This post was inspired by Zinn's Presentation. Reuploaded from my Substack. Howard Zinn is a famous historian who Donald Trump once said was spreading Marxist or leftist views in American education with his book: A People's History of the United States. Trump wants to blame education for civil disobedience or for civil unrest. If my … Continue reading The Courage of Movements, Individual Choices, & Thinking For Yourself.
Category: Philosophical & Sociological Reflections
Big Claims Requires Extraordinary Evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTczyGLdhc Charlie Munger Interview Charlie is a 98-year-old wise man at the end of his life. There are some things I agree with him and some things I disagree with. He talked about a quote from Warren Buffett, "It is not greed that drives the world but envy." In my view, in some cases, … Continue reading Big Claims Requires Extraordinary Evidence.
Macro-dosing Taxes and Inflation.
Milton Friedman famously said, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” “Monetary economist Milton Friedman made this line famous after stating it in a talk he gave in India in … Continue reading Macro-dosing Taxes and Inflation.
Quantitative Wall Street
Jim Simons (Renaissance) & Ken Griffin (Citadel) “Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Patterson explains how math geniuses developed a new approach to financial trading . . . and almost brought Wall Street down while making themselves wildly wealthy.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DreqnzGcVmU&list=PL2taIhuHxN_C2KZMznNBVMru9Yz0BDf8_ Recently, there’s been a lot of news mostly focused on retail investors, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, meme stocks, … Continue reading Quantitative Wall Street
Yeah, They Call Me Rabbit, This Is A Turtle Race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6V9i8fFADI There’s a Vox video relaying ways the rich avoid paying taxes and how problematic that can be. What the Vox video doesn’t mention are the plenty of other tax loopholes some of the elites do such as donating an artifact or an expensive art piece to a museum (ahem, Ken Griffin). Another way … Continue reading Yeah, They Call Me Rabbit, This Is A Turtle Race.
The Social Engineering of Woman’s Sexuality.
Never could I have ever imagined a world where a woman can make bank posting explicit content on OnlyFans, twerking on Instagram, or making sex tapes for porn websites. Not only that, there are websites promoting sugar daddies. I've also heard stories of women getting flown to luxurious places like Dubai to satisfy weird wealthy … Continue reading The Social Engineering of Woman’s Sexuality.
Corporate Vs. State, The Mass Exodus, & To Tax or Not To Tax.
There's a huge discrepancy between the wealthy and some states' plans with taxes. I’m reminded once again by the famous economist Milton Friedman’s many spot-on quotes, “people vote with their feet.” Rich people and big corporations aren't stupid, they will go to other places where there are less or no taxes and more especially more … Continue reading Corporate Vs. State, The Mass Exodus, & To Tax or Not To Tax.
The Petty Space Race
There's a petty space race going on that I would like to point to and discuss. Let's start with the two billionaires at the helm of it, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. The difference between Bezos and Musk is that Bezos wants to destroy his competitors, very much like the Walmart mentality. Musk encourages other … Continue reading The Petty Space Race
A Modest Economic Reset
The last time the United States, or the world for that matter had a global reset was during the biggest financial crisis in history, what is known as the Great Depression of the 1930s. The reset was needed because of the macroeconomics of the debt cycle that occurs every … Continue reading A Modest Economic Reset
The Real American Insurrection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fFYAJ-5kKE&t=448s Credit @ FINiUS This is an underrated video on the plutocratic world we live in. It is not someone putting on a tinfoil hat and spewing crazy conspiracy theories. This guy exposes our flawed political system, and how it’s connected with wealthy financiers, the tribe of Wall Street, known as hedge funds. This is … Continue reading The Real American Insurrection.
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