senpaithatignoresyou

Why do they need to merge?

That is the really disturbing question. Those two companies should be doing fine on their own, yet they somehow fell obliged to pay huge stock premiums, and consolidate their debt, to become one giant company.

I wonder if this merger has anything to do with the big Central bank meeting a few months ago, where the Central banks announced that they are no longer able to improve the economy via low interest rates.

Konran

Indeed. The newly invented IMF creation known as the Special Drawing Rights bond has been in operation since August . The Chinese Renminbi will be admitted to join the Japanese Yen, The U.S. Dollar, The British Pound and The Euro on 1st October of this year.

Perhaps this merger is in order to encourage as much inward foreign investment as possible.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

senpaithatignoresyou

Another more disturbing allegation, is that research is too expensive. By the time we make a new medicine, the third world retards mishandle it and it becomes useless again. We restricted antibiotics via prescriptions because of this occurring in the past, and it has given us 70-80 years of product life for most antibiotics. But now mishandling in the 3rd world combined by mobile people has nullified this.

So a massive research consolidation between two research companies would help offset this. Either way you slice it, these two companies feeling the need to merge is a troubling development.

tafkatruke

Finally, genetically modified aspirin!

Konran

I'm not sure if this is a bad thing, or a really bad thing?!