This just in: MMs are all heading out tonight for a trip to the new Epstein island. Algos are set to dump mode tomorrow regardless of job numbers. You have been warned

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Reminds me of the meme about the veteran that decided to go out but spent a trip in Mexico with hookers and blow which gave him the will to survive again.

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>Drugs cost several to hundreds of times what our peers pay for the same or equivalent drug. Yes, because we are the profit center for these drugs. >Medical insurance let alone care gets more unaffordable by the year. Medical insurance has gotten more expensive because medical care usage has gotten more expensive. Net margins on pharmaceuticals, healthcare products, hospitals, etc. are effectively unchanged over the last 25 years. Turns out when people consume more healthcare, get unhealthier, and consumer *more advanced* healthcare, it gets more expensive both to provide and to insure. Not a difficult concept to understand. >(My health premiums are over $1400 a month for a family of 3 right now 3X last years rates). Your anecdote isn't really relevant to the overall conversation, and I cannot comment on your situation without knowing *all* of the facts around your particular coverage, which I'm unlikely to get from you as an obviously biased source. >A trip the ER can cost literal thousands of dollars an hour even if you have health insurance and have a relatively minor issue like monitoring you after a mild seizure. Yes, if you have not hit your deductible and have high out of pocket maximums. >Need an appointment for a Chronic health condition? Oh that will be 6 months for an appointment. All of the issues you've listed seem to be problems you have with your health insurance. I have no idea what your options were. I've never known anyone to have that long of a wait for a specialty appointment, and I know people with chronic conditions on Medicaid, Medicare, and employer insurance. >Oh you need insulin and your doctor said you need to test x times a day? Well the insurance company only believes you should test 2 times a day better start to ration and risk your literal life sorry. If you're going to make arguments for or against a system, you need to start coming with data-based arguments. You seem to be arguing about anecdotes that *you* have faced personally. Not only does that make you an incredibly biased source, but also exposes your argument to *your choices*. It is entirely *possible*, for example, for you to have chosen the absolutely shittiest plan possible and then gotten upset at the cost when something actually goes wrong with your health. If you want to have an actual discussion on healthcare, fine - I'm open to it. But you have got to do better. I'm not going to sit here and argue with someone's anecdotes. *Anyway*, [here's a place for you to start.](https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-on-health-care-is-wrong-a-primer/) This provides actual data (sourced from places like the OECD) and makes a fairly convincing argument that the US is not really out of line with the rest of the world on healthcare spending, we just are unhealthier, consume way more healthcare, and are richer (and thus dedicate larger portions of our disposable income to 'luxury' healthcare).

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Lol if you think the current trajectory for health care in America is anything short of a runaway train. Drugs cost several to hundreds of times what our peers pay for the same or equivalent drug. Medical insurance let alone care gets more unaffordable by the year. (My health premiums are over $1400 a month for a family of 3 right now 3X last years rates). We get the healthcare through a local school district. Surely a teacher getting paid $21 an hour can afford that right? That same insurance company fought me for 8 months before they paid the first bill after my daughter’s birth. The excuse they made? Well maybe another insurance company is responsible instead …kick the can down the road for months and hope it goes away. We almost stopped receiving primary care for an infant due to unpaid bills. A trip the ER can cost literal thousands of dollars an hour even if you have health insurance and have a relatively minor issue like monitoring you after a mild seizure. Need an appointment for a Chronic health condition? Oh that will be 6 months for an appointment. Oh you need insulin and your doctor said you need to test x times a day? Well the insurance company only believes you should test 2 times a day better start to ration and risk your literal life sorry. Healthcare is only working for you if you are wealthy. If you have a median sized w2 you are fucked.

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Elmo moon base trip will paid with doge 🌽

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Could someone trip SPY and cause it to push Mstr and itself off a fuckin cliff for me, please? That would help me a ton, thanks.

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Maybe not the trip he wants, but perhaps the trip he needs.

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I don’t think mushrooms would let this guy have a good trip right now

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It could probably be done in a year or two if we were ok with it being a one way trip with a short stay time until death.

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Huge brainfart coming, read at your own risk: I am now fully converted into a qqq bear. However i don't think it will crash, but instead continue its flat trajectory it has had for 3 months now. In the current booming global stockmarket, being flat is essentially a bear market. Short straddles look to be infinite money if there weren't these occasional mini crashes once every month. Though calls on coca cola is the easier move to profit off of US tech being in a coma. I'm guessing its the target of a massive global institutional rotation into safe, high dividend stocks, while they frantically trip over themselves to sell off US tech. Monday's 'rally' will be small and shortlived. Spy may reach ath, but only barely and coca cola will outperform it on the daily. High dividend stocks are in the beginning of a parabolic upwards move while US tech may really be in the beginning of a parabolic short. I don't think it will be that bad but i wouldn't be surprised. I'm not a believer in burry's big short fantasies but it's very clear that spy will be below 700 again by the end of the month. This doesn't seem to be an ai bubble pop scenario, but a periodic shuffling of US tech profits into defensive and global stocks. Hence this rythmic bouncing on qqq. Inatitutions sell off, retail buys it back up to flat, institutions sell off again, infinite cycle and every wave the money gets transferred to dividend and global stocks, hence their meteoric rise. This seems to continue to be a neverending process, even investing globally is kinda risky in itself since the s&p has been outperforming the globe for years. So it's genuinely an infinite loop where being risk off has both less risk and more reward than being risk on, even without an immediate bubble pop on the horizon. This does seem to be late cycle behaviour. 2027 may genuinely get ugly. Yeah seems that institutions are positioning for a recession where their current moves would pay off immensely. What's the upside of being long on US tech? If you're crazy lucky you may get +30%. But high dividend etfs will easily do +30% too with infinitely less risk. I really think i will just exit US tech, this seems not very sensible. It's straight up like investing in bitcoin, high risk, uncertain upside. A raw deal.

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