"X-BODY Announces Multi-Million Dollar Development Alliance With Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd., A Leading Pharmaceutical Company In China, To Develop Novel Therapeutic Antibodies..."  hit headlines earlier in April on an international level.  Headlines however ostensibly in sector framework.  In other words, unless you were looking for news of that subject, it might have been hard to find.

Version of the article located at   and  starts out with "WALTHAM, Mass. and LIANYUNGANG, China, Apr...
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Not everything in this post is written tightly strung together.  A few thoughts for the moment:

QE, quantitative easing.

Remember a few years ago, when hurricanes went through the southern part of the U.S., and people with house owner insurance policies, had their policies fail to pay out?  What guarantees that the same sort of thing won't happen again, if wildfires come blowing through the land in the 10s of thousands of square miles at a time, and far more destructive than what anyone could h...
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The 2014 fiscal budget plan has had presentments in the news.  Some get more money, some get less money.

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The housing market, how much has it bounced back? Is the housing market status one big amalgam that can be judged as good, bad, or bouncing back, or, are there many different dynamics that comprise it, where there are aspects that have improved, and aspects that are still about the same?

Mortgage rates for an average residential property now are almost 'unthinkable' in terms of how low they are. Rates in the 3s. A good thing, bad thing, for everybody?

The rate of unemployment, does it hav...

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