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  • The Great American Labor Squeeze (updated)

    George Rebane [This piece is a continuation of a series that explores the large currents shaking our country and the world.  Here we look at the labor shock from which America today has no plan to recover.  No one wants to talk about it.]   Let’s start by recalling the fate of John Henry, America’s…

  • Pay Close Attention Democrats

    George Rebane Fouad Ajami is an American academic of Lebanese descent who writes regularly about our body politic.  In today’s WSJ Ajami offers us a reasoned and penetrating analysis of the first six months of Obama’s presidency that contains one of the clearest assessments of how we got to where we are, and where Obama…

  • Dollar Takes Latest Hit (updated 23aug2009)

    George Rebane Ruminations readers are aware that inflation is a tax on all of our dollar-denominated assets (here).  Now that we are staring a Weimar-like inflation in the face with all the dollars that the Fed generates out of thin air, our government is beginning to worry that too many people will catch on in…

  • The Muslim Street Revealed (Again)

    George Rebane The Libyan welcome of the Lockerbie mass murderer released on “humanitarian grounds” should again educate the soft-headed among us who believe that Islamo-fascists are a small minority of the overseas Arab Muslim populations.  That they hate the west and dream of the global caliphate should not surprise any student of history and current…

  • Ruminations – 19aug2009 (updated 20aug09)

    George Rebane Toyota wants to shut down their bay area assembly plant employing 4,600 for all the obvious (to non-socialists) reasons.  The state of California is trying to stop them by threatening to charge Toyota hundreds of millions of dollars for ‘clean up’ fees before they can move to a more business friendly climate.  And…

  • ‘Public Pension Ponzi’ – Some Reflections (updated)

    George Rebane I would like to offer a few observations on some comments that responded to my column ‘Public Pensions – a breakdown’ in the 15aug09 Union.  For openers, I don’t know any of the commenters either personally or as individuals in the public round.  Specific comments by people claiming to be or to have…

  • Public Pension Ponzi

    George Rebane [This is the full length piece the first part of which was published today in the 15jul09 Union under the less dramatic title ‘Public Pensions – a breakdown’, although the latter part could be taken as a double entendre.  (updated 16aug09) The full length version appears in the newspaper’s online edition.  gjr] Sophistry…

  • Song Without Words … or Money

    George Rebane

  • Next Tea Party in Sacramento – Y’all Come!

    George Rebane As reported in the 6aug09 Union (details here), the next Sacramento tea party will be on 28 August 2009 with four busses leaving Nevada City at 10AM.  Bring chairs, vittles, and liquids; and, of course, the most communicative signs you can muster to get your personal message out.  Important to note that bus…

  • Stimulus NOT!!

    George Rebane And after the Postal Service, Amtrak, Social Security, the Fed, Fannie and Freddie, … , now these turkeys want to run how much more of our economy?  The stimulus beat goes on, but no one here with 12% unemployment can hear it. When this economy finally starts to recover, in spite of all the impediments that Obama and Congress…

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