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...gold is not an important part of your portfolio? I've never understood gold and why you would want to own an asset that has no income return and actually costs you money to own and store. I sort of agree with what [Warren] Buffett said, about how he never understood why they send a bunch of men 5,000 feet under the ground in Africa to bring out this metal, and then they ship it all across the world and it's buried 1,000 feet underground at the Bank of England and the U.S. Treasury. There is something...
...Wilson's hometown, gave the President miniature ivory portraits of his parents. George W. Bush in 2006 got a belt buckle from visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and cuff links from his staff. But the best presents of all have been the priceless ones. On Nov. 2, 1920, Warren Harding returned from a golfing excursion to find 55 small pink candles on a frosted white cake. Then he sat back to await the election returns - and learned he had been elected President. On May 8, 1945, Harry Truman got an even better gift for his 61st birthday: Germany surrendered...
This line of reasoning is most closely identified with Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and the current chairwoman of the congressionally appointed committee overseeing the Treasury's bailout efforts. In a 2007 article in the journal Democracy, Warren argued for what she called a Financial Product Safety Commission. But the idea isn't exclusive to her. Canada, which did not suffer the subprime woes of its southern neighbor, created a consumer financial agency in 2001. Australia and the Netherlands have taken the more ambitious step of consolidating all consumer and market oversight under one financial regulator while leaving soundness...
...other things, such as comedy and fighting lions. Christians aren't funny because they tend to be literal-minded. Also because they're sad about having had sex with only one person. So when Kevin Roose, author of the excellent new book The Unlikely Disciple, told me that Rick Warren's giant Saddleback Church has its own improv group, for the first time in my life, I felt my calling. I may not be the Woody Allen or Jon Stewart of the secular world, but in the land of the unfunny Christian, the one-joked Jew is king. (See pictures...
After we prayed about some burgers and then ate some burgers, a troupe member took me to the worship center to see the end of the sermon being given by Warren, who apparently was our warm-up act. He did not make me laugh once. Then as the full house of 160 took their seats in a small meeting room next to the church, we gathered to pray about our performance. Preshow praying, as most professional comedians will tell you, is not quite as confidence-building as shots of Cuervo. (See TIME's 2008 cover on Rick Warren...