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Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Stock Analysis

Abbott Laboratories engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Vascular Products. The company is a component of the S&P 500 and the dividend aristocrat indexes. Abbott Laboratories has increased dividends for 38 years in a row. Most [...]

How Much Does The Senate Health Bill Cost?

Earlier today the Congressional Budget Office released an updated analysis of the Senate health bill. The update reflects all the amendments that were adopted during Senate consideration of the bill, some technical adjustments, and the assumption that the bill would be enacted in the spring of 2010 (rather than December 2009, as previously assumed).<a href="http://www.istock [...]

Calibration

In a previous post, we saw how humans have an overconfidence bias, and how that can play havoc on financial forecast estimations. What is not immediately clear, though, is the increasing role overconfidence plays the more knowledge one buys. That is, as expertise rises, so does overconfidence, resulting in the fact that the people with [...]

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