Dan Smolin asks whether you are a victim of investment pornography.

Dan Smolin writes some persuasive posts on the topic of investing.   I'm categorizing this post under "snake oil" because of a point that Smolin repeatedly makes:  that virtually every investment professional's claim that he/she can help you beat the market is false.  Dan often does a Q&A.  Here's a…

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There might not be a “plausible” way out of this country’s financial mess.

There might not be a plausible way out of our country's financial mess.  That's the opinion of Kevin Phillips, a former republican strategist who works as an economics commentator.  What are the main problems?  [P]hony Washington statistics and warped market measurements make it doubly hard to tell. The federal Consumer…

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How about Tylenol for your child’s cold or fever? How about Tylenol ADVERTISING to rev up a parent’s anxiety?

Check out this current website from Tylenol. You’ll see that McNeil (maker of Tylenol) has heroically and voluntarily removed all of these medicines from the market:

Concentrated TYLENOL® Infants' Drops Plus Cold Concentrated TYLENOL® Infants' Drops Plus Cold & Cough PediaCare® Infant Dropper Decongestant PediaCare® Infant Dropper Long-Acting Cough PediaCare® Infant Drops Decongestant (containing pseudoephedrine) PediaCare® Infant Dropper Decongestant & Cough PediaCare® Infant Drops Decongestant & Cough (containing pseudoephedrine)
Why remove all these children's medicines? According to Tylenol,

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An advantage to having no bones and the ability to change colors.

In addition to being a very smart animal, the octopus has no bones.  Hence, it can pull off this incredible manuver of sqeezing through a one-inch hole. If you liked the first video, you'll also enjoy this much more elaborate octopus video from National Geogaphic.

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