Go, Economy!

[Anthony]

That's not really the right way to look at it though. The fact is that even when you are young and healthy, there are probabilities of needing healthcare, and that's what you are paying for. It's just the probabilities are lower, and in return, you are paying less.

Ideally, but I don't buy that it skews well enough towards the healthy. Especially since my ass eats salads and other healthy food every day.

[Josh]

Rebecca and I were both in the hospital last year to the tune of something like $70k.

I'm SO HAPPY we both had insurance or we would have been totally fucked.

Especially since my ass eats salads and other healthy food every day.

I eat the healthiest of healthy foods. I still have to go to the hospital every now and again.

[Bojack]

Especially since my ass eats salads and other healthy food every day.

Wouldn't it be easier to have your mouth eat the salads?

[Opaque]

I eat the healthiest of healthy foods. I still have to go to the hospital every now and again.

You are the sickest person I know.

[Josh]

Not as sick as Osama was on the half pipe.

Wouldn't it be easier to have your mouth eat the salads?

He's all about quick absorption.

[Anthony]

Gotta get that vitamin high.

[Diff-chan]

Apple stock tanking today after announcing.... record revenues and profits? Fundamentally this tanking doesn't make any sense, unless you think there will be a cataclysmic collapse in demand for Apple products, but there is zero evidence of that happening.

Wall Street seems to be expecting them to release a revolutionary device every year. Or maybe they are just waiting for the first revolutionary product from Tim Cook. Except I remember the last time Apple released an evolutionary product, they got killed on announcement. I guess people are expecting "Apple TV", but the TV business is terrible now.

Buying individual stocks is madness, unless you are rich enough to diversify.

[Fe 26]

Everything I've read says you really shouldn't bother unless you are rich enough to diversify and you don't need your money as you will be waiting to see any kind of worth while returns.

But this was just picked up from here and there. It might be wrong.

[Anthony]

Apple stock tanking today after announcing.... record revenues and profits? Fundamentally this tanking doesn't make any sense, unless you think there will be a cataclysmic collapse in demand for Apple products, but there is zero evidence of that happening.

Wall Street seems to be expecting them to release a revolutionary device every year. Or maybe they are just waiting for the first revolutionary product from Tim Cook. Except I remember the last time Apple released an evolutionary product, they got killed on announcement. I guess people are expecting "Apple TV", but the TV business is terrible now.

Buying individual stocks is madness, unless you are rich enough to diversify.

Theoretically, if you knew that all these people who dropped stocks were idiots, now would be the time to buy.

Buying stocks is all about being smarter/having more information than the other people doing so. At least if you want to make large gains.

[Diff-chan]

Based on efficient market theory, it is impossible to have more information than the other people.

I'm not some connected Wall Street hotshot so in reality, I have less information than other people.

The individual stock market is not for average Joes.