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When you look at drug prices and their costs, typically in the United States, our cost and prices are higher than other parts of the developed and kind of, you know, rich world.

There's many reasons for this, but given the complexity, just force price controls are not going to really change things materially.

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast.

I'm Jack Howe and the voice you just heard, that's Evan Seagerman.

He's the head of healthcare research at BMO Capital Markets and in a moment we'll hear from him

about why Pfizer stock jumped so much this past week and about drug prices and a new website

called TrumpRX.gov and what it means for

investors. We'll also say a few words about the government shutdown and about what I'm calling

the suspicious eight, stocks in the S&P 500 index that yield more than 6%. Listening in is our audio producer Alexis Moore. Hi, Alexis.

Hey, Jack.

You hear that sound? That eerie silence. That's the sound of the government being shut down.

That's not really how that works,

but it happened to Lexus. We're in it right now. We're shut down. I mean, not we. The government

is shut down as we speak. And the stock market is not demonstrating the effects of it. I'm not

seeing a lot of financial fallout in markets. Of course, this is deeply

concerning to anyone who has a job that's affected, that sort of thing. I'm not terribly worried

for right now, but I reserve the right to panic later. Is this like your 10th government

shutdown in your life? Wait a second. Let's not date me by government shutdowns. If you must know,

there have been, well, let's see, I'm looking at some facts provided by Jeff Buckbinder. He's the

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