Serious Medicine Strategy: Is “Health-care nation” a bad thing, or a good thing? The elites have one view, the people have another view.

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Serious Medicine Strategy: “A Sunrise Industry: Life Sciences and the Genomics Wave”

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Serious Medicine Strategy: Is Healthcare IT a White Elephant? Or Are Semi-Luddites on the Loose?

http://seriousmedicinestrategy.blogspot.com/2009/12/semi-luddites-on-loose.html

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Crude Falls On Stronger Dollar

Crude Falls On Stronger Dollar

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Oil below $75 as OPEC ministers flag steady output (AP)

Oil prices fell below $75 a barrel Monday as the dollar strengthened and several OPEC ministers said they don’t expect their group to change production levels at a meeting later this month.

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Japan Shares Make Broad Gains With JAL Up 9%

Japan Shares Make Broad Gains With JAL Up 9%

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Senate considers excise tax on elective cosmetic surgery

If you’re considering an eyelift or tummy tuck, you might want to have it done before next year.

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Traders facing Fed, dollar questions this week (AP)

Be careful what you wish for. Investors have been hoping for signs that the economy is strong enough to justify continuing Wall Street’s nine-month rally. They got the surest evidence yet Friday when the government said employers cut fewer jobs in November than at any time since the recession began in late 2007.

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Many Mutual Funds Are Up 50% in ‘09 — But Beware

Mutual funds that beat the stock market in 2009 are likely to be investor favorites for 2010. But a new report says investors should beware of 2009 stars.

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Jobless professionals vie for holiday sales work (AP)

Mara Proctor used to design limestone hearths and columns for luxury homes near Kansas City, drawing on her college education and six years of training.

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In 1975 US government pushed ‘the coming ice age’…

http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/climate-science-gore-intelligent-technology-sutton.html

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Avoid Retirement Planning Mishaps

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Retirement planning presents lots of opportunities to get things wrong. We asked some pros to talk about some of their clients’ more common mistakes.

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Questions for a Financial Planner

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Investors are more aware that not all financial advisers have their best interests at heart, but they may still miss costly moves.

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Watch Timing of Donations and Income

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The age-old advice for most taxpayers around this time of year is simple: accelerate deductions and delay income. But there can be important exceptions.

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2010 Will Be the Year of the Roth IRA

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New tax rules are about to give more people access to a Roth IRA, one of the most effective vehicles in which to accumulate money for retirement or heirs.

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Southwest Traffic Rises 12% in November

Southwest Airlines (LUV) announced on Friday that traffic rose 12% in November from the previous year, and that even though the number of flights were reduced, each flight was fuller.

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Hate Your Job? Here’s How to Reshape It

With unemployment topping 10%, don’t leave your boring job; instead make it better. Here’s the 4-step process to re-creating your job

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Treasury, DoL, look for ways to beef up 401(k) options

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Up for second term, Fed chief heads to Congress (AP)

He angered Congress and the public for bailing out Wall Street. He failed to detect early signs of the housing collapse. And now, he may be helping feed another speculative bubble.

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Google to limit free newspaper articles

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Unemployment rises in almost half of metro areas (AP)

Unemployment worsened or stayed the same in most metro areas in October, the Labor Department said Wednesday, as jobs remained scarce nationwide.

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Google’s Year-End Zeitgeist: A Window into America’s Interests

Twitter has its trends, but Google has billions of search queries, a treasure trove of data that is still the best window into what people are interested in on the Web

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Case concerns student loans, bankruptcy

Four years after Francisco Espinosa took out student loans to attend an Arizona trade school, he had not advanced beyond his job as an airline ramp agent in Phoenix and faced $13,250 in student debt. He declared bankruptcy, and a judge allowed him to pay off part of the loan and wipe out the remaining debt.

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Pension tension on the rise

Retirement plans are on the mend, but the healing process is going to be long and painful.

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Obama Leading Us Right To Great Depression 2

Obama Leading Us Right To Great Depression 2

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After Black Friday, Doubts Grow About a Shopping Uptick

On Black Friday, the West Coast saw a healthy sales increase while the Northeast took a tumble. Overall, shoppers were only interested in bargains.

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Dubai’s threat to U.S. banks

The news that the sovereign wealth fund of Dubai requested a postponement of billions of dollars of debt this week could pose a big problem for U.S. banks.

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Dubai official: Dubai World’s debt its own (AP)

The heavily indebted Dubai World is not guaranteed by the emirate’s government, a top financial official from the city state said Monday, offering little direction to anxious investors on a day when the United Arab Emirates registered a record fall on the back of Dubai’s debt mess.

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Oil Falls For Second Day As Dubai Crisis Continues

Oil Falls For Second Day As Dubai Crisis Continues

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Professors: More homeowners should walk away from loans

More homeowners should walk away from their underwater mortgages.

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