Betting on Yourself

Spencer Ackerman reports from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

Goldman Sachs just announced that its legendary economist Jim O'Neill would be retiring later this year. In September, Business Insider asked O'Neill what economists and books shaped the way he thinks. "Gosh where to start?" he said.

My claims that you are not required to bet your views have received enough denunciations (mostly commentators on other blogs) that I feel it is time to rub some salt into the open wounds. 

For years people have been searching for the "perfect diet" like they were hunting the Holy Grail. But which diets actually work?

By Ron Rowland:RydexShares rolled out two additions to its menu of equal weight ETFs on August 4.

By Michael Johnston:Rydex, the issuer behind the ultra-popular S&P Equal Weight ETF (RSP), announced this week the introduction of two new ETFs that offer equal-weighted exposure to the S&P MidCap 400 Index and S&P SmallCap 600 Index. The new ETFs include: