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  • Your life savings will bail in SIFIs

    Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. – Sir Walter Scott George Rebane Remember those banks and other financial institutions that were ‘too big to fail’?  Well, the IMF has confirmed that the world of global finance still has such enterprises so that if one goes down, it has…

  • ‘The Real Crash’ – Summary Notes

    George Rebane I read Peter Schiff's The Real Crash (2013) last year and summarized its main findings found in Chapter 12 of the book.  Since I recently attended a conference where Schiff was the keynote speaker and posted on it – A Libertarian Lovefest … – I thought I'd share this little missal with my…

  • Baumol’s Effect on Wages and the Liberal Mind

    George Rebane Actually Baumol’s Effect on the liberal mind is exactly nothing, zilch, zero, … .   Self-styled thinkers of the Left are constantly going on about workers not being paid enough as they come forward with all kinds of dodgy arithmetic showing how capitalists are making a greedy killing at the expense of their employees. …

  • Ruminations – 20jun13 (updated 21jun13)

    George Rebane So much bad stuff is happening that it’s literally hopeless to keep track of it any more.  A few samples follow. Asylum for climate change refugees.  A correspondent sends me this heads up on the latest from the idiot senator from Hawaii.  He writes, “Sen. Brian Schatz’s bill would create a sort of…

  • Gold plummets, but then why … ?

    George Rebane Has everyone been watching the goings on in gold and other precious metals lately?  Today the price of one ounce plummeted another 9.4%, making the price drop of that barbaric relic in the last few trading days to be the biggest in thirty years.  Astute observers tell us that Big Money (central banks,…

  • Productivity – A new perspective

    George Rebane [This piece continues the RR series on the US economy and the factors taking it into new regions – unknown unknowns – during these pre-Singularity years.  As usual, the frail and the young should be spared from these deliberations.] Productivity of a nation’s workforce is an important metric in understanding its prospects for…

  • Ruminations – 12jun12 (updated 13jun12)

    George Rebane The situation in Europe is coming to a head, and Angela's got the whole world in her hand.  Now it’s definitely Spain’s and Italy’s turn in the barrel.  The remarkable news is that most likely there will be another €100B thrown at Spain’s banks intended to bail them out of bad sovereign debts…

  • The Off and On of the Inevitable (Addended)

    George Rebane The Greeks are rioting in the streets again.  They don’t like the new tranche of austerity measures that their parliament was forced to levy on the country.  This was in response to the northern eurozone countries imposing more conditions before giving Greece its next bailout check of approximately $170B in March.  The north,…

  • Employment 2022 (Addended)

    George Rebane Here’s a quick back of the envelope look at the employment situation over the next decade when we take into account accelerating technology that increases worker productivity.  GDP growth is taken at the indicated 2.5%/year.  This post is really as a ‘memo to file’ since people have asked me how I come up…

  • Pay Gaps and System D

    George Rebane Frankly, it’s a bit eerie how the events long predicted on RR are ticking off as recently having happened, or about to happen.  Here I want to focus on the infamous pay gap of the American worker, and an economic activity that is hard to track, but globally significant. Income comes in two…

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