ROCK STARS DIE YOUNG

THE WEEK (2007) 9/21/

(24)ROCK STARS DIE YOUNG. It seems oblivious but researchers have surveyed the age of all the rock stars listed in Billboard in terms of mortality. Where the general population is around the late 79's, American rockers die at 42 and Brit's at 35. It is an occupational hazard. Some of the risk factors include drug overdose, high stress, road accidents, and sexual diseases.

The USA is having a bi-polar epidemic that keeps growing. It may that the diagnosis is overused or

more folks are seeking treatment.

The first kiss seems to be a deal breaker for those that go on to marry. There are social biological explanations.

There is a new schizophrenic drug that has less side effects.

Human beings are now fully mapped in the genome project.

Smoking has lasting damage even years after you quit, but if you quit now you are still healthier and will live a longer healthier life than if you continue to smoke.

(16) Prostitution is now openly available in Las Vegas. Authorities are now looking the other way.

TIME ( 2007) 7/24

(27) tHE VIRTUAL WORLD OF SECOND LIFE is now becoming a

reality show. If you are familiar with second life, it is a life in which you join  the virtual world

of Second Life. You create your own world and live in a Pleasentville like

atmosphere. HBO has picked up the rights to the show.

(88) Watch for KID NATION. A society is set up for 40 youngster in an old abandoned

movie lot of western buildings. Supposedly they are on their own. However, there are many

supports throughout the whole program including a gentle host who helps a little 8 year old

to choose to go home to his pa rents..

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2007) 9/24

ZUCKERMAN (72) The economy as described in the past is no longer the same. They may have always been true, but it is true now. Hedge funds are based on math models that take into account yesterdays economy. Securitization and bundling of valuable and worthless asset paper together means that no one knows for sure what a bundle is worth in a trade so banks are going to charge higher rates for the risk of buying those bundles. Cheap money was poured into the market after

9/11, it went to the rich and they bought very profitable sub prime loans. We are on the verge of a 21st century bank run. Risk is back big time. The rate cut this week will help the economy to

borrow. Ultimately, we will have cheaper dollars and the potential of a dollar crisis. That means

that foreign investing banks dump the dollars and the USA goes into a depression.

THE ECONOMIST suggest that weak dollars will help us sell our exports.

Ultimately, whatever happens, we are much poorer than in the days leading up to supply side economics.