So what is the 'Naderites' cut in this ?They see themselves as Activist champions of the consumer. Which is cool, but often IME Activists are as biased as those they accuse of being biased. ;-)
399m is interest on what ? 802m that includes that very interest ?You'd be earning compound interest in the bank so that's the benchmark you have to exceed to make the investment worthwhile- plus a risk loading for the fact that you might lose it all.
Well, when over-inflated R&D costs are directly helping you increase value of your stocksAccording to your link, these companies want to *reduce* their R&D cost and spread the payback over a larger patent period. So which is it? ;-)
I don't think so; There is so much accumalated money in their coffuers, that weather they
like it or not they have to invest it.Have you read "Atlas Shrugged" by any chance? I don't agree with everything in that book but parts of it seem chillingly accurate.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
