Biotech Boom Sends China Lab Monkey Prices to $26,000

Patrick O'Shaughnessy posted that memory and wafer shortages count as first-order effects, printed circuit boards and CPUs as second-order effects, and monkeys as a fifth-order effect. The post references a Polymarket link and sits next to generated headlines claiming biotech demand has pushed lab monkey prices in China to roughly $26,000 each. Investor Pete Skomoroch retweeted the same shortage-order list. The supplied material presents both the price figure and the biotech-demand framing only through those generated headlines.