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Off label drug pushers

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

Mike sends a response to rdan on off-label drugs

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

Dean Baker, Wall Street and the Economy

rdan Dean Baker says: Wall Street and the Economy Suppose Timothy Geithner announced a new program that would tax every family $10,000 dollars and give the money to Wall Street

Champaign Bottle corks are popping today

…mortgages. To a skeptic, Paulson’s proposal looks like another of those shell games that Wall Street has honed to a fine art. Wall Street has always made money by slicing,…

Closing Wall Street’s casino

…and one side wins,” Stout said. Actually they are worse than that, since the hefty fees Wall Street pockets for arranging the bets result in a less-than-zero-sum game. As Wall