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US Dollar heads for best run of gains in 17 years If anything, this huge rally in dollars and plunge in treasury yields means we need things that will increase liquidity and risk taking such as more QE and tax cuts . There is so much demand for the safe haven of US dollars that… Continue reading Pro Growth Policy Ideas

Is the smartest generation, the millennials, when matched by age, more conservative than most generations in history, including the babyboomers? The problem with studies that purport baby boomers to be more conservative than millennials is that they are not matching by age. Yes, baby boomers are more conservative, but that’s possibly because they are older,… Continue reading Could Millennials Be More Conservative Than Previously Thought?

College bashing is popular among the crisis-seeking, anti-establishment left. The best argument they have is anecdotal evidence, that they know someone who is wildly successful despite not obtaining a degree, and thus their single example overrides all empirical evidence from hundreds of studies that show otherwise. The left, like a Malcom Gladwell book, can only… Continue reading College Bashing and Skills Transference

A defining charcteristic of the post-2008 intellectual Renaissance is that America is stronger and more influential than ever. The left predicted in 2008, incorrectly, that the over-hyped financial problem would usher in a post-America era. The exact opposite happened. As evidenced by historically low treasury yields, an always rising stock market that has vastly outperformed… Continue reading America’s Intellectual Renaissance

As blogged by Lion, an HBD (human bio-diversity) inspired comment was published in response to an op-ed by Nicholas Kristof and even got 13 up-votes: From iSteve, Kristof Does Battle with His Commenters Again As part of the post-2008 ‘intellectual Renaissance’, ideas on race, poverty and IQ that a decade ago were dismissed as ‘scientific… Continue reading HBD Gaining Mainstream Acceptance

There’s a long-standing debate about Feynman’s IQ, which reportedly was ‘only’ 125 or so. Like clay, many IQ denialists and, regrettably, HBD folks mold the score to suit their respective presuppositions: that, for the denalists, it’s evidence IQ is not important or, for the HBD folk, that Feynman’s ‘low’ score isn’t his ‘true’ IQ. I… Continue reading Richard Feynman’s IQ

Noahbrain of the noahpinionblog wrote perhaps the stupidest tweet ever: Why do so many rightists love anonymity? Is it because it gives them more of a feeling of homogeneity and commonality? — Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 6, 2014 Let’s see…who are the ones going batshit over NSA, drones, Facebook, Gmail, etc? Liberals and civil libertarians,… Continue reading Noahbrain and Twitter

An article by Steven Pinker in The New Republic (The Ivy League Is Broken and Only Standardized Tests Can Fix It ) has set off a firestorm of debate on iSteve and elsewhere. Pinker argues that the admission process for the Ivy Leagues is broken. The admission process can seem frustratingly opaque, and despite the… Continue reading Ivy League Admissions and the Economic Value of ‘Gig’ Jobs