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Month: March 2013

  • Ruminations – 8mar13 (updated 11mar13)

    George Rebane This is TechTest season, and we're in the middle of the preparatory seminars for this year's test to be given on 23 March.  In an ongoing discussion about Nevada County schools' performance in preparing students for STEM careers, I received a succinct summary (below) from a respected Nevada Union teacher about the problem…

  • California’s Middle and Poor Driven to Greener Pastures

    George Rebane As we have noted for some years, California’s progressives now ensconced in Democrat super-majorities are continuing policies that are harmful to the economic health of those they claim to help, and whom they regularly bamboozle with their election year rhetoric.  Those folks are not all that bright since they keep voting for the…

  • Productivity – A new perspective

    George Rebane [This piece continues the RR series on the US economy and the factors taking it into new regions – unknown unknowns – during these pre-Singularity years.  As usual, the frail and the young should be spared from these deliberations.] Productivity of a nation’s workforce is an important metric in understanding its prospects for…

  • Government Iatrogenics (updated 7mar13)

    George Rebane America is being harmed beyond measure by its government.  It is no longer death by a thousand cuts – we have advanced to the slash and burn level of self destruction.  The Competitive Enterprise Institute in cooperation with the Weidenbaum Center has compiled these astounding stats from the feds’ own data.  Under the…

  • Detroit – Collectivism’s Latest Poster Child

    George Rebane Detroit is cueing up as the nation’s latest testimony to collective mismanagement.  It is truly the poster child for what happens when you mix capitalist hubris, progressive pap, unions (public and private), and politically correct ignorance with generous dollops of corruption.  The result is a city that is now on the last stages…

  • Circus Maximus vs Sequester Minimus (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my KVMR commentary broadcast on 1 March 2013.] It’s hard to think good thoughts about what is going on in Washington and the competency of our government.  We seem to have entered into an endless sequence of crises, questionable appointments, and scandals which literally have no end –…

  • The Antifragile Taleb

    If you see fraud, and you don’t shout fraud, you are a fraud. – NN Taleb George Rebane Among other things Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a flâneur, mathematician, probabilist, systems thinker extraordinaire, philosopher, elitist, and most certainly a curmudgeon.  I ran into him years ago when doing some research in financial engineering.  He had just…

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