Posted on 02/28/2009 11:18:50 AM PST by arkadyka
You are asolutely right, it is an extremely morbid and scary thought - but national healthcare almost always guarantees an outright neglect of the elderly. We are already seeing proposals to reduce medicaid payment to seniors.
sick stuff.
The S&P is a much broader index and not following it, is like not following what the House is doing in politics.
All 3 indexes generally move at the same rate, but one can get a good indication of market health by seeing who is leading who.
A 4th index, the Russell 2000 is a great measure of broad small time investors/traders.
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