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I posted a few days ago about the results of a very concerning meta-analysis (lumping of data from several trials together) suggesting that high dose of cholesterol medicines increase the risk of cancer. This is a huge public health issue which major repercussions for big pharma.

Consumers spend over $100 million per year on spam email scams. How can anyone still be duped into this? The answer may be a big business opportunity.

Several good reasons why you might want to consider parking your money in several banking stocks instead of the 10 year bond.

I just saw the first episode of Damages, a corporate law/murder thriller from F/X. It starts Glenn Close and Ted Danson. Here's what I think.

Angelo Mozilo is a straight shooter and he isn't trying to put a pretty picture on the nation's housing problems.

China is Coca-Cola's fourth largest market. In the last five years, they have pretty much doubled their sales there. Just imagine what their sales will look like in another five years. To get a handle on growth and forward movement, Coke is investing some $80 million on a R&D center in Shanghai. The US, Brazil and Mexico are Coke's three other major markets. China may well pull ahead soon, and Coke is playing its cards well. Coke is becoming a very good global play.

The results of a large meta-analysis of statin trials were released tonight on CNBC - to be published in JACC - although I don't see it the ACC website and haven't received the journal yet. This hasn't gotten much play yet today - but is potentially huge. This will make doctors and patients question the entire

Americans used to be the tallest in the world. No more.

Sex and web sites work very well, and they don't need to be xxx sites. A former futures trader, came up with the idea that you could collect nude scenes in PG and R rated films, get the big movie companies to assist, and build a hugely popular and exponentially growing web business. Last year, he made $5.3 million and it is only now taking off.

The one thing I forgot when I bought the iPhone was its susceptibility to hackers -- far more than other cells. This is because it is a bloody computer, not a phone and, all the hackers in the world are after getting into it. I have so much personal information on that phone that I am really worried. This is not just an idle concern; hackers have already demonstrated definitively that they can get into the phone and all the files.

George Bush, without the W, who is the first cousin of the president's great-great-great-grandfather was born in 1796 and died in 1859 and wrote -- for that time -- the definitive work on "The Life of Mohammed."

Judging the major business media, the Dow breaching 14,000 was a HUGE event. I like to celebrate like everyone else but here are some reasons sober investors shouldn't pop the champagne yet.

A month ago, the SEC put up a site to identify companies doing business with the likes of Iran, Syria and the Sudan. Linking only to annual reports by the companies, the site allowed investors to read the companies' own explanations, plans, and history. The purpose of the web site was to give investors an opportunity to decide whether they wanted to invest in such companies. Yesterday, at 5:00 pm, they took the site down. The reasons -- incompetence on the Government's side and pressure by the companies. So much for the US government at work for you.