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  • Income Inequality and Education

    George Rebane Most of our neighbors continue to believe that liberty and equality can always increase in tandem.  Unfortunately, as our Founders and these posts have pointed out, liberty fosters inequality as the natural order of life – attempting to raise one always lowers the other.  Even as we all line up equally on the starting…

  • Taxpayers, Listen Up! (7apr2009 update)

    George Rebane    Download Rally flyer 6 (Final general flyer) for a more readable version.  [7apr09 update] Kim Pruett emailed that “If you still want to ride the Patriot Express buses contact Patti at the Parsonage B&B at 265-9478 to reserve your seat.  There are only a few left!”

  • Of Cracks and Crystal Balls (5apr09 update)

    George Rebane Dr. Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security adopts a line of argument that has become peculiar to the adherents, promoters, and careerists of man-made global warming or AGW (anthropogenic global warming).  He has written a report that portends the risks of given sea level rises, and…

  • When does 1% equal 13.8%?

    George Rebane A one percent increase in the amount of sales tax that California consumers pay on most purchases goes into effect today, raising the rate from a minimum of 7.25% to at least 8.25% statewide. This is a typical report of the actual 13.8% increase in the California sales tax that goes into effect…

  • Ruminations – 31mar2009 (updated)

    George Rebane A correspondent brought my attention to an excellent article (‘On the Urgency of Restructuring Bank and Mortgage Debt, and of Abandoning Toxic Asset Purchases’) by John Hussman of Hussman Funds about what’s not going on in Washington but should be.  Hussman’s bottom line is that “(t)here is far too little debate about alternative…

  • Ruminations – 29mar2009

    George Rebane A bit of financial crisis history from a 24sep08 Fox News broadcast – this link is from an RR reader in Oregon.  It was originally posted on YouTube but then removed.  I guess we’re not supposed to see it, but now it has been reprised here as a repost on YouTube from a…

  • Nevada County Economic Forecast – 2009 (9apr09 update)

    George Rebane Nevada County’s economic prospects were the subject of a 200 person gathering this morning at the GV Holiday Inn Express.  Always interested in things economic and financial, Jo Ann and I were there munching breakfast with the movers and shakers of our community – I think we were allowed in on a forged…

  • Socialists in Denial

    George Rebane The intellectual Left seem to be the only holdouts on the now obvious direction of Hope and Change.  Their mantra, when confronted with a serious discussion about the country’s left turn, is ‘There’re no socialists here, oh no no nooooh!’  Meanwhile the socialists over the remainder of this planet are celebrating ‘America’s first…

  • Ruminations – 18mar2009 (21mar09 update)

    George Rebane The Clinton Reset Button show sure had an impact.  A week later the Russians escalated their standoff with the US by announcing a new military build up and signaling a harder line with Washington, in the process making our new Sec State look like a clown (more here). The Russians have now shoved that little device…

  • Ruminations – 11mar2009

    George Rebane Ending ‘Market-Based Government’ is a banner for Obama’s reform of government procurements from the private sector – especially in the defense sector.  The media elevated ‘outrages’ by service contractors like KBR and Blackstone in Iraq during the Bush years made a big impact on an electorate historically constrained.  Nobody remembers or has read…

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