Sitemap - 2024 - STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more

Around the Pension-o-sphere: FDNY, Illinois Tier 2, and Chicago Teachers' Economic Impact

Revisiting Death by Falls: Characteristics

Five Decades of Meep

What is Truth?

Sumo Sunday! Meep's First Sumo Thoughts and CHANKO CHANKO CHANKO!

OJ Simpson Dead: Let's Review Racial Gap in Prostate Cancer Mortality

RIP, Yokozuna Akebono, Dead at 54

Taxing Tuesday: Meep Files 2023 Taxes -- plus art! Because of tax breaks!

Public Pension Problems -- Proposed Solutions, But Will They Fix Anything?

Cancer Trends among Young Adults: An Issue of Rates and Types

No Fooling: Cancer in Young Adults — Pandemic-Driven or Long-Term Trend?

He is Risen!

Good Friday Thoughts: It Is Finished

RIP Joe Lieberman -- A Reminder that Falls are Dangerous to Seniors

Around the Pension-o-Sphere, 27 Mar 2024: Illinois, Minnesota, and Teamsters Payback?!

The Week in Meep, 24 Mar 2024: Memento Mori, NYC, and Sumo!

The Princess Announces Cancer Diagnosis

Colorectal Cancer: Top Cancer With Concerning Trend in Younger Ages

Retirement Age, Life Expectancy, and Social Security

On Choosing a Retirement Age: For Individuals

DST Kills: More Tales of the Killer Time-Changer

The Week in Meep, 10 Mar 2024: The Skull of Aquinas, Michelangelo, and Ending in the Middle of It

On Self-Regulation: Sumo, Failing Annuities, and Public Pension Practice

Updated U.S. Lightning Strike Deaths Total for 2023: 14

Chicago Teachers Union Leader Leads with $50 Billion Number Before Negotiations

U.S. Mortality in 2023: Continuing Updates

Geeking Out: In Death Rates, the Denominator Is Also Important

Leap Year Shenanigans: An Extra Day to Die

U.S. Mortality in 2023: Initial Updates

The Week in Meep, 25 Feb 2024: Wall Street, Opera, and Those Who Die Too Young

Classics on Leadership

Presidents Day 2024: Financial State of the Cities

The Week in Meep, 18 Feb 2024: Navalny, Insurance Fraud, and Lent Begins

Cancer Death Rates by Race/Ethnicity, U.S. 1968-2023

Taxing Tuesday: Getting SALTy

Tales of Fiscal Accountability (or not)

Cancer Death Rates by Age and Gender for the U.S., 1968-2023

Top Cancer Types: By Crude Death Rate, 1968-2023

World Cancer Day 2024: History of Mammography, Recent Research, and Some Trends

RIP, Adele Groyer: A Tribute to an Actuary

Video: Society of Actuaries' U.S. Mortality Dashboard

The Sentinel Effect, Centenarians, and Pension Fraud

Taxing Tuesday: Much Ado Over SALT

Nibbling at the Problem: Chicago Adds $306.6 Million to the Pension Pot

The Week in Meep, 28 Jan 2024: Weird Saints, Dresses with Pockets, Sumo, and Opera

Trump v. Biden Take Two - Using Social Security Mortality Assumptions

ESG and Public Pensions: What's the Fiduciary Duty When The Money Runs Out?

U.S. Lightning Strike Deaths Total for 2023: 13

Alternative Assets in Public Pensions: January 2024 Update

Academia - Credentialism vs. Education

Some Mortality and Morbidity Updates

Academia - Dealing with Writing in the Age of ChatGPT

The Week in Meep: Actuarial History, Language, and SUMO!

Plagiarism and Faked Data in Academia

Oh Woe, Chicago: How Will the Pensions Flow?

Silly Saturday: Peer Review of a Picture Book

Recent News in Political Pensions: Rudy Giuliani, Ed Burke, and More

What Are (and Were) the Chances of Living to 100?