Dr. Weil gives us the surprising results from a worldwide study comparing death rates of smokers vs. those living sedentary lifestyles:

Sedentary Living as Bad as Smoking

If you've been thinking about an exercise program, it's about time to get off the couch. A new study from Harvard suggests that inactivity can be as hazardous to your health as smoking and that a sedentary lifestyle is the cause of one in 10 deaths worldwide. The research team included investigators from 33 countries who anal...
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Nice to hear there are still some CEOs that  aren't consumed with greed...I wish I had worked for a CEO like this.  Best bonus I ever had was when my old boss Larry gave me a rotten orange,

Lenovo CEO gives his $3 million bonus to 10,000 employees
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 It will come as no surprise to anyone who follows the technology world that CEOs at major corporations make a ton of money. Often their bonuses are even more than their yearly income. The CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, recently received a f...
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CNNMoney reports those Olympic gold medals aren't really too golden:

Next week in London, athletes from around the world will go for the gold. But as it turns out, the Olympic gold medal is mostly made of silver.

Weighing in at 412 grams -- or roughly the weight of a can of green beans -- the gold medal is made up of only 1.34%, or about 6 grams of gold.  The rest is comprised of 93% silver and 6% copper.

Melted down and sold at today's market value, those raw materials would be worth about $650...
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Pretty damn funny what you can do with a camera, treadmill and internet connection. 




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Of all the arguments against the gold standard, the most thoughtless (and most popular) is that a gold standard would cause prices to drop and therefore the economy would grind to a halt because:

Would you buy something today if you knew it would be cheaper tomorrow?

First off, their argument is wrong.  A gold standard would likely cause prices to stay flat, because the gold supply increases about 1.5% per year while productivity improves by 1-2% per year.  So, in theory, those two data points ...
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If you've browsed my blog, read my book or heard me speak, the topic of gold/silver manipulation has probably been discussed.  At that point your eyes probably rolled and your mind focused on something more interesting, like what your favorite flavor of oatmeal is.  Nonetheless, the importance of this topic isn't going away and my steadfast belief in the manipulation gets stronger by the day. 

As you're certainly aware, Barclay's has been indicted in the LIBOR scandal.  Matt Taibbi believes m...
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