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Speaking of Bad Ideas …

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Striking Out No surprise, California doesn’t have enough money to pay for benefits for unemployed workers. Why, then would the Legislature even think about giving benefits to workers who choose to go on strike? The Golden State Is Broke? In the WSJ, James Freeman reports on the editorial board at the San Jose Mercury News: […]

The Single Worst Market Timing Event in History

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Attempting to time the market could be the most popular mistake among market participants. Here’s what I wrote about market timing back in January 1997: Panic!… History has been made. Since the exact summer Dow low of 5346.55, the Dow has soared an amazing 21.9%. Never in stock market history has the Dow added 1,000 […]

“But What Happened to Eggs?”

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At Mercola.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola discusses the historical reliance of American homesteaders on the nutrition supplied by eggs and the more recent focus on eating chickens themselves. But Mercola asks, “What happened to eggs?” He explains that eggs became an easy target and were “maligned and even deemed as health-damaging as smoking cigarettes.” He writes: […]

A Step above Organic: Biodynamic

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There are many problems with “organic” food. If you’re looking to improve the healthfulness of the food you eat, it’s time to understand the meaning of the word biodynamic, and how it differs from organic when it comes to food. At Mercola.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola discusses biodynamic food, writing: Editor’s Note: This article is a […]

Can You Enhance Your Body’s Ability to Fight Blood Cancers?

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At Mercola.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola suggests that nicotinamide (aka niacinamide) can enhance your body’s ability to fight blood cancers. He writes: According to recent research,1,2 nicotinamide3 (also known as niacinamide), a form of niacin (vitamin B3), enhances natural killer (NK) cells’ ability to defeat blood cancers. Scientists have previously tried to use infusions of monoclonal antibodies mixed with […]

What Do You Know about Quercetin?

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What do you know about quercetin? At Mercola.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola explains the benefits of the flavonoid, writing: Quercetin is a natural flavonoid found in small quantities in many foods, such as apples, berries, onions, broccoli, black tea and a flower from the Sophora japonica tree. Widely distributed in the plant kingdom, quercetin has played an important role […]

The Breakfast of Champions

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I start every sunny Key West morning by heading over to the Cuban Coffee Queen. Prior to heading out, I take the well-used time to apply some very special 10,000 mg. hemp goop to my 82-year-old, damn annoying (and you thought you were alone) thumb joints and neck. By then, I have been up for […]

Skyrocketing Costs of Building a Green Grid Are Starting

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The Industrial Policy Debacle Governors in the Northeast are lobbying the White House to bail out their states’ offshore wind projects, which have hit a gale of ballooning costs, reports the WSJ. Danish developer Orsted is warning it may have to write down its projects off New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. It’s […]

Wellington and Wellesley Funds Not Managed by Vanguard

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In my conversations with you, we talk about the virtues of being a balanced investor. You can achieve this through a mix of blue-chip dividend payers and laddered bonds. To illustrate, I’ll use as a proxy Fidelity Balanced, Vanguard Wellington, and Vanguard Wellesley funds. In that order, they have roughly the following stock/bond allocation mix: […]