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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Systemic Unemployment – now it kills (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 29 November 2017.] Longtime listeners to these commentaries are aware of the approaching Singularity – when super-intelligent machines match and then exceed human intelligence – and what is happening with jobs and employment in these pre-Singularity years.  As machines replace more…

  • Scattershots – 27nov17 (updated 29nov17)

    George Rebane Norm Sauer presents a more salutary summary of Trump’s tenure in office as a response to the unprecedented campaign of hate the Left has mounted against the president with programs such as ‘The Resistance’, Tom Steyer’s ‘Movement to Impeach’, and Obama’s ‘Organizing for Action’ – a first for a former president who has…

  • Sauer on Trump

    [Norm Sauer, who submits his columns to be concurrently posted on RR, had his latest commentary – ‘Unprecedented adversity doesn’t derail Trump’ – published in the 27nov17 Union.  It appears below.  gjr] Norm Sauer Donald Trump has been our president for nearly a year. He has accomplished much despite unprecedented resistance undermining everything his administration…

  • Gas tax – Hren answers Boardman

    [NC Republican Party Chairman emailed me this response to George Boardman’s 29oct17 column for publication.  It appears that Mr Boardman missed an important point or two on the new CA gas tax.  gjr] George, Your column yesterday was OK but very incomplete and inflamatory.  You failed to mention why there are no funds for road…

  • Mueller Mining the Russia Collusion Confusion (updated 5nov17)

    George Rebane It may well be that the ongoing ‘Russia collusion’ investigation will turn out to be a bigger affair than was Watergate, even if it doesn’t connect Donald Trump to any culpable act.  Special prosecutors must needs eventually find something to prosecute, and find it they will as Robert Mueller has already demonstrated with…

  • Scattershots – 14oct17 (updated 16oct17)

    George Rebane President Trump will stop subsidizing insurance companies – i.e. stop the Treasury from making ‘cost sharing reductions’ (CSRs) that allow the health insurers to reduce premium and deductible costs required to slow down the capsizing of the ACA (aka Obamacare).  The CSRs were instituted by Obama’s executive order in 2011 as one of…

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