Month: December 2014

Retirement: Is the 4% rule still relevant

USA TODAY: …In short, it’s a guideline that helps retirees determine how much money they should take from their nest egg each year. The goal is to help make sure the money lasts. In other words, if you adhere to the rule and have a nest egg of $500,000, you should limit your withdrawals for […]

Cancer Death Rate Drop Spares 1.5 Million Americans

NBC: The pace of cancer deaths is falling in every state, but Southern states have generally posted the smallest decreases (15 percent) while Northeastern states have marked the biggest reductions (25 to 30 percent), according to the data, published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Between 2007 and 2011 – the most recent five […]

Mike Gravel to Head Marijuana Company

POLITICO: …Parent company Cannabis Sativa, Inc. announced that the Alaskan Democrat and former presidential long-shot contender will run its subsidiary, KUSH, as CEO. Among other cannabis products, KUSH will make a lozenge called “Kubby.”… Gravel has been an outspoken advocate for the legalization of marijuana and against the war on drugs. “It’s so controversial because […]

Greek Patience With Austerity Nears Its Limit

NEW YORK TIMES: …Nowhere have austerity policies been more aggressively tried — and generally failed to live up to results promised by advocates — than inGreece. After more than four years of belt tightening, patience is wearing thin, and tentative signs of improvement have not yet trickled down into the lives of average Greeks… In […]

PA Supreme Court throws out child sex-offender registration

ABC27 / AP: Pennsylvania’s highest court says a law that requires lifetime registration for juvenile sex offenders isn’t constitutional. The Supreme Court ruled 5-to-1 on Monday that the state’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act doesn’t allow juvenile defendants the necessary ability to challenge the presumption they’re likely to reoffend. Marsha Levick with the Juvenile […]

Tsukerman on Russia Index

Index of articles written by Slava Tsukerman Shocking inauguration of Vladimir Putin Protest meetings in Moscow brutally suppressed Putin’s Cult Unexpected European Sensation The New Russian Government to rewrite history (again) The March of Millions Why was the scandal created by the Russian Government? St. Petersburg’s Scarlet Sails Festival Russian police attitude towards demonstrators Flood […]