Merck, the American pharmaceutical giant, will pay $41
billion to acquire its rival Schering-Plough, the two
companies said Monday. The companies said in a joint
statement that the merged company would keep the name Merck,
and that the deal had been unanimously approved by their
boards.

http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

Sooo 20th Century, these Suited neanderthals ... enroute still, to building their (shared by two or three) monopolies in a Murica with One Store ... WallMcMerckCornDepotMart, as if bizness as usual.

Will we have the National-guts to decentralize methodically or do we enjoy watching train-wrecks, more?