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  • Ruminations – 27jun2009 (updated)

    George Rebane Federalization of states is starting to pick up speed (background here).  California is being joined by fourteen other states in the line-up at the Treasury loans window (more here from Reuters).  They too have run out of money to pay for various obligations, and must now start studying the considerable Owner’s Manual of…

  • NC ARRA Funds Start to Trickle

    George Rebane Folks, we are stimulated at last!  The county received $60K during the last week.  Thanks to Leann Whitaker of CEO Rick Haffey’s office, who called to explain that the funds will be used to implement low-energy measures for low income housing in Nevada County.  But sonuvagun, the American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 is finally beginning…

  • Hockeystick Hansen Hesitates

    George Rebane   Washington, DC – NASA scientist James Hansen, perhaps the most vocal voice in the U.S. warning of a man-made global warming crisis, has declared he hopes Congressional efforts to pass a cap-and-trade climate bill fail. “I hope cap and trade doesn’t pass, because we need a much more effective approach,” Hansen said…

  • Obamacare vs Healthcare

    George Rebane While Congress is crafting climate and energy rationing legislation (HR2454) destined to cripple and/or destroy our country’s economy (see NC MediaWatch), there is yet another blow on the way – Obamacare.  As the old song sang – ‘If the right one won’t a-getcha, then the left one will!’ (A physician tends to a…

  • Ruminations – 23jun2009

    George Rebane Virginia Brunini is heading up a petition drive to save state funding for our Empire Mine State Park.  She states that the state park accounts for about $10 million of imported cash into our local economy.  This initiative is backed by a number of local organizations including the ERC.  If you wish to…

  • Sierra College – Quo Vadis?

    George Rebane [This article, sans photo, was submitted to The Union as my 20jun09 Other Voices column.  It was printed as shown here.] Admittedly our hilltop Sierra College campus brings a number of benefits to Nevada County.  Among these are – – Cash importer and local employer of teachers and staff;– Provider of remedial education for our post-high school…

  • Ruminations – 17jun2009

    George Rebane Because many RR readers see various far out notions and ideas reported first in these pages, I am sometimes viewed as a wingnut and assigned to sit in a remote corner with the other fringe elements until the more established media catch up (some never do).  This is not a complaint, but a…

  • The Devolved States of America

    George Rebane Various ways to devolve the United States are on the minds of more and more people as Obama’s grab and spend juggernaut gathers steam.  RR readers are familiar with this notion under the label of the ‘Great Divide’ which was most recently described in ‘Follow the Federal Money to the Great Divide’ on 21feb09.  Now…

  • Inflation – It’s a’comin’!

    George Rebane Inflation, perhaps hyper-inflation of the Weimar variety, is in our future.  It seems that daily another economist, tallying up the fed’s unfunded liabilities, adds to it another handful of trillions (that is not a typo).  To keep things in perspective, our country’s current GDP is about $14 trillion, and the fed vacuums up…

  • Look what’s in the newspaper now

    George Rebane The WSJ has now joined a small group of news outlets that is testing the use of influence factors diagrams (IFDs) to explicate matters of public policy, economics, and the workings of social systems in general.  I’m not sure this is a breakthrough yet, but the direction is encouraging. In the 8jun09 WSJ…

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