Interesting look at health versus financial risks: A professor who studies money management seems to say to CNN that Americans soon will live too long and be a burden on society unless they put their money on the stock market. America offers safety without safety:

“With medical breakthroughs, many of them will live beyond 100,” says Yale School of Management professor Barry Nalebuff, co-author of Lifecycle Investing. “The only way younger investors will have enough assets to last them is to invest in stocks.”