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  • Walking into the Liquidity Trap

    George Rebane QE2 used to be the short moniker of HMS Queen Elizabeth 2, flagship of Cunard’s luxury liners.  You boarded QE2 and forgot your troubles as you were transported across The Pond with more comforts than you could imagine.  Today’s QE2 is the code word most people hear and can’t put together with anything…

  • Ruminations – 28dec2009 (updated 29dec09)

    George Rebane – Obama gets an ‘A’ from me– Nigerian bomber underlines the government employee– Washington’s double taxation of investment gains Never mind the fruitless foreign policy escapades and stimulus packages that have not stimulated.  Candidate Obama promised one and all a “fundamental transformation” of the country into European type redistributionist socialism.  Many people didn’t pay attention or…

  • Dollar Takes Latest Hit (updated 23aug2009)

    George Rebane Ruminations readers are aware that inflation is a tax on all of our dollar-denominated assets (here).  Now that we are staring a Weimar-like inflation in the face with all the dollars that the Fed generates out of thin air, our government is beginning to worry that too many people will catch on in…

  • Imported Dollar Multipliers and Local Economies (14jan09 update)

    George Rebane With the worldwide economic downturn that is being amplified by the mavens in Sacramento, there is a lot of interest and attention paid to local economies.  Here we are trying hard to keep existing businesses (by buying locally) and at the same time attract more firms or cash importers to our community.  In…

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  • Broken Windows and California’s Greenhouse Gas Plan

    George Rebane The jury is in on California’s syndicated columnist Thomas Elias – his acumen in economics is about a bubble out of plumb.  The man’s 4nov08 piece ‘Greenhouse gas plan might green state economy’ in the San Diego Union (repeated in today’s Onion) was full of the liberal drivel that government funded make-work programs…

  • The Long-Term Investment Myth

    George Rebane We’ve all been advised to invest for the long term – buy quality and just hang on to it – for best results.  But all long term investments have to take buying power (aka inflation) into account.  The astute investor knows that inflation is a government assets tax and acts accordingly.  If we…

  • More Problems from Government Solutions

    Mike McDaniel As long as we look to the government for solutions there will always be a problem. I would be a hypocrite to be a financial advisor and not believe in free market capitalism.  Anyone invested in the markets must believe in free market capitalism.  A characteristic of our free market system is the…

  • Don’t Blame the Oil Companies

    Michael McDaniel Yes. I said don’t blame the oil companies for excessive prices at the pump.  For months now I have put up with comments attacking the companies that provide fuel for our vehicles.  I do concede that oil company management teams both past and present may be to blame for a portion of the…

  • Investing while Inflating

    George Rebane Attempting to hang on to your money today is very hard, and it’s about to get harder.  Your greenback dollar is being destroyed at a prodigious rate, and destroyed it must be since at its present value there is no way that our government can meet its commitments to all those whose votes…

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