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Political Incapacitation: Mitch McConnell and Historical Examples
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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April Awareness: Autism, Cancer, Finance, and Poetry
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Problem Gambling: Addicts, Lotteries, Sports, and Pensions
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Paul Ehrlich and the Murder-Suicide of Expertise
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Using Your Talents: Don't Be Mrs. Jellyby, Be Esther Summerson or Tom Pinch
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Demographics vs. Public Finance
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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The Return of Wealth Taxes: California and The Netherlands
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Movember 2025: Continuing On
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Chicago Pensions: The $11 Billion Sweetener, POBs, and the Road to Insolvency
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Chicago Pension Artificial Sweeteners
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Math, Education, and Technology
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Social Security Insolvency Gets Closer... Again
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Men's Health Week: Men and Suicide in the U.S.
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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On Advanced Prostate Cancer: Some Personal Thoughts on Biden's and Scott Adams's Announcements
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May 31, 2025 |
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The Next Pope and Vatican Finances
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May 05, 2025 |
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Vatican Pensions: Will the Participants Get Their Promised Benefits?
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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DOGE: The Shot Across The Bow
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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ESG and anti-ESG v. Fiduciary Duty
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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A Matter of Trust: What Do the CDC and Victorian Poison Experts Have in Common?
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Holiday Advice: On Nutrition, Stu, and Fried Foods
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Research Fraud Follow-Up: What Happened to Fraudsters and How to Make It Less Common
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Movember 2024: My Motivations and the Movember Movement
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Research fraud, Alzheimer's, and Mortality trends
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Kamala Harris, Plagiarism, and Truth in the Age of Gen AI
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Ig Nobel 2024 Winner: The Secret to Long Life is Lying About Your Age...Or Not Reporting Your Death
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Labor Day 2024: Beauty in Work
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Social Security and Election 2024
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Tim Walz and Public Pensions: What's the Risk?
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Ohio STRS: Trade-Offs, Alternative Assets, and More
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Happy Bobby Bonilla Day 2024!
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Bad Metrics Lead to Bad Results
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Fraud and Embezzlement! How to Prevent and Detect
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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The Problem of Pain and Drugs
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May 14, 2024 |
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Public Pension Governance Drama in Ohio
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May 06, 2024 |
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Who Survives to 2098?
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Five Decades of Meep
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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What is Truth?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Public Pension Problems -- Proposed Solutions, But Will They Fix Anything?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Retirement Age, Life Expectancy, and Social Security
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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On Self-Regulation: Sumo, Failing Annuities, and Public Pension Practice
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Classics on Leadership
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Presidents Day 2024: Financial State of the Cities
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Tales of Fiscal Accountability (or not)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The Sentinel Effect, Centenarians, and Pension Fraud
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Academia - Credentialism vs. Education
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Academia - Dealing with Writing in the Age of ChatGPT
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Plagiarism and Faked Data in Academia
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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The Year in Meep: 2023 -- Growth, Top Posts, and Some Recommendations
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Public Pension Actuaries to Explain a New Measure
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Movember 2023 Wrap-up: Thanks, Caritas, and Encouragement
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Movember 2023 - Current Status and Trends
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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The Shape of U.S. Mortality, 1900-2018
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Spreadsheet Shenanigans 2: Electric Bugaloo -- Modeling
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Spreadsheet Shenanigans - Part 1
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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India's Pension Crisis is Everybody's Crisis
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Fight Against Excess Mortality: the Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Talking Tech: On Early (and Late) Adoption of Tech
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Seek and Ye Shall Find....What?
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Building Bridges to STEM Careers
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Gatekeeping in Education and Professions: Actuarial, Legal, and Sumo!
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Detroit Bankruptcy a Decade Later
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Lying about Science
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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What is the Value of a Promise?
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Lying about lying
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Lightning Strike Deaths
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Failure, Sunk Costs, and Candace Wheeler
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The Museum of Failure
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May 31, 2023 |
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Walking Around Cemeteries
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May 26, 2023 |
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Spending Dreams of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Waking to Reality
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May 19, 2023 |
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Mortality Trends and Cognitive Biases
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May 12, 2023 |
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Choices Have Consequences: Pension Obligation Bonds
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May 04, 2023 |
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Danger! Fire, Hurricanes, Drowning, and More
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Policy
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Financial Reporting v. Budgeting: SC Comptroller Resigns Over $3.5 Billion Error
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Memento Mori for Holy Week 2023
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Public Finance and Data
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Kidney Disease Deaths, the IBM PCjr, and My Aunt Pat
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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How Life Insurers Fail
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Don't Use ChatGPT for Numbers (Right Now)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Doing the Math on Social Security and Medicare
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Ash Wednesday 2023: More on Years of Life Lost
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Chicago Mayoral Race: Good Luck Dealing With the Pensions
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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More on COVID as a top cause of death for children
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Retirement Age - Protests in France, But Choices Must be Made
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The Micawber Principle Even Applies to Public Finance
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Podcast Look at 2022 Excess Mortality
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Happy New Year from STUMP! Two Ideas...
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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A Very Special STUMP Holiday Episode
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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More on Correlating COVID Vax Status with Traffic Risk
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Central States Teamsters -- some backstory on their bailout
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Chaucer on Advice
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Movember 2022: Men and Suicide
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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FTX, Dickens, and Business Fraud
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Movember and Prostate Cancer Mortality Trends
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Social Security Politics
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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2021 Provisional U.S. Population Mortality
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Geeking Out: Life Insurance and Mortality Experience Studies
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Liability-Driven Investment: Definitions and Jargon
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Political Risk and Public Pension Investments
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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There is no such thing as risk-free
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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A Jump in Interest Rates But No Restraint from Government....Yet
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Geeking Out Over Terminology
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Back to Taxachusetts?
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Advice on the CDC 2021 Life Expectancy Report
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Student loan reduction: short-term and long-term effects
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Public Pensions, ESG, DeSantis, and The Catholic Church
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Looking at Recent Mortality Increases -- and Expectations for the Future
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Expertise, Definitions, and Credibility
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Millennial Massacre Overview
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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MBTA and Pension Obligation Bonds
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Waiting Patiently on Public Pensions
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Ken Griffin and Citadel Leave Illinois
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Pension Obligation Bonds
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Social Security Trust Fund Running Out
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Elon Musk, Fertility, and Decreasing Populations
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May 30, 2022 |
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Don't perpetrate financial fraud in spreadsheets
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May 24, 2022 |
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Fraudulent Life Insurers
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May 17, 2022 |
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Don't sell insurance to the Mafia
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May 09, 2022 |
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The sumo giant-killers
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May 04, 2022 |
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Death, taxes, and entitlements
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Tax Week and the NY State Budget
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Death and Data
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Income taxes and wealth taxes
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Interest Rates and Sumo
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Death the Dickensian Way
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Meep starts her taxes
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Memorial and Yuri Dmitriev
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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President's Day - Calvin Coolidge
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Feb 21, 2022 |