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Confessions of an insurance junkie

It’s hooey but I was a sucker for the promise of safety and security —until I added up the premiums

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

Never add up your insurance premiums. I just did and the annual cost of all of them came to more than the cost of most man-made or natural disasters. That means there really isn’t any point to any of them, statistically speaking.

The problem is I’m an insurance junkie. I’m a born cynic, a pessimist, a worrier.

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