The Ultimate Reward of Investing

     Most investors aim to make money through the dividends and stock appreciation of the companies they invest in.  While it is true that the more money one makes the more products one can buy, my argument in this blog is that, sometimes, an economic investment makes possible a product that didn't even exist before on the market--enhancing one's life, as well as one's bank account.

For example, look at Eli Lilly & Co.'s (LLY) latest purchase of a potential treatment for severe hypoglycemia.  Intranasal glucagon, which is one step away from the market, would greatly enhance the medical experience of those who suffer from serious hypoglycemia.  As both an investor of Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) and an individual who has to personally deal with a mild case of hypoglycemia, this prospective treatment will benefit me not only economically, but medically too, if my condition worsens with age--which I have read could well happen.

So, as you can see, Wall Street is more than a money game.  It is an industrial park in which one's economic demands aim to produce goods that fuel one's life according to the supply with which one infuses into the best companies.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter