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  • Corporatism in America – An update

    George Rebane Corporatism is government supported assault on free market capitalism. Corporatism, according to what the Left has been telling people for generations, is free market capitalism.  Their support of corporatism, while pointing out both its obvious and surreptitious faults, is their main propaganda weapon to promote the collectivization of industry, and in the process…

  • ‘Quants’, Kelly, and the RK formula

    George Rebane – 19 May 2010 (V5apr18) [I originally posted this little blurb on some work I had done on the Kelly formula prior to 2010.  Well, after some more noodling and squiggly pushing I found that there was a conflict in the way odds and expected gain/loss were defined which required me to revise…

  • Our Constitution – capricious or a constant?

    George Rebane America’s Constitution is one of its prime founding documents.  Founding documents of any social order – nation-state, kingdom, tribe, … – are written and disseminated to define the durable component of that order to its members.  Even monarchs and dictators who rule by force and at their whim have issued decrees that define…

  • “Biased Algorithms” – Advent of Politically Correct AI

    George Rebane [9apr18 – An edited version of this commentary appeared (here) in the 9apr18 edition of The Union.] Do you want to see the latest on how the progressives plan to take down our lead in one of the few remaining areas of technology in which we are still the world’s gold standard?  Tolerated…

  • Scattershots – 24mar18 (updated 28mar18)

    George Rebane Today’s Union has an excellent editorial – ‘Our View: This community is all our backyard’ – in which it takes to task those of us who tend to oppose anything that will bring needed change to our county.  The editorial goes through a number of recent and current development initiatives that have again…

  • Climate Industry’s Shameful Science

    George Rebane A correspondent alerted me to an important new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation titled ‘Global Warming – A Case Study in Groupthink’ by Christopher Booker.  This extensive report examines the now institutionalized global hysteria embracing the belief that humanity is in the grip of catastrophic yet heroically preventable manmade global warming. …

  • Those Who Can, Can’t, or Won’t

    George Rebane Colleges and universities will “soon begin to divide into two entities—the STEM fields and related practical subjects (i.e., business and economics), and the social sciences and humanities, which would start to shrivel under the weight of the degradations the left has inflicted over the last 40 years.”  So writes Steven Hayward in ‘The…

  • Progressives Pander Pubertistas (updated 7apr18)

    George Rebane Yesterday was the day kids across the country were organized to walk out of their classes and protest ‘gun violence’.  Given what the little darlins are (not) taught in schools, they appeared to have no idea of what had happened in Parkland and what they were actually protesting with signs like ‘Choose me,…

  • Scattershots – 9mar18 (updated 10mar18)

    People want to have their soul in the game.  In that sense, decentralization and fragmentation, aside form stabilizing the system, improves people's connection to their labor.  N. Taleb George Rebane ‘Trump’s Hoover Temptation’ appears to be real and, to me, scary.  The only thing that would keep the world from spiraling into another Smoot-Hawley abyss…

  • Scattershots – 5mar18 (updated 8mar18)

    If you cannot see the irony in having a gun ban enforced by men with guns, then you fail to understand why the Second Amendment was written in the first place. George Rebane The NYT publishes another exhibit of yellow journalism with an article (here) that leaves the naïve reader convinced that ‘assault rifles’, like…

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