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A Rock Solid Investment -- And Mothers Roll the Dice with the Lives of Their Children: A Story of Sex, Cancer, and Ignorance
I am talking here about a parent’s opportunity and responsibility to ensure that his or her daughter (son too) receives the HPV vaccine (the human papillomavirus vaccine), preferably between the ages of 11 and 12. This vaccine is an... Read →
What is Really Happening between the Koreas?
Why such apparent and abrupt change of positions between North and South Korea? Is it, perhaps, fear on both sides of an unpredictable Donald Trump and what he might do without even a minute’s notice and certainly without... Read →
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Facebook’s Problems Are Just Beginning
In 2004, I founded a company called WiProx. The company was based on a vision that a ubiquitous platform could deliver contextual advertising to individuals who have opted into this advertising and who would receive consideration... Read →
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Michael Cohen Is Not Flipping
Over the last two days, it has been very difficult to turn on the news without a major network reporting that Michael Cohen may flip and turn State’s evidence on the man who has employed him for a decade as his organization’s... Read →
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The Philadelphia Video Could Cause Starbucks to Lose Half Its Valuation
I’ve patronized Starbucks for years. The business model – in the US, in Europe and in Asia - is one of getting the stores to look full. I’ve never been to a Starbucks where customers aren’t encouraged to just... Read →
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Cohen Raid Brings RICO Into Play
With the raid of Michael Cohen’s office, it is becoming clear that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had decided to pursue a RICO case against Trump and his associates and perhaps his family. Passed in 1970, the Racketeer Influenced... Read →
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No Guardrails for the US Economy
At first, the market dipped, then rallied after China matched Trump’s $50 billion tariff threat. Now it is dipping at his latest salvo – $100 billion more. Traders are searching for some rationale for ignoring the very real... Read →
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Thank God for America’s High School Students
We have so little cause for optimism these days, constantly unnerved as we are by a seriously unstable President and a corrupt and compromised Congress. Our world, including our place in the hierarchy of nations today and the ever more... Read →
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Putin Fires Tillerson
News is just out that Rex Tillerson has been replaced by Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Of course, we had predicted Tillerson’s ouster for some time, and had indicated late in 2017 that Tillerson was waiting for his deferment... Read →
Setting the Record Straight on Gary Cohn
Gary Cohn resigned on Wednesday as the Director of the National Economic Council and Chief Economic Advisor to Donald Trump. The media has been very generous to Cohn, writing about how principled he was to resign on the basis of a... Read →
This Qualcomm Debacle Would Look Awful If It Happened In the Third World
Many who follow financial news have been aware that Qualcomm has been battling against a hostile takeover by Broadcom since last fall. Qualcomm is the wireless technology company whose stock seemed to multiply weekly in 1999, but has been... Read →
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With Jared Kushner in the White House, Americans Have No Need to Invest in Emerging Markets
Generally, emerging market investing gives American investors (or Western European investors) the opportunity to achieve higher returns on their investment in return for the increased risk associated with a system involving a certain... Read →
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Georgia Just Shot Itself
Georgia's attack on Delta Airlines for shedding its NRA ties following the Parkland massacre will cause Amazon to look elsewhere for HQ2.
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One Hope in A Sea of Hopelessness
America is in a very bad place today, no matter what perspective one takes. Politically, one is deluged by intrigue, chaos, corruption, greed and ignorance from the party in power; and the Democrats, with rare exceptions, have little to... Read →
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