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  • 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,…

  • The Iron Lady 87, RIP (addended)

    George Rebane Lady Margaret Thatcher was a world leader who warmed the cockles of my own and many a heart.  With Ronald Reagan she was instrumental in bringing the USSR down to a soft landing.  She also created enormous and beneficial change for Great Britain that had been on a dreadful socialist slide to oblivion…

  • Madness of the Green and Tort Kinds

    "… there is no weakness without its admirer, so be not discomfited because your ways displease some, for they will not fail to be pleasing to others; nor let their approval of them make you vain, for still others will condemn them."  Gracian #101 George Rebane Britain’s biggest coal fired power plant is being forced…

  • The New Pope and Christianity’s Challenge

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 15 March 2013.] Cardinal of Argentina and Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio, was elected Pope last Wednesday, the first from the Western Hemisphere to hold the Holy Office of Catholicism.  He chose to be known as Pope Francis (the First), a name that fits…

  • 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…

  • Scattershots and Asteroids

    George Rebane In my scratch file for blog topics, items on the flood of government lies are overflowing.  I was going to do an update post on the most egregious ones.  There are so many ––    The new $9 minimum wage is going to boost the economy.  If so, why stop at $9?  Instead it…

  • Wealth Creation & Distribution – A Progressive’s View

    Ben Emery [Editor:  This piece by Mr Ben Emery evolved from a thread in the comment stream to ‘Progressive Radio – the Dangerfield of the airwaves’.  There Mr Emery posted and extended response to my 909pm comment which appears below. BenE 807pm – It reappears that you and yours believe that the amount of wealth…

  • New Encryption App Promises Big Changes and Trouble

    George Rebane A new iPhone and iPad encryption app will come on the market this Friday 8 February that is sure to get the feds’ undies in a bundle.  It was developed by a hot new cryptography start-up called Silent Circle,  and has already been successfully tested in a number of situations worldwide.  Readers will,…

  • Numbers get a (confused) boost

    George Rebane The importance and magnitude of EVERY social problem lies in its numbers.  If you don’t understand the numbers and how they relate, all you can do is emote about the problem. RR has argued from the start that applying the tools of the systems sciences is critical to the solutions of all social…

  • 3D Printing – Bigger and sooner than you think (updated 28jan13)

    George Rebane Additive manufacturing, now ‘3D printing’, has been around and evolving for years.  But with the introduction of the precision and automated control of lasers and CAD (computer aided design) encoding the design of the manufactured (‘printed’) part, the field has taken off.  Imagine having a device approximately the size of a refrigerator in…

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