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Opinion: Bankster PR

March 5, 2010
By Ron Andersen

It’s been pretty quiet in the banking sector lately. That’s not to say the banksters haven’t been busy. According to the LA Times, they’ve launched a PR campaign to improve their image, complete with interviews and OMG! they’re even blogging now! And here all this time we thought they were blood-sucking pond scum. But...
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Opinion: The invisible voter

February 21, 2010
By Ron Andersen

I’ve been reading a book called Literature and the Economics of Liberty, a collection of essays about economic principles found in classic novels. What drew my attention to it was one of the essays on The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. I had read the book as a kid, strictly as a science...
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REAP’s website upgrade

February 20, 2010
By Ron Andersen
REAP’s website upgrade

Dr. Gary Smith, who heads the Regional Economic Analysis Project (REAP), has announced a major upgrade for the Nevada website. Many of the enhancements we made to the website are backstage and may not meet your eye from the front end: a new computer server, new server software (Win Server 2008), and a major revamp...
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Opinion: No fear, much loathing

January 24, 2010
By Ron Andersen

I’m not the first one to notice this, and I won’t be the last, but our country is in desperate need of a paradigm shift in the “political process”. Not to pick on Sue Lowden, although she does make a fun target at times, I’ll use her HQ “Grand Opening” yesterday only as an...
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Opinion: A mild application of common sense

January 23, 2010
By Ron Andersen

Oh to have been a fly on the wall when the two old bulls, Paul Volker and Larry Summers, locked horns preceding President Obama’s unveiling of his latest finance reform plan. Hopefully, little Timmy Geithner was taking notes. Volker, the ex Fed Chief and the only contrarian advisor the the president, has been pounding...
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Opinion: The top 9 biggest possible Nevada news events

January 21, 2010
By Ron Andersen

No matter how the Democrats play it, the news of a Republican win in the Massachusetts senate race was a big deal. It got me thinking about what could be big news here in Nevada. Sure, Harry Reid losing would be big, but what else could happen that would really grab the nation’s attention?...
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Opinion: Seeds of civil disobedience

January 16, 2010
By Ron Andersen

In less than a year of Democratic one party rule, it seems our government has produced the most feared of all political outcomes; a general sense of unease. Among Republicans, there is the predictable righteous indignation; with the so-called “progressives”, there is the growing realization that they’ve been had; and for the highly prized...
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Opinion: Bloomberg update and “the scariest jobs chart ever”

January 12, 2010
By Ron Andersen
Opinion: Bloomberg update and “the scariest jobs chart ever”

Way back in August, I mentioned a Bloomberg article regarding their court case against the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. At the time, Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska had ordered the government to hand over TARP fund documents within 30 days. Well, the 30 days came and went with no news...
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Opinion: How I met the girl

January 10, 2010
By Ron Andersen

It was another cold, overcast day in January. There was only a week left before the Rembrandt exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art would close, and I hadn’t been to see it yet. There was also going to be a Raphael painting that had just been put on display, but I really wanted...
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Opinion: Your new debt-free home (video)

January 2, 2010
By Ron Andersen
Opinion: Your new debt-free home (video)

One of the cornerstones of Keynesian theory, is that during an economic downturn, the government should “prime the pump”, inject capital into the market to keep people employed until the natural demand cycle returns. Measuring demand is a tricky business, all sorts of numbers get tossed around and the validity of those numbers is...
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Lt. Dangle’s Reno Rap