Category Archives: Media appearances

Iran War: Iran Rejects Trump Claims That Deal Is Near as US Counterproductively Toughens Terms; Hotter Tit-for-Tat Strikes Threaten Ceasefire; What if Trump Continues to Stall When Hitting Energy Cliff ?

Today’s Iran war update: What if Trump fails or refuses to resolve the conflict despite the US going over the energy cliff, projected for July?

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Coffee Break: Lifestyle Medicine, More Quackitude, Ancient Manuscripts, Gut Health, and the Epstein Class

Part the First: Nutrition and Medicine.  The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is not wrong in his emphasis on nutrition (a stopped analog clock is right twice a day).  I don’t know where Lauren Rice is attending medical school in New York City, but her editorial take seems about half right in I’m […]

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Stumpf is Still Faking It – Claims 75% Couldn’t Resist Wells Fargo Credit Cards

In a not-exactly-shocking development of the ongoing Wells Fargo account faking scandal (see our previous coverage here, here and here if you’re late to the party and need a quick catch-up) CEO John Stumpf, fighting a rear-guard action, is making outlandish claims about how, having begun the process of contacting customers who it has cause to […]

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Groundhog Day for NZ FSPs: Bryan Cook of Asia Finance Corporation is a Crook, but Does NZ’s FMA Care?

Why is it Groundhog Day? Back in 2011, I wrote a seriously messy blog post about dodgy New Zealand FSPs (Financial Services Providers), their dodgy web sites and people and addresses, and the evidently nonexistent oversight of all of this by the NZ Ministry of Economic Development and the NZ Companies Office. To my surprise, […]

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