In Seattle recently, I met a pulmonologist who said that the H1N1 virus has him busier than he's ever been, his hospital beds full of flu patients. The uptick hit particularly hard about 10 days ago, he said. How has the flu been playing out across the country? ... Read the full post ... Read more

There are dozens of biotech companies and several Big Pharma firms that hope to make money on swine flu treatments, mostly vaccines. They are driven by the WHO’s estimate that nearly a third of the people in the world could contract the disease over the next two years. The really wide outbrea ... Read more

Traders continue to be influenced by the pandemic of Swine Flu in Mexico. Fears of reduced short term economic activity have traders moving out of riskier, higher yielding currencies into the safe haven Dollar and Yen. Crude Oil prices also fell yesterday as investors fear a weakening ... Read t ... Read more

FINTAG COMMENT Glue sniffing. We are facing some terrible moral panics at the moment and my attempts at sticking together some solutions has been met with difficulty. My quest to find a new low tax haven has been thwarted by Swine Flu that has from nowhere come and threatened the whole of our exist ... Read more