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Sep 19, 2017
Life & Health Advisor - The Financial Planning Association® (FPA®), Ameriprise Financial and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) are pleased to announce the 2017 Financial Planning Challenge finalists.
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Sep 13, 2017
Economic Policy Journal - In The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin provides a pretty decent explanation for why economists cheer on "price gouging" during disasters:[S]everal respected economists from the Milton Friedman school of free-market theory take it seriously. They contend that anti-gouging measures, by effectively enacting price controls during emergencies, remove the incentive for consumers to conserve essential supplies. They also say that the incentive for suppliers to bring goods to dangerous areas - or keep extra stock on-hand before disasters - becomes distorted in ways that hurt people..."
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Sep 12, 2017
Medical Press - While abstaining from sex is the only foolproof way to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, abstinence-only education programs often fail to prevent young people from engaging in sexual activity, according to a report in the September issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
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Sep 11, 2017
Salon - Climate experts seem to agree that there is a connection between the severity of Harvey and Irma and man-made global warming. One of them - Jon Foley, the executive director of the California Academy of Sciences - even went so far as to go on a prolonged tweet storm on the subject.
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