Just as quickly as the Chinese Stock market crashed – sending the western financial media into a tizzy, clicking their heels with delight the The Great Satan, China, would finally meet its comeuppance – it came roaring back as if nothing had happened, hence The Great Chinese Nothing. It never occurred to anyone that maybe… Continue reading The Great Chinese Nothing
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Reviving the American Dream with ‘Purple Policies’
Harvard professor explains how we can revitalize the American Dream In hopes of reviving those positive trends, Putnam proposed what he calls “purple policies,” which combine conservative and liberal ideas. With the goal of reviving equal opportunity, Putnam advocates for the careful development and reform of programs such as early childhood education, apprenticeships, tutoring, community… Continue reading Reviving the American Dream with ‘Purple Policies’
Millennials and the GOP
When ‘old’ people ascribe labels such as ‘entitled’ or ‘arrogant’ to millennials, it’s because they are used to an economy where people shut-up and did what they were told, and in the pre-globalization era shutting-up and collecting your guaranteed paycheck may have been a good idea. But with the economy becoming more competitive, companies in… Continue reading Millennials and the GOP
Why They Feel Left Out
I sometimes wonder why more conservative bloggers don’t write about existentialist matters, instead writing about political issues as if such issues exist in a vacuum removed from the human condition. How about articles that answer the question if having a high IQ in our increasingly technological society makes some people ‘better’ than others. Or about… Continue reading Why They Feel Left Out
Another Correct Prediction – AirBNB
Another correct prediction: Airbnb raises $1.5B, valuing it at $25.5B Everything keeps going up, the cries of ‘bubble’ ignored. Looking at $80 billion valuation for air BNB (which would make it more valuable than Priceline), $100 billion uber, and $50 billion Snapchat. $50-100 billion seems to be the upper limit, after which the pressure to… Continue reading Another Correct Prediction – AirBNB
Why Personal Finance Has Become So Important To Millennials
With on average of 2000 people online at any given moment (on par with the wildly popular /r/aww) why is Reddit’s /r/personalfinance so popular, as well as 4chan’s business & finance board, 4chan.org/biz/ ? But it seems like the topic of personal finance, as well as economics and finance, is poplar everywhere online where high-IQ… Continue reading Why Personal Finance Has Become So Important To Millennials
SJWs Eat Their Own
Last week the left had high hopes that they would be able to shutdown Reddit – well, so much for that. On front page of Reddit this afternoon I found zero stories about the shutdown, suggesting that most, if not all, of the locked threads had been reopened as people had gotten on with their… Continue reading SJWs Eat Their Own
Disparate Impact Litigation Hurts Job Seekers, Students, and Employers
Business Can Pay to Train Its Own Work Force One possible solution is cognitive screening – the use of tests such as the Wonderlic, SAT/ACT, or Wechsler to find prospective employees who can learn quickly and have good critical thinking skills (and thus would benefit the most from on-site training for technical tasks. training obviously… Continue reading Disparate Impact Litigation Hurts Job Seekers, Students, and Employers
Why The Left Wants Reddit To Fail
The left is elated over the recent shake-up of Reddit in which Victoria Taylor – the ‘verifier’ of celebrity AMAs (ask me anythings) – was inexplicably fired, resulting in the shutdown of several sub-Reddits in solidarity, rendering large portions of the site inaccessible. A more detailed explanation can be found here, in which I took… Continue reading Why The Left Wants Reddit To Fail
The Teen ‘Summer Job’ is Going Away, and That’s A Good Thing
From Pew Research: The fading of the teen summer job This can be interpreted as good news… teens are better spending their time self-actualizing, delaying immediate income in exchange for learning in-demand, high-paying skills such as coding, science, writing, math, physics, and economics rather than doing a dead-end part time job. Due to a combination… Continue reading The Teen ‘Summer Job’ is Going Away, and That’s A Good Thing