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This article went viral: The Economy Is Soaring, And Now So Is The Deficit. That’s A Bad Combination The economy growing steadily, yes, but 3% GDP growth is not exactly soaring. But if 538 wants to help Trump win in 2020 by hyping the economy, let them. As the saying goes, never interrupt your enemy… Continue reading Trump tax cuts & deficits: not worried about inflation

A Vice Media corespondent recently interviewed Dr. Jordan Peterson at his home. By referring to Dr. Peterson as an infamous intellectual instead of a famous one, Vice’s bias is immediately evident. Because Vice refuses to release the full interview, it’s difficult to comment on it. Judging by the up-vote/down-vote ratio and comments, the viewers know… Continue reading Vice Media tries to defame Jordan Peterson, fails

Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life, which are as follows: Rule 1 Stand up straight with your shoulders back   Rule 2 Treat yourself like you would someone you are responsible for helping   Rule 3 Make friends with people who want the best for you   Rule 4 Compare yourself with who you were… Continue reading My own 12 Rules for Life

In terms of optics and political strategy, as Jim notes, Trump’s military parade is a win. The left finds itself in a bind of having to oppose the military, which is how Bush won in 2004. However, such a parade seems like a way of inoculating Americans to more military spending and interventionism. Considering we’ve… Continue reading Notes on Trump Military Parade

After a 3 day respite, the Bitcoin crash resumes. $9,000 failed, soon to be $6,000 and lower. Let’s face it, Bitcoin sucks as an investment unless you were among the handful of people who bought early (before mid-2017), and the more it falls the more people will lose money. The best investments, typically, are those… Continue reading How people get rich (it’s not Bitcoin)

The Nunes memo is a big story right now, but I haven’t done much reading into it, and due to Bitcoin and other important priorities, I’m sorta out of the loop. News cycles and politics are like carousels in that they go in circles, the same stuff over and over, albeit with small changes along… Continue reading The Autonomous Economy

Last week when Bitcoin briefly eclipsed $9,000, I put out a note saying it would quickly fall below $7000, which it promptly did (going as low as $5900). Bitcoin to $50,000 this year? Unlikely. $10,000 again would be a surprise. Bitcoin will likely retest $6,000 again. The momentum is still strongly negative, and Bitcoin failed… Continue reading Bitcoin dead cat bounce

Even I’m kinda amazed at the amount of discussion ‘accelerationism’ has gotten in recent years, especially since 2016 on Reddit and various blogs [1] despite the brevity of content about it by the philosophy’s originator, Nick Land. Most philosophies are top-down: the philosopher writes a long treatise, and then readers pick it apart. But accelerationism… Continue reading Accelerationism as an example of opensource, bottom-up philosophy

On Dec. 22, after Bitcoin began what has now become a 65% crash, analyst Tom Lee put out a note telling people to buy the dip: Fundstrat’s Tom Lee says he’s a buyer of the bitcoin pullback, now sees more than 35% gains from here “Here” was 5000 points ago. But then he doubled down… Continue reading Bitcoin ‘experts’ are often clueless