March 8, 2009

Interethnic Marriage Declining For Asians And Latinos (As Predicted On VDARE.com Eight Years Ago)

By Steve Sailer on March 8, 2009 at 2:24pm
A couple of years after I wrote about Qian and Lichter's study here, Annie Gowen reports today in the Washington Post, "More Young Adults Are Seeking Partners of Same Ethnicity:"

Could Bloomberg's Al Hunt have illegal Domestics?

By Patrick Cleburne on March 8, 2009 at 6:16am

In a sense, the great winner of the 2008 Presidential election cycle was the MSM.

How Random Is Admission To Charter Schools?

By Steve Sailer on March 8, 2009 at 5:50am

You often read articles about charter schools whose students do wonderfully on standardized tests even though admission is by random lottery. The implication is that all we have to do to Fix the Public Schools is to do in all the other schools in America whatever it is that works so wonderfully at this one school with its (presumably) representative student body.

Why Did Asians End Up In San Gabriel Valley Rather Than In San Fernando Valley?

By Steve Sailer on March 8, 2009 at 5:22am

When I was a kid in the San Fernando Valley, the huge suburb northwest of Los Angeles, Asian-Americans were widely distributed all over Southern California. Over time, though, they came to congregate in the huge San Gabriel Valley, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles. Thus, Asians seem no more common in the San Fernando Valley today than 30 years ago.

The "Obama Bear Market" And Why He Triggered It

By Steve Sailer on March 8, 2009 at 2:00am

Immigration Certificates and Zero Net Immigration

By Randall Burns on March 8, 2009 at 12:41am

Warren Buffett proposed in 2003 the idea of "import certificates"--an adjustable tariff to balance the US trade deficit. I think the idea has some merit--but needs some adjustments to work properly. One problem is that imports of capital improvements (i.e. machinery used in a BMW plant) are treated exactly the same as imports of consumer goods. That might be handled by allowing payment of the import certificates to be adjusted according to the depreciation schedule of major capital items.