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But what a great hustle. Wall Street’s one giant casino of croupiers, warns Vanguard’s Jack Bogle in InvestmentNews. The house always wins. Maybe you can cut your losses, but you never beat them. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-ideas-to-help-you-zap-wall-streets-american-hustle-2013-12-14

The IMF’s team of monkeys has been working around the clock on this one, figuring that developed nations can increase their overall tax revenue by increasing tax rates. They’ve singled out the US, suggesting that the US government could maximize its tax revenue by increasing tax brackets...

Detroit, broke with almost no prospects for recovery, is the fourth most popular U.S. destination for Chinese real estate investors http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-13/chinas-colonization-london-hits-ludicrous-speed-and-now-its-detroits-turn

“Binge viewing”, also known as “Sitting around in your sweatpants all weekend and doing nothing but watching 12-straight hours of a TV show” is with us to stay. http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/12/13/netflix-says-binge-watching-is-the-new-normal-for-tv-viewing/

Inquiring minds might be interested in the analysis of artist Josh Begley who catalogs every U.S. military base in the world. Here is a representation. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/12/does-us-have-enough-military-bases.html#2aOGkWw7xL030fQI.99

Drownpruf may chime in here, he knows this stuff inside out.

The types of bacteria in your gut today may be different tomorrow, depending on what kinds of food you eat, a new study suggests. http://www.livescience.com/41869-gut-bacteria-change-diet.html#ixzz2nGF8RBxg

Check is a device that determines users’ readiness for training both, physically and mentally, through a short daily test http://www.springwise.com/15-second-test-tells-athletes-hard-train/

A quality D3 supplement.

Bloomberg News has an unusual practice of paying some of its reporters explicitly for publishing "market-moving" stories. http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensation-2013-12#ixzz2nDBh0brT

Students attending public universities in Florida can keep weapons in their cars while on campus http://www.businessinsider.com/florida-guns-in-cars-2013-12#ixzz2nDATQNKS

Scientists from the University of Toronto have discovered a new greenhouse gas that might have the highest global warming impact of any compound to date. www.ibtimes.com/new-greenhouse-gas-discovered-pftba-has-higher-global-warming-impact-co2-1503600#ixzz2nAdY6jG9

Atheists living in 13 countries risk being condemned to death, just for the beliefs (or non-belief) according to a new, comprehensive report from the International Humanist and Ethical Union out on Tuesday. All 13 countries identified by the study are Muslim majority...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Uruguay became the first nation to completely legalize the sale and production of marijuana on Tuesday http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uruguay-becomes-first-nation-to-legalize-marijuana-2013-12-10

All maps face the challenge of making the globe appear to scale in two dimensions. Most, like the traditional Mercator projection, keep either size or shape consistent — not both — which skews our perception of continents and countries one way or the other...

Quinnipiac is out with a new poll this afternoon and the numbers are terrible for the president. www.businessinsider.com/another-disastrous-poll-for-president-obama-2013-12#ixzz2n7JJ16DO

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http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-shiller-free-coursera-finance-class-2013-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/best-free-online-business-courses-2013-10#yale-financial-markets-with-bob-shiller-1

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