Sitemap - 2023 - STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more
The Year in Meep: 2023 -- Growth, Top Posts, and Some Recommendations
Updated Public Pension Projection Tool -- Includes Fiscal Year 2022 Data
Happy Boxing Day! A Twelve Days of Christmas Review!
Public Pension Actuaries to Explain a New Measure
The Week in Meep, 18 Dec 2023: Actuarial Christmas Presents! Wrapping and Costs!
Movember 2023 Swag! Video Wrap-Up
Let's Make a Deal! Ohtani Restructures His Pay
The Week in Meep: 10 Dec 2023 - ICSL Talk, Spreadsheets and Fraud, and Resting
Movember 2023 Wrap-up: Thanks, Caritas, and Encouragement
Giving Tuesday 2023: Movember Foundation
Movember 2023: Men and Drug Overdoses, Updated through 2022
A few simple things to be thankful for in 2023
Movember 2023: Men's Trends with Suicide by Age
Movember 2023: Men and Suicide
Movember 2023: Racial Gap in Prostate Cancer Mortality
The Shape of U.S. Mortality 2: 1900-2022
Update on Dallas Police and Fire Pensions: Continuing to Limp Along and Asking For Over $1 Billion
Movember 2023 - Current Status and Trends
The Week in Meep, 11 Nov 2023: DataViz, Career Advice, Modeling, and Manet/Degas
Movember 2023: Prostate Mortality Trends by Age Groups, Updates to 2022
Movember 2023: Prostate Cancer Mortality Trend Update
Death to Daylight Saving Time!
The Week in Meep, 4 Nov 2023: Sumo Stats, Movember, and Memento Mori
Welcome to Movember 2023! Fundraising for Men's Health
The Shape of U.S. Mortality, 1900-2018
The Week in Meep, 28 Oct 2023: Newsweek, St. Jude, Tennis Balls, and CHUD
Infant Mortality Trends, U.S.: 1999-2022, Provisional, a First Look
Taxing Tuesday: Gaming, Chicago Mansions go Downscale, and Dumbass Tax Research
The Week in Meep, 22 Oct 2023: Podcasts, Books, and a Trip to a Shrine
Toddler and Teen Terror 2022 U.S. Mortality: Large Increases Over 2019
Spreadsheet Shenanigans 2: Electric Bugaloo -- Modeling
Millennial 2022 U.S. Mortality: Drug Overdoses Still Dominate
Gen X 2022 U.S. Mortality: Drug ODs Did Us In More Than COVID
Spreadsheet Shenanigans - Part 1
Geeking Out Part 2: Nate Silver Followup - More on Vax Rates, Covid Death Rates, and Correlations
Boomer 2022 Mortality: Much Improved, Still Elevated Over 2019
Geeking Out: Replicating Nate Silver's COVID & Partisanship "Work"
India's Pension Crisis is Everybody's Crisis
Politicians: Don't Tempt the Reaper
Silent Generation 2022 Mortality: Is it getting any better?
Calpers Follow-up: Hedge Fund Exit and Private Equity Rise -- and a Look at an Ohio Lawsuit
Top Cause of Death by Age Group, 2019-2022, Count Tables
Does Anybody Want to be the Calpers CIO?
Actuarial Things: Excess Mortality, Colo(u)ring Book, An Actuarial Career
Drug Overdose Mortality Update: Geography of Highest Death Rates, 1999-2022
World Suicide Prevention Day 2023: Let's Turn This Around
Fight Against Excess Mortality: the Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives
Happy Back to School Time! State of U.S. Teachers Pensions 2023
Happy Labor Day! Workplace Death Trends
Sunday Sumo: Actuarial Standards and Sumo Stats
Talking Tech: On Early (and Late) Adoption of Tech
Suicide Trends: U.S. Trends by State by Sex 1999-2022
Sunday Sumo: September 2023 Banzuke Released
Public Finance Spotlight: Bill Bergman
Seek and Ye Shall Find....What?
Suicide Trends: U.S. Trends by for Women by Age Through 2022
Suicide Trends: U.S. Trends by for Men by Age Through 2022
Taxing Tuesday: SALT cap battles - the New York Republicans make their play
Suicide Trends: U.S. Trends by Sex and Race/Ethnicity through 2022
Sunday Sumo: Winning Moves from the July Tournament
Lightning Strikes Twice: Follow-up on Lightning Deaths
Building Bridges to STEM Careers
Political Mortality: Revisiting Supposed Excess Republican Mortality
Drug Overdose Mortality Update: Rates, Ages, and Geography, 1999-2022 (provisional)
Gatekeeping in Education and Professions: Actuarial, Legal, and Sumo!
Deaths from Heat and Cold: Deception and Update for U.S. 1999-2022
Taxing Tuesday: Income Tax for Chicago?
Sunday Sundries: Sumo, Saints, and SHARKS!
Detroit Bankruptcy a Decade Later
Taxing Tuesday: Don't Count Those Geese Before They've Laid Those Golden Eggs
UPDATED: 2022 Top Causes of Death in the U.S. by Sex and Age Group
Taxing Tuesday: Texas Tax Cut and Twitter round-up
2022 Top Causes of Death in the U.S. by Age Group
Mortality Quick Take: Drug Overdoses At Their Worst in 2022
Chicago Pensions: Drowning, Not Waving
Drowning Deaths: Sex and Race/Ethnicity, U.S., 1999-2022 (provisional)
Sunday Sumo: July 2023 Height/Weight Scatterplot and Welcome Makuuchi Newbies!
Happy Bobby Bonilla('s Agent) Day 2023!
What is the Value of a Promise?
Drowning Deaths: U.S. Geographic Differences 1999-2022 (provisional)
Taxing Tuesday: Wealth Taxes in Norway and SALT Cap Review
Sunday at Sea: the Vasa, the Far Side of the World, and Alexander in a Bathysphere
Other People's Money: ESG, Public Pensions, and the Principal-Agent Problem
Suicide: Trends 1999-2022 (provisional) by Sex and Race/Ethnicity
Data Visualization: People and Books in 1946
Failure, Sunk Costs, and Candace Wheeler
Public Finance Spotlight: Truth in Accounting
U.S. Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths: Seasonal Patterns and June 2023 Update
Sunday Sumo: Congrats to New Ozeki Kirishima!
STUMP Orientation: Death, Taxes, DataViz and Sumo!
Ranking the states by COVID age-adjusted death rates, June 2023 edition
2023 Summer Warning: Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Sunday Sumo: May Tournament Wrap-Up -- Who Was Most Unique?
Update: Why Have "Full Contributors" Lost So Much Ground In Twenty Years in Public Pensions?
Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 8: External causes of death
Sunday Sumo: Some Winning Moves on the Middle Day
Mortality Nuggets: "Young People", Actuarial Club Meeting, and Disparate Results Pre-Pandemic
Spending Dreams of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Waking to Reality
Did New Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Inherit The Worst City Pensions in the Country?
Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 7: Other Physiological Causes of Death
Mortality Trends and Cognitive Biases
Choices Have Consequences: Public Pension Investments in Alternative Assets
Sunday Sumo: Preparing for the May Tournament
Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 6: Heart Disease and Cancer
Choices Have Consequences: Pension Obligation Bonds
A Sampling of Political Mortality
Is Joe Biden Likely to Die Within 5-6 Years?
Danger! Fire, Hurricanes, Drowning, and More
Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 5: Historical trajectories for Causes of Death 1999-2022
Choices Have Consequences: Funding (or, rather NOT funding) Public Pensions
Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 4: COVID
Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Benefit Design - COLAs, Replacement Rate, Indexing, and More
Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Age
Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Policy
Sunday Skeleton: MEMENTO MORI!
Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 3: Major Categories of Death
The French Continue to Protest Over Retirement Age Changes
Financial Reporting v. Budgeting: SC Comptroller Resigns Over $3.5 Billion Error
Video: U.S. Mortality Through the Pandemic, part 2 -- Differences by State
Good Friday: St. Matthew Passion and Data Update
My Condolences to Brandon Johnson, Next Mayor of Chicago
Memento Mori for Holy Week 2023
Video: U.S. Mortality Through the Pandemic, All Causes and by Age Group, Provisional through 2022
Will there be a state and municipal public finance bailout?
Sumo Saturday: Lull Between Bashos
These are a few of my favorite graphs
CORRECTION: The French ARE actually long-lived
Saturday Sumo: Only One Day More....
Checking in on French Retirement Age Protests
Kidney Disease Deaths, the IBM PCjr, and My Aunt Pat
Taking the Long View: Good Mortality News in Child Mortality
Mortality Updates for 2022: Bad News Lurks in Non-COVID Causes of Death
Taxing Tuesday: The "Biden Plan" for the 2024 Budget
Public Finance Spotlight: Wirepoints
2018-2021 Cause of Death Ranking Tables by Sex and Age Group, United States
Don't Use ChatGPT for Numbers (Right Now)
Sunday Sumo: Graph Update, the Combat Wombat, and Luck for Ura!
Congrats to Lori Lightfoot! No Pension Failures on Her Watch!
On Raising Social Security Full Retirement Age, Period Life Expectancy, Racial and Sex Gaps
Taxing Tuesday: Meep Files Her Taxes and How to Measure Tax Increases
Doing the Math on Social Security and Medicare
Geeking Out on Correlations: Chowing Down on Chocolate to Win Nobels
Ash Wednesday 2023: More on Years of Life Lost
Years of Life Lost: An Exploration, U.S., 2018-2022 (Provisional)
Presidents' Day Reruns: Cal Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur!
A Little Sumo Fun for Saturday
French Retirement Ages, Social Security Benefit Cuts to Come, and What is Sustainable
Senate Mortality 2023: Top Ten Old Senators
Taxing Tuesday: Be My Valentine, SALT Cap
Public Finance Spotlight: Public Plans Database
Chicago Mayoral Race: Good Luck Dealing With the Pensions
Videos - Ranking Tables for 2021 Causes of Death
Public Pension Concept: Plan Long-Term for Long-Term Promises, and Don't Give Contribution Holidays
More on COVID as a top cause of death for children
Was COVID a top cause of death for children?
Top Causes of Death, US, 2018-2021
Taxing Tuesday: Let's Tax the Rich in NY! It Will Really Work This Time!
Retirement Age - Protests in France, But Choices Must be Made
Public Finance Spotlight: Liz Farmer
Mortality Posts and Resources: 2024 Update
The Micawber Principle Even Applies to Public Finance
How Many COVID Deaths Have There Been in the United States?
STUMP 2023: Back to Basics on Public Finance
Top Causes of Death by Age Group, 2021: Finalized U.S. Stats
Podcast Look at 2022 Excess Mortality
Hatsu Basho 2023: Time to Update the Sumo Scatterplot!
Preliminary look at 2022 U.S. Total Mortality - Continuing Excess Mortality
Geeking Out in Memory of Pope Benedict - Papal Mortality!
Kentucky Asset Manager Warning: the ESG Brou-Ha-Ha Continues