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There is presently no cure for Alzheimer’s, but as with most disease, our lifestyle choices can play a large role in prevention.

“Alzheimer’s experts increasingly are researching ways to prevent or delay memory decline instead of just focusing on treating patients who have the disease. There have been encouraging results from some studies of preventive strategies, including lifestyle interventions in people at risk for dementia. Some 5.2 million people in the U.S. had Alzheimer’s in 2014, a number that is expected to about triple by 2050.” Here is a direct video link.

This type of fraud and collection avoidance requires the assistance of the best lawyers and accountants that crime proceeds can buy…

Paul Bilzerian, a Wall Street felon who owed the government $62 million, lived for nearly two decades in his “Taj Mahal.”Here is a direct video link.

Tech and small cap indices led broader markets into the bear market declines of both 2000 and 2007.

“Beneath the U.S. stock market’s record-setting gains, trouble is stirring.

About 47 percent of stocks in the Nasdaq Composite Index (CCMP) are down at least 20 percent from their peak in the last 12 months while more than 40 percent have fallen that much in the Russell 2000 Index and the Bloomberg IPO Index. That contrasts with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX), which has closed at new highs 33 times in 2014 and where less than 6 percent of companies are in bear markets, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

The divergence shows the appetite for risk is narrowing as the Federal Reserve reins in economic stimulus after a five-year rally that added almost $16 trillion to equity values. It’s been three years since investors saw a 10 percent decline in the S&P 500 and they’re starting to avoid companies that will suffer the most when the market stumbles…”
See: Record S&P masks 47% of NASDAQ mired in bear market