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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

Stay-at-home mothers watched the cheery announcers on CNBC, the financial cable channel, keeping track of hot investment opportunities while hurrying their children off to school. Grandfathers withdrew money from savings accounts and bought stocks to boost their pensions. Middle managers quit their jobs to become day traders, buying and selling stocks using their home computers. Many start-up companies, with little more than a business plan of how they would make money through the Internet, saw their share prices rise by twenty to thirty times, even though they had never recorded a profit.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

Qi Ye of Tsinghua University told me he has been traveling often to London and Frankfurt to drum up investment opportunities in the carbon-offset markets there, apparently to great effect. Billions in European investments are being steered into China at those exchanges, where companies based in the Kyoto signatory countries buy and sell pollution credits, in order to meet the goals of reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

The Fair Tax: Why it's good for you and good for America Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Those investment opportunities would be found in helping business owners invest in better business practices. A lot of this money would go to small businesses, into publicly traded stocks, and into new venture ideas that would create new jobs and create new employment for America. This is a fantastic benefit that is often overlooked when people discuss the Fair Tax.

In a sense, it would take all of these billions of dollars that are outside the control of the IRS, and bring them back into the system where they can be put to good use helping to create more jobs, better technology and more investment opportunities right here in America. The economy would benefit strongly from such a move. And yet, that's not the last benefit to the Fair Tax. There are many other notable benefits. One of my favorites is that under the Fair Tax, you would no longer have to pay accountants and tax attorneys to shuffle paperwork at the request of the IRS.

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels See book keywords and concepts

The release had been sent to her office at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane in Washington state by an investment firm in New York—demonstrating the close connection between medicine and the marketplace where "diseases" are seen as investment opportunities. The press release was advertising a new product called Alista, an experimental cream to be rubbed on the genitals that offered new hope for "sexual healing" in women.24 But it was not just the unbelievable 43 percent figure that tweaked this reporter's interest.

Drug company investors to experience accelerating losses as pharmaceutical company stock prices continue to fall Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's really not that hard to find examples of companies that are doing good if you just look at investment opportunities and ask yourself what do these companies do. The answer becomes fairly obvious. And the simplest question to ask is: "Is this company creating something or is it destroying something?" When you look at a company like Cyanotech that is harvesting these superfoods, the answer is obvious. It's creating something. It's using natural resources -- sunlight, water, and microalgae -- to create a healing food. But what about a company like a big pharmaceutical company?

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

A Credit Suisse analyst reported that "after spending some time recently with the chief executive of HealthSouth we continue to believe the company represents one of the most attractive investment opportunities in any of the health care service sectors." The data seemed to support Wall Street's endorsement. When Fortune published its list of 100 fastest-growing companies in 1996, there was HealthSouth, planted firmly at No. 40. After Lorello moved to UBS Warburg, HealthSouth became a fixture at the investment firm's annual Global Health Care Services Conference in New York.

With its focused strategy, attractive investment opportunities and experienced management team," one analyst wrote at the time, "the company is well positioned to grow earnings at a rate of 30% for the next few years." Three years later, it was out of business. The failure of many PPMs set off a mad scramble and flurry of litigation among physicians to buy back their practices or disentangle themselves from arrangements that threatened them with financial ruin. Doctors who had been led to believe that PPMs would be beneficial for health care were disillusioned.

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