[STARWISE]

I guess some banks are finally lending ...

[Gondring]

Not to take the thread off-topic, but I want to again remind anyone planning a "post-breakdown survival" stance that they should figure out now how to synthesize any required medications.

Since that's not likely going to work, I fear that if society does break down, many people won't last long enough for their guns, gas, and grub to mean much. :-(

[VanShuyten]

...would acquire Wyeth for a combination of $26 billion in cash as well as loans and stock, the newspaper said, citing people involved in the negotiations. The report said five banks have agreed to lend Pfizer $22.5 billion to finance the deal...

So this is being financed with your tax dollars. That's better than spending it on bailing out illegal aliens with $500,000 mortgages, I guess.

[browniexyz]

No, they’re betting on the American people bailing them out in the terms of the economic stimulus bill. Look up the provisions benefitting pharmaceutical companies!! We are SO stupid!

[JerseyHighlander]

Can’t be good for the last bastion of conservative voters in NJ. Madison, NJ is Wyeth’s Research and Corporate HQ, Pfizer just axed many thousands, Wyeth will be assimilated through redundancies in short order.