Published on Jan 9, 2014

Is poverty a choice? How do the rich and powerful keep the poor down? How do we help the poor? What is the truth about poverty?

A follow up to Stefan appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on 1/6/14: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPGofM…

via ▶ The Truth About Poverty – A Joe Rogan Experience Follow Up – YouTube.

It was a rainy night in October when my nephew Lewis passed the Frankenstein statue standing in front of a toy store. The 2 1/2-year-old boy didnt see the monster at first, and when he turned around, he was only inches from Frankensteins green face, bloodshot eyes and stitched-up skin.

via Editing Your Lifes Stories Can Create Happier Endings : Shots – Health News : NPR.

Published on Jan 4, 2014

For full description and comments, visit: http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast…

This week Chris speaks with Brian Pretti, managing editor of ContraryInvestor.com, a financial commentary site published by institutional buy-side portfolio managers. In their discussion, they focus on the global movement of capital since quantitative easing (QE) became the policy of the world\’s major central banks.

The ensuing excellent discussion is wide ranging, but the key takeaway is that capital is being herded into fewer and fewer asset classes. With such huge volumes of money at play, very crowded trades in assets like stocks and housing have resulted — bringing us back to familiar bubble territory in record time.

The key for the individual, Pretti emphasizes, is risk management. The safety many investors believe they are buying in today\’s markets is not real.

via Brian Pretti: The World’s Capital Is Now Dangerously Boxed In – YouTube.

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The fifth anniversary of Zero Hedge is just around the corner, and so, for the fifth year in a row we continue our tradition of summarizing what you, our readers, found to be the most relevant, exciting, and actionable news of the year, determined objectively by the number of page views. Those eager for a brief stroll down memory lane of prior years can do so at their leisure, by going back in time to our top articles of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. For everyone else, without further ado, these are the articles that readers found to be the most popular posts of the past 365 days.

Read more: 2013 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year | Zero Hedge.

The Metadata Program in Eleven Documents
THE NEW YORKER | DECEMBER 31, 2013
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By the end of 2013, a great number of documents revealed the once-secret history of the National Security Agency’s telephone-metadata program, which, Read more

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