Substack Blog`

I have been intrigued by Substack ever since I heard about it.  I have blogged here on this WordPress sight for a long time. I have messed with creating content at Medium and LinkedIn.  Never saw the advantage to it.  A long time ago, I had a Tumblr blog and messed with that site too.

I started blogging at Substack here:  jeffreycarter.substack.com.

So far, the WordPress platform is a bit easier to blog on.  Maybe it’s because I am used to it.  I think that the email subscriber part of Substack is significantly better than WordPress.

I don’t know if I will ever charge for content or not.   I have friends like Brian Lund that do.  It’s obvious writers that had followings like Bari Weiss and Glenn Greenwald are making a lot of money on Substack via paid subscribers.  Alex Berenson recently started writing there too.

I do know that I am suspicious of all social media companies.  It’s obvious Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc are focusing on advancing an agenda that I do not subscribe to in any way shape, or form.  Parler was shut down by collusion between Big Tech and the Federal government which ought to give any freedom-loving person pause.  I have an account at Parler, Gab, MeWe, and Codias.  But, Parler before the forced shutdown was decent.  After, not so much.  Twitter is a left-wing echo chamber being D +60, but the ones I just mentioned are different kinds of echo chambers.

Access to free and transparent information is a hallmark of having a functioning democratic republic.  We don’t have that today.  Information is manipulated.  It’s slanted.  There is bias.

I saw the other day where President Biden ticked off some stats on Covid.  They were all fake.  Heavily manipulated.  Any statistician worth their salt could have called him out-but only a few reporters that understand stats did.

We have entered dangerous times in America.  It is clear that there are three subsets of people and their values are radically different.  This doesn’t end well, and it might be that the sooner it starts the better we are for it.

 

 

Leading From Fear

Worth dissecting where we are with Covid.  Instead of watching the television, or listening to blowhard politicians, it is best to look at data and statistics.  Unfortunately, most people do not understand stats.  Most of the stats you see in …

America Needs Transparency

Biden was slated to meet with governors about Afghanistan refugees at 3:00pm. That is now cancelled. — Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) August 26, 2021 I have resisted all the chatter about the mental and cognitive abilities of President Joe Biden. …

Learning From Mistakes, And People

1/We’re thrilled to share the news that @Riskalyze has been recapitalized by @HgCapital, one of the world’s leading software investors with $37B under management. This is a huge step forward for the Fearless Investing Movement. https://t.co/yOVEbmDDqP — Aaron Klein (@AaronKlein) …

The Last Investment

The little seed fund we started back in November of 2016 has reached the end of its investment period.  We just closed our last investment.  The fund is closed to any new investments and we aren’t raising another fund. So …

Learning New Things

Everyone tells you to be a lifelong learner.  Few of us really do it.  We fall into habits, reject new information and bray against new processes because it disrupts our habits and confirmation biases.  “That’s the way we always have …

The Bull Is Broken

Over the last five to seven years, I consistently have seen articles talking about the end of the bull stock market.  My favorite Permabull is Tim Knight of Slope of Hope.  The stock market has continuously hit new highs.  The …

The Winners Write History

I remember after 9/11, there was a fervor across America to make the bad guys pay.  It took until 2003, but President Bush was going to make the bad guys pay.  The bad guys were in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Remember …

Pulling The Football Away

For the younger crowd that might read this, they might not understand “pulling the football away” so here is where that phrase comes from. The US Treasury, the Biden Administration, and the Congress (Democratic-led don’t forget) just played Lucy to …

Pure Political Power Versus Safety

As the bloated infrastructure bill makes its way through the US Senate, a donnybrook has ignited about regulation on cryptocurrency.  The initial bill had an amendment that was agreed on by everyone, or so the world thought.  Then uber-Washington Machine …

Fire Sale on Addison and Clark

The Cubs are my favorite baseball team and have been since I was a little kid.  My father was more of an American League guy.  Ted Williams was his favorite player and the Detroit Tigers were sort of “the team” …

The Game Plan

If you don’t think Democrats have a game plan you are either stupid, or have your head in the sand.  Right now, it looks like Republicans are going to overwhelm them in House and Senate elections come 2022.  The Democratic …

The Free Market Works If You Let It

I read a lot of stuff from all over.  I do it for information and perspective.  I read liberal bloggers and conservative bloggers.  Seth Godin is an uber-liberal blogger.  He blogs daily and sometimes there is some stuff that can …

Are You A Non-Conformist?

Non-Conformist: often capitalized: a person who does not conform to an established church especially: one who does not conform to the Church of England 2: a person who does not conform to a generally accepted pattern of thought or action It is really …

$Zuckbucks$ and Political CryptoTokens

We are learning more and more about how Facebook’s ($FB) Mark Zuckerberg not only suppressed freedom of speech on his platform but he used his money to back hard left-wing candidates in the last election.  What we don’t have is …

Capitalism Doesn’t Build Wealth

There are some huge misconceptions when it comes to capitalism.  We are seeing it play out in the responses to the protests in Cuba.  The far-left says government failure in Cuba it’s because the US didn’t trade with Cuba.  They …

Predictable

As the summer goes on, we are seeing things that were highly predictable. Fires near my cabin in Minnesota and across the border in Canada along with some floods from heavy rainfall in Europe and heat in my home of …

Parallel, Not Repeats

This summer, I wanted to re-read Ernest Hemingway.  When I was in high school, I was on a short road trip with my friend Sam.  In his English class at his high school, they were reading The Sun Also Rises.  …