Great Depression versus Great Recession [A Voting Opinion Poll]

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The Great Depression is often compared to the 2001-08  Great Recession. There are some interesting facts when comparing the Great Depression to the Great Recession. It may even be considered scary when laid out directly in front of you.

The cause of the Great Depression was because people were borrowing too much money, unlike the Great Recession where the banks were lending too much money irresponsibly. Don’t forget that what was once a recession turned into the Great Depression because of unemployment rates reaching 25%, bank failures covering half of all banks, and more.

Both Roosevelt and Obama have used “wall street bankers” as a scapegoat.

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Do you think we are going into another Great Depression in 2022?

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PODCAST: Hospital SUPPLY CHAIN Status

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Hospital Supply Chain Optimization Status: Survey Results

A recent survey from Syft of 100 hospital and supply chain leaders found:

 •  65% said better supply chain management could improve margins by 1-3%, with 23% of respondents believing margins can improve by more than 3%.
 •  94% agreed that supply chain analytics can reduce supply chain costs. 76% said it can improve quality.
 •  24% said their organizations identify supply standardization opportunities very well.
 •  32% said it would cost their organizations more than $500,000 annually to meet new supply chain regulations like California Assembly Bill 2357.

Source: Syft via. PRNewswire, December 8, 2021

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UPDATE: The Markets, Gasoline, Recession and the Bear

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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For the domestic markets, the S&P 500 closed down 151 points, or 3.88%. It’s down nearly 22% since January. The Dow was down 876 points (2.79%) and the NASDAQ dropped 530 points (4.68%). And, investors were disappointed to learn that inflation is moving in the wrong direction. U.S. consumer prices surged 8.6% year-over-year in May, to a fresh 40-year high, led by higher prices for energy, food and housing.

For the first time in history, a gallon of regular gasoline now costs $5 on average nationwide, according to AAA, and experts predict gas prices could average $6 a gallon by August.

Moreover, nearly 70% of leading economists expect the US to tumble into a recession as the country grapples with inflation. In a Financial Times poll, the bulk of economists said they expect a recession to be declared in the first half of 2023. The poll comes after US inflation soared to 8.6% in May, outstripping economists’ expectations and piling the pressure on the Fed.

Finally, S&P Global says a 20% decline in the S&P 500 on a closing basis from its previous peak is all it takes to define a bear market. Which means that this bear market is already more than five months old, since the S&P 500 all-time high came on January 3rd, 2022.

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What is an [Famous] ECONOMIST?

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

The Top 15 Most Famous?

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15 Famous Economists and Their Contributions That’ll Truly Amaze You

According to Wikipedia, an economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are many sub-fields, ranging from the broad philosophical theories to the focused study of minutiae within specific markets, macroeconomic analysis, microeconomic analysis or financial statement analysis, involving analytical methods and tools such as econometrics, statistics, economics computational models, financial economics, mathematical finance and mathematical economics.

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How [DOCTORS] Construct Investment Portfolios That Protect Them

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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“ASK AN ADVISOR“

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Question: How do you construct investment portfolios and determine position sizes (weights) of individual stocks?

I wanted to discuss this topic for a long time, so here is a very in-depth answer.
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For a while in the value investing community the number of positions you held was akin to bragging on your manhood– the fewer positions you owned the more macho an investor you were. I remember meeting two investors at a value conference. At the time they had both had “walk on water” streaks of returns. One had a seven-stock portfolio, the other held three stocks. Sadly, the financial crisis humbled both – the three-stock guy suffered irreparable losses and went out of business (losing most of his clients’ money). The other, after living through a few incredibly difficult years and an investor exodus, is running a more diversified portfolio today.

Under-diversification: Is dangerous, because a few mistakes or a visit from Bad Luck may prove to be fatal to the portfolio.

On the other extreme, you have a mutual fund industry where it is common to see portfolios with hundreds of stocks (I am generalizing). There are many reasons for that. Mutual funds have an army of analysts who need to be kept busy; their voices need to be heard; and thus their stock picks need to find their way into the portfolio (there are a lot of internal politics in this portfolio). These portfolios are run against benchmarks; thus their construction starts to resemble Noah’s Ark, bringing on board a few animals (stocks) from each industry. Also, the size of the fund may limit its ability to buy large positions in small companies.

There are several problems with this approach. First, and this is the important one, it breeds indifference: If a 0.5% position doubles or gets halved, it will have little impact on the portfolio. The second problem is that it is difficult to maintain research on all these positions. Yes, a mutual fund will have an army of analysts following each industry, but the portfolio manager is the one making the final buy and sell decisions. Third, the 75th idea is probably not as good as the 30th, especially in an overvalued market where good ideas are scarce.

Then you have index funds. On the surface they are over-diversified, but they don’t suffer from the over-diversification headaches of managed funds. In fact, index funds are both over-diversified and under-diversified. Let’s take the S&P 500 – the most popular of the bunch. It owns the 500 largest companies in the US. You’d think it was a diversified portfolio, right? Well, kind of. The top eight companies account for more than 25% of the index. Also, the construction of the index favors stocks that are usually more expensive or that have recently appreciated (it is market-cap-weighted); thus you are “diversified” across a lot of overvalued stocks.

If you own hundreds of securities that are exposed to the same idiosyncratic risk, then are you really diversified?

Our portfolio construction process is built from a first-principles perspective. If a Martian visited Earth and decided to try his hand at value investing, knowing nothing about common (usually academic) conventions, how would he construct a portfolio?

We want to have a portfolio where we own not too many stocks, so that every decision we make matters – we have both skin and soul in the game in each decision. But we don’t want to own so few that a small number of stocks slipping on a banana will send us into financial ruin.

In our portfolio construction, we are trying to maximize both our IQ and our EQ (emotional quotient). Too few stocks will decapitate our EQ – we won’t be able to sleep well at night, as the relatively large impact of a low-probability risk could have a devastating impact on the portfolio. I wrote about the importance of good sleep before (link here). It’s something we take seriously at IMA.

Holding too many stocks will result in both a low EQ and low IQ. It is very difficult to follow and understand the drivers of the business of hundreds of stocks, therefore a low IQ about individual positions will eventually lead to lower portfolio EQ. When things turn bad, a constant in investing, you won’t intimately know your portfolio – you’ll be surrounded by a lot of (tiny-position) strangers.

Portfolio construction is a very intimate process. It is unique to one’s EQ and IQ. Our typical portfolios have 20–30 stocks. Our “focused” portfolios have 12–15 stocks (they are designed for clients where we represent only a small part of their total wealth). There is nothing magical about these numbers – they are just the Goldilocks levels for us, for our team and our clients. They allow room for bad luck, but at the same time every decision we make matters.

Now let’s discuss position sizing. We determine position sizing through a well-defined quantitative process. The goals of this process are to achieve the following: Shift the portfolio towards higher-quality companies with higher returns. Take emotion out of the portfolio construction process. And finally, insure healthy diversification.

Our research process is very qualitative: We read annual reports, talk to competitors and ex-employees, build financial models, and debate stocks among ourselves and our research network. In our valuation analysis we try to kill the business – come up with worst-case fair value (where a company slips on multiple bananas) and reasonable fair value. We also assign a quality rating to each company in the portfolio. Quality is absolute for us – we don’t allow low-quality companies in, no matter how attractive the valuation is (though that doesn’t mean we don’t occasionally misjudge a company’s quality).

The same company, at different stock prices, will merit a higher or lower position size. In other words, if company A is worth (fair value) $100, at $60 it will be a 3% position and at $40 it will be a 5% position. Company B, of a lower quality than A but also worth $100, will be a 2% position at $60 and a 4% position at $40 (I just made up these numbers for illustration purposes). In other words, if there are two companies that have similar expected returns, but one is of higher quality than the other, our system will automatically allocate a larger percentage of the portfolio to the higher-quality company. If you repeat this exercise on a large number of stocks, you cannot but help to shift your portfolio to higher-quality, higher-return stocks. It’s a system of meritocracy where we marry quality and return.

Let’s talk about diversification. We don’t go out of our way to diversify the portfolio. At least, not in a traditional sense. We are not going to allocate 7% to mining stocks because that is the allocation in the index or they are negatively correlated to soft drink companies. (We don’t own either and are not sure if the above statement is even true, but you get the point.) We try to assemble a portfolio of high-quality companies that are attractively priced, whose businesses march to different drummers and are not impacted by the same risks.  Just as bank robbers rob banks because that is where the money is, value investors gravitate towards sectors where the value is. To keep our excitement (our emotions) in check, and to make sure we are not overexposed to a single industry, we set hard limits of industry exposure. These limits range from 10%–20%. We also set limits of country exposure, ranging from 7%–30% (ex-US).

CONCLUSION

In portfolio construction, our goal is not to limit the volatility of the portfolio but to reduce true risk – the permanent loss of capital. We are constantly thinking about the types of risks we are taking. Do we have too much exposure to a weaker or stronger dollar? To higher or lower interest rates? Do we have too much exposure to federal government spending? I know, risk is a four-letter word that has lost its meaning. But not to us. Low interest rates may have time-shifted risk into the future, but they haven’t cured it.

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PODCAST: Optum – The $101 Billion Division of United Health Group Explained

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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More on Concierge, Retail, Cash Pay and Boutique Medicine; etc [SAM’S CLUB]

Posted on June 11, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Sam’s Club Launches Innovative Pilot to Help Make Healthcare More Affordable

 

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I devoted a full chapter of my book; “The Business of Medical Practice” to concierge and boutique medicine, retail medicine, direct, cash and private pay medicine; etc. We included terms and definitions, process and methodologies, marketing and advertising, and examples, etc. In fact, who knew I was so prescient and the landscape would finally begin evolving.

For example, we recently learned about Sam’s Club offering targeted “bundles” of health care services collaborating with Humana. https://lnkd.in/ejHGGzk

And, earlier, we learned of Amazon’s new virtual / primary care clinic model. And of course, in the past couple of weeks, Walmart’s (Sam’s affiliate) opening their freestanding clinics, along with new behavioral health services, as well.

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SURVEY: Surgical Cost Spending

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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EHIR was started nearly a decade ago out of a need for objective support in identifying and assessing emerging solutions to sift through the noise and stay ahead of the curve amid a rapidly changing competitive landscape. EHIR provides a streamlined and efficient innovation intake and evaluation process along with valuable insights to the world’s leading employers.

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Employer Health Innovation Roundtable, LLC

4 KEY Findings

 •  The survey found that 59% indicated lowering costs was a very high, or high, priority – up from 52% prior to the pandemic.
 •  Over half of the employers surveyed indicated that surgical costs were a significant issue, with surgery accounting for 34% of their total healthcare spend. About 75% noted that by controlling surgery costs, they can largely reduce their total spend.

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*  Even though 69% of employers have a COE (Center of Excellence), the majority of them have been implemented within the past two years, and not with an eye to specifically reducing surgical costs.
 *  Only 9% of respondents rely on carrier-sponsored COEs, which suggests that they are seeking out third-party vendors for this benefit, as either the sole COE provider or as a partner with the employer’s health plan carrier.

Source: EHIR and Carrum Health via PRNewswire, May 4, 2022

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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDY: Physician Vertical Integration

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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DEFINITION: Vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is integrated and owned by that company. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or service, and the products combine to satisfy a common need.

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Study: Vertical Integration Not Financially Beneficial for Physicians


A study released in the December 2021 issue of Health Affairs examined the correlation between hospital/health system ownership of physician practices and physician compensation. While a number of studies have analyzed the “rapidly growing trend” of vertical integration from the hospital/health system perspective, this is the first study to evaluate vertical integration from the physician practice perspective.

This Health Capital Topics article will discuss the study’s findings and potential implications. (Read more…) 

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The RETURN of Paper Dental Records?

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Darrell Pruitt DDS

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More reasons to stick with paper if you haven’t yet become paperless, Doc 

“Paying Ransomware Paints Bigger Bullseye on Target’s Back – Ransomware attackers often strike targets twice, regardless of whether the ransom was paid. Paying ransomware attackers doesn’t pay off and often paints a bigger target on a victim’s back. Eighty percent of ransomware victims that paid their attackers were hit a second time by the malware scourge.” – Threatpost, June 8, 2022.

Paying Ransomware Paints Bigger Bullseye on Target’s Back

A dentist can avoid the second ransomware attack by returning to paper … What? Yeah. I said it.

“New ransomware numbers come from a Cybereason’s April ransomware survey of 1,456 cybersecurity professionals. According to the gated report (registration required), victims that were successfully extorted were not only targeted a second time, but frequently data encrypted by criminals later became unusable during the decryption process because of corruption issues.”

OR – one can retire!

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SURVEY: Tele-Health Weekly Visits

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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% Providing Video Telehealth Visits to 5+ Patients Per Week

 •  Primary Care Physician: 74%
 •  Behavioral Health Provider: 88%
 •  Registered Nurse: 62%
 •  Medical Assistant: 80%

Source: RAND, “Experiences of Health Centers in Implementing Telehealth Visits for Underserved Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” May 2022

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PODCASTS: Health Economics and the AMA

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Prioritizing Mental Health Care In America

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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By the end of 2021, Americans found themselves in one of the worst nationwide mental health crises in years. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience a mental illness each year, or more than 50 million people. Unfortunately, less than half of the people in need ever receive the mental health care they require. Due to physician burnout, a workforce shortage, and poor funding, this country has long struggled with handling the growing mental health crisis and providing equitable access to behavioral health care.

The mental health system in America may be largely broken, but conditions are ideal for transforming the system with scientific advances, improved coverage, and political consensus on the importance of mental health. Goals once thought to be long out of reach may soon be possible.

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This NIHCM infographic highlights the many challenges contributing to America’s mental health crisis as well as steps to improve and strengthen mental health care and the behavioral health industry and promote individual resiliency.

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Capitalism Blame Does Nothing to Offer Solutions

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Blaming it on capitalism does nothing to offer any real solutions

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Recently, a respected colleague noted that the “capitalistic goal of accumulation, consumption, and collecting” is responsible for a collective mindset in Americans that “I consume, therefore I am” and “more is better.” He passionately feels the “more is better capitalistic mentality” assures a predictable future of dwindling resources. He is not alone in his views.

Certainly, identifying our self-worth by what we accumulate or spend does not produce emotional, physical, or financial well-being.

Those who embrace a money script of “I consume, therefore I am” are likely to eventually encounter financial and emotional pain. Either they will run out of money to spend, lack products to buy, or discover the futility of trying to use money and possessions as a substitute for genuine self-worth.

More is Better?

What I found curious was my colleague’s attribution of the money script “more is better” as the product of capitalism. That money script has been around a lot longer than capitalism, which according to Investopedia originated during the Middle Ages when a variety of factors, including a labor shortage caused by the Black Plague, caused the collapse of the manorial system. More is better” was part of the human condition much earlier.

For example, in the Hebrew Scriptures, Ecclesiastes 5:10 says, “Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.”

Greed

Greed, whether for money or food or anything else, is not produced by an economic model. Whether people live under a capitalistic, socialistic, or communist system—or in a Stone Age tribal group—greed is alive and well in all of them. Every human being experiences it in some way and on some level. It has been considered one of the seven deadly sins since the early days of the Christian church.

Definition

“Capitalism” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.”

There is nothing in that definition about greed or any goals of “accumulation, consumption, and collecting.”

Core to capitalism is a method of distributing limited resources in the most efficient manner possible, where the dynamics of the free market and competition drive down prices and improve quality. I find no other economic system that delivers this outcome. In fact, systems controlled by central planning have a track record of producing the opposite: economies where shortages prevail and those in charge prosper on the backs of the masses.

Research

Research shows capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system. Since 1945 the number of those living below the poverty line has decreased 57%, from 35% to 15%, while income inequality has risen just 15%. Any American earning over $30,600 is in the top 1% of income earners globally. Even the bottom 1% of Americans are in the top 33% of income earners globally.

Certainly there are business owners and wealthy people who are greedy, selfish, and materialistic, because such people are found in every walk of life. These traits are not tied to any particular economic system. They are signs of people who are trying to satisfy spiritual and emotional needs with material things that can never meet those needs.

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Assessment

Because one of the qualities that helps people create financial security is frugality, I actually agree with my colleague that excess consumption is often destructive and can be a genuine problem. Blaming it on capitalism, however, does nothing to offer any real solutions.

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PODCAST: Ten Largest Medical Device Companies

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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SURVEY: Affordable ACA Family Coverage

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By MCOL

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Families USA: Uninsured Rate by Quarter •  Q4 2020: 10.3%
 •  Q1 2021: 9.5%
 •  Q2 2021: 9.7%
 •  Q3 2021: 8.9%

Source: Families USA, “ACA’s Promise of Affordable Health Coverage for Families Across America Is at Risk as Pandemic-Era Policies Expire,” March 2022

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The TOP 100 Economics Blogs of 2022

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Last Updated: February 3rd, 2022

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Welcome, and thank you for joining us for the 5th annual Top Economics Blogs list! We are happy, once again, to introduce you to a freshly updated list of economics blogs for 2022. As always, our winners list provides blogs for many different audiences, ranging from the budding economic enthusiast to the seasoned academic. The list also covers a variety of economics topics, whether it be traditional economic theory or the application of economics to current events and issues. In this meticulously curated list, we’ve condensed the most unique elements of each blog into short descriptions, so that you can see which ones catch your eye.

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For 2022, a few newcomers have emerged, while many mainstays from previous years are present as well. Like previous years, we’ve done our best to capture the blogs which stand out for their quality rather than their popularity. As such, the list is an eclectic group that represents a wide range of tastes and perspectives.

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What is an economist? Definition and examples - Market Business News

Regardless of your school of thought or political affiliation, you can find valuable new content in this list of engaging, high-quality economics blogs.

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About Healthcare Marketing Plan Revisions?

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By MM+M

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Cause of Healthcare Marketing Plan Revisions

A recent survey asked “Have you revised, relaunched or otherwise altered an existing healthcare marketing campaign for any reason?” The survey shows:

 •  Pandemic-related disruption: 70.0%
 •  New competitive entrant: 36.7%
 •  Access issues: 36.7%
 •  Under-performance: 36.7%
 •  New brand leadership: 33.3%
 •  New indication/label change: 30.0%
 •  Drug shortage: 13.3%
 •  Other external market shift: 6.7%

Source: MM+M, “Healthcare Marketers Trend Report 2022: The Reset,” March 8, 2022

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The Non-Medical “POISON PILL” Strategy is in the Investing News!

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MUSK versus TWITTER

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DEFINITION: A shareholder rights plan, colloquially known as a “poison pill“, is a type of defensive tactic used by a corporation‘s board of directors against a takeover. In the field of mergers and acquisitions, shareholder rights plans were devised in the early 1980s as a way to prevent takeover bids by taking away a shareholder’s right to negotiate a price for the sale of shares directly.

Typically, according to Wikipedia, such a plan gives shareholders the right to buy more shares at a discount if one shareholder buys a certain percentage or more of the company’s shares. The plan could be triggered, for instance, if any one shareholder buys 20% of the company’s shares, at which point every shareholder (except the one who possesses 20%) will have the right to buy a new issue of shares at a discount. If all other shareholders are able to buy more shares at a discount, such purchases would dilute the bidder’s interest, and the cost of the bid would rise substantially. Knowing that such a plan could be activated, the bidder could be disinclined to take over the corporation without the board’s approval, and would first negotiate with the board in order to revoke the plan.

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The plan can be issued by the board of directors as an “option” or a “warrant” attached to existing shares, and only be revoked at the discretion of the board.

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MUSK: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-poison-pill-elon-musk/

TWITTER: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/twitter-activates-poison-pill-to-thwart-musk-hostile-takeover-attempt/ar-AAWgmwW?li=BBnb7Kz

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PODCAST: Physician Entrepreneurial Tips on Opening Your Own Medical Practice

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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James Underberg, MD, discusses how he left a large health system to open his own practice, and provides tips for physicians considering the same move.

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Private Healthcare Equity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBwHu1uigoA

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Medicare for All?

Posted on May 26, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Worse Care for All?

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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has announced that as early as next week, his committee will hold a hearing “on the need to pass a Medicare for All single-payer program.”  

Sanders gets an “A” for passion, but an “F” in compassion.  

But, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has cautioned that Sanders’ Medicare for All bill would create “a shortage of providers, longer wait times, and changes in the quality of care.” 

MORE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/medicare-for-all-would-mean-worse-care-for-all/ar-AAWVDo6?li=BBnb7Kz

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PODCAST: The Financial Cost of Medication Non-Adherence

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Cost of Medication Non-Adherence: 33- 69% of Hospitalizations

By Eric Bricker MD

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UPDATE: Vitalik Buterin, Recession Risk the Euro and BOA

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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  • Vitalik Buterin tweeted Friday that he’s no longer a billionaire. Crypto has crashed in recent weeks amid a broad sell-off in traditional markets. Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin tweeted Friday that he’s no longer a billionaire. Buterin, who cofounded the blockchain network in 2014, has seen its Ether token crash by 59% since hitting a high of around $4,800 in November 2021, when his holding was valued at around $1.5 billion.
  • Historically, the S&P 500 has fallen an average of 29% around recession (median of 24%). With the S&P 500 currently showing a peak-to-trough decline of almost 19%, the market is effectively already pricing in a 60%-75% chance of recession based on the average and median.
  • Thanks to a surging US dollar and a faltering Euro, many analysts expect that the two currencies could reach parity this year—meaning one dollar would fetch you one euro. The two currencies haven’t reached a 1:1 exchange rate since 2002, three years after the euro was introduced in an effort to bring stability to Europe. The euro closed at $1.057 against the dollar, just 5% above equal value with the US currency.
  • Finally, the current market plunge hasn’t yet scared investors like downturns in years past. Bank of America’s private clients are still dedicating 63% of their portfolios to stocks, compared to 39% after the 2008 financial crisis.

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SDOH = Social Determinants of Oral Health

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Social determinants of oral health and tooth loss

A study led by investigators at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine suggested that “machine-learning algorithm models incorporating socioeconomic characteristics were better at predicting tooth loss than those relying on routine clinical dental indicators alone.”

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Furthermore, new research reported that

  • adults living in urban areas visited the dentist more than those in rural areas
  • women were more likely than men to visit the dentist in both rural and urban areas
  • the number of adult dental visits increased as family income increased
  • non-Hispanic white adults were more likely than Hispanic and non-Hispanic black adults to have a dental visit in urban areas.

Therefore, it is important to consider how disparities in access to and use of dental care impact not only tooth loss but also oral and overall health.

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UPDATE: The EEOC, Yen, Wells Fargo & Tesla

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division each put employers on notice: When using AI in employment processes, employers are responsible for inspecting tools for disability bias, and they better have a plan to provide reasonable accommodations, because federal agencies say they have their eyes on how using artificial intelligence could lead to discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The Yen has the potential to drop to levels last seen in 1990 on Japan’s deepening monetary policy divergence with the US. And, selling the yen has become a favorite macro trade this year as rising Treasury yields spur investors to ditch Japan’s currency for the higher-yielding greenback. The Bank Of Japan has vowed to maintain its easing bias even in the face of the currency’s losses, making it unlikely that the declines will reverse anytime soon.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE: BRK-B) bought $3 billion worth of shares in Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) in Q1, giving the group a stake of about 2.8%, according to filings with regulators. The investment came as Berkshire sold the remainder of its position in Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC), a rival bank that had been a staple in Buffett’s portfolio for more than three decades, Financial Times reported.

Finally, Tesla shares continued their fall, dropping ~35% since the announcement that Elon Musk was buying Twitter. That may imperil Musk’s ability to complete the deal, given that he’s taken out meaty loans tied to the value of Tesla’s stock.

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UPDATE: Dr. Mike Burry, I-Bond Web-Site Crash and Wall Street

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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“The Big Short” celebrity investor and colleague Michael Burry MD recently disclosed that he is short Apple stock. Could he be right about AAPL dipping even further from here? Famous hedge fund manager Michael Burry, the real-life character in “The Big Short”, became famous for his short position on subprime CDOs ahead of the 2008 crash. This time, he is shorting Apple stock. The bombshell news has come recently via a 13F filing released by Burry’s hedge fund.

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People searching for a respite from inflation have flooded the Treasury Department phone lines and website to try to buy Series I savings bonds, causing much longer waits than usual. It’s the latest example of outdated government computer systems causing anguish for Americans. On May 2nd, the Treasury Department announced that the inflation-protected I bonds will earn 9.62 percent interest at least until the end of October. A day later, TreasuryDirect, the website that people have to use to purchase the bonds, crashed.

Finally, Wall Street rumbled to the edge of a bear market after another drop for stocks briefly sent the S&P 500 more than 20% below its peak set early this year. The S&P 500 index, which sits at the heart of most workers’ 401(k) accounts, was down as much as 2.3% for the day before a furious comeback in the final hour of trading sent it to a tiny gain of less than 0.1%. It finished 18.7% below its record, set on January 3rd. The tumultuous trading capped a seventh straight losing week, its longest such streak since the dot-com bubble was deflating in 2001.

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ECONOMIC INFLATION: Why So High Right Now?

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

SIX REASONS

By Vitaliy Katsenelson CFA

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DEFINITION: In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation corresponds to a reduction in the purchasing power of money.

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The war in Ukraine will likely pour more gasoline on the already raging inflationary fire, threatening to send the global economy into stagflation. Stagflation is a slowdown of economic activity caused by inflation.

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MENTAL HEALTH Action Day 2022

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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As part of its Mental Health initiative, MTV’s second-annual Mental Health Action Day – an open-source movement of brands, organizations, government agencies, and cultural leaders to drive culture of mental health from awareness to action – will bring together more than 1,600 organizations in cities across the country to encourage and empower people to take action for mental health on Thursday, May 19, 2022.

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Is the Financial “Stagflation” Risk Real?

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Is Stagflation Risk Real?

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DEFINITION: In economics, stagflation or recession-inflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high. It presents a dilemma for economic policy, since actions intended to lower inflation may exacerbate unemployment.

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https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/05/05/what-is-stagflation/

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A few days ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Hoover Monetary Conference – I would call it a Powwow of central bankers, if there had not been an actual Powwow a few steps outside the venue. While Hoover is known to reflect “hawkish” views, “hawks” and “doves” alike used the question of whether the Fed is “behind the curve” to argue all things inflation and stagflation.

I left the conference even more concerned about the risk of stagflation; let me explain.

Please read our latest insight: Is Stagflation Risk Real?

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UPDATE: Stock Market Sentiment and Capitulation?

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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More than $11 trillion in value has been erased from global stocks since the end of March. And, despite a a pop last Friday, many analysts don’t think we’ve hit the bottom yet. Fewer than 30% of S&P companies have hit a one-year low during this downturn, compared to almost 50% during 2018’s rout and 82% during the financial crisis in 2008, according to Bloomberg.

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Capitulation means surrender. In financial markets, capitulation marks the point in time when a large enough proportion of investors simultaneously give up hopes of recouping recent losses, typically as the decline in prices gathers speed.

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According to MarketWatch, the latest bull market for U.S. stocks remains on the brink of expiring, with the benchmark S&P 500 just shy of the threshold that marks bear territory.

Going ganular, the S&P 500 SPX, +2.39% finished 0.1% lower at 3,930.08 on Wednesday, after falling as far as 3,858.87 at its session low. That was the index’s lowest close since March 25, 2021, and left it 18.1% below its record finish from early January. A Friday bounce for stocks saw the S&P 500 nearly halve its decline for the week to 2.4%, closing at 4023.89.

In One Chart: Stock market’s ‘ultimate lows’ are still ahead as investors have not yet capitulated, says B. of A.

A finish below 3,837.25 would mark a 20% fall, according to Dow Jones Market Data, meeting the widely used technical definition of a bear market.

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Did Public Health Fail America During the Pandemic?

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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LINK: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-public-health-failed-america/ar-AAXid2L?li=BBnb7Kz

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CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/publichealthservices/essentialhealthservices.html

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OUTCOMES: In-Person and Tele-Health Encounters During COVID-19

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters and MCOL

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Outcomes of In-Person and Tele-Health Encounters During COVID-19

 •  Ambulatory encounters decreased by 1.0% and the number of in-person encounters per enrollee decreased by 17.0% from 2019 to 2020.
 •  For members with an initial telehealth encounter for a new acute condition, the adjusted odds ratio was 1.44 for all follow-ups combined and 1.11 for an emergency department encounter.
 •  For members with an initial telehealth encounter for a new chronic condition, the adjusted odds ratios were 0.94 for all follow-ups combined and 0.94 for in-patient admissions.

Source: JAMA Network, April 26, 2022

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GO FUND ME: Medical Campaigns Reveal a Big Problem with Health Care

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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By Jules Lipoff, MD: Senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and an assistant professor of clinical dermatology at Perelman School of Medicine, both of the University of Pennsylvania. Erica Mark, medical student at the University of Virginia, contributed to this article. The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the University of Pennsylvania Health System or the Perelman School of Medicine.

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If you follow the news or your social media feed, you know that crowdsourcing medical expenses is increasingly popular for financing health care costs. In fact, you might have contributed to one; 22 percent of American adults report donating to GoFundMe medical campaigns.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/082610254

As of 2021, approximately $650 million, or about one-third of all funds raised by GoFundMe, went to medical campaigns. That staggering amount of money highlights how dysfunctional our health care system is, forcing people to resort to crowdsourcing to afford their medical care — but it’s not surprising. In the United States, 62 percent of bankruptcies are related to medical costs. This should be a wake-up call to address and reform the system further.

Related: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2021/12/30/does-crowd-sourcing-democratize-the-health-care-insurance-system/

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SURVEY: Employee Financial Healthcare Affordability

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters and MCOL

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WTW: Employee Healthcare Affordability Survey

 •  By the end of 2023, most employers (95%) are expected to offer virtual care for medical and behavioral health issues, and 61% expect to offer lower cost sharing for virtual care.
 •  Over half (55%) think the expansion of virtual care will help decrease costs in the long run, and 50% think it will improve outcomes.
 •  Employer confidence in sponsoring healthcare benefits over the next 10 years is at its highest point in over 10 years (84% in 2022 versus 38% in 2011).
 •  One in 10 employers (9%) currently offer genetic testing as a screening for early-stage cancer with another 5% planning to do so by 2023.

Source: Willis Towers Watson, April 26, 2022

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BITCOIN: A Subjective Theory for Physicians

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Michel Accad MD Practices internal medicine and cardiology in San Francisco

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In a recent article on the Mises Institute’s Power and Market blog, Kyle Ward appealed to the subjective theory of value to castigate Peter Schiff for his notorious skepticism of Bitcoin:

READ: http://alertandoriented.com/the-subjective-theory-of-bitcoin/

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What Really is a STABLECOIN?

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Types with Guide

By Staff Reporters

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According to Investopedia, a stablecoin is a class of cryptocurrencies that attempt to offer price stability and are backed by a reserve asset. Stablecoins have gained traction as they attempt to offer the best of both worlds—the instant processing and security or privacy of payments of cryptocurrencies, and the volatility-free stable valuations of fiat currencies.

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Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies where the price is designed to be pegged to a cryptocurrency, fiat money, or to exchange-traded commodities (such as precious metals or industrial metals).

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  • Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that attempt to peg their market value to some external reference.
  • Stablecoins may be pegged to a currency like the U.S. dollar or to a commodity’s price such as gold.
  • Stablecoins achieve their price stability via collateralization (backing) or through algorithmic mechanisms of buying and selling the reference asset or its derivatives.

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CELEBRATE: National Women’s Health Week 2022

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MAY 8 – 14th, 2022

By Staff Reporters

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Prioritizing your health – both physical and mental – has never been more important. Over the past few years, many women have put off taking care of their general health and wellness needs. They have adjusted their daily routines, including the way they connect with family and friends. The combination has led to serious health problems for some women.

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Fake Prescription Drug Rx Example

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Altered and Poorly Written Rx for Vicodin

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA

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Poorly-written Rx for vicodin

Drug: Rx Vicodin

Disp: # 10

Sig: Take I, as needed for pain.

Refills: 1 2 3 4 or 5

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The patient abuser may change drug quantity numbers, copy or remember the doctors’ DEA number, or take extra Rx pads. For this reason, a physician’s Rx pad should contain his/her name, address and telephone number. The doctor’s DEA number should not be pre-printed on the pad, for fear of mis-use.

Example:

  • Increase the quantity 10, to 100, by adding a zero, so that the additional capsules can be used, sold or bartered with on the street.
  • Change the directions to take 2 capsules, rather than 1 in order to produce greater euphoria.
  • Increase the Rx refills, from one to two, by extending the underline, or checking an additional quantity box.
  • Pre-printed DEA number can be stolen, sold or reused.
  • Pre-printed (not original) physician signature can be reproduced and widely distributed for more prescriptions.

Altered Rx for vicodin

Drug: Rx Vicodin

Disp: # 100

Sig: Take II, as needed for pain.

Refills: 1 2 3 4 or 5

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 The doctor drug addict, or a doc in need of funds, may write for more narcotic agent than needed, and receive the additional pills back from the patient-shill for personal consumption, sell them on the street himself for money, or receive a monetary kickback from the patient-shill.

A pharmacist may also indirectly alter a prescription using the above methods, or simply short-change the patient with fewer narcotic capsules than the prescription intends. This is more difficult to do with pills or tablets in the out patient setting, but easy to do in the in-patient setting when liquid IV drugs are used, by dilution and placing less than the full amount in IV bottles or bags. The harm to patients, of course, may be fatal.

Well-written Rx for vicodin

Drug: Rx Vicodin

Disp: # 10 (ten) capsules

Sig: Take one or two capsules, po, prn pain.

Refills: 1 2 3 4 or 5

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Example:

  • Drug quantity can-not be changed.
  • Directions can-not be changed. Route of administration (by mouth) indicated.
  • Rx refills clearly indicated.
  • Handwritten, not pre-printed, DEA number.
  • Original physician signature, only.

Doctor Rx prescription abuse foibles are legendary in the DEA and include a Maryland podiatrist who wrote prescriptions for more than 1,235 Mepergan Fortis capsules ostensibly for his wife following minor foot surgery. Or, the Florida physician who prescribed more than 2,150 Vicodin capsules for a patient with whom he was having an extra-marital affair in order that his consort not disclose the fling to his wife. Or, the osteopath from New Jersey who wrote more than 100 narcotic prescriptions every 8 hour day, for more than a year, to any patient standing in a line in front of his office. And, finally the California dentist whose excuse for writing more than 1,845 narcotic tablet prescriptions in a six month period for the same patient was that they would be needed in his next reincarnation. Yes, all of these incidents are laughable if not for their serious consequences to the involved individuals, and society, alike. The bastards!

Fortunately, unlike drug local domestic drug kingpins or international narco-traffickers who ply their trade virtually undetected, these naive white-collared nerds, always get caught by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Their Rx abuse tactics are so amateurish!

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