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Month: April 2014

  • Your life savings will bail in SIFIs

    Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. – Sir Walter Scott George Rebane Remember those banks and other financial institutions that were ‘too big to fail’?  Well, the IMF has confirmed that the world of global finance still has such enterprises so that if one goes down, it has…

  • Who is that man?

    “… with the whole world full of fools, there is none who thinks himself one, or even suspects it.”  Gracian #201 George Rebane The news comes pouring in daily of Obamacare’s manifest incorrigible faults and the stream of palliative executive orders designed to rescue it.  The longstanding cases of this administration’s corruption and scandals are…

  • Con-Con and Common Core

    George Rebane RR, in its long suffering and dedicated effort to continue the posting of announcements of public import, your attention is invited to the following two. Con-Con or the Constitutional Convention as called for in Article 5 has become an item of some urgency for factions widely separated in their ideology and their view…

  • Alert – RR commenting sign-in

    Both Mozilla Firefox and IE bring up an alert window when you try to sign in to comment on this blog.  The alert advises that you are attempting to go to an insecure URL.  I have a support ticket started on this to inform TypePad, and will remove this post once it is corrected.  I…

  • Forecasting by Crowds

    George Rebane [This is the addended version of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 4 April 2014.] Recently our government has had some problems forecasting events critical to the conduct of America’s foreign policy.  We seem to have missed the boat on calling the response of Iran in its nuclear weapons development, the…

  • ‘The Real Crash’ – Summary Notes

    George Rebane I read Peter Schiff's The Real Crash (2013) last year and summarized its main findings found in Chapter 12 of the book.  Since I recently attended a conference where Schiff was the keynote speaker and posted on it – A Libertarian Lovefest … – I thought I'd share this little missal with my…

  • Media Bias – Living in Separate Worlds

    George Rebane Recently the Media Research Center released two reports on how Americans are exposed to what is happening domestically and in the world.  The data in those reports show that most of us who depend on the lamestream and Spanish language outlets get a totally different picture of what is happening – mainly the…

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