When Gary Cypres' sports memorabilia collection reached 10,000 pieces and threatened to overflow their house, his wife told him to get it out. The man who made his money in the finance, mortgage and travel agency businesses did just that, developing the Sports Museum of Los Angeles.

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US sports history on display at new L.A. museum (AP via Yahoo! News)

As a pointless exercise in self-flagellation, it's fun to look back and wonder how you should have invested your money in the last year. You'd have ditched stocks and bonds, of course, and you would have avoided real estate. And if you really had foresight, you would have bet the rent on Barack O...

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Obama Memorabilia Is Selling Like Hotcakes (Washington Post)