While the term “delinkage” has been around since at least 2005, it is not seen or heard very often. It is the term used in the biomedical field by lawyers and politicians to mean a new way of funding drug R&D such that the patent system could be replaced with the result that a drug monopoly would not exist and drug prices would be significantly lower. One of the advocates of this is Presidential candidate…
Costco wholesale club continues to impress. While many other retailers are struggling to stay alive and relevant, Costco keeps chugging along at a 7% sales growth and an impressive 36 Price/Earnings ratio (32 PE based on foretasted earnings), a PE ratio reserved for rapid growing tech companies not the single digit PE where most retailers find themselves. Investors like this safe, rather counter-cyclical, recession-resistant steady growth company(NASDAQ: COST). Note the huge 4.7 PEG rate (multiple…
A video came cycling around to me that provided gleeful evidence that the Climate Alarmists use sneaky methods to distort the information and make everyone shake in their boots because the world will end in less than 12 years. This guy, Tony Heller (aka Steven Goddard), even went so far as to create a tool to find the best point in any trend graph for best (mis)representing data. As with many such reports, I would…
Patents, Potatoes and Pomegranates “I remember thinking- there cannot be anything clever in delivering beans…” That was the reaction of Lucy Wojcik in 2014 being interviewed for the job of IP attorney at Ocado, an online supermarket company in the United Kingdom. It does furrow eyebrows when considering the part, if any, IP would play in a company that grows vegetables and fruits and then distributes them as meals, but now Ms Wojcik has a…
Nice Bloomberg article here. Renewable of Wind and Solar are now cheaper than coal, oil, gas, nuclear. No big need for subsidies to make them competitive. But, there’s also no need, quite the contrary given the externality costs, for subsidizing fossil fuels! Nice article with great graphics show the fall in price for wind and solar.
Sodas will kill you, it seems. Sugar, hfcs, or artificial sweerners, all will shorten your life.! This massive study in Europe followed almost a half million people for an average of 16 years, analyzing death rates. Drinking two or more sodas was correlated to many types of fatal illnesses. Other studies have shown links to cancers and other ails. Doctors recommend water instead. Meanwhile, drinking a glass of beer or wine increases your life and…
