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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (116905)	11/11/2008 11:37:55 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Knighty, what do you think about a trade in merck (buy in $26s, sell in $29s)? the dividend is currently over 5% and americans aren't about to give up their obsession with drugs. that coupled with the continuing decline in american health, i think the only risk is that obama will somehow nationalize a company like merck and jack shareholders. what say the thread's investment czar? --- i just heard a relative is in the hospital with coronary heart disease. a few years back she was an atkins diet fanatic. i think she lost some weight initially, perhaps even a significant amount of weight, but the last time i saw her she was larger than i recall and now her heart is having problems. acute inflammation hurts, silent inflammation kills. the atkins diet is quite inflammatory and generates excess cortisol that wreaks havoc over time.