IQ facts: Race and intelligence: get the facts. pic.twitter.com/bhOMrECZg6 — Librarian of Hate (@LibrarianofHate) November 4, 2015 High-IQ wins again as Facebook’s valuation crosses $300 billion. But I thought Facebook was supposed to be a bubble and a fad, said the left in 2012. Facebook market cap is just over $300B. — Chris Dixon (@cdixon)… Continue reading The Daily View: Good Tweets, Socialism, The White Male Die-Off
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Don’t Blame the Fed – Blame Stupid People, Liberalism, Democracy
Bitcoin keeps going up, now $110 higher than my post about it last week and over $220 higher than my purchase price: Anyway, someone posts: We all know the state of the financial world is far from good, just a few points: Government debt at unprecedented levels. Still at emergency easing levels 8 years later… Continue reading Don’t Blame the Fed – Blame Stupid People, Liberalism, Democracy
Facebook – Protecting Your Privacy
Why Facebook Is Emasculating And How To Stop It The solution, of course, is to delete your profile. And while some Conservatives complain about Facebook (as the ROK article above does), many conservatives and libertarians use Facebook. And Facebook is hardly liberal in the sense that it generates billions of dollars of revenue a year… Continue reading Facebook – Protecting Your Privacy
The Millennial Economic Tailwind/Dividend
I write a lot about millennials and Reddit is because this is a demographic, and ignoring or dismissing them could be counterproductive by alienating a potentially very large audience. There is also a trend of journalists spreading doom and gloom about millennials – doom and gloom and generalizations about student loan debt, college being a… Continue reading The Millennial Economic Tailwind/Dividend
Resource Optimization & The Role of the State
Interesting article: There’s No Escaping Competition Scarcity is a defining characteristic of the human condition, and scarcity means there will be competition over who gets what. Market capitalism has the great advantage of channeling that competition through the price system, which not only ensures an ongoing supply of goods but also encourages their efficient production.… Continue reading Resource Optimization & The Role of the State
The Daily View: Elite Colleges Should Abolish Tuition; Apprenticeships
From Unz:Our Elite Colleges Should Abolish Tuition Although Harvard is widely known as one of America’s oldest and most prestigious colleges, that public image is outdated. Over the last couple of decades, the university has transformed itself into one of the world’s largest hedge-funds, with the huge profits of its aggressively managed $36 billion portfolio… Continue reading The Daily View: Elite Colleges Should Abolish Tuition; Apprenticeships
Stock Market Rebounds
Back in August and September during the stock market plunge, I recommended going long here and again here. Sure enough, stocks have surged since then, with the S&P 500 up about 9% since my reiteration to buy the dip: The portfolio I ‘manage’ is up 20% this year, vs. 2% for the S&P 500: By… Continue reading Stock Market Rebounds
Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia May Lower Healthcare Costs
California Legalizes Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill To clarify the subtlety between physician assisted suicide and euthanasia: Physician-assisted suicide refers to the physician providing the means for death, most often with a presciption. The patient, not the physician, will ultimately administer the lethal medication. Euthanasia generally means that the physician would act directly, for… Continue reading Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia May Lower Healthcare Costs
Obama Should Give His Nobel Prize to Bernanke
If Obama can get a Nobel Prize for doing nothing (and then later being a lousy president), maybe Bernanke deserves one for merely saving the economy in 2008? Full employment without inflation is in sight. The central bank did its job. What about everyone else? Agree, the central bank did a good job by stemming… Continue reading Obama Should Give His Nobel Prize to Bernanke
Foucault, Chomsky, Pinker, and the Blank Slate
From evolutionistx: Chomsky on Foucault “In Foucault’s 1971 televised debate with Noam Chomsky, Foucault argued against the possibility of any fixed human nature, as posited by Chomsky’s concept of innate human faculties. Chomsky argued that concepts of justice were rooted in human reason, whereas Foucault rejected the universal basis for a concept of justice. Following… Continue reading Foucault, Chomsky, Pinker, and the Blank Slate