They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know that it’s true — Neil Sedaka What’s the Greek word for ‘chutzpah’? We don’t know either. But the leader of the communists/socialists, Alexis Tsipras, has it. He must have heard that old saying: “When you owe your bank $100,000, you can’t sleep at…Read more…

Good day. Whew! What a day yesterday in the markets! There was blood in the streets for sure! Things have calmed down a bit overnight and this morning, but the mark that yesterday left on the risk assets is going to be not only felt, but seen for some time. The talk about a Grexit…Read more…

We sometimes hear about diminishing returns in cancer research and development in the big pharmaceutical companies. They tell us, traditional drug discovery techniques have picked most of the low-hanging fruit in the field. Cancer cells are tricky devils, able to quickly mutate resistance to our best available therapies. Revolutions in our understanding of the genome…Read more…