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Within the past week, another drug company has been found to be jacking up prices in a price gouging manner: Valeant Pharmaceuticals International. It is headed up by an ex-McKinseyite – a former consultant, a group marginally better than hedge fund managers. The company’s strategy is to buy up pharmaceuticals instead of investing in R&D….
I’m reading at least 4 books right now, only one of which is fiction. My problem is I just don’t have time and there are so many interesting things to do. Anyway, I have mentioned Future Smart before in conjunction with the author’s envisioned future for money. But the author also talks about – surprise,…
This gets old – the company that is in or was just in bankruptcy keeps changing its books. Every month my boss does variance analysis against the budget that was created earlier in the year (and not forwarded to the sites that have to manage their money, go figure). I gather the data for her since…
During the week there had been some news articles about Turing Pharmaceuticals and its CEO, Martin Shkreli, jacking up the price of a drug that has been around for at least 60 years, from $13.50 to $750 a pill. The stated reason for doing so: “needed to make a profit”. Um how about: price gouging because…
This is a continuation of a prior post but this time, I will talk about a really interesting kind of macro that I have recently been learning. I knew that you could record macros, you could have a button for starting macros, you could use ctrl+key to start a macro, you could have a macro…
I’ve been working on a set of new projects – some of it pertains to gathering data and performing analysis and some of it requires a bit of automation. The analytical piece is not done and probably will be ongoing. The analysis is only at the beginning stage so there is not much to relay…
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