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  • A New Corporate Vision – The Constitutional Partnership Corporation

    [In the 'Hiroshima+66, Detroit+Welfare' comment stream RR reader Michael Rogers introduced us to the John Lewis Partnership, a unique type of worker owned/controlled corporation that has a ‘constitution’ as its organizing and operating policy document – let’s call it a Constitutional Partnership Corporation (CPC).  MichaelR launched a comment thread that expanded its examination.  RR readers…

  • Investors Playing the Odds

    George Rebane At the risk of boring the bejeezus out of RR’s readership, here’s a bit of quantitative follow-up for all you investors playing the odds on the approaching collapse of socialist Europe.  Well, maybe that’s putting it on a little too strong, but looking at the way sovereign debt is being priced by the…

  • Greece and the 100% haircut (updated 5oct2011)

    George Rebane We hear that Greece’s financial situation is so dicey that they now have to pay over 270% yearly interest on their bonds.  The ten-year US Treasury today closed at 4.88% per annum.  Everyone who reads RR knows that Greece is teetering on the edge of default and pulling out of the eurozone.  Being…

  • ‘Investors sell …’ – What a crock!

    George Rebane Time to vent.  One of today’s financial reporters again comes out with – “U.S. stocks sank in afternoon trading as investors worried about policymakers’ ability to contain Europe’s debt crisis.” (28sep11 WSJ)  You read this kind of pabulum constantly in the financial press.  ‘Investors believe X, therefore they sell’, ‘Investors look forward to…

  • Entrepreneurship 2011

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my July column that appears in the 11jun11 edition of The Union and in its online form here.  A related graphic on the impact of the stimulus is on NC Media Watch here.] This administration has taken a bad economy and, by any measure, made it unimaginably…

  • You would? Really?

    George Rebane Would you lend money to someone who already owes you more than he can repay, wants you to loan him more so he can use some of it to pay you the interest on what he currently owes (a la Madoff), and owns a printing press that is already printing his debt to…

  • Bet You Didn’t Know About this Tax

    George Rebane This year I promised to write more stuff on technology and finances.  In the winter I also start writing the year’s TechTest2011 which will be taken in the spring by a select cadre of Nevada County’s high school seniors and juniors.  Reviewing some of the problems from previous TTs, I came upon one…

  • And they still don’t know jack –

    George Rebane My career as a markets watcher and investor goes back to 1970 when I started tracking stocks and mutual funds along with my aerospace company engineering peers.  We heard the pundits, analysts, and economists make their sage assessments and predictions, and pooled our resources to subscribe to some pricey financial and investment newsletters. …

  • Happy 2011!

    George Rebane Here in Nevada County the new year arrived clad in a light blanket of snow with a few flakes still drifting from a gray but hopeful looking sky.  The nearby photo from our office window says it better.  It will warm up later. Jo Ann and I take this opportunity to wish all…

  • The quiet is deafening

    George Rebane Gold is now comfortably at above $1,400 an ounce and rising.  It has risen over 28% in 2010 and over 170% in the last five years.  The other precious metals – silver, platinum, palladium – have done even better.  The official word is that there is nothing to worry about.  The world economies…

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