COOL TIP: Predicting the Price of Produce

Produce prices fluctuate.  Sometimes dramatically.  Take celery.  Normally, you can buy a stalk of this ubiquitous vegetable for about $1.   Yet, currently, its price is 400X higher — closer to $5 in some states.  The …

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ANALYSIS: Our New Monopoly Era

Does it feel like you have fewer and fewer choices of companies providing essential services?  It’s not your imagination.  Consolidation of most all major services in the U.S. has been growing over the last 25 …

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SCAM ALERT: Venus Factor Abuses Women Dieters

Venus Factor is one of a number of so-called diets peddled on the Internet, except that it specifically targets women.   Like other Internet scams, this one offers significant weight-loss or body-shaping results, but don’t believe …

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Water Fasting: Is It Good For You?

Fasting.   It’s all the rage.   From the 5:2 diet and intermittent to more extreme fasting methods, people are now talking about ketosis and fasting like they used to talk about sports.   Even Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are …

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