Self correction in advance. In my haste, I lumped the often rotten apples (investments masquerading as insurance) in with the good ones (plain old risk insurance). Allow me a correction that is not on point to #84:
"most normal people, I believe, are duped into Insurance 'investment vehicles'."
87 posted on 02/16/2009 8:44:07 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
(A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking about Zimbabwe money.)