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Half-Billion-Dollar Biotech Loan Proposal Moves to Finance Committee

Half-Billion-Dollar Biotech Loan Proposal Moves to Finance Committee

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May 14, 2008
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How do you turn $500 million into as much as $1 billion over 10 years? Loan it to struggling biotech companies that could default on the loans at a rate of up to 50 percent.

Sound too good to be true? Maybe, but that's what the California stem cell agency is projecting for what appears to be the most optimistic scenario for its proposed biotech loan pro…

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