Substacks recommended by Mary Pat Campbell | STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more

Recommended by Mary Pat Campbell

GovMoneyNews

By Bill Bergman

GovMoneyNews helps citizens and taxpayers understand government finance.

The Stars Our Destination

By Charlie Martin

A daily post of astronomical photos, space content, and my own commentary

Little-Known Facts

By Andrew Biggs

Much of what we think is true just isn't. And there's data to prove it. Writing mostly about retirement security, with occasional side-trips.

PricingEvolution

By Brendan Hodge

A professional pricer bringing common cents to an ever-changing world: weekly insights on pricing and the role it plays in business and life.

Learn about the real-life strategies (and tactics!) of pricing stuff like fast-food offerings and b2b materials from a pricing expert. (as in - he's actually done it and seen the results, not that he took classes)

- Mary Pat Campbell

Eide Bailly Tax News & Views

By Joe Kristan

Substack Home of Eide Bailly Tax News & Views. Any opinions expressed or implied are those of the author and not necessarily those of Eide Bailly. Items are for information only and are not tax advice.

Want to keep up with tax news? This is a great aggregating substack!

- Mary Pat Campbell

Sumo Stats

By Mary Pat Campbell

Sumo Statistics by Meep, aka Mary Pat Campbell, an American actuary who is doing her own brand of sumo analysis. I love the joy of sumo, so Ura is my favorite rikishi. Hakkeyoi!

This is my other substack, to split off my sumo obsession.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Liberty Taxed: A Blog on US Tax Policy

By Adam Michel

Sumo Kaboom

About all things sumo.

My favorite sumo podcast! Lots of fun, and great for beginners!

- Mary Pat Campbell

The PolicyViz Newsletter

A bi-weekly newsletter dedicated to helping you do a better job processing, analyzing, sharing, and presenting your data.

Jonathan Schwabish's substack, with lots of good tips on data visualization.

- Mary Pat Campbell

HeyJackass!

Statistics, metrics and visualizations chroniclining the Chicago values of crime, murder & mayhem.

Long-running keeper of shooting stats in Chicago, real-time.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Cremieux Recueil

I discuss papers that ought to be discussed.

Sensible Medicine

Common sense and original thinking in bio-medicine

An evidence-based site with respect to medicine, with a healthy dose of skepticism.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

A podcast about language, with host John McWhorter.

John McWhorter with interesting insights on language (and especially the English language). I've been a longtime fan of his linguistics lectures.

- Mary Pat Campbell

OpenTheBooks

By Open the Books

Transparency revolutionizes U.S. public policy and politics.

Digs into the numbers of how public funds are spent

- Mary Pat Campbell

Pension Questions

By Larry Pollack

Essays on Retirement Plans and Pension Finance

Fellow actuary covering public pension issues -- check out what he has to say about the new pension measure coming to actuarial reports in 2024!

- Mary Pat Campbell

Virginia's Newsletter

By Virginia Postrel

Commerce, culture, and curiosity

Long Story Short

By Liz Farmer

The world of government taxes and spending is weird and complicated. I explain it all here--in tasty and easily digestible bites. (Opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)

Liz Farmer's newsletter -- long-time reporter on public finance, with solid facts on this sphere.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Actuarial Tutor

By John Lee

Maths, stats and actuarial comedy & memes

The funny side of actuaries (I swear, we have one!)

- Mary Pat Campbell

Ever Upward

By E.J. McMahon

A journal of the Empire State

Wood House 76

By Jessica Hockett

Independent researcher focused on COVID events in early 2020, with an emphasis on the New York City death spike. Writing from a wood house.

Dan Elton's "More is Different" blog

Analysis and commentary on progress in science, technology, and society -- or our total lack thereof. Problems are solvable - so let's solve some and build an exciting sci-fi future.

Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts

Dr Prasad currently works at the US FDA. The writings on this platform were posted before my FDA employment and do not necessarily represent the views of the FDA or the United States. This site will be inactive during my federal service.