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Moneylife Digital Team 24 February 2014
The art and science of managing delays Economist George Akerlof (who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001) was spending a year in India, after graduate school, and his friend and fellow economist, Joseph Stiglitz (also a Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences in 2001), visited...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 February 2014
Need help in legal matters? Moneylife Foundation has launched a new helpline and Legal Resource Centre that aims to provide help in 10 specific areas, like filing complaints, guidance on RTI, PILs, housing societies as well as wills and nominations   Moneylife Foundation on Friday...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 February 2014
For those seeking legal help, Moneylife Foundation’s new initiative—Legal Resource Centre, will provide support to individuals seeking legal guidance. Here’s how the LRC works   After receiving several requests for legal guidance, Moneylife Foundation has setup Legal Resource Centre...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 February 2014
The WhatsApp buy is Facebook’s biggest acquisition and comes less than two years after Mark Zuckerberg raised $16 billion from its IPO Social networking company Facebook said it would buy WhatsApp, the fast-growing mobile messaging service for $19 billion in cash and stock.   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 February 2014
The WhatsApp buy is Facebook’s biggest acquisition and comes less than two years after Mark Zuckerberg raised $16 billion from its IPO Social networking company Facebook said it would buy WhatsApp, the fast-growing mobile messaging service for $19 billion in cash and stock.   The...

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Naveena Sadasivam (ProPublica) 19 February 2014
In California, hydrogen-fuelled cars are gaining in popularity. Will their safety issues garner greater scrutiny? It was just before 3 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon and traffic was moving smoothly on the Pomona Freeway, about 20 miles outside downtown Los Angeles. Suddenly, a truck...

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Afghanistan president Karzai has maintained close contact with India and has been working for alternative trade routes to increase bilateral business, as Pakistani attitudes can change as often as the weather The Afghanistan government is at the cross-roads and the President...

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Stories of price manipulation Yoga to the Fore The conventional ‘risk factors’ model of medical care has come to grief with the 25-year-long follow-up of the largest ‘scientific’ study, MRFIT (multiple risk factor interventional trial). It shows that, while the so-called risk factors...

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Marshall Allen (ProPublica) 14 February 2014
The National Quality Forum says it approved allowing Dr Christine Cassel collect six-figure compensation to serve on the boards of health care companies affected by the group's work   The top executive at the country’s pre-eminent health care quality organization is being paid...

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David Epstein (ProPublica) 13 February 2014
The web of dubious connections, suspect medicine and outsize risks behind America’s top sprinter’s failed drug test and ruined reputation   This story was co-published with Sports Illustrated. Last July, U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay held the fastest 100-meter time in the world. He...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 10 February 2014
Oregon, Minnesota, Maryland and Massachusetts are still struggling to get back on track after a disastrous launch that makes HealthCare.gov look successful by comparison Much has been written (and will continue to be written) about the spectacular failure of health insurance exchanges in...

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Healthy people are treated with drugs, leading to adverse reactions, demanding more drugs! William Osler, one of the great thinkers in modern medicine said, way back in 1905, that when a patient is not doing well, there should NOT be any intervention. Even today, his statement...

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Medical developments from around the world Risk Factors The first-ever “Diet-Heart Study”, in Framingham, which spent $110 million of taxpayers’ money, showed no relationship between the diet and heart disease at the end of five years. The ‘Heart-Food’ industry in America, which had by...

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Glimpses of John Bogle‘s remarkable life The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its shareholders”; thus wrote legendary mutual fund pioneer, John Bogle, in his thesis at Princeton. He served, and continues to serve, the common investor in the United States and an inspiration...

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The fascinating story behind Twitter’s success Communication forms the core of our daily lives. Methods of communication have been improved over centuries—right from inscriptions on clay tablets, to the Gutenberg Press, to telephone and, now, Internet. Indeed, Internet has made the world...

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Hitisha Jain 06 February 2014
AIREP is a unique exercise to transform lives in villages through knowledge and empowerment “Where the mind is without fear and the head held high; where knowledge is free…” These famous lines by Rabindranath Tagore are recited by all, but does anyone work at making it happen? Well, two...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 06 February 2014
More than 70% of companies in the queue for Super Bowl XLVIII spots have been accused of false or deceptive marketing within the last five years by either regulators, competitors, consumers in class-action lawsuits, or the industry’s own self-regulatory board Super Bowl commercials are...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 05 February 2014
Americans in violent neighbourhoods are developing post-traumatic stress disorder at rates similar to combat veterans. Why aren’t hospitals screening them? It costs money Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has one of the busiest trauma centres in the nation, treating about 2,000 patients a...

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Here is the introductory speech by Debashis Basu about Dr Ashok Khemka, the Secretary to Haryana government. Dr Khemka addressed an august audience at Moneylife Foundation’s 4th Anniversary last week in Mumbai I have the honour and immense pleasure of introducing Dr Ashok Khemka. I would...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 February 2014
Lloyds will make provisions of £1.8 billion for claims relating to the mis-selling of payment protection insurance or PPI, and £130 pounds for mis-selling of interest rate hedging products, taking its total hit to about £10 billion in the PPI scandal Britain’s state-rescued lender Lloyds...

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