Biotech Values

[poorgradstudent]

OT:

>Government spending for big and important infrastructure, especially now that private sector spending is down.<

I very much hate Tom Friedman, believe he's a very poor practitioner of the English language, and couldn't reason his way out of the proverbial wet paper bag. However, he had this comment a week ago that nailed it:


"China is doing moon shots. Yes, that’s plural. When I say “moon shots” I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: one is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a web of high-speed trains connecting major cities; a third is in bioscience, where the Beijing Genomics Institute this year ordered 128 DNA sequencers — from America — giving China the largest number in the world in one institute to launch its own stem cell/genetic engineering industry; and, finally, Beijing just announced that it was providing $15 billion in seed money for the country’s leading auto and battery companies to create an electric car industry, starting in 20 pilot cities. ... Not to worry. America today also has its own multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing moon shot: fixing Afghanistan."