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Lessons From the Trump Surge: What We Learned

1. You cannot buy victory. Although the left insists money has corrupted politics, allowing the rich to buy elections, Jeb Bush spent over $130 million on his campaign, with nothing to show for it, while Trump spent very little and still bested all of his competitors by a large margin: 2. The pundits are (almost… Continue reading Lessons From the Trump Surge: What We Learned

Coming to Terms With Our New Economy

(Parts of this essay were cut from an earlier article, which I shortened to make a new one) From Forbes: Why ‘The System’ Is Rigged And The US Electorate Is Angry Then in the 1970s, something went wrong. It was as if a strange new economic disease began to infect everything. Firms focused more closely… Continue reading Coming to Terms With Our New Economy

Genes for IQ finally found…what’s next

There have been some recent developments in genome-wide association study (GWAS) pertaining to IQ and academic achievement: Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment: Here we report the results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for educational attainment that extends our earlier discovery sample1, 2 of 101,069 individuals to 293,723 individuals, and… Continue reading Genes for IQ finally found…what’s next

Bay Area Rent Is Surging

Despite tame CPI-based inflation, rent, particularly in the Bay Area, has really exploded since 2011: The Bay Area real estate market is white hot, defying all predictions of its collapse. According to Zillow, San Jose, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Berkeley rent has gained 40-70% since 2011, vs. only modest national gain in wages and… Continue reading Bay Area Rent Is Surging

The Economics Debate: Jobs and Automation

In the ongoing online economics debate over technology, jobs, and automation, the Luddite Fallacy and Lump of Labor fallacies are often invoked. However, the there is a point of common confusion, which is if the goal of technology is to replace labor, then over the long-term labor cannot compete with technology. I believe technology will… Continue reading The Economics Debate: Jobs and Automation

Why Do The Rich Need So Much Money?

(This post was cut from an earlier post and made into a separate blog post, with some additional editing) Another argument you’ll commonly hear is, why do the rich need so much money? Couldn’t it be spent better elsewhere? Even leaving aside rich using their status to solidify their position, consider this: are the policies… Continue reading Why Do The Rich Need So Much Money?

Alt Right, Part.. Whatever

From The Daily Beast: Meet Milo Yiannopoulos, the Appealing Young Face of the Racist Alt-Right Analyzing a subset of the alt-right who call themselves “neoreactionaries,” Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains this important distinction, “Most modern libertarians are individualists, motivated by a desire to prevent the masses from oppressing the individual… “Neoreactionaries are not individualists… neoreaction places… Continue reading Alt Right, Part.. Whatever