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  • The Value of Testing

    George Rebane Trigger warning: The contents of this commentary may not be accessible to the innumerate reader. As explained in ‘Testing, testing, …’, the value of testing comes to the fore when you have a sufficiently reliable test that can be administered on a regular and scientific basis over a suspect population.  In that case,…

  • The Demonic Party reveals itself (updated 25mar20)

    George Rebane The congressional Democrats have plumbed new depths of unabashed and sickening sleaze as they block the passage of the Senate bill to provide liquidity and relief to the nation’s economy on the verge of depression.  The multi-trillion dollar aid package is designed to prevent bankruptcies of countless companies that provide jobs to millions…

  • ‘Your money or your life!’ (updated 21mar20)

    George Rebane Proposition:  Many more lives will be lost and/or ruined by intentionally tanking our economy into a depression, than will be lost to Covid19 going forward with a balanced policy of social distancing and continuing our economic pursuits with due prudence during the waning epidemic. The iconic and immortal Jack Benny, comic of a…

  • Scattershots – 20mar20 (22mar20)

    George Rebane 'Most of us will get the Wuhan virus, a small fraction of us will die.  But we will continue business and commerce as usual with all the prudence we can each muster, because the death and destitution a depression will bring will be much worse for all of us.'  A hoped for statement…

  • “Testing, testing, testing” – Really? (updated 23mar20)

    George Rebane Those words from Speaker Pelosi summarized her three most important aspects of the pandemic legislation now going through Congress.  But once more I believe that the lady misses the point here.  Testing will do demonstrably little to stop or even slow down the inevitable and incipient explosion of Covid19 infections in the land. …

  • The Long Road Back – Loss/Recovery

    George Rebane Given all the problems caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic, we now contemplate your investment portfolio in light of the markets’ plunge over the last two weeks – in short, we’ll now expand our horizons from the morbid to the macabre.

  • An Electoral College dialogue continued

    George Rebane Mr Dick Sciaroni wrote 'Electoral College reform – it's up to us' in the 13mar20 Union, a measured and civil response to my 7mar20 Union column, ‘Democracy Destroys the Electoral College’ (and here), wherein he concludes with, “Is it time to reform the Electoral College system? Perhaps. It’s up to all of us,…

  • COVID Testing – Unclear on the Concept (updated 15mar20)

    George Rebane Our dispensers of perennial hate have now fastened on to the shortage of Covid test kits in the land, and claim that the President had two months warning and did nothing.  The fact of the matter, as even reported in the NYT (here), is that no one around the world knew of the…

  • Scattershots – 9mar20 (updated 12mar20)

    George Rebane Those whose policies cannot create wealth must champion policies that redistribute existing wealth. So you think that if you get some flu-like symptoms, just go in and get tested for COVID-19, and then they’ll do the rest and take care of you.  Hah!  My east coast spy sent me the link (here) to…

  • The Democracy Debate Revisited

    George Rebane On 19 February last, I broadcast on KVMR and posted here a commentary titled ‘Democracy Destroys the Electoral College’.  Subsequently I submitted an edited version of the piece to The Union which published it in its 6mar20 print and online editions (here).  The commentary was of a piece and amplified my longstanding agreement…

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