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  • 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…

  • A Ray of Hope or …

    George Rebane As an illustration of the public policy stasis that our collectivist brethren always wallow in, the National Space Society will announce today (14nov11) that space solar power (SSP) will be a viable, feasible, and limitless energy source within ten to twenty years.  SSP will beam energy from high orbit solar collectors to anywhere…

  • The (inter)national cancer of public service unions

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my regular column in The Union which appears in its 12nov11 print and online editions (here) under its less harsh title 'Public service unions will be our demise', no doubt edited for a more sensitive readership than frequent these pages.] Today socialist Europe is unraveling after years…

  • Greece in freefall

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 4 Novemeber 2011.] Greece is the latest socialist country to illustrate the results of not living within its means.  There is a long line of other European countries right behind Greece, ready to follow it off the cliff.  And then there are…

  • 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…

  • Ruminations – 1nov2011 (updated)

    George Rebane California’s carbon calamity is cranking up to full speed, destroying jobs and driving companies to other lands and states.  CARB is now the loose cannon in the state’s economy, putting into full force the dictates of AB32 (q.v.).  Even the unions are screaming about job losses and arguing that California’s carbon tax n’…

  • Ruminations – 16oct2011 (updated)

    George Rebane New Scientist, always politically correct, has discovered the possibility that if Greece goes under and reduces its GDP by the predicted 50%, then it will not only leave the eurozone but also the EU.  The real Greek tragedy is that this could well start the dominoes falling, resulting in beggaring half the EU…

  • Morally Killing Al-Awlaki (updated 3oct2011)

    George Rebane A lot of people are hyper-ventilating about the CIA’s recent killing of a couple of prime ragheads, Al-Awlaki and his pal Samir Khan.  Both were US citizens when they died from a direct hit by a Hellfire missile.  Both spent a major part of their adult lives in the Al Qaida leadership planning…

  • Another Silly Coincidence, Right?

    George Rebane A correspondent sent me this YouTube video of Idaho House (District 10) representative Curtis Bowers (R) talking about the communist agenda in America.  Apparently his surprising statements got some traction, and a lot of people were riled up about his connecting such dots for an obvious series of coincidences.  Then again, others thought…

  • Klamath Claptrap Continued (updated 26sep2011)

    George Rebane Congressman Tom McClintock has delivered some eloquent and incisive critiques in opposition to the intent of California environmental fanatics’ plan to demolish dams on northern California rivers.  These dams provide critical watershed control, agricultural water supply, recreation, and electrical power generation.  The congressman’s article ‘Klamath Claptrap’ is required reading in order to understand…

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