None other than Vanguard founder Jack Bogle is raising the prospect that too much money is in too few hands, with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Corp. together owning significant stakes in the biggest U.S. companies.

U.S. patents on key components for some important HIV therapies are poised to expire starting in December and one foreign manufacturer is gearing up to cash in.

If CVS and Aetna complete the deal they've announced, the combined company would have 9,700 CVS Pharmacy stores, 1,100 MinuteClinic walk-in clinics, and about 4,000 CVS Health clinic and home care nurses.

In an age where were inundated with words, it's easy to take them for granted; to forget how precious they can be.