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  • Scattershots – 29dec17 (updated 30dec17)

    George Rebane Rural towns and big cities divide in their populations and prosperity.  While bigger cities have become more prosperous, smaller towns and rural communities have suffered.  The reasons are many and well summarized in an article by Paul Overberg that presents the relevant data in good graphical formats.  The piece begins with – About…

  • Scattershots – 21dec17 (updated 23dec17)

    George Rebane Shortest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere) – winter solstice, a time for all kinds of alternative belief systems to hold ceremonies honoring their deities, ancestors, dark spirits, …, and, of course, Gaia.  Here in Nevada County (lat 39.13 degrees) the sun will climb to only 27.37 degrees above the southern…

  • Sweeping Tax Bill Promotes Fake News (updated 22dec17)

    'You get less of what you tax more.'  Alan Greenspan, et al George Rebane This morning on CSPAN I watched the House finally pass the long-fought tax reform bill, and send the legislation to President Trump for his signature.  The Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief while the Democrats are still breathing fire.  Actually,…

  • A Little Puzzle (updated 30dec17)

    George Rebane This little puzzle recently came to my attention.  A ring of radius R is tossed randomly onto a large grid of unit squares as shown below.  The toss will score only if the ring intersects two or three squares – rings 1 and 2 will score.  If the ring intersects only one or…

  • Scattershots – 15dec17

    George Rebane Economic growth is now impacted by the sins of the recent past, so argue economists Phil Gramm (former chair of the Senate Banking Committee) and Thomas Saving.  In their ‘A Booming Economy Will Challenge the Fed’, they present a very readable explanation of how today “the monetary excesses of the Obama era represent…

  • Who Are America’s Vilified ‘1%’? (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 December 2017.  As noted below this commentary was erecognized by KVMR last night during its annual awards ceremony held at the Miners Foundry.] ‘In these commentaries we have examined major trends like systemic unemployment, income inequality, and the notion of a…

  • Numeracy on the rise? (updated 11dec17)

    George Rebane Has anyone noticed that the use of graphical presentation of data in the media has been on the rise for the last couple of years?  Led by the financial publications, as expected, newspapers have started featuring more and more charts and graphs to augment their reporting in areas such as political preferences, social…

  • Scattershots – 8dec17 (updated 10dec17)

    George Rebane ‘The Merge’ is the new label for progress toward transhumanism.  RR readers have been aware of this phenom for some years now.  Today such merging of Man and machine has entered the popular forums, and in some is starting to raise concerns about who will get to merge and to what extent such…

  • Fair and Balanced?

    George Rebane I was going to leave be our little conversation on RL Crabb’s blog (here), but subsequent defenders of Bob’s political art motivate me to ask for someone to fill in the question on the right side of the little ‘fair and balanced’ see-saw below.  Bob has long maintained that he views the world…

  • Ruminations – 4dec17 (updated 7dec17)

    George Rebane California’s land use and housing crisis continues in full swing, and is caused by Sacramento abetted by local loonies in county and city governments.  Here is a piece by some heavy weight economists at the Hoover Institution to give you a measure of the ongoing insanity in our state. IRS scumbag Lois Lerner,…

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