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Anonymous Julio said...

Steve, your old pal Denninger is sounding the alarm for California residents:

OH **** - CALIFORNIA - IF YOU LIVE THERE, GET THE **** OUT! in forum [Breaking]

Here is the link:

http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=76906

Denninger says CA gov sending out IOUs instead of actual payments is a harbinger of doom. Think future dramatic reductions in state assistance programs and basic services including especially law enforcement.

Denninger website overall argues that laws of financial mathematics are basically kicking in now and sealing the endgame spiral of our state and federal governments no matter how much we think 'it can't happen here!' ...

12/31/08, 8:36 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve wrote:

"In George W. Bush’s America, flat wages didn’t mean workers couldn’t have bigger houses, bigger TVs, and bigger rims on their rides. They could have it all … just by taking out bigger debts."

Whats not to like if you are a bank and you lend money for interest for a living? The banks are getting the economy they have bought through campaign contributions to politicians. The banks and credit card companies hate the Dave Ramsey acolytes for a reason: they just dont make much money off of people who dont finance things besides their house.

12/31/08, 11:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

And that is why I own lots of gold.

1/1/09, 3:35 AM

Anonymous Henry Canaday said...

"All the experts, such as Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin, were agreed that the essential ingredient of economic success was keeping the average American from earning more money. Keep the supply of labor up -- and the price of labor down -- by not enforcing the laws against illegal immigration."

It is a bit of stretch to assert, without any evidence, that officials of both political parties have been seeking wage stagnation for most of the population. It is more consistent with Bush's public statements to say he believes, like other conservatives, that workers improve their standards of living, while allowing the economy to grow, by pursuing middle-class habits: getting an education, working hard, getting and staying married and saving. Indeed, there is evidence for this hope in the fact that average wage increases have slowed during the social and moral collapse of the last 35 years, a stagnation that has not been stopped by unions, public assistance, special tax preferences or other government actions.

Bush may be, and I think is, unrealistic about how likely this improvement through middle-class habits is for waves of new illegal immigrants, but the best evidence is that he really believes it.

1/1/09, 5:19 AM

Anonymous twit said...

"Unlike the Bush family’s amigos in the old Mexican ruling party, however, George W. Bush wasn’t even competent enough to delay the economic collapse until after the election."

I'm pretty certain Herr Soros had a hand in the timing of the collapse. Anything to put his boy in office.

1/1/09, 6:36 AM

Anonymous a_c said...

If you really believe that demographics determines economic performance, then you should have a surefire way to make a killing. Simply invest in countries with high-quality populations, especially those not currently talked up. Conversely, short overhyped countries with low-IQ populations.

You claim that Wall Streeters, like most of mainstream America, doesn't allow themselves to think in terms of race differences. This represents a huge arbitrage opportunity. Sure, it'll have to be long-term, but we conservatives are nothing if not long-term planners.

1/1/09, 8:35 AM

Anonymous SKT said...

A few months ago, the same prognosticators were claiming that $6 gasoline by the end of the year would doom us all. I think a lot of the doom and gloom is overblown, though perhaps things are worse in places like California.

1/1/09, 9:20 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Whats not to like if you are a bank and you lend money for interest for a living?"

Especially when, as a bank, you get to create money out of nothing, loan it out and collect an interest income stream. Hey, if the borrower defaults, darn, but, after all, you the bank really took no risk of actually losing anything that actually really existed that you had to work for.

And anyway, if your interest income stream gets too depleted due to loan defaults, just get the taxpayers to bail you out.
What's not to like? If you're a banker, anyway.

Dumb taxpayers like me aren't supposed to really "get it" about the above

1/1/09, 6:11 PM

Anonymous Richard H said...

"If you really believe that demographics determines economic performance, then you should have a surefire way to make a killing. Simply invest in countries with high-quality populations, especially those not currently talked up. "

High IQ countries underperforming: Mongolia, North Korea, Ukraine, Belarus, Uruguay, Vietnam. Get in while you can.

Heading the other way: USA, France, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwae, Venezuela.

If only I had money.

1/1/09, 6:47 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"Henry Canaday said...

It is a bit of stretch to assert, without any evidence, that officials of both political parties have been seeking wage stagnation for most of the population."

Perhaps so, but it doesn't matter. Businessmen of both political stripes have been pushing for wage stagnation - and their politicians (note: their politicians, not ours) have eagerly done their bidding.

1/1/09, 8:32 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

You must realize, Steve, that Christmas is not the best time to ask people to pony up dough for their pet causes. Of late, I've been donating money to my chief pet cause - my family. However, I'll certainly try to help out V-dare as soon as I'm able.

As ever, keep up the great work.

1/1/09, 8:35 PM

Anonymous McChang said...

Hey, Steve, from a biological standpoint, are Han Chinese males (with their homicidal attitude towards racial aliens) superior to post-racial white guys like you or not?

I think even Darwin would have to admit that they are very much more "fit" compared to guys like you.

Unless the new definition of "fit" is to breed one's own genetic line out of existence. Is that the new standard of excellence?

1/1/09, 10:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Simply invest in countries with high-quality populations, especially those not currently talked up.

Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states are promising countries with relatively high-IQ populations.

Argentina and Uruguay, with their relatively high-IQ Spanish- and Italian-descended populations, are also noteworthy.

But perhaps the countries with the most untapped potential are Mongolia (estimated national IQ of 101) and North Korea (106).

Of course, this is taking a long-term view. It will take many decades for North Korea, for example, to recover from communism if it does indeed move toward a free market economy.

1/1/09, 11:02 PM

Anonymous a_c said...

"Heading the other way: USA, France, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwae, Venezuela."

Zimbabwe may have gone downhill and fast, but I don't think they can go any further by now.

1/2/09, 8:43 AM

Blogger RobertHume said...

The Han Chinese have implemented a "one-child" law and are, therefore, breeding themselves out of existence faster than Europeans.

But actually, if they don't allow immigration, I think that means that their future is bright. More wealth-per-capita. The same would have been true for the good old USA without immigration ... except for blacks, perhaps. But their birthrate is also declining.

1/2/09, 1:26 PM

Anonymous Jerry said...

An IQ of 106 for North Korea is unlikely. Years of malnutrition have stunted their biological development, and it will take decades for them to recover. Something similar took place in Vietnam (their last major famine was in 1989). When I was teaching university in Vietnam, there was a huge range of physical development among the students, greater than I have seen anywhere else, and it corresponded with the range of intellectual abilities. The kid who was 4'0 was not the top performer...

1/2/09, 6:02 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

It is a bit of stretch to assert, without any evidence, that officials of both political parties have been seeking wage stagnation for most of the population.

It is much more of a stretch to suggest, without any evidence, that 35 years of wage stagnation was unintentional.

1/2/09, 8:09 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

If you really believe that demographics determines economic performance, then you should have a surefire way to make a killing. Simply invest in countries with high-quality populations.

How can you have failed to notice that every "high-quality population" is being dissolved by its government?

1/2/09, 8:12 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

It is more consistent with Bush's public statements to say he believes, like other conservatives, that workers improve their standards of living, while allowing the economy to grow, by pursuing middle-class habits: getting an education, working hard, getting and staying married and saving.

Let's see -- wages are the same as in 1973, and taxes (including increased commute time and private school tuition due to the abolition of freedom of association) are two to four times as high. How is anyone supposed to save?

1/2/09, 8:20 PM

Anonymous Richard H said...

"The Han Chinese have implemented a "one-child" law and are, therefore, breeding themselves out of existence faster than Europeans."

Looking at China's demographic page on Wikipedia makes for fascinating reading. TFR is 1.75 which beats almost all European nations. But the distribution is what's interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Fertility_and_mortality

Anywhere from upper 4s/lower 5s in Tibet to the zeros in urban areas. Still, Tibetans are a small fraction of the population and can't be bringing up the rate by themselves. To say that Chinese are going extinct is a little bit of a stretch.

"An IQ of 106 for North Korea is unlikely. Years of malnutrition have stunted their biological development, and it will take decades for them to recover. "

You're thinking of Lamarckism.

1/2/09, 9:37 PM

Anonymous scottynx said...

"An IQ of 106 for North Korea is unlikely. Years of malnutrition have stunted their biological development, and it will take decades for them to recover. "

"You're thinking of Lamarckism."

No, that's not Lamarckism. I'll quote Steve:

Lynn's Race Differences in Intelligence: PC Won't Make Them Go Away
excerpt: "The red line reflects the growth in the trailing country's workforce's average IQ if the gap disappeared among all babies born in 2006.

The subsequent narrowing of the workforce disparity wouldn't even begin until the 2006 babies started their careers at age 18 in 2024.

If the retirement age is 65 and the population remains stable, then the gap would only be half-closed by 2047, and wouldn't disappear until 2071."
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/060423_lynn.htm

The world is stuck with IQ differences for a long-time, whether it's nature or nurture, even if genetic engineering of babies soon and on a massive scale. Again, that isn't Lamarckism.

1/3/09, 8:14 AM

Anonymous Jerry said...

I am thinking of the circumstances in N Korea at present. If you don't get enough nutrition as a child, you never recover your physical and mental potential.

And BTW, it remains a fact that a combination of low TFR, a preferance for males, and zero immigration means that China is aging faster than any country in the world. In a few years its labour force will begin declining.

Think about some common facts, educate yourself, before you tell someone else what they're thinking.

1/3/09, 8:43 AM

Anonymous rast said...

"Zimbabwe may have gone downhill and fast, but I don't think they can go any further by now."

a_c, 2009 will prove you wrong. Remember your prediction this time next year.

1/3/09, 9:21 AM

Anonymous Richard H said...

"You're thinking of Lamarckism."

Looks like I misread, that's not what you were saying. My mistake.

1/3/09, 9:39 AM

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