Your Meals and Your Money

Your Money or Your Life: Managing Health, Managing Money

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this paper examines the relationship between non-collateralized debt (NCD) and health behaviors. The results reveal that households whose members tend to lead less healthy lifestyles are more likely to hold NCD. Obesity of either spouse is associated with about 7 percentage point increase in the probability of holding NCD. Similarly, wife’s smoking is a...

Economic credentialing: your money or your life!

The economic overhaul of health care in America is restructuring the business of medicine, and with it the relationship between physician and patient. Previously accustomed to thinking primarily about the best interests of each patient, the physician now finds this traditional loyalty in conflict with competing concerns, including those of government, business, and insurers who watch with alarm...

Put your money where your mouth is.

Stealing Your Money Through

Cyber criminals are using advanced attacks to exploit online banking systems and services to covertly steal money. This paper describes the tactics currently used by cyber criminals to conduct cyber bank robbery. The Art of Cyber Bank Robbery earn approximately $25,000. Recent botnets such as Zeus, SpyEye, and Citadel have infected millions of machines. If the same formula is applied, potential...

Our Blood Your Money

On June 3, 1939, Donegal-born James C. Magee was appointed U.S. Army Surgeon General by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On May 31, 1940, Magee appointed Professor Walter B. Cannon of Harvard University as Chairman of the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Shock and Transfusion. In 1938 Brigadier Lionel Whitby was appointed Director of an autonomous U.K. Army Blood Transfusion Serv...