Whether all-out currency wars (in the form of trade protection) will emerge in 2011 is harder to tell.

ECONOMIST: A bearish perspective on the market in 2011

The irony is that the best way to protect yourself in public speaking is to give up any thought of self-protection at all.

FORBES: Public Speaking Is Risky Business

Whatever the reason, the bottom line is clear: Breast-feeding offers broad protection against both major types of breast cancer in women of all ages.

NPR: Study: Breast-Feeding Decreases Cancer Risk

In terms of self-protection, the Home Office advises the public to be above all vigilant.

BBC: The threat

Unfortunately, too many asset protection planners are all about marketing, and too little about what actually happens in creditor-debtor litigation.

FORBES: Fraudulent Transfer Leads To Punitive Damages And Attorney's Fees Equal To Six Times The Amount Of The Underlying Judgment In Renbolt

One problem (there are many, many others) is that all kinds of complicated rules shave off so much of the return in those good stock-market year that the protection in bad years comes at a very stiff price.

FORBES: Thinking Of Buying An Indexed Annuity? Read This First

Fortunately, despite all the huff and puff of lawmakers, video games seem content to bask in the glow of well-earned First Amendment protection.

FORBES: Video Games are Now Cigarettes with New Proposed Taxes, Labels and Restrictions

One could argue that we need governments to provide public goods, which are goods for which provision for one means provision for all with an extreme difficulty excluding non-payers, but the recent Tennessee fire shows that fire protection, at least in rural areas, is a private good.

FORBES: Fight My Fire: Government or the Market?