The Curious Engineer

Grey Enlightenment

2014–2015

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2015 393

December 2015

  1. Theranos, Part 2
  2. Giving Theranos the benefit of the doubt
  3. The Big Short: Market Genius or Luck?
  4. High Frequency Nonsense
  5. The Bailouts Benefited Everyone, Not Just Bankers
  6. Bitcoin: It Ain’t Going Away
  7. Wealth Inequality Not a Big Concern
  8. Fredrick Brennan on Eugenics
  9. More Homicides = More Incarcerations
  10. Reactionary Realism
  11. Millennials Losing Faith in Democracy
  12. INTP people rule the world
  13. What isn’t being taught in schools that should be?
  14. An Army of Fact Checkers: How Reddit (and social media) is Destroying the SJW Narrative
  15. 2016 Predictions
  16. Why Interest Rates Are Unlikely to Rise Much, If at all
  17. The Student Loan Charade
  18. Consider Contraception
  19. Post-2008 Capitalism: A Guide
  20. They’re defecting, Mortimer: The rise of Trump and the fall of the ‘Cuck’ empire
  21. Post-Labor Capitalism
  22. 10 Harsh Truths Every Millennial Must Know
  23. Conservatives are smarter, better informed than liberals
  24. How a person with an SAT score of a 1000 writes
  25. He Fit the Description
  26. Collapse can wait
  27. Thoughts on Kaczynski’s Manifesto
  28. The New Investing Landscape
  29. Good Tweets
  30. On Not Letting Cognitive Capital Go To Waste
  31. How to be a Superforecaster
  32. Investing Recap for 2015: What worked and what didn’t
  33. Against the Ubermensch
  34. David Gelernter on Millennials and the State of Higher Education

November 2015

  1. The Hivemind, Immigration, and IQ
  2. Functional Stock Market Theory
  3. Media Outrage Fuels Trump Campaign
  4. PUA and NRx
  5. The Daily View: Turkey, Isolationism, & Islam
  6. How the Liberal Media is Always Wrong
  7. Classical Liberalism, Democracy, Libtertarianism, Nihilism, and NRx
  8. Public Policy and Obesity
  9. Trump’s ‘Racist’ Tweet
  10. Malls, Marxism, and the Future
  11. How Bonds Respond to Rate Hikes
  12. Understanding Comes Before Change
  13. The Daily View: Never Take Financial Advice From Zerohedge
  14. Abortion & Healthcare Policy
  15. Thomas Sowell on The Bell Curve
  16. NRx and Christianity
  17. Thoughts on France
  18. IQ Roundup
  19. Jim Simons: A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street
  20. #Nationaloffendacollegestudentday
  21. The Free Trade & Globalization Debate
  22. Looking A Gift Horse in the Mouth – the Decline of the SJW Movement
  23. The Nordic Fairytale
  24. The Problem With Self-Publishing
  25. Libertarianism and NRx/Dark Enlightenment
  26. Pro-Technology = Marxist?
  27. The Daily View: Good Tweets, Socialism, The White Male Die-Off
  28. Don’t Blame the Fed – Blame Stupid People, Liberalism, Democracy
  29. Facebook – Protecting Your Privacy
  30. The Millennial Economic Tailwind/Dividend
  31. Resource Optimization & The Role of the State

October 2015

  1. The Daily View: Elite Colleges Should Abolish Tuition; Apprenticeships
  2. Stock Market Rebounds
  3. Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia May Lower Healthcare Costs
  4. Obama Should Give His Nobel Prize to Bernanke
  5. Foucault, Chomsky, Pinker, and the Blank Slate
  6. Bitcoin Going Nuts Again
  7. The Rotting Foundation That Is Democracy
  8. STEM, Immigration, H-1B Visas, and Wages
  9. Pop Psychology Charlatans
  10. America the Intellectual Capital of the World, or Why Smart People Deserve More
  11. Economics Myths, Part 8: The Chinese Data is Fake
  12. Black-White IQ Gap Debate
  13. The Rise of STEM: Wealth and Intellectualism Über Alles
  14. 2060 IQ Projections
  15. IQ Tests Are Not Culturally Biased
  16. Economics Myths, Part 7: The Baltic Dry Index is a Reliable Economic Indicator
  17. Another Defeat for SJW-Left: Sweden opens world’s first male rape centre
  18. STEM vs. Liberal Arts: Which is Harder?
  19. More Emissions Violators is Good News for Volkswagen
  20. Economics Myths, Part 6: Alan Greenspan Caused The Financial Crisis
  21. Economics Myths, Part 5: QE (Quantitative Easing) Misconceptions
  22. IQ and Morality; IQ and Job Performance
  23. NRx Should Be Anti-Populist
  24. NRx = Red Pill
  25. The Millennial Mindset, Part 2: Philosophy and Wealth
  26. The Daily View: #pissforequality Hoax, Expatriated Cash, Unions Need More Money, Huge Web 2.0 Salaries
  27. Economic Myths, Part 4: Job Creation is Good
  28. The British Origins of HBD
  29. Economics Myths, Part 3: Full Employment is Good
  30. Falsifiability, String Theory, and Policy
  31. Economics Myths, Part 2: America Is In Decline/The Dollar Is Weak
  32. Economics Myths, Part 1: Budget Surpluses Are Always Good
  33. The New Mainstream Media

September 2015

  1. Eugenics Summary, and HBD-Based Policy
  2. ‘Trickle Up’ Economics; Silicon Valley Technocracy; Neo Liberals
  3. The Millennial Mindset – Individualism Over The Collective
  4. Sorry Marx, Capitalism May Not Be Self-Limiting
  5. Bullshit & Success
  6. Does Tesla Really Lose $4,000 Per Car?
  7. Nike Reports Blowout Earnings, Don’t Blame Bull Market on QE
  8. Volkswagen Scandal Exposes Liberal Hypocrisy
  9. The Daily View: Privacy, Silicon Valley Housing, The Failure of Democracy, Gender Achievement Gap in the Sciences
  10. Part 1. Misconceptions About the 2008 Financial Crisis
  11. The SJW Narrative Collapse
  12. Purple Policies, Part 2
  13. The Appeal of Doom and Gloom
  14. The Great Debate Again: Jobs vs. Automation
  15. The Daily View: Teaching Kids to Code; Pinterest & Web 2.0; GOP Debate
  16. Breaking the Tuition Feedback Loop
  17. Neo Masculinity and Christianity, Darwinian Conservatism, Free Will, Biological Reality
  18. Hillary the Lesser of Two Evils
  19. NRx and Modernity
  20. The Economic Crisis Is In Brazil and Turkey, Not China
  21. Aggressive SPX Bull Call Option Strategy To Play Market Rebound
  22. Trolling and Fear of Rejection – A link?
  23. Interest Rates Are Not Going Up
  24. Revisiting the SVXY strategy (and why I like SVXY over VXX)
  25. How the left spreads misinformation, fear, and bad advice to ‘save/protect’ people
  26. A Post About Steve
  27. Our STEM Nobility
  28. Reiterate: Buy the dip
  29. Is James Altucher Right About Never Buying a Home?
  30. In Defense of Gawker, Sort of
  31. China and The Liberal War on Success
  32. Bailouts, Obama, and Debt

August 2015

  1. China’s investors find safe haven in American real estate
  2. Buy Stocks or Real Estate Instead of Paying Down Student Loan Debt
  3. Anita Sarkeesian Supports Classroom Segregation
  4. So Much For That China Economic Crisis
  5. While Many Panicked, Japanese Day Trader Made $34 Million
  6. College Degree: Status, Drop-outs, IQ, and Success
  7. Inverse Relationship Between Stock Prices and Volatility
  8. High-IQ Wins Again – Stocks Surge For 2nd Day
  9. Buy The Dip
  10. Wired For Success: Brain Scans Predict Mathematical Ability
  11. The Meritocracy We Don’t Understand
  12. Embracing Modernity, Part 2
  13. The Purdue Plan
  14. The Cult of Wallacemania
  15. Social Hierarchies and Techno Libertarianism are Compatible
  16. The NRx ‘Trichotomy’ Becomes a Dichotomy
  17. Dale Carnegie is Wrong
  18. Is Verbal IQ The Same As Speech/Language?
  19. The Great Debate: Gamers vs. SJWs : An Etiology
  20. Effective Altruism Need Not Be Politically Correct
  21. The Trump Surge & Skepticism
  22. Is Your Job Next?
  23. Affordable Housing, Healthcare, & Tuition: Putting Things in Perspective
  24. Why Millennials Are Still Living With Their Parents
  25. IQ: Education, Socioeconomic Outcomes, and Entitlement Spending
  26. Revising the NRx Map
  27. Why Police Fire At Targets Multiple Times
  28. ‘Black Lives Matter’ – Dividing the Nation
  29. Why the Web 2.0/Tech 2.0 ‘Bubble’ Refuses to Burst
  30. RE: Lost Decade
  31. Atheist Liberals’ Pastor Jon Stewart Final Taping
  32. The Trump PR Machine
  33. Birth ‘Lottery’ Does Not Preclude Meritocracy
  34. Lost Decade? Hardly
  35. What is Better Than a Republic? (Hint: It’s Not Democracy)
  36. We’re Making Life Too Hard for Millennials
  37. Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
  38. Uber Worth $50 Billion, Leaves Doubters in the Dust
  39. Getting Rich Quick In the Silicon Valley
  40. We’re Not Broke

July 2015

  1. The Value of a Skill
  2. Autism/Asperger’s the New ‘Cool’?
  3. The Daily View: Coding Camps, Billionaires, Airport to Nowhere, Liongate
  4. Nature Beats Nurture
  5. Free Will – Welfare Liberals vs. Neo Liberals and HBD Conservatives
  6. The Writer and the Coder
  7. Bold, Determined, But Somewhat Wrong
  8. The Tech Rich Keep Getting Richer
  9. Bryan Caplan: Anti-Democracy Pioneer
  10. Bernie Sanders Speech, Condensed Version
  11. Taking the ‘Omega’ Pill
  12. The Gig Economy: Is Obamacare to Blame?
  13. More Correct Predictions (Greece, Facebook, Emerging Markets, Trump)
  14. What Makes Taneshi Coates Special?
  15. The Truth? They Can’t Handle The Truth
  16. Is Capitalism Dead? It Depends, I Suppose
  17. Wealth Creation Orgy
  18. The End of Jobs
  19. Trump & Sanders
  20. Countering Flawed Arguments of the Anti-College Movement
  21. The SPLC’s War on Reddit and Free Speech
  22. The Great Chinese Nothing
  23. Reviving the American Dream with ‘Purple Policies’
  24. Millennials and the GOP
  25. Why They Feel Left Out
  26. Another Correct Prediction – AirBNB
  27. Why Personal Finance Has Become So Important To Millennials
  28. SJWs Eat Their Own
  29. Disparate Impact Litigation Hurts Job Seekers, Students, and Employers
  30. Why The Left Wants Reddit To Fail
  31. The Teen ‘Summer Job’ is Going Away, and That’s A Good Thing
  32. Sorry Liberals, Uber Is Not Going Away

June 2015

  1. Critique of the Culture of Entrepreneurship
  2. No Love For The High-IQ Basic Income
  3. Sorry Middle Class, You’re Just Not That Important Anymore
  4. Redefining the American Dream
  5. In Defense of MGTOW, Part 2
  6. What is this site about?
  7. The Great Moderation
  8. Wealthy foreigners bought $100 billion in US real estate
  9. The Virtues of the Sharing Economy
  10. Greece … Much Ado About Nothing
  11. Debunking the Gold Standard
  12. The Stability and Necessity of Large Systems
  13. The Daily View: Dumbing-Down the SAT, Matt Levine, China Bubble
  14. How High-IQ People Make Money In The Stock Market
  15. Do Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves? It May Not Matter
  16. The Post-2008 Wealth Creation Boom
  17. Why Moldbug Called It Quits
  18. Is Greece the first libertarian state?
  19. The Great Debate: Automation, Jobs, Wealth Inequality, Basic Income, Post Scarcity
  20. The Left Still Whining About Tech Bubbles & Silicon Valley
  21. Festivities Are Just Beginning (old theme)
  22. The Daily View: Wealth Inequality and Bond Market Liquidity
  23. Detecting Fake Amazon Book Reviews
  24. Neo-Reaction & Techno-Libertarianism
  25. Helping America’s Gifted Poor
  26. Libs Whining About Tesla Again
  27. Superior vs. Inferior People
  28. Malcom Gladwell, Exasperated Idiot
  29. Good Tweets, Part 2
  30. The Left’s Problem With Science

May 2015

  1. Defending Rational Markets
  2. The Tyranny of the Bookish
  3. The Great Decoupling
  4. Marc Andreessen and Twitter
  5. Bernanke is Right
  6. Telling Fairy Tales To Spare Our Feelings
  7. The Canonization of Dr. Nash
  8. Defending the EMH
  9. Feeling Left Out?
  10. Uncomfortable Truths
  11. Everything Keeps Going Up
  12. Ignore the News, Part 2
  13. Evidence That America Is Not In Decline (long post)
  14. Good Tweets
  15. In Today’s Economy, It Seems Like IQ Is More Important Than Ever
  16. The Pursuit of the Truth
  17. Salvation Through IQ
  18. Being A Liberal…
  19. The Healthcare Scam
  20. Anti-SJW Has Gone Mainstream
  21. Yet Another Correct Prediction
  22. Why There Probably Won’t Be Another Major Financial Crisis in America
  23. Steven Levitt is Right, Not All Life is Sacred
  24. Best Housing Market in the World
  25. Deconstructing Liberalism
  26. With the Exception of China, Emerging Markets Are Still Awful
  27. Defending Finance: Why Bankers and Economists Are Not to Blame for the Crisis
  28. We’re All Becoming Economists, Scientists, and Objectivists
  29. Smooth Sailing Ahead

April 2015

  1. Is the ‘Red Pill’ Teaching Obsolete Skills?
  2. Wisdom of the Markets
  3. A unified theory of online discourse
  4. Liberal Narrative Collapse
  5. Micro Economics 101
  6. Peter Singer Conservatives
  7. Winner-Take-All Nation
  8. Michael Lewis, Idiot
  9. Grey’s Razor
  10. Embracing Modernity
  11. Taking Neo Reaction (NRx) To The Next Level
  12. Ravi Batra’s Social Cycle
  13. World’s ‘Smartest Man’ Supports Eugenics
  14. Smart People On Reddit Giving Police Benefit of Doubt
  15. In Defense of MGTOW
  16. 8-Year-Old Girl Makes $127,000 a Month
  17. Grammar
  18. Why Bay Area/Silicon Valley Real Estate Keeps Going Up
  19. Daredevil Stories
  20. Awstats is Awful
  21. The Fed May Never Raise Interest Rates Again
  22. Reddit Exposes Salon.com Racial Hypocrisy
  23. Foreigners Keep Buying US Debt – And it Makes the Left Mad
  24. Obsession With Logical Fallacies
  25. Misconceptions About Algorithmic/High Frequency Trading
  26. IQ Anxieties
  27. College Degree – A Necessary Evil
  28. Sornette vs. Taleb Debate
  29. Millennials Rebuking Liberalism
  30. Why Women Earn Less Than Men
  31. The Big Will Get Bigger
  32. Billion Dollar Startup Club: Separating Winners From The Losers
  33. Why Education is Not Curing Poverty
  34. The Rolling Hoax
  35. Ongoing Research
  36. How to Stop the Masses From Voting in Socialism
  37. Thee Cheers for Washington: America Stands Alone
  38. The Right Concedes the ‘Gay’ Wars
  39. Snapchat Proves America & Capitalism is Not in Decline
  40. Stanford’s Free Tuition

March 2015

  1. We Solved Everything
  2. Seth Godin’s Nod to Consequentialism
  3. Tesla’s Big Surprise. Don’t Bet Against High-IQ.
  4. Liberalism is the Problem, Not Technology
  5. Peter Schiff and other Doom and Gloomers Losing Credibility
  6. Billionaire: Your life is going to stink
  7. What is a Religion?
  8. Professors On Reddit Tire Of Liberalism
  9. Religion is Becoming Irrelevant
  10. There is Absolutely No Bubble In Technology
  11. Atheist Conservatism and the Dark Enlightenment
  12. Some Ideas to Reform Higher Education
  13. The Daily View: Stocks Surge, Hillary, Religion, Paul Tudor Jones
  14. Stocks & Bonds Surge – The 1% Wins Again
  15. IQ: More Than Just a Number, Part 2
  16. Anti-Democracy, Part 4
  17. The Success of Fed policy
  18. Terry Pratchett, IQ, Practice, and Mastery
  19. In Today’s Economy, It Pays to Know Math
  20. Using Cognitive Screening to Replace Costly Diplomas
  21. Holding the Left Accountable for Being Wrong All the Time
  22. IQ: More than Just a Number
  23. Salvation: Paleo/Christian vs. HBD/Rationalist
  24. The Greatest Bull Market Ever*
  25. Is STEM the New Celebrity Status?
  26. Et tu, Summers?
  27. Optimal Allocation of Resources
  28. Bridging The Red Pill and Beta Male Conservatism
  29. How Liberalism Distorts Perception of IQ
  30. 2015: Another Great Year for the Nerds
  31. The Liberal War on Science

February 2015

  1. Disingenuous Paul Krugman Wrong About Stimulus, Economy
  2. Stock Strategies & ‘Fundamental Drift’
  3. People Beat the Market Because of IQ, Not Conspiracies
  4. When Will The Tech Valuations Crash? How About Never
  5. The Rational Something
  6. Creating Optimal Socioeconomic Environments for the Cognitively Exceptional
  7. Liberalism and the Perfectibility of Man
  8. What Should Neo Reaction Believe In?
  9. So much for that 10,000 hour rule
  10. Things that I am sick of people complaining about
  11. Economic Fallacies
  12. Nazism = Marxism?
  13. The Daily View: Post Scarcity, Divine Rights, Doom and Gloom, The Two Tenets of Leftism
  14. Blacks Being Underrepresented
  15. Is Going to Work Really So Bad? Jobbers vs. Self-Actualizers
  16. Don’t Bet Against America (America as an HBD success story)
  17. The Great Zerohedge Disappointment
  18. Still Not a Bubble (in Bay Area Real Estate)
  19. Two More Setbacks For The Left (Brian Williams & Global Warming Scandal)
  20. What Happens to Wealth During Market Crashes
  21. Market Outlook: Will Rising Interest Rates Hurt Stocks?
  22. The Bush Economic Boom
  23. The Humanities …Not So Easy, Afterall
  24. The left’s long string of disappointments in the post-2008 era
  25. MGTOW vs. The Red Pill/PUA
  26. Irreconcilable Differences (Pragmatic Right vs. Paleo Right)
  27. Our High-IQ Aristocracy
  28. Reddit Stands Up For Men’s Rights

January 2015

  1. So, What Are You?
  2. Self-Actualization and Indirect Value
  3. Andrew Sullivan Retires From Blogging
  4. Was The Last Decade Really So Bad?
  5. Eugenics Plan, Part 2
  6. No Recession In Technology As Apple Reports Blowout Earnigns
  7. Carl Jung and the Post-2008 Era
  8. Too Much Whining on the Blogs About the GOP ‘Establishment’
  9. The Daily View: QE vs. Fiscal Stimulus, The Rise of the Economists, America’s New Aristocracy, SAT
  10. The Left Wants Housing to Be a Bubble
  11. The Great College Debate
  12. The Daily View: IQ and Political Affiliation, Small Business, Obama, Healthcare, Women in STEM
  13. Cheer Up, Libs, Things Aren’t So Bad
  14. Eliminative Materialism and Economic Misconceptions
  15. More on Biological Determinism and Useless Degrees
  16. In Defense of the Millennials
  17. Adults, Stop Giving Bad Career Advice to Young People
  18. Is the National Debt a Big Deal? Maybe not
  19. The World is Getting Safer, So Why Does this Make Libs Mad?
  20. What I Want
  21. Improving Obama’s Community College Plan
  22. Much Needed IQ Realism in the Anti and Pro College Movements
  23. Why We Need to Put the Elite in Power
  24. Economic Misconceptions
  25. 2015 Market Predictions
  26. The Rise of Nerd Culture in the Post-2008 Era
  27. The Daily View: Silicon Valley Diversity, Basic Income, Wealth Inequality
  28. Autopilot Nation & The Winner Take all Economy
  29. Liberal Denial of Individual Congenital Cognitive Exceptionalism
  30. Snapchat’s Huge Windfall : The State of Web 2.0
  31. Abortion and Crime – When Political Correctness and Partisan Politics Gets in the Way of Promising Research and Policy
  32. Common Core Fallacy
  33. Paul Graham on Immigration, Part 2

2014 276

December 2014

  1. Strong Economy Bodes Well For Neoconservative Resurgence
  2. 2014 – An Awful Year For The SJWs
  3. Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
  4. The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression
  5. The Obama Boom? More Like the Bush Boom
  6. 2014 Year in Review – Much like 2013
  7. Why There is No College Bubble
  8. Countering Bearish Arguments
  9. Why the US Economy is Doing Great or Bad (depending on how you look at it)
  10. Stocks Rocket Higher; Biological Determinism Bull Market Can’t Be Stopped
  11. What the Mohammad Islam Hoax Says About Trading and Liberalism
  12. Peter Boockvar Writes the Stupidest Article Ever?
  13. In Defense of the 2008 Bank Bailouts, Again
  14. Universal Healthcare Not So Great
  15. There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom
  16. Beyond the Blank Slate: How Libs Turn High-IQ Into a Handicap
  17. The Left is Losing the Culture Wars
  18. Taxes, Debt, and QE
  19. Most Financial Analysis is Crap
  20. American Exceptionalism & The State of the Labor Market
  21. 2014 – An Uneventful, But Prosperous Year

November 2014

  1. Things That I Am Thankful For
  2. The Left Jubilant as Ferguson Burns
  3. The Power of Linear Combination ETF Portfolios
  4. The Daily View: Biological Determinism Bull Market, GOP, Basic Income, Shirtstorm
  5. Stock Market Going Much Higher
  6. Doom and Gloom on the Blogs
  7. Bigger is Better Theme Will Dominate in 2015
  8. Wealth Spreaders Lose Again As Stocks Keep Going Up, GOP Victories
  9. Using a Linear Combination to Make Money with Stocks
  10. Libs Attack Success, Celebrate Failure
  11. Karl Denninger is Just Another Doom and Gloom Liberal
  12. Quasi Barrier Options
  13. Slow News Cycle

October 2014

  1. Is the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ Already Here?
  2. Biological Determinism Bull Market Rages On
  3. Post-QE, The Economy is Still Fundamentally Sound
  4. No, The US Economy Is Not Stuck
  5. Oil and Gas Prices Due for a Huge Rebound
  6. Free Backtesting Website
  7. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Philosophy
  8. Most and Least Respected Majors
  9. Facebook Stock is Going Higher
  10. Optimism, HBD, and the American Dream
  11. The Daily View : A Nation or Crybabies and Why Airlines are a Good Investment
  12. Anti-Democracy, Part 2
  13. Optimal Allocation of Public Resources in a Meritocracy
  14. SVXY Strategy: Part 2
  15. State of the Market and Playing Ebola
  16. Crude Oil Sell-off Only Temporary
  17. Stocks Continue Plunge
  18. The Daily View: STEM Bailout, Elizabeth Warren, James Altucher
  19. Market Update
  20. Flawed Argument for the Legalization of Insider Trading
  21. We Are Not Doomed
  22. Does Content Really Matter?
  23. The Automation Economy and the Bifurcation of the Workforce
  24. Public Outrage Getting in the Way of Good Eugenics Policy
  25. Debunking More Wealth Inequality BS
  26. The IQ Wars
  27. Post-2008 economy & HBD, Post-Scarcity, Political Science
  28. Some Thoughts on IQ
  29. The Media and Global Warming

September 2014

  1. The Daily View: Stocks, Individual Exceptionalism, Cultural Marxism, Birth Control
  2. The Great Ebola Outbreak of 2012 That No One’s Heard Of
  3. Illusory Superiority and IQ
  4. The New Gilded Age; The Post-2008 Economy, Part 4
  5. We Need More Money in Politics and Less Voting
  6. Ali Baba Stock Going Higher
  7. The Futile Pursuit of Equality
  8. America Is Still Exceptional
  9. Will Technology Make All Jobs Obsolete?
  10. America Splitting in Two
  11. Some Thoughts on the 2016 Campaign
  12. The Beta Male Conservative
  13. As Stocks Keep Going up, HBD is the Future
  14. No, Krugman, Economics Didn’t Fail. You Failed.
  15. Immigration and Politics
  16. The Last Question, Part 2
  17. The Last Question
  18. Some Thoughts on Healthcare
  19. Pro Growth Policy Ideas
  20. Could Millennials Be More Conservative Than Previously Thought?
  21. College Bashing and Skills Transference
  22. America’s Intellectual Renaissance
  23. HBD Gaining Mainstream Acceptance
  24. Richard Feynman’s IQ
  25. Noahbrain and Twitter
  26. Ivy League Admissions and the Economic Value of ‘Gig’ Jobs
  27. ‘Work Experience’ For Young Adults Provides Little Benefit
  28. Stock Market Surges to New Highs; The Post-2008 Economy, Part 3
  29. Linkfest & Commentary
  30. Your Online Permanent Record
  31. Some Thoughts on Government, Politics & Economics
  32. Wealth Inequality Again

August 2014

  1. The Poverty Plan
  2. The News Cycle and Why Social Networking Threatens the Liberal Media
  3. Another Correct Prediction
  4. Anti-Democracy
  5. The indefatigability of the ‘unparticipatory’ economic boom
  6. Conservative Minimalism
  7. Another Record High For Stocks
  8. Why We Need More Testing
  9. The Daily View: Abortion Debate, Economic Recovery, Political Dysfunction, American Exceptionalism
  10. The Abortion Plan
  11. Everything is Awesome
  12. Ferguson is Not the Future of America
  13. People Agree: Michael Brown Deserved to Die
  14. Jim Goad on Millennials
  15. The Smartest Generation, Part 3
  16. The Hollowing Out of the Middle as Home Prices Surge in the Bay Area
  17. A Possible Market Inneficiency Today
  18. Sorry Liberals, But for High-Paying Jobs, Talent Does Play an Important Role in the Hiring Process
  19. Libertarian = Socially Liberal ?
  20. Liberal Assault on Apple & Steve Jobs
  21. The Daily View: Ivy League Bashing and Employment
  22. The Daily View: Consumer Spending, Malcom Gladwell, Financial Crisis
  23. The Smartist Era, Part 2
  24. More Wealth Inequality Bullshit
  25. Utilitarianism Is Not Welfare Liberalism
  26. The Meritocracy
  27. Immigration
  28. Liberal Attacks on ‘Nerd’ Culture
  29. The Smartest Generation, Part 2
  30. Investment Idea #1 with SVXY
  31. Why Can’t Optimism Coexist with HBD?

July 2014

  1. Tesla Reports Huge Earnings; Score One for America and Capitalism
  2. Enjoy the Decline? No thanks
  3. Out of Wedlock Births: Not Exclusively a Black Problem
  4. Today’s Example of Bad Journalism
  5. Verbal Harder Than Math?
  6. High Sharpe Portfolios
  7. Most Americans Poorer Than Before Recession
  8. Bay Area the Center of the Universe as Home Prices Keep Surging
  9. Constructing a ‘Madoff’ Portfolio
  10. The Good News: Washington Is Giving Up on Everything
  11. The Neoconservative Resurgence
  12. Some Thoughts About Future Technologies
  13. Bill Ackman and Herbalife
  14. Some Ideas to Reform Education
  15. Some Thoughts on Investing, Investor Exceptionalism, Emerging Markets, Bubbles, and Debt
  16. Grey Enlightenment vs. Dark Enlightenment
  17. Stock Market Surge a Victory for Biological Determinism
  18. Buy the Dip on Ukraine Fears
  19. Blogging and Value
  20. The Greatest of Times?
  21. Rick Santelli and the STEM Bailout
  22. Ignore the News
  23. The Daily View: We’re All Becoming Weirdos
  24. More Good News For College Grads
  25. The Differences Between Neo/Classical Liberalism and Welfare Liberalism
  26. College, The Economy, and America Being in Decline
  27. The Uselessness of Pop Social Psychology
  28. The Daily View: Making Predictions, Bubbles, and Post Labor Society
  29. State of the Labor Market
  30. The Daily View: American Exceptionalism, Housing, Foreign Investors, and Selling at the Top
  31. The Smartest Generation
  32. What To Be Thankfull For On This 4th Of July
  33. Stocks Rally to New Highs as Obama Voted ‘Worst President Since WW2’
  34. Indtroduction to Forex
  35. Linkfest 7/1/2014

June 2014

  1. The Smartist Era of Unlimited Prosperity
  2. The World As It Is: Post-2008 Economic Reality Part 2
  3. America – The Center of the Universe
  4. Time to Not Raise the Minimum Wage
  5. The Quadrantsphere and Biological Determinism
  6. Ralph Nader’s Predictable Denial of the Importance of IQ
  7. 13 Ways the Economy is Getting Better
  8. Immigration and The GOP Does Not Need to Reform
  9. Low Congressional Ratings, A Bullish Indicator
  10. The Daily View: Wealth Creation and Inequality
  11. College Bashing…Just Another Outlet for Liberalism
  12. Authenticity and Masculinity in the New Era
  13. Thanking the Fed for Doing a Good Job
  14. The Daily View: Economic Data and Wages
  15. Stocks Rise, Ignoring Iraq Tensons
  16. Immigration, Millennials, and the Smartist Era
  17. Eric Cantor’s Loss – A Sign of the Times
  18. Some Much Needed Perspective in the Student Loan Debate
  19. David Brat Sell-Off Day 2
  20. Did David Brat Cause the Market to Fall Today?
  21. Planned Obsolescence
  22. IQ and Writing
  23. The Daily View: China, Debt and Why We Need More Millionaires In Congress
  24. The Post-2008 Economic Reality
  25. America’s Polarized Job Market
  26. An Approach to Eugenics
  27. A vote for the GOP is a vote for growth
  28. The Daily View: Economics, Poverty, Treasuries, Geithner, Bitcoin
  29. Education and Reality
  30. Ignorance, The 2008 Financial Problem, and the Limitations of Knowledge
  31. The Nordic Ticking Time Bomb

May 2014

  1. Leave the Ivy League Grads Alone
  2. Weak GDP? No Problem
  3. A Huge Bull Market
  4. Ignore the News and Keep Buying Stocks on the Dips
  5. Racial Matters
  6. The Daily View: Crony Capitalism, Fallacy of Composition, and Compromise
  7. The Daily View: Debt, The Intelligentsia, Economic Compromise, Praise for the Do-Nothing Congress
  8. Is College a Scam?
  9. Addresing the Problem of Entitlement Spending
  10. The Problem With Small Business
  11. Reclaiming The White House With Pro-Growth Policy
  12. Some Thoughts on Capital and Risk
  13. Taleb Loses Debate, Blames His Opponent
  14. Extraversion and IQ
  15. Eight Things About The Market That Don’t Worry Me
  16. An Indebted Generation
  17. Getting Rich in The Smartist Era
  18. The Smartist Era
  19. Being Early is No Better than Being Wrong
  20. Some Thoughts on IQ and Eugenics
  21. Ignore the Doom and Gloom Media
  22. The Liberal War on Experts
  23. Testing for Career Placement Gains Momentum
  24. Some Thoughts on Wealth Inequality and the Elite
  25. The Daily View: Interest Rates, Healthcare, and Sticky Wages
  26. Ignore the Doom and Gloom Narratives
  27. HFT Debate Ignores More Flagrant Manipulation
  28. Liberalism Failed, Not Economic Policy
  29. America is Still #1
  30. Asian Academic Achievement: IQ or Parenting?
  31. The Daily View: There is NO Crisis, Donald Sterling, and Inflation
  32. Can Technology Make Capitalism Obsolete?
  33. America is Becoming an Oligarchy. So What?
  34. Some Thoughts on Education
  35. Bifurcated Inflation Gains Traction

April 2014

  1. Why The Rich Deserve More
  2. Priceactionlab Bad Analysis
  3. Low Paying Jobs Create Economic Value
  4. Speaking Too Soon Again
  5. More Evidence Bigger is Better
  6. IQ and SAT Scores as a Solution to the Student Loan Crisis
  7. A Case Against Secular Stagnation
  8. In Praise of the Contrarian Blogging Movement
  9. No, We Don’t Need to Put People to Work
  10. Time for Putin to Cut-Off Gas to Europe?
  11. The Day That Died: The Worst of Business Journalism
  12. A Nation of Crybabies
  13. The Daily View: Inflation, Peter Schiff, and QE
  14. Paul Krugman Still An Idiot
  15. Robot Jobs For The Future
  16. We’re Still In a Goldiocks Economy
  17. The Daily View 4/16/2014
  18. Out of Control Entitlement Spending
  19. A Solution in Need of a Problem
  20. Liberal Denial of Genetic Determinism
  21. Irrational Investors Don’t Exist
  22. A Critical Look at Warren Buffett
  23. Our New Era
  24. More Bullshit by Business Insider
  25. The State of the Economy
  26. Could High Frequency Trading Have a Stabilizing Effect on the Market?
  27. Could Republicans Endorse Eugenics?
  28. Liberals Attacking Technology Again
  29. Job Report Proves Krugman is Wrong
  30. Let’s Teach the Kids to Code
  31. Nicholas Nassim Taleb Wrong Again, Loses Temper
  32. How Not to Predict Crisis

March 2014

  1. Crimea Much Ado About Nothing
  2. Henry Blodget Wrong Again
  3. Small Business Still For Suckers
  4. Bay Area Home Prices Keep Going Up
  5. It Pays to Be Smart
  6. Wealth Inequality is Here to Stay But Won’t Lead to Crisis
  7. Is partisanship holding back good policy in the abortion debate?
  8. In Praise of Low Wages
  9. The Success of Reaganomics
  10. No, it’s not time for a basic income
  11. Why We Need Gridlock Or, Better Yet, Complete Republican Control
  12. Liberal Media Bias in Coverage of Auto Recalls
  13. Immigration and the Liberal War on Success
  14. Revisiting Correct Predictions
  15. The Free Market Case For More Immigration
  16. Sorry, No Student Loan Bubble
  17. Why Economists Don’t Need To Be Able To Predict

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