Rick S.

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Falcon: To be perfectly clear, nobody "knows" whether the market is headed up or down. Never. It's always a prediction, and fallible

Wyeth's Alzheimer's Vaccine Could Become World's #1 Drug - Barron's

I'm feeling quite virtuous right now. Several years ago I bought some Elan shares precisely because they were working on Alzheimer's. At the time I thought that someone had to take some shares off the hands of the entrepreneurial investors in order that they could move on to financing another potential biotech biggie. The amount I put in was an amount I decided I could afford to lose--which is what I half expected to do.

Here we are several years later and the Elan bet seems to be panning out. Whatta world we live in!