Comments on: the rhodes trust squares off against wall street http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/11/24/the-rhodes-trust-squares-off-against-wall-street/ exploring science, the strange and the unknown Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:33:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Uncle Al http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/11/24/the-rhodes-trust-squares-off-against-wall-street/#comment-8133 Uncle Al Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:24:17 +0000 http://worldofweirdthings.com/?p=8779#comment-8133 Big Pharma's statin sales exceeded $15 billion in 2008; $13.6 billion for prescription proton-pump inhibitors; $7 billion for SSRIs in the US alone, Advair and Plavix $7 billion each. If you want clever chemists, mark 1% of sales as bonuses. Everybody wants to work for the Boston firm of Mèirleach, Tuilí, Craosaire, and Bitheolaíoch. The simple and obvious solution is to invest a year or three of Rhodes Scholarships exclusively to codified diversity goals. Activist social capital to be gained is immense. Wall Street would Rhodes Scholar hire itself into Inner Wall Street - a sacrosanct celebration of belligerant vociferous dysfunction (but the other way). Big Pharma’s statin sales exceeded $15 billion in 2008; $13.6 billion for prescription proton-pump inhibitors; $7 billion for SSRIs in the US alone, Advair and Plavix $7 billion each. If you want clever chemists, mark 1% of sales as bonuses. Everybody wants to work for the Boston firm of Mèirleach, Tuilí, Craosaire, and Bitheolaíoch.

The simple and obvious solution is to invest a year or three of Rhodes Scholarships exclusively to codified diversity goals. Activist social capital to be gained is immense. Wall Street would Rhodes Scholar hire itself into Inner Wall Street – a sacrosanct celebration of belligerant vociferous dysfunction (but the other way).

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