Helen Egmont: Keeping Count

How many people are on your list?

 

I have four on mine. 

 

Four vibrant older New Zealanders with valuable years to live now gone in a flurry of falling bodies and catastrophic cancers.

  

Gone too, for now, the hearts and minds of their distraught families left behind.

Guy Hatchard: The Health of Millions Has Been Affected by a Simple Scam

How biotech and pharmaceutical companies with the help of the Ministry of Health modelled their Covid sales strategy on investment scams.

Last week a college student (with a rich uncle) made $110 million by investing in struggling US retailer Bed Bath and Beyond. BBB’s shares were at a rock bottom $5.50, but the ‘savvy’ student invested $25 million in July which sparked market interest. The share price surged to $27, and then last Tuesday the student sold his stock for $130 million. BBB shares plummeted back down.