It’s all taxpayer funded. Everyone pays taxes. You. Me. Everyone. The difference between a “universal” healthcare option (which uses “community rating”) and a fully medically underwritten system is that the money passes through government hands first, which creates another layer of expense. That and community rating systems aren’t mathematically sustainable whereas fully underwritten systems are. […]
Hark the herald angels sing. The flight to safety, hear it ring
I got a text message the other day telling me to schedule my annual flu shot. Cool. Except… I already had my flu shot. But, wait. There’s more! Ever notice how when you go online, there are these ads that seem to “follow” you around, asking you to buy things you already bought? This is […]
Vanguard’s red herring
Most investors fail because: They aren’t saving enough Money is needed for other things (e.g. emergency expenses, large purchases, term life premiums, etc) and; Behavior This is something DALBAR has researched year after year after year. On that last one… lots of folks get spooked when the stock market crashes and they do crazy things […]
The problem is that if you are talking about passive indexing, that is something that is really free-riding on other people’s work,” Shiller said. “So people say, ‘I’m not going to try to beat the market. The market is all-knowing.’ But how in the world can the market be all-knowing, if nobody is trying — […]
Avoiding the zombie investor apocalypse plague
If you own stocks without a hedge, it’s not rational… it’s like owning a house without insurance. — Nassim Taleb The late actuary Jeremy Gold. Mayhaps you have heard of him but… in all likelihood you have not unless you read pension news on a regular basis. He is the mathematician who discovered there was […]