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Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Two top Wall Street analysts are calling on the White House to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, saying he is "undermining public health."

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Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, formerly headed by the Trump administration's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, called for the dismissal of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reut.rs/4cjOM3m

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-- Reuters (@reuters.com) April 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM

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[unfortunately, Barron's had locked me out from the article when I went back for more...]

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-31 06:10 PM | Reply

[OK, Barron's let me back in...]

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... Two top Wall Street analysts are calling on the White House to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, saying he is "undermining public health."

The new research note from Cantor Fitzgerald biotechnology analysts Josh Schimmer and Eric Schmidt was spurred by the surprise resignation of Dr. Peter Marks, a top Food and Drug Administration official responsible for regulating vaccines.

The analysts said Monday that the forced

departure of Marks, who led the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, had been a "step too far for us."

"RFK Jr. is undermining the trusted leadership of healthcare in this country," they wrote. "HHS cannot be led by an anti-vax, conspiracy theorist with inadequate training."

"We together feel that this is an attack on science, an attack on the normal process of government reviews by a nonscientist, and it's a very, very slippery slope from here into a dangerous place," Schmidt told Barron's in an interview on Monday. "It's about the science. Its bigger than profits. Its bigger than politics. It's human lives. That's where we're coming from." ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-31 06:31 PM | Reply

An aside, Pres Trump's Sec of Commerce is Mr Howard Lutnick, who was CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-31 06:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Public health is good for the economy?

That sounds like DEI.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 11:46 AM | Reply

Another day in "I didn't think the leopard would eat MY face" world.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-02 12:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This entire administration is all about undermining anything they are supposed to be in charge of

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-02 12:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This guy's history - heavy cocaine use, heroin addiction (which garnered him a felony conviction), steroid abuse, brain worm problems, weird dead critter fetish, horrendous treatment of women, and affection for asinine"theories" associated with health just for openers - does not inspire confidence.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-02 12:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ... is "undermining public health."

Mission Accomplished!
-Putin

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-02 12:18 PM | Reply

It sounds like Wall St. is worried about share values, as usual.

#9 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-02 12:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's probably because he's undermining profits.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-02 01:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"It's probably because he's undermining profits."

Profits, earnings, wages, GDP, life expectancy, status of the dollar as the global reserve currency.
He's undermining it all.
You like it.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 01:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's probably because he's undermining profits.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds

A massive pandemic or disease outbreak would do that.

#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-02 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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