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Curing Diabetes with “Self Cell Therapy”
My publisher tells me that I should focus on writing dramatic headlines. Is “Curing Diabetes” dramatic enough? If you’ve studied diabetes, you have almost... Read »
Just How Cheap is US Housing?
Consider Minneapolis, Minn. You could’ve bought, out of foreclosure, a three-bedroom, two-bath house of 1,356 square feet on a quarter acre lot for about $29,000.... Read »
On the Trail of the Housing Recovery
One crisp fall Sunday afternoon under bright blue skies, my wife and I visited five homes up for sale. We remembered them by their street names: Big Acre, Blue Silo,... Read »
Eurozone’s “Bought Time” is Ending
Like a zombie in a horror movie, the Eurozone crisis just won’t die. Instead, it keeps lurching at investors from different shadows on the European continent.... Read »
Live Long and Prosper – Nutraceutically
More and more frequently, I’m finding “too good to be true” technologies that are, in fact, very true. It is, I think, the hallmark of our era. Things we thought... Read »
Superior Biotechnology Leads to Superior Drugs
We sometimes hear about diminishing returns in cancer research and development in the big pharmaceutical companies. They tell us, traditional drug discovery techniques... Read »
Catastrophically Successful Life Extension
Truly historic discoveries and therapies are coming online right now that will radically decrease the threat and cost of autoimmune disorders, cancers, cardiovascular... Read »
Four Wall Street Banks Still Dominate Derivatives Trade
Derivatives are the “meat and meat by-products” of the financial markets. They look, smell and taste just like regular securities, but almost no one understands... Read »
When Counterfeiting is Legal
If I told you that I had $1.6 trillion on deposit at a local bank, you’d think I was not merely a member of the “1%,” but a member of the “1%” of the “1%.”... Read »
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Future of the IMF
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche!” English readers will recognize this infamous phrase as, “Let them eat cake.” Marie Antoinette supposedly uttered it. Two... Read »






