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Month: December 2007

  • Climate Change – The Real Deniers

    George Rebane The mantra of the PEAs (Post-Enquiry Adherents) is that “the debate is over” regarding climate change and their nostrums for its remediation.  That is the only tactic that the PEAs have left to push through their agenda.  The agenda calls for unifying the world to combat what they know is a man-made calamity…

  • Two Twenty-Year Views

    George Rebane [These two pieces by Dick Dickenson and me were written  last summer and assembled on 5 August 2007.  Our friend Pat Tobin suggested that they might see light of day in The Union, however, these words were judged inappropriate for the paper's readership and now appear here as we prepare to greet election…

  • Ruminations – 19dec2007

    George Rebane • NC downtown patrols cut back• More disclosures• Climate Change in Greenland• Sub-prime lending – from mess to madness• 18dec07 Union article on ‘new road to economic revitalization’• ‘A Return to Ritual’ in churches and temples• Gracian #146 The Union reports that Nevada City’s downtown is again filling with hooligans and other low…

  • Income Inequality and Education

    George Rebane [This is adapted from a 3jun07 posting to RR when it resided on The Union website.] You earn more money the more education you have.  This astounding conclusion was recently reported in the May/June 2007 issue of The American by two leading lights in economics – Nobel laureate Gary Becker and Clark Prize…

  • When You Own The Words – ‘Illegal Immigration’

    George Rebane [This piece is adapted from a post that first appeared as an Other Voices article on The Union’s website on 10 June 2007.  The issue discussed here is becoming more important as the presidential candidates seek to differentiate themselves regarding immigration while continuing to confuse and pander to the voters using terms that…

  • Ruminations – 15dec2007

    George Rebane • Promoting Nevada County Jobs• Role of Religion in Campaigns Jeff Pelline wrote a good editorial in today’s Union that covered a lot of the waterfront in promoting job growth in the county.  Here are some added thoughts.  RR readers know my school of economics teaches that technologists have been the prime wealth…

  • Today’s Markets – A Perspective

    George Rebane I received the following email from a friend and member of our little investment group.  He is the most astute and insightful investor I personally know and his remarks are forwarded, with permission, for the consideration of those readers interested in what’s going on in the today’s security markets. Today is a fine…

  • I AM NOT A JOURNALIST

    George Rebane This year I took the advice of several friends and started blogging, first through our local paper’s website and then striking out on my own.  In recent years bloggers have become prominent on the international landscape as a source of every kind of information that can be transmitted over the World Wide Web,…

  • Losing Their Homes

    George Rebane Patrick Tobin of Nevada County, CA sent me the following email on the effects of the current subprime ‘crisis’.  Pat and his wife are long-time friends of ours from college days.  Pat is an ex-Marine officer, served on the city council of Inglewood, a career real estate professional, fellow escapee from the soCal…

  • No More Cheap Food for Thought

    George Rebane [This is a recent exchange with ‘Dick’ Dickenson about the much-hyped, soon to be disastrous ethanol subsidy program that joins the other farm and corporate subsidy programs from the feds.] [Rebane] By any reasonable (i.e. non-political) measure, America’s ethanol subsidy program is ill-begotten for all concerned except the already heavily subsidized farmers and…

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