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  • Europe’s Financial Dominoes

    George Rebane Here’s a succinct picture of Europe’s immediate financial concerns.  Does anyone see any stability in any of it?  (Here’s a little tutorial on how to read and reason with influence factors diagrams.)

  • ‘Behold the Pale Horse’ in ‘2016’ (updated 27aug12)

    George Rebane This week with friends, Jo Ann and I attended showings of the two titled movies about the state of our country and its portents.  They are excellent albeit disturbing summaries of the notions and issues that we have been discussing on RR for the last five years.  Definitely worth seeing for those whose…

  • Ruminations – 14aug12 (updated)

    George Rebane The National Weather Service is buying tens of thousands of rounds of jacketed hollow point 40 caliber bullets as reported by infowars.com.  It is the latest government department to start packing heat, and joins a disconcerting number of other government units (e.g. Dept of Education) that have no obvious use for deadly force…

  • National Issues – connecting the factors that affect us (Addended)

    George Rebane When thinking about the upcoming election in the context of national issues and all that is going on which affects America, things get complicated pretty quickly.  An established tool for representing, sorting out, and communicating such factors and their interaction is called the Influence Factors Diagram (IFD).  An IFD is usually involved in…

  • Carrier Task Groups Converging

    George Rebane Note that today’s Stratfor fleet update shows that in a few days there will be three of our five deployed (eleven total) carrier task groups in place to support any US/Israeli plans with regard to contingencies having to do with Syria and Iran.  This will be a rare concentration of such forces.

  • The John Henry Law

    George Rebane For several years I have attempted to explain and prognosticate the future of labor in the developed world (e.g. see ‘The Great American Labor Squeeze’).  I will try to simplify the cause of the growing systemic un/der/employment, that is ignored throughout our political spectrum, by introducing what we shall call the John Henry…

  • New People, New Jobs

    George Rebane The systemic and growing unemployment in these pre-Singularity years is an ongoing topic on RR, and a stringently ignored social phenomenon by our political elites of all stripes.  A graphic that illustrates this unemployment growth is the graphic below showing how manufacturing activity varies over time along with employment in the sector. Note…

  • Stratfor’s Geopolitics of the United States

    George Rebane The well-respected geo-strategic intelligence service Stratfor recently updated another one of its landmark essays on major regions and countries of the world – this one on the United States.  The free two-part report is both a review and an education in itself.  Most of us were not taught to see our country from…

  • 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…

  • Austerity works (updated 14jun12)

    George Rebane RR has been focused on matters economic for some years now as the crises build here and in Europe.  In their efforts to recover, I’ve tried to make the case that Europe and the US have actually been headed in opposite directions.  Cutting to the chase, debt and socialist policies – entitlements, commerce…

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