Opinion

Here’s some great news: Researchers have made significant progress on a new treatment for halting heart disease.  Even better is that it has potential to reverse damage to arteries that has already occurred. These exciting developments, which could affect tens of millions of people, are findings of a new study recently made by the Stanford School of Medicine. 

Joe has no food in his home and has no money to shop at the supermarket. Only one thing is keeping him and his family from starving: foods banks, the charitable organizations that distribute food to the needy.  Asking for a handout leaves a very bad taste in anyone’s mouth.  Unfortunately, Joe and the many millions of Americans and their families in the same predicament are left with no choice.

For millennia, anyone who had a shovel, a pick, and a dream could become a miner.  New technology will change this.  Not only will it make shovels and picks obsolete but miners too.  The reason: Mining will be done in space.

With so much attention still focused on the pandemic and its consequences, it’s easy to forget that many millions of people are suffering from a different problem: depression. This often takes a huge toll on a person’s well-being, and that’s especially unfortunate because even severe cases can be treated.

Lots of speculators made big bucks earlier this year in gold, silver, and day trading.  Others did even better in a very different venue: buying and selling sports cards.

They say that money goes to money - and if you don’t believe this maxim, take a look at the statistics compiled by the Fed for the first half of 2020. They show that the 50 richest Americans have almost as much money as the 165 million poorest.