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Meeting tomorrow. at the meeting this time last year, the fed hiked rates in almost a decade. investors are expecting the same. there is now a 95% chance the fed will raise rates on wednesday. what that will do is make mortgages and credit cards and car loans more expensive. wall street will be reading the fed statement very carefully to see what clues it may give to when the next interest rate hike is coming. also getting more expensive this season, gas prices because of this. huge run up of ...

Childs weight at birth. number of people in the household. whether or not mom smokes and moms profession. why? look at one scenario. take a couple of people. parents with a body mass index of 24. high side of normal. two family members. she doesnt smoke. birth weight of the child is 8.8 pounds. mom is professional or entrepreneur. probability for that child to become obese, 2.21%. watch, if you change mom to profession to unskilled, apprentice or unemployed, it skyrockets to 15.1%. what if mom s...

Childs birth weight, number of people in the household and whether mom spokes smoke and moms profession. parental bmi of 24. that is high side of normal. two people in the household. mom did not smoke. baby came in 8.8 pounds. mama a professional and entrepreneur. probability for obesity for that child, 2.21%. change the unemployed. the number skyrockets to 15.19%. reason why? people of lower income households tend to eat less healthy foods. much more loaded with sugar. more fast-foods and put o...

Who take vitamins, 53 studies of more than 500 people, none have shown a benefit. and if a man takes vitamin e every day, 17% higher risk of prostate cancer. women who take multivitamins have higher risk of disease. never a positive. clearly some negatives. why do people do it? >> i think people will be shocked when they hear that stat that you just said. in the medicine cabinet, aspirin and stat ins, good or bad? >> look at aspirin, right? if everyone in our country spent $2.21 a year and took ...

Mariano rivera shags fly balls in the outfield before the yankee game with the royals. falls awkwardly, trying to make a catch. collapses into a heap. immediately, grabs that right knee. the diagnosis, torn acl. done for the season, perhaps his career. with his mlb streak of 15 consecutive season of 20 saves or more could be done. he was emotional after the game after getting his diagnosis. >> it happened for a reason. and i just have to deal with it. >> do you think youll come back to pitch aga...

In fact, a torn acl. hed said in his preseason already that this might be his last season. now this season is over, so what does that mean? is his career over? numbers alone cannot tell the full story of what mariano rivera has meant to the yankees over the last decade and a half. his career accomplishments, unmatched for a closer. 608 saves, the most in the history of the game. his 2.21 era, the lowest among any active pitcher with at least 1,000 career innings. hes been particularly brilliant,...

Decidedly bullish investor who knows a bar begin when he or she sees it. >> a lot of these corporations -- the ones you mentioned are doing very, very well in this economy. theres a tremendous amount of industries and industry groups health care is one of our favorites -- that are growing very rapidly. technology. growing very rapidly. a lot of consumer discretionary areas, especially restaurants doing very welch these companies are creating wealth for people. yes, the market can be more volatil...