawker’s Power: The Symptom of a Bigger Problem • link
Society is Failing Men (or how men are failing at society) • link

May 2016

Inevitability and Pacifism • link
Correct Predictions • link
The Stark Realities of Self-Publishing • link
Coding as the ‘New Literacy’. • link
Deconstructing a Viral Article • link
Taleb’s CV • link
Jobs, Basic Income, Post Scarcity, and all that Jazz • link
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Thin-Skin In The Game • link
Theranos: The Cards Fall • link
Entering the ‘Grey Zone’ • link
Chinese nationals pour more than $150 billion over five years into US real estate • link
Lessons From the Trump Surge: What We Learned • link
Coming to Terms With Our New Economy • link
Genes for IQ finally found…what’s next • link
Ingroup/Outgroup Dynamics • link
Bay Area Rent Is Surging • link
The Economics Debate: Jobs and Automation • link
Why Do The Rich Need So Much Money? • link
Biology as a Sorting Mechanism • link
Alt Right, Part.. Whatever • link
I Can Tolerate Anything Except Factual Inaccuracies • link
Donald Trump Wrong About Treasury Bonds • link
Guest/User-Contributed Content is Clogging Google • link
The Biotech/Heathcare Scam Bubble Bursts • link
The Logical Inconsistency of Collapse-ism • link
Zerohedge • link
Failed Predictions of the Demise of the EU • link
Adulting • link
Getting Around the Reverse-Flynn Effect • link
Bill Clinton vs. Sanders • link
Nihilism and the Black Pill • link
Improving Society and Policy • link

April 2016

Our Less Particpatory Times • link
Hacker News Rankings: More Than an Algorithm • link
Neoconservatism • link
Utilitarianism and Consequentialism • link
The Daily View: NRx Activism, Do You Live in a Bubble, Math Education, Contrarianism • link
Vox Explains the ‘Alt Right’ • link
Diagnosing Democracy • link
Millennials Make a Killing Day Trading on Reddit • link
Education and the Blank Slate: Setting Realistic Expectations • link
The UBI Revisited • link
The Facade of Democracy • link
Intellectualism Signaling • link
The Economic Calm • link
Social Taxonomy • link
Millennials and Intellectualism Culture, Part 2 • link
RE: How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization • link
The Wealth Inequality Obsession • link
Post-2008 Themes • link
The Daily View: Dumbing-Down, Poverty in Africa, Space-X, Job Creation, Race & Crime • link
Universal Basic Income – Why It Can’t Work in America • link
The Minimum Wage Debate • link
Thomas Hobbes and the Seeds of Liberalism • link
The Gift of Autism • link
Sharing Economy Dying? Debunking Salon.com Hype • link
Not Smart Enough to Succeed: IQ Inequality = Income Inequality • link
The Daily View: Prescriptivism , Populism, and Why Democracy Doesn’t Work • link
Voters and Skin in the Game • link

March 2016

Against the Elite • link
The Daily View: Economics and Finance Edition • link
Against IQ-ism (response to Moldbug post) • link
The Intellectual Solvent, Part 2 • link
Against Intellectualism • link
All Roads Lead To What We Have Now • link
The Fate of Gawker – What Happens Next • link
NRx vs. HRx • link
Explaining America’s Economic and Social Stability • link
Abortion and Crime Revisited • link
In Search of Fulfillment • link
Defending ‘Academic’ Writing • link
The Second ‘Great Experiment ‘ • link
What Martin Shkreli Says About America • link
He’s Right, Part 2 • link
Marshmallow ‘deferers’ vs. ‘eaters’ • link
National Review Writer: Working-Class Communities ‘Deserve To Die’ • link
IQ: It Still Predicts A lot • link
Stock Bull Market Continues, Seven Years Later • link
NRx and Capitalism • link
The ‘Great American Article’ • link
The Daily View 3/8/2016 • link
In Search of ‘Reset’ • link
SJW-backlash continues • link
Zerohedge, Trump and Anti-Establishment Liberalism • link
Pencil Pushers and The Miracle of Capitalism • link
Order – Right vs. Left • link
The Daily View: Trump and Meta-narratives • link
Virtue Signaling and Status • link

February 2016

Age of Abundance? It Depends • link
What Comes Next • link
Family and Individualism • link
Math Note #1 (option pricing and GR) • link
Free Speech and Twitter • link
The Daily View: In a Loop, MGTOW, and The Elite • link
Individualism Vs. Thede • link
Social Skills and Political Correctness • link
‘Low Information’ Sanders • link
The Daily View: Math Resurgence, Economic Growth, Student Loans • link
Scott, Utilitarians, The Rational Middle, Scientism, and Liberals • link
Negative Interest Rates • link
Trump’s America • link
Is America Really ‘Dumbing Down’? • link
Intellect: The Universal Solvent • link
Web 2.0 & the Economy: It’s Different This Time, Part 2 • link
The Esoteric Celebrity • link
Defending ‘Theory’ and Rationalism • link
He’s Right • link
Millennials leading the alt-right • link
NRx and Positivism • link
The Internet Stands Behind Richard Dawkins • link
‘Peak Everything’ and the ‘winner-take-all’ market • link

January 2016

The Writing Boom • link
Moderates • link
NRx Ideology & Endgame, part 2 • link
Centrism • link
Trump skipping the debates: a smart move • link
Bernie the Brainiac? • link
Four Years Later, Taleb Still Holding Grudge Against Pinker • link
Alt Right Part 2, and the NRx Endgame • link
The Daily View: Today in Stupid • link
Free Speech, Democracy, and Crime • link
Not Worried About Tech Valuations: Why It May Be Different This Time • link
The Alt Right • link
Nerd Culture: Here to Stay • link
Debunking More IQ Denialism • link
Time to Retire MLK • link
The Daily View: 1/17/2016 (lots of stuff) • link
Cancer: The Mid-life Killer • link
The Daily View : Stocks Plunge, RIP American Dream, Why Prescription Drugs are so Expensive • link
Classification of Ideologies • link
Collapse Can Wait, Part 2 • link
The Daily View: ‘Longest Depression’, Basic Income, Pinterest • link
The Moral Decay Conundrum • link
Does the Nation Make the Genius? • link
Better or Worse? • link
Soros: It’s the 2008 crisis all over again • link
The Millennial Backlash Against The Baby Boomers • link
Active Management Continues to Lag Indexes • link
Re: Wealth Inequality • link
The China Shop in the Bull • link
In Defense of Smart People • link
Paul Graham: Economic Inequality and The Refragmentation • link
What libertarians can learn from the fed. government • link
Digital slueths expose ‘fat acceptance’ hypocrisy • link
Fairy Tales • link

December 2015

Theranos, Part 2 • link
Giving Theranos the benefit of the doubt • link
The Big Short: Market Genius or Luck? • link
High Frequency Nonsense • link
The Bailouts Benefited Everyone, Not Just Bankers • link
Bitcoin: It Ain’t Going Away • link
Wealth Inequality Not a Big Concern • link
Fredrick Brennan on Eugenics • link
More Homicides = More Incarcerations • link
Reactionary Realism • link
Millennials Losing Faith in Democracy • link
INTP people rule the world • link
What isn’t being taught in schools that should be? • link
An Army of Fact Checkers: How Reddit (and social media) is Destroying the SJW Narrative • link
2016 Predictions • link
Why Interest Rates Are Unlikely to Rise Much, If at all • link
The Student Loan Charade • link
Consider Contraception • link
Post-2008 Capitalism: A Guide • link
They’re defecting, Mortimer: The rise of Trump and the fall of the ‘Cuck’ empire • link
Post-Labor Capitalism • link
10 Harsh Truths Every Millennial Must Know • link
Conservatives are smarter, better informed than liberals • link
How a person with an SAT score of a 1000 writes • link
He Fit the Description • link
Collapse can wait • link
Thoughts on Kaczynski’s Manifesto • link
The New Investing Landscape • link
Good Tweets • link
On Not Letting Cognitive Capital Go To Waste • link
How to be a Superforecaster • link
Investing Recap for 2015: What worked and what didn’t • link
Against the Ubermensch • link
David Gelernter on Millennials and the State of Higher Education • link

November 2015

The Hivemind, Immigration, and IQ • link
Functional Stock Market Theory • link
Media Outrage Fuels Trump Campaign • link
PUA and NRx • link
The Daily View: Turkey, Isolationism, & Islam • link
How the Liberal Media is Always Wrong • link
Classical Liberalism, Democracy, Libtertarianism, Nihilism, and NRx • link
Public Policy and Obesity • link
Trump’s ‘Racist’ Tweet • link
Malls, Marxism, and the Future • link
How Bonds Respond to Rate Hikes • link
Understanding Comes Before Change • link
The Daily View: Never Take Financial Advice From Zerohedge • link
Abortion & Healthcare Policy • link
Thomas Sowell on The Bell Curve • link
NRx and Christianity • link
Thoughts on France • link
IQ Roundup • link
Jim Simons: A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street • link
#Nationaloffendacollegestudentday • link
The Free Trade & Globalization Debate • link
Looking A Gift Horse in the Mouth – the Decline of the SJW Movement • link
The Nordic Fairytale • link
The Problem With Self-Publishing • link
Libertarianism and NRx/Dark Enlightenment • link
Pro-Technology = Marxist? • link
The Daily View: Good Tweets, Socialism, The White Male Die-Off • link
Don’t Blame the Fed – Blame Stupid People, Liberalism, Democracy • link
Facebook – Protecting Your Privacy • link
The Millennial Economic Tailwind/Dividend • link
Resource Optimization & The Role of the State • link

October 2015

The Daily View: Elite Colleges Should Abolish Tuition; Apprenticeships • link
Stock Market Rebounds • link
Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia May Lower Healthcare Costs • link
Obama Should Give His Nobel Prize to Bernanke • link
Foucault, Chomsky, Pinker, and the Blank Slate • link
Bitcoin Going Nuts Again • link
The Rotting Foundation That Is Democracy • link
STEM, Immigration, H-1B Visas, and Wages • link
Pop Psychology Charlatans • link
America the Intellectual Capital of the World, or Why Smart People Deserve More • link
Economics Myths, Part 8: The Chinese Data is Fake • link
Black-White IQ Gap Debate • link
The Rise of STEM: Wealth and Intellectualism Über Alles • link
2060 IQ Projections • link
IQ Tests Are Not Culturally Biased • link
Economics Myths, Part 7: The Baltic Dry Index is a Reliable Economic Indicator • link
Another Defeat for SJW-Left: Sweden opens world’s first male rape centre • link
STEM vs. Liberal Arts: Which is Harder? • link
More Emissions Violators is Good News for Volkswagen • link
Economics Myths, Part 6: Alan Greenspan Caused The Financial Crisis • link
Economics Myths, Part 5: QE (Quantitative Easing) Misconceptions • link
IQ and Morality; IQ and Job Performance • link
NRx Should Be Anti-Populist • link
NRx = Red Pill • link
The Millennial Mindset, Part 2: Philosophy and Wealth • link
The Daily View: #pissforequality Hoax, Expatriated Cash, Unions Need More Money, Huge Web 2.0 Salaries • link
Economic Myths, Part 4: Job Creation is Good • link
The British Origins of HBD • link
Economics Myths, Part 3: Full Employment is Good • link
Falsifiability, String Theory, and Policy • link
Economics Myths, Part 2: America Is In Decline/The Dollar Is Weak • link
Economics Myths, Part 1: Budget Surpluses Are Always Good • link
The New Mainstream Media • link

September 2015

Eugenics Summary, and HBD-Based Policy • link
‘Trickle Up’ Economics; Silicon Valley Technocracy; Neo Liberals • link
The Millennial Mindset – Individualism Over The Collective • link
Sorry Marx, Capitalism May Not Be Self-Limiting • link
Bullshit & Success • link
Does Tesla Really Lose $4,000 Per Car? • link
Nike Reports Blowout Earnings, Don’t Blame Bull Market on QE • link
Volkswagen Scandal Exposes Liberal Hypocrisy • link
The Daily View: Privacy, Silicon Valley Housing, The Failure of Democracy, Gender Achievement Gap in the Sciences • link
Part 1. Misconceptions About the 2008 Financial Crisis • link
The SJW Narrative Collapse • link
Purple Policies, Part 2 • link
The Appeal of Doom and Gloom • link
The Great Debate Again: Jobs vs. Automation • link
The Daily View: Teaching Kids to Code; Pinterest & Web 2.0; GOP Debate • link
Breaking the Tuition Feedback Loop • link
Neo Masculinity and Christianity, Darwinian Conservatism, Free Will, Biological Reality • link
Hillary the Lesser of Two Evils • link
NRx and Modernity • link
The Economic Crisis Is In Brazil and Turkey, Not China • link
Aggressive SPX Bull Call Option Strategy To Play Market Rebound • link
Trolling and Fear of Rejection – A link? • link
Interest Rates Are Not Going Up • link
Revisiting the SVXY strategy (and why I like SVXY over VXX) • link
How the left spreads misinformation, fear, and bad advice to ‘save/protect’ people • link
A Post About Steve • link
Our STEM Nobility • link
Reiterate: Buy the dip • link
Is James Altucher Right About Never Buying a Home? • link
In Defense of Gawker, Sort of • link
China and The Liberal War on Success • link
Bailouts, Obama, and Debt • link

August 2015

China’s investors find safe haven in American real estate • link
Buy Stocks or Real Estate Instead of Paying Down Student Loan Debt • link
Anita Sarkeesian Supports Classroom Segregation • link
So Much For That China Economic Crisis • link
While Many Panicked, Japanese Day Trader Made $34 Million • link
College Degree: Status, Drop-outs, IQ, and Success • link
Inverse Relationship Between Stock Prices and Volatility • link
High-IQ Wins Again – Stocks Surge For 2nd Day • link
Buy The Dip • link
Wired For Success: Brain Scans Predict Mathematical Ability • link
The Meritocracy We Don’t Understand • link
Embracing Modernity, Part 2 • link
The Purdue Plan • link
The Cult of Wallacemania • link
Social Hierarchies and Techno Libertarianism are Compatible • link
The NRx ‘Trichotomy’ Becomes a Dichotomy • link
Dale Carnegie is Wrong • link
Is Verbal IQ The Same As Speech/Language? • link
The Great Debate: Gamers vs. SJWs : An Etiology • link
Effective Altruism Need Not Be Politically Correct • link
The Trump Surge & Skepticism • link
Is Your Job Next? • link
Affordable Housing, Healthcare, & Tuition: Putting Things in Perspective • link
Why Millennials Are Still Living With Their Parents • link
IQ: Education, Socioeconomic Outcomes, and Entitlement Spending • link
Revising the NRx Map • link
Why Police Fire At Targets Multiple Times • link
‘Black Lives Matter’ – Dividing the Nation • link
Why the Web 2.0/Tech 2.0 ‘Bubble’ Refuses to Burst • link
RE: Lost Decade • link
Atheist Liberals’ Pastor Jon Stewart Final Taping • link
The Trump PR Machine • link
Birth ‘Lottery’ Does Not Preclude Meritocracy • link
Lost Decade? Hardly • link
What is Better Than a Republic? (Hint: It’s Not Democracy) • link
We’re Making Life Too Hard for Millennials • link
Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter • link
Uber Worth $50 Billion, Leaves Doubters in the Dust • link
Getting Rich Quick In the Silicon Valley • link
We’re Not Broke • link

July 2015

The Value of a Skill • link
Autism/Asperger’s the New ‘Cool’? • link
The Daily View: Coding Camps, Billionaires, Airport to Nowhere, Liongate • link
Nature Beats Nurture • link
Free Will – Welfare Liberals vs. Neo Liberals and HBD Conservatives • link
The Writer and the Coder • link
Bold, Determined, But Somewhat Wrong • link
The Tech Rich Keep Getting Richer • link
Bryan Caplan: Anti-Democracy Pioneer • link
Bernie Sanders Speech, Condensed Version • link
Taking the ‘Omega’ Pill • link
The Gig Economy: Is Obamacare to Blame? • link
More Correct Predictions (Greece, Facebook, Emerging Markets, Trump) • link
What Makes Taneshi Coates Special? • link
The Truth? They Can’t Handle The Truth • link
Is Capitalism Dead? It Depends, I Suppose • link
Wealth Creation Orgy • link
The End of Jobs • link
Trump & Sanders • link
Countering Flawed Arguments of the Anti-College Movement • link
The SPLC’s War on Reddit and Free Speech • link
The Great Chinese Nothing • link
Reviving the American Dream with ‘Purple Policies’ • link
Millennials and the GOP • link
Why They Feel Left Out • link
Another Correct Prediction – AirBNB • link
Why Personal Finance Has Become So Important To Millennials • link
SJWs Eat Their Own • link
Disparate Impact Litigation Hurts Job Seekers, Students, and Employers • link
Why The Left Wants Reddit To Fail • link
The Teen ‘Summer Job’ is Going Away, and That’s A Good Thing • link
Sorry Liberals, Uber Is Not Going Away • link

June 2015

Critique of the Culture of Entrepreneurship • link
No Love For The High-IQ Basic Income • link
Sorry Middle Class, You’re Just Not That Important Anymore • link
Redefining the American Dream • link
In Defense of MGTOW, Part 2 • link
What is this site about? • link
The Great Moderation • link
Wealthy foreigners bought $100 billion in US real estate • link
The Virtues of the Sharing Economy • link
Greece … Much Ado About Nothing • link
Debunking the Gold Standard • link
The Stability and Necessity of Large Systems • link
The Daily View: Dumbing-Down the SAT, Matt Levine, China Bubble • link
How High-IQ People Make Money In The Stock Market • link
Do Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves? It May Not Matter • link
The Post-2008 Wealth Creation Boom • link
Why Moldbug Called It Quits • link
Is Greece the first libertarian state? • link
The Great Debate: Automation, Jobs, Wealth Inequality, Basic Income, Post Scarcity • link
The Left Still Whining About Tech Bubbles & Silicon Valley • link
Festivities Are Just Beginning (old theme) • link
The Daily View: Wealth Inequality and Bond Market Liquidity • link
Detecting Fake Amazon Book Reviews • link
Neo-Reaction & Techno-Libertarianism • link
Helping America’s Gifted Poor • link
Libs Whining About Tesla Again • link
Superior vs. Inferior People • link
Malcom Gladwell, Exasperated Idiot • link
Good Tweets, Part 2 • link
The Left’s Problem With Science • link

May 2015

Defending Rational Markets • link
The Tyranny of the Bookish • link
The Great Decoupling • link
Marc Andreessen and Twitter • link
Bernanke is Right • link
Telling Fairy Tales To Spare Our Feelings • link
The Canonization of Dr. Nash • link
Defending the EMH • link
Feeling Left Out? • link
Uncomfortable Truths • link
Everything Keeps Going Up • link
Ignore the News, Part 2 • link
Evidence That America Is Not In Decline (long post) • link
Good Tweets • link
In Today’s Economy, It Seems Like IQ Is More Important Than Ever • link
The Pursuit of the Truth • link
Salvation Through IQ • link
Being A Liberal… • link
The Healthcare Scam • link
Anti-SJW Has Gone Mainstream • link
Yet Another Correct Prediction • link
Why There Probably Won’t Be Another Major Financial Crisis in America • link
Steven Levitt is Right, Not All Life is Sacred • link
Best Housing Market in the World • link
Deconstructing Liberalism • link
With the Exception of China, Emerging Markets Are Still Awful • link
Defending Finance: Why Bankers and Economists Are Not to Blame for the Crisis • link
We’re All Becoming Economists, Scientists, and Objectivists • link
Smooth Sailing Ahead • link

April 2015

Is the ‘Red Pill’ Teaching Obsolete Skills? • link
Wisdom of the Markets • link
A unified theory of online discourse • link
Liberal Narrative Collapse • link
Micro Economics 101 • link
Peter Singer Conservatives • link
Winner-Take-All Nation • link
Michael Lewis, Idiot • link
Grey’s Razor • link
Embracing Modernity • link
Taking Neo Reaction (NRx) To The Next Level • link
Ravi Batra’s Social Cycle • link
World’s ‘Smartest Man’ Supports Eugenics • link
Smart People On Reddit Giving Police Benefit of Doubt • link
In Defense of MGTOW • link
8-Year-Old Girl Makes $127,000 a Month • link
Grammar • link
Why Bay Area/Silicon Valley Real Estate Keeps Going Up • link
Daredevil Stories • link
Awstats is Awful • link
The Fed May Never Raise Interest Rates Again • link
Reddit Exposes Salon.com Racial Hypocrisy • link
Foreigners Keep Buying US Debt – And it Makes the Left Mad • link
Obsession With Logical Fallacies • link
Misconceptions About Algorithmic/High Frequency Trading • link
IQ Anxieties • link
College Degree – A Necessary Evil • link
Sornette vs. Taleb Debate • link
Millennials Rebuking Liberalism • link
Why Women Earn Less Than Men • link
The Big Will Get Bigger • link
Billion Dollar Startup Club: Separating Winners From The Losers • link
Why Education is Not Curing Poverty • link
The Rolling Hoax • link
Ongoing Research • link
How to Stop the Masses From Voting in Socialism • link
Thee Cheers for Washington: America Stands Alone • link
The Right Concedes the ‘Gay’ Wars • link
Snapchat Proves America & Capitalism is Not in Decline • link
Stanford’s Free Tuition • link

March 2015

We Solved Everything • link
Seth Godin’s Nod to Consequentialism • link
Tesla’s Big Surprise. Don’t Bet Against High-IQ. • link
Liberalism is the Problem, Not Technology • link
Peter Schiff and other Doom and Gloomers Losing Credibility • link
Billionaire: Your life is going to stink • link
What is a Religion? • link
Professors On Reddit Tire Of Liberalism • link
Religion is Becoming Irrelevant • link
There is Absolutely No Bubble In Technology • link
Atheist Conservatism and the Dark Enlightenment • link
Some Ideas to Reform Higher Education • link
The Daily View: Stocks Surge, Hillary, Religion, Paul Tudor Jones • link
Stocks & Bonds Surge – The 1% Wins Again • link
IQ: More Than Just a Number, Part 2 • link
Anti-Democracy, Part 4 • link
The Success of Fed policy • link
Terry Pratchett, IQ, Practice, and Mastery • link
In Today’s Economy, It Pays to Know Math • link
Using Cognitive Screening to Replace Costly Diplomas • link
Holding the Left Accountable for Being Wrong All the Time • link
IQ: More than Just a Number • link
Salvation: Paleo/Christian vs. HBD/Rationalist • link
The Greatest Bull Market Ever* • link
Is STEM the New Celebrity Status? • link
Et tu, Summers? • link
Optimal Allocation of Resources • link
Bridging The Red Pill and Beta Male Conservatism • link
How Liberalism Distorts Perception of IQ • link
2015: Another Great Year for the Nerds • link
The Liberal War on Science • link

February 2015

Disingenuous Paul Krugman Wrong About Stimulus, Economy • link
Stock Strategies & ‘Fundamental Drift’ • link
People Beat the Market Because of IQ, Not Conspiracies • link
When Will The Tech Valuations Crash? How About Never • link
The Rational Something • link
Creating Optimal Socioeconomic Environments for the Cognitively Exceptional • link
Liberalism and the Perfectibility of Man • link
What Should Neo Reaction Believe In? • link
So much for that 10,000 hour rule • link
Things that I am sick of people complaining about • link
Economic Fallacies • link
Nazism = Marxism? • link
The Daily View: Post Scarcity, Divine Rights, Doom and Gloom, The Two Tenets of Leftism • link
Blacks Being Underrepresented • link
Is Going to Work Really So Bad? Jobbers vs. Self-Actualizers • link
Don’t Bet Against America (America as an HBD success story) • link
The Great Zerohedge Disappointment • link
Still Not a Bubble (in Bay Area Real Estate) • link
Two More Setbacks For The Left (Brian Williams & Global Warming Scandal) • link
What Happens to Wealth During Market Crashes • link
Market Outlook: Will Rising Interest Rates Hurt Stocks? • link
The Bush Economic Boom • link
The Humanities …Not So Easy, Afterall • link
The left’s long string of disappointments in the post-2008 era • link
MGTOW vs. The Red Pill/PUA • link
Irreconcilable Differences (Pragmatic Right vs. Paleo Right) • link
Our High-IQ Aristocracy • link
Reddit Stands Up For Men’s Rights • link

January 2015

So, What Are You? • link
Self-Actualization and Indirect Value • link
Andrew Sullivan Retires From Blogging • link
Was The Last Decade Really So Bad? • link
Eugenics Plan, Part 2 • link
No Recession In Technology As Apple Reports Blowout Earnigns • link
Carl Jung and the Post-2008 Era • link
Too Much Whining on the Blogs About the GOP ‘Establishment’ • link
The Daily View: QE vs. Fiscal Stimulus, The Rise of the Economists, America’s New Aristocracy, SAT • link
The Left Wants Housing to Be a Bubble • link
The Great College Debate • link
The Daily View: IQ and Political Affiliation, Small Business, Obama, Healthcare, Women in STEM • link
Cheer Up, Libs, Things Aren’t So Bad • link
Eliminative Materialism and Economic Misconceptions • link
More on Biological Determinism and Useless Degrees • link
In Defense of the Millennials • link
Adults, Stop Giving Bad Career Advice to Young People • link
Is the National Debt a Big Deal? Maybe not • link
The World is Getting Safer, So Why Does this Make Libs Mad? • link
What I Want • link
Improving Obama’s Community College Plan • link
Much Needed IQ Realism in the Anti and Pro College Movements • link
Why We Need to Put the Elite in Power • link
Economic Misconceptions • link
2015 Market Predictions • link
The Rise of Nerd Culture in the Post-2008 Era • link
The Daily View: Silicon Valley Diversity, Basic Income, Wealth Inequality • link
Autopilot Nation & The Winner Take all Economy • link
Liberal Denial of Individual Congenital Cognitive Exceptionalism • link
Snapchat’s Huge Windfall : The State of Web 2.0 • link
Abortion and Crime – When Political Correctness and Partisan Politics Gets in the Way of Promising Research and Policy • link
Common Core Fallacy • link
Paul Graham on Immigration, Part 2 • link

December 2014

Strong Economy Bodes Well For Neoconservative Resurgence • link
2014 – An Awful Year For The SJWs • link
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In • link
The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression • link
The Obama Boom? More Like the Bush Boom • link
2014 Year in Review – Much like 2013 • link
Why There is No College Bubble • link
Countering Bearish Arguments • link
Why the US Economy is Doing Great or Bad (depending on how you look at it) • link
Stocks Rocket Higher; Biological Determinism Bull Market Can’t Be Stopped • link
What the Mohammad Islam Hoax Says About Trading and Liberalism • link
Peter Boockvar Writes the Stupidest Article Ever? • link
In Defense of the 2008 Bank Bailouts, Again • link
Universal Healthcare Not So Great • link
There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom • link
Beyond the Blank Slate: How Libs Turn High-IQ Into a Handicap • link
The Left is Losing the Culture Wars • link
Taxes, Debt, and QE • link
Most Financial Analysis is Crap • link
American Exceptionalism & The State of the Labor Market • link
2014 – An Uneventful, But Prosperous Year • link

November 2014

Things That I Am Thankful For • link
The Left Jubilant as Ferguson Burns • link
The Power of Linear Combination ETF Portfolios • link
The Daily View: Biological Determinism Bull Market, GOP, Basic Income, Shirtstorm • link
Stock Market Going Much Higher • link
Doom and Gloom on the Blogs • link
Bigger is Better Theme Will Dominate in 2015 • link
Wealth Spreaders Lose Again As Stocks Keep Going Up, GOP Victories • link
Using a Linear Combination to Make Money with Stocks • link
Libs Attack Success, Celebrate Failure • link
Karl Denninger is Just Another Doom and Gloom Liberal • link
Quasi Barrier Options • link
Slow News Cycle • link

October 2014

Is the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ Already Here? • link
Biological Determinism Bull Market Rages On • link
Post-QE, The Economy is Still Fundamentally Sound • link
No, The US Economy Is Not Stuck • link
Oil and Gas Prices Due for a Huge Rebound • link
Free Backtesting Website • link
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Philosophy • link
Most and Least Respected Majors • link
Facebook Stock is Going Higher • link
Optimism, HBD, and the American Dream • link
The Daily View : A Nation or Crybabies and Why Airlines are a Good Investment • link
Anti-Democracy, Part 2 • link
Optimal Allocation of Public Resources in a Meritocracy • link
SVXY Strategy: Part 2 • link
State of the Market and Playing Ebola • link
Crude Oil Sell-off Only Temporary • link
Stocks Continue Plunge • link
The Daily View: STEM Bailout, Elizabeth Warren, James Altucher • link
Market Update • link
Flawed Argument for the Legalization of Insider Trading • link
We Are Not Doomed • link
Does Content Really Matter? • link
The Automation Economy and the Bifurcation of the Workforce • link
Public Outrage Getting in the Way of Good Eugenics Policy • link
Debunking More Wealth Inequality BS • link
The IQ Wars • link
Post-2008 economy & HBD, Post-Scarcity, Political Science • link
Some Thoughts on IQ • link
The Media and Global Warming • link

September 2014

The Daily View: Stocks, Individual Exceptionalism, Cultural Marxism, Birth Control • link
The Great Ebola Outbreak of 2012 That No One’s Heard Of • link
Illusory Superiority and IQ • link
The New Gilded Age; The Post-2008 Economy, Part 4 • link
We Need More Money in Politics and Less Voting • link
Ali Baba Stock Going Higher • link
The Futile Pursuit of Equality • link
America Is Still Exceptional • link
Will Technology Make All Jobs Obsolete? • link
America Splitting in Two • link
Some Thoughts on the 2016 Campaign • link
The Beta Male Conservative • link
As Stocks Keep Going up, HBD is the Future • link
No, Krugman, Economics Didn’t Fail. You Failed. • link
Immigration and Politics • link
The Last Question, Part 2 • link
The Last Question • link
Some Thoughts on Healthcare • link
Pro Growth Policy Ideas • link
Could Millennials Be More Conservative Than Previously Thought? • link
College Bashing and Skills Transference • link
America’s Intellectual Renaissance • link
HBD Gaining Mainstream Acceptance • link
Richard Feynman’s IQ • link
Noahbrain and Twitter • link
Ivy League Admissions and the Economic Value of ‘Gig’ Jobs • link
‘Work Experience’ For Young Adults Provides Little Benefit • link
Stock Market Surges to New Highs; The Post-2008 Economy, Part 3 • link
Linkfest & Commentary • link
Your Online Permanent Record • link
Some Thoughts on Government, Politics & Economics • link
Wealth Inequality Again • link

August 2014

The Poverty Plan • link
The News Cycle and Why Social Networking Threatens the Liberal Media • link
Another Correct Prediction • link
Anti-Democracy • link
The indefatigability of the ‘unparticipatory’ economic boom • link
Conservative Minimalism • link
Another Record High For Stocks • link
Why We Need More Testing • link
The Daily View: Abortion Debate, Economic Recovery, Political Dysfunction, American Exceptionalism • link
The Abortion Plan • link
Everything is Awesome • link
Ferguson is Not the Future of America • link
People Agree: Michael Brown Deserved to Die • link
Jim Goad on Millennials • link
The Smartest Generation, Part 3 • link
The Hollowing Out of the Middle as Home Prices Surge in the Bay Area • link
A Possible Market Inneficiency Today • link
Sorry Liberals, But for High-Paying Jobs, Talent Does Play an Important Role in the Hiring Process • link
Libertarian = Socially Liberal ? • link
Liberal Assault on Apple & Steve Jobs • link
The Daily View: Ivy League Bashing and Employment • link
The Daily View: Consumer Spending, Malcom Gladwell, Financial Crisis • link
The Smartist Era, Part 2 • link
More Wealth Inequality Bullshit • link
Utilitarianism Is Not Welfare Liberalism • link
The Meritocracy • link
Immigration • link
Liberal Attacks on ‘Nerd’ Culture • link
The Smartest Generation, Part 2 • link
Investment Idea #1 with SVXY • link
Why Can’t Optimism Coexist with HBD? • link

July 2014

Tesla Reports Huge Earnings; Score One for America and Capitalism • link
Enjoy the Decline? No thanks • link
Out of Wedlock Births: Not Exclusively a Black Problem • link
Today’s Example of Bad Journalism • link
Verbal Harder Than Math? • link
High Sharpe Portfolios • link
Most Americans Poorer Than Before Recession • link
Bay Area the Center of the Universe as Home Prices Keep Surging • link
Constructing a ‘Madoff’ Portfolio • link
The Good News: Washington Is Giving Up on Everything • link
The Neoconservative Resurgence • link
Some Thoughts About Future Technologies • link
Bill Ackman and Herbalife • link
Some Ideas to Reform Education • link
Some Thoughts on Investing, Investor Exceptionalism, Emerging Markets, Bubbles, and Debt • link
Grey Enlightenment vs. Dark Enlightenment • link
Stock Market Surge a Victory for Biological Determinism • link
Buy the Dip on Ukraine Fears • link
Blogging and Value • link
The Greatest of Times? • link
Rick Santelli and the STEM Bailout • link
Ignore the News • link
The Daily View: We’re All Becoming Weirdos • link
More Good News For College Grads • link
The Differences Between Neo/Classical Liberalism and Welfare Liberalism • link
College, The Economy, and America Being in Decline • link
The Uselessness of Pop Social Psychology • link
The Daily View: Making Predictions, Bubbles, and Post Labor Society • link
State of the Labor Market • link
The Daily View: American Exceptionalism, Housing, Foreign Investors, and Selling at the Top • link
The Smartest Generation • link
What To Be Thankfull For On This 4th Of July • link
Stocks Rally to New Highs as Obama Voted ‘Worst President Since WW2′ • link
Indtroduction to Forex • link
Linkfest 7/1/2014 • link

June 2014

The Smartist Era of Unlimited Prosperity • link
The World As It Is: Post-2008 Economic Reality Part 2 • link
America – The Center of the Universe • link
Time to Not Raise the Minimum Wage • link
The Quadrantsphere and Biological Determinism • link
Ralph Nader’s Predictable Denial of the Importance of IQ • link
13 Ways the Economy is Getting Better • link
Immigration and The GOP Does Not Need to Reform • link
Low Congressional Ratings, A Bullish Indicator • link
The Daily View: Wealth Creation and Inequality • link
College Bashing…Just Another Outlet for Liberalism • link
Authenticity and Masculinity in the New Era • link
Thanking the Fed for Doing a Good Job • link
The Daily View: Economic Data and Wages • link
Stocks Rise, Ignoring Iraq Tensons • link
Immigration, Millennials, and the Smartist Era • link
Eric Cantor’s Loss – A Sign of the Times • link
Some Much Needed Perspective in the Student Loan Debate • link
David Brat Sell-Off Day 2 • link
Did David Brat Cause the Market to Fall Today? • link
Planned Obsolescence • link
IQ and Writing • link
The Daily View: China, Debt and Why We Need More Millionaires In Congress • link
The Post-2008 Economic Reality • link
America’s Polarized Job Market • link
An Approach to Eugenics • link
A vote for the GOP is a vote for growth • link
The Daily View: Economics, Poverty, Treasuries, Geithner, Bitcoin • link
Education and Reality • link
Ignorance, The 2008 Financial Problem, and the Limitations of Knowledge • link
The Nordic Ticking Time Bomb • link

May 2014

Leave the Ivy League Grads Alone • link
Weak GDP? No Problem • link
A Huge Bull Market • link
Ignore the News and Keep Buying Stocks on the Dips • link
Racial Matters • link
The Daily View: Crony Capitalism, Fallacy of Composition, and Compromise • link
The Daily View: Debt, The Intelligentsia, Economic Compromise, Praise for the Do-Nothing Congress • link
Is College a Scam? • link
Addresing the Problem of Entitlement Spending • link
The Problem With Small Business • link
Reclaiming The White House With Pro-Growth Policy • link
Some Thoughts on Capital and Risk • link
Taleb Loses Debate, Blames His Opponent • link
Extraversion and IQ • link
Eight Things About The Market That Don’t Worry Me • link
An Indebted Generation • link
Getting Rich in The Smartist Era • link
The Smartist Era • link
Being Early is No Better than Being Wrong • link
Some Thoughts on IQ and Eugenics • link
Ignore the Doom and Gloom Media • link
The Liberal War on Experts • link
Testing for Career Placement Gains Momentum • link
Some Thoughts on Wealth Inequality and the Elite • link
The Daily View: Interest Rates, Healthcare, and Sticky Wages • link
Ignore the Doom and Gloom Narratives • link
HFT Debate Ignores More Flagrant Manipulation • link
Liberalism Failed, Not Economic Policy • link
America is Still #1 • link
Asian Academic Achievement: IQ or Parenting? • link
The Daily View: There is NO Crisis, Donald Sterling, and Inflation • link
Can Technology Make Capitalism Obsolete? • link
America is Becoming an Oligarchy. So What? • link
Some Thoughts on Education • link
Bifurcated Inflation Gains Traction • link

April 2014

Why The Rich Deserve More • link
Priceactionlab Bad Analysis • link
Low Paying Jobs Create Economic Value • link
Speaking Too Soon Again • link
More Evidence Bigger is Better • link
IQ and SAT Scores as a Solution to the Student Loan Crisis • link
A Case Against Secular Stagnation • link
In Praise of the Contrarian Blogging Movement • link
No, We Don’t Need to Put People to Work • link
Time for Putin to Cut-Off Gas to Europe? • link
The Day That Died: The Worst of Business Journalism • link
A Nation of Crybabies • link
The Daily View: Inflation, Peter Schiff, and QE • link
Paul Krugman Still An Idiot • link
Robot Jobs For The Future • link
We’re Still In a Goldiocks Economy • link
The Daily View 4/16/2014 • link
Out of Control Entitlement Spending • link
A Solution in Need of a Problem • link
Liberal Denial of Genetic Determinism • link
Irrational Investors Don’t Exist • link
A Critical Look at Warren Buffett • link
Our New Era • link
More Bullshit by Business Insider • link
The State of the Economy • link
Could High Frequency Trading Have a Stabilizing Effect on the Market? • link
Could Republicans Endorse Eugenics? • link
Liberals Attacking Technology Again • link
Job Report Proves Krugman is Wrong • link
Let’s Teach the Kids to Code • link
Nicholas Nassim Taleb Wrong Again, Loses Temper • link
How Not to Predict Crisis • link

March 2014

Crimea Much Ado About Nothing • link
Henry Blodget Wrong Again • link
Small Business Still For Suckers • link
Bay Area Home Prices Keep Going Up • link
It Pays to Be Smart • link
Wealth Inequality is Here to Stay But Won’t Lead to Crisis • link
Is partisanship holding back good policy in the abortion debate? • link
In Praise of Low Wages • link
The Success of Reaganomics • link
No, it’s not time for a basic income • link
Why We Need Gridlock Or, Better Yet, Complete Republican Control • link
Liberal Media Bias in Coverage of Auto Recalls • link
Immigration and the Liberal War on Success • link
Revisiting Correct Predictions • link
The Free Market Case For More Immigration • link
Sorry, No Student Loan Bubble • link
Why Economists Don’t Need To Be Able To Predict • link

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