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The ‘red pill’ people and the Beta Male Conservatives, a subset of MGTOW, have a lot in common: a tendency to defer to empirical logic instead of emotion, a respect for STEM, and being anti-SJW. The beta male is introverted and enjoys solitary activities such as reading and surfing the web, for example. Red pill… Continue reading Bridging The Red Pill and Beta Male Conservatism

From Fred Reed The 145 Solution I agree we should restrict voting to high-IQ individuals and or a net worth above a certain threshold, but the odds of such a plan being implemented are close to zero. The comments are interesting since they are an example of how successful the left, in their war on… Continue reading How Liberalism Distorts Perception of IQ

The original article on the Beta Male Conservative failed to meet my standards, so I rewrote parts of it. The growing anti-science movement is making people in Silicon Valley nervous Has he been to Reddit or 4chan lately? Millions of users, and all of them are infatuated with science & scientists, STEM, nerd culture, libertarian… Continue reading 2015: Another Great Year for the Nerds

The Krugster writes: This is still true in much of economics, I believe. But in the areas that matter most given the state of the world, it’s not true at all. People who declared back in 2009 that Keynesianism was nonsense and that monetary expansion would inevitably cause runaway inflation are still saying exactly the… Continue reading Disingenuous Paul Krugman Wrong About Stimulus, Economy

There are dozens or even hundreds of variables the affect stock prices, but it can be reduced to just two: fundamentals and noise. For brevity, we’ll assume fundamentals are measured by inflation adjusted earnings and is a long-term driver of stock and index prices, a process that I call ‘fundamental drift’. The second noise; this… Continue reading Stock Strategies & ‘Fundamental Drift’

Liberals like Nicholas Nassim Taleb, Robert Shiller, and Michael Lewis insist the market is rigged, a scam and a bubble, and therefore anyone who achieves long-term, risk-adjusted superior returns is either lucky, ignoring hidden risks, running a Madoff-like fraud, cheating (HFT, dark pools), or in cahoots with ‘evil’ bankers. In the same way the left… Continue reading People Beat the Market Because of IQ, Not Conspiracies

The left has been predicting doom and gloom since 2009, to no avail. In 2010, during the first wave of the European debt problem, the left predicted that Greece would pull the rest of the world into a recession; with the market indexes at record highs, that prediction was obviously wrong. Economically, with an economy… Continue reading When Will The Tech Valuations Crash? How About Never

Vox Day, who looks like Bill Hicks, who looks like Alex Jones, who looks like Christopher Hitches, who looks like Brad Delong, is the author of The Irrational Atheist. I don’t really know what I am (atheist, deist, agnostic, etc), nor do I wish to go by a simple label, but I believe in rationality… Continue reading The Rational Something

Although this blog has a republican/libertarian bent, the government should play a ‘nurture’ role for those with demonstrable cognitive superiority, as determined by an IQ test, by creating optimal economic environments to allow these exceptional individuals to live to their fullest cognitive potential, as Steve Hsu and Charles Murray agree: How assiduously does our federal… Continue reading Creating Optimal Socioeconomic Environments for the Cognitively Exceptional