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Month: November 2011

  • The Fed/ECB dollar swap

    George Rebane Does everyone understand what went down this morning between our Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank?  I venture that less than one in ten thousand Americans know that their pocket was legally picked today by international central banks.  This morning the Fed executed a “dollar swap” with the ECB that essentially allows…

  • US Net Exporter of Oil Again

    George Rebane It isn’t clear whether we should laugh or cry.  But here we are, for the first time since 1949 we will be a net exporter of petroleum products this year.  The accompanying figure filched from the WSJ shows that exports started increasing during Bush2’s reign (recall Bush2 was an oilman).  Unfortunately, our exports…

  • How We Got Here – Looking at the Bush2 Record

    George Rebane On these pages I have argued long and hard that the permissive environment in which mortgage lenders made subprime loans was carefully constructed and energetically promoted by the congressional social engineering programs of the Democratic Party augmented by a klatch of RINOs. Yesterday’s announced retirement by Rep Barney Frank (D-MA), one of the…

  • Ruminations – 27nov2011 (updated 28nov2011)

    George Rebane Communist spying and influence on our national policies have long been denied/diminished by our Left.  The public experience in uncovering these activities within our government was not sufficient to change any minds in our unions, mainstream media, or the halls of academe.  Things should have changed when the USSR collapsed in 1991, and…

  • The Views of a Rightwing “Extremist” – Indictment without Evidence (updated 29nov2011)

    George Rebane Many readers of RR, me included, are continually labeled as holding “extreme” Rightwing views.  Yet, when examining the record on these pages, those on the Left, and even some of the self-declared middle-roaders, skip the evidentiary phase, and proceed directly from indictment to punishment.  When asked to delineate, to spell out what brings…

  • Happy Thanksgiving 2011

    ‘Thank you God for this day, and for this food.’Traditional Rebane family grace.

  • What is a right-wing dingbat?

    [This invited piece by our very own middle-of-the-road cartoonist and regular RR commenter, Bob Crabb, will set us all straight on his introduction of a new moniker to these pages.  In addition to his website, Bob’s work may be seen in the print and online editions of The Union, and is occasionally filched to be…

  • A New Corporate Vision – The Constitutional Partnership Corporation

    [In the 'Hiroshima+66, Detroit+Welfare' comment stream RR reader Michael Rogers introduced us to the John Lewis Partnership, a unique type of worker owned/controlled corporation that has a ‘constitution’ as its organizing and operating policy document – let’s call it a Constitutional Partnership Corporation (CPC).  MichaelR launched a comment thread that expanded its examination.  RR readers…

  • Musings on Money and Faith

    George Rebane [I have to begin this ramble with an apology.  It is long and not as tightly written and dense as the prose you have come to expect here 😉  I’m really posting it as a future reference for discussing the fiscal fiascos spreading over Europe and starting here at a capitol near you.]…

  • Ruminations – 21nov2011

    George Rebane Two prominent Democrat pollsters argue for ‘The Hillary Moment’ in 2012.  They make a compelling case for Reid and Pelosi to pick up the phone and call Obama to ask him to take the Truman/Johnson moral high ground and bow out.  Their well-stated arguments revolve around The Community Organizer’s horrible record in office,…

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