Monthly Archives: May 2014

A new reason to care about ill-health epidemic: “too fat to fight”

Apparently epidemics of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, impaired fertility, sick children, suffering animals and environmental degradation are not enough reasons for many people and policy makers to move away from the typical processed, dead animal based, western diet, but here … Continue reading

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Spoiler alert: 2014 is no 1994

Good discussion of current market conditions. Carter Worth, chief market technician at Sterne Agee, says the stall in the U.S. stock market “foreshadows trouble ahead” because the technicals are “not good.” Here is a direct video link. We agree with … Continue reading

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Two sides of the bank bailout story

If you happened to catch Former Treasury Secretary and Obama financial adviser Tim Geithner on Charlie Rose last night, you may have been impressed by his carefully constructed version of events. He is an articulate, though in my view smarmy, … Continue reading

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