As of last month, Western Europe has been at peace for 75 years. I wrote a piece on my previous blog which looked at a list of wars involving France on my previous blog before I made my switch to WordPress. What this blog fails to analyze is how all of these wars are related, …
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How to not create a democracy
Three things connect the Reign of Terror, Third Reich, Great Purge, and Great Leap Forward: 1. The people in power claimed they were helping the working class by targeting the “bourgeois”. 2. Their claim of who they were targeting was absolutely bullshit. Most of the people killed in these 4 events were impoverished. 3. Not …
Tara Reade case
Here are some notes about the Tara Reade case which I have pulled together. I studied game theory in college, so I am extensively using it in this article. I went back and forth on whether I should publish it, but I believe this is important to give a game theory analysis based on the …
Why We Aren’t Getting Any Stimulus
America’s retirement system is woefully inadequate for the majority of Americans. After paying 12.4% of their income into Social Security, the average American doesn’t have any money left over to save in an index fund. This means the majority of Americans both struggle in retirement and have no rainy day fund for if they lose …
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Why we aren’t getting any stimulus
America’s retirement system is woefully inadequate for the majority of Americans. After paying 13.4% of their income into Social Security, the average American doesn’t have any money left over to save in an index fund. This means the majority of Americans both struggle in retirement and have no rainy day fund for if they lose …
General Lee was no hero
Ike was wrong about General Lee. Lee was a slaveholder and had no loyalty to these United States. As soon as Virginia seceded from the Union, Lee saw nothing wrong with being the leading general in the war which killed more American soldiers than any other war. He was a veteran of the Mexian American …
End this epidemic recession now
America is currently spiraling into a recession, and we need to have effective policy as soon as possible to end it. This recession is a classic demand side recession. People are staying home, cutting their spending, which is going to cause both deflation and a reduction in GDP. This is going to inevitably cause layoffs, …
Updated Presidential Rankings
Ranking of American Presidents I am only ranking Presidents who have served for at least 365 days. For this reason I am excluding William Henry Harrison and James Garfield who died less than a year before their first term is up, and I cannot rank President Biden yet because he hasn’t served a full term …
2020 elections, 1 year out
We are currently in declaration season for the upcoming elections in 2020. Elections are going to decide state legislatures, several governoships, the entire House, and 1/3 of the Senate. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this election. Here are my thoughts: President We have the best slate of candidates for President we could …