Sitemap - 2025 - STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more
Movember 2025: Veterans and Suicide
RIP, Paul Boutin: Remembering the Ninth of November
Movember 2025: Prostate Cancer U.S. Mortality Trends Update
Chicago Head Tax: So Many More Reactions
The Week in Meep: All Souls Day, Movember, Obra Dinn, Down with DST
Movember 2025: The Need Continues
California Pensions: Private Assets, Public Losses
Chicago Head Tax (and Other Taxes) Proposal: Reactions
The Week in Meep: Behind the Scenes, Sumo in London, and RIP, June Lockhart... plus... SEA PEOPLES!
RIP, Diane Keaton: Pneumonia and Multiple Causes of Death
Chicago Mayor: Stupid Tax Ideas as the City Stares into the Abyss
Falls are Dangerous: RIP, Ace Frehley and Watch Out, Sen. McConnell
The Week in Meep: Chopin, Sumo in London, and RIP, Patricia Routledge
Geeking Out on Cancer: The Difference Between Incidence Rates From Screening and Types
Federal Shutdown and State of the States 2025: Public Finance Overview
The Week(s)/Year in Meep: St. Michael, Movember, Inclusive Art Exhibit
Chicago Pensions: The $11 Billion Sweetener, POBs, and the Road to Insolvency
The Week in Meep: The Mortality Thief, St. Matthew the Apostle, Some Walks in the Park
World Suicide Prevention Day 2025: U.S. Suicide Trend Update through 2024
September 2025 Public Pension Round-Up: New York, Divestment, Inspectors General, and CalPERS
Political Mortality: STUMP Compilation As of September 2025
Chicago Homicides: Why Are They Down So Much in 2025?
Summer Re-Runs: Lightning Strike Deaths Safety Tips and Trends
Summer Re-Runs: Water Can Be Dangerous ... Be Careful Out There
The Week in Meep: Diving Boards, Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk, and Beethoven's Ninth
Dunking on Illinois: Making a Record in a Bad Way -- Over Two Years to Report Financials
NYC Congestion Pricing Update: What Have Been the Effects In the First 6 Months?
The Changing, Extended Life with Terminal Cancer
Updated Public Pension Projection Tool -- Includes Fiscal Year 2024 Data
On Women and Suicide: A Different Age Profile than Men
The Week in Meep: Open Comments, a Chicago Nugget, Financial Shenanigans, and Demon Copperhead
Video: 2018-2024 Top 10 Causes of Death, U.S.
Chicago Pension Artificial Sweeteners
The Week in Meep: Pain, Sheen, and EARTHQUAKE.
2024 U.S. Top Causes of Death by Age Group, Preliminary
More on Chicago Pension Finance: Those Pension Sweeteners Sure are Sour
RIP, Malcolm-Jamal Warner: Drowning as the Summer Menace
The Week in Meep: For the Love of Math!
Math, Education, and Technology
Chicago Finances Update: Other People's Money Doesn't Go Too Far, Does It?
Lightning Strike Death Update: Now 11 U.S. Deaths for 2025
The Week in Meep: Upcoming Webcast, Columbo, and SUUUUUMO!
RIP Michael Madsen: On Heart Disease, Alcoholism, and Men
Taxing Tuesday: OBBB Reactions Round-Up
Social Security Insolvency Gets Closer... Again
The Week in Meep: Don Quixote, Books, and Jack Chick
Lightning Safety Week 2025: Some Safety Tips and Recent News
Deaths from Heat in the U.S.: Update to 2024
Lightning Safety Week 2025: When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors!
Taxing Tuesday: the Revenge of SALT
Men's Health Week: Men and Suicide in the U.S.
The Week in Meep: Da Pope, The Trinity, and Father's Day
Men's Health Week 2025: RIP, Brian Wilson and Men's Mental Health Issues, Drug and Alcohol Use/Abuse
Public Pensions April Update: Assets Edition - Tesla, Tariffs, and Earth Day
Men's Health Week 2025: RIP, Sly Stone and Excess Deaths Mainly Come from Males
Great News! Homicides Way Down in U.S. in 2025!
Taxing Tuesday: Talking Other Tax Issues
On Advanced Prostate Cancer: Some Personal Thoughts on Biden's and Scott Adams's Announcements
Let's Be Safe Out There: Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Political Mortality Update: Yes, A THIRD Democratic Representative Died in 2025
President Biden Had Followed Bad Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines -- Here are Better Ones
Taxing Tuesday: SALT drama continues
Best Wishes to Former President Biden: A Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Good News: U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Decrease Over 25% in 2024, Estimated
Taxing Tuesday: Commentary Round-Up on the One Big Beautiful Bill
Ohio STRS Update: Teachers to Lose Control?
Habemus Papam! On Pope Leo XIV and Retirement Planning
Taxing Tuesday: Geeking out with the SALT Cap
The Next Pope and Vatican Finances
Geeking Out with Papal History: When Was Papal Turnover Most Frequent?
Update on Michelle Trachtenberg Death: Plus U.S. Diabetes Mortality Trends 1999-2024
Taxing Tuesday: Trump Tax 2025 Roundup
Papal Election Stats: An Aggregation
Chicago and Illinois Update: Salary Sweeteners, Begging for Revenue, and Pensions Pensions Pensions
For Autism Awareness Month: My Son Diarmuid
Good Friday: The Rest is Silence
The Week in Meep: Holy Week 2025
Vatican Pensions: Will the Participants Get Their Promised Benefits?
Congressional Mortality Has Consequences
RIP, Val Kilmer: Revisiting "How Young is So Young to Die?"
The Week in Meep: A Walk in a Garden, The Pale Horse, and Mortality Revisited
Pension Watch March 2025: Climate Chaos Bonds, Detroit Pension Bonuses, Anti-Tesla Tantrum
RIP, Richard Chamberlain: Some Stats on Stroke Deaths in the U.S.
Public Pension Classic: 80 Percent Funding Hall of AWESOME!
The Week in Meep: Of Homecomings, Odysseus, The Big Short, and Some Excel Gifts (again)
RIP, Mia Love: Some Stats on Brain Cancer
The Week in Meep: Spring Poem, Dante, and a Stigmatic in American Catholic History
Mortality Quick Take: Yes, It's a Bad Flu Season
The Week in Meep: Sumo, Sushi, and Dante!
Iowa Actuaries Education Day: U.S. Mortality Trends Short-Term and Long-Term -- The Summary
The Week in Meep: Death to DST (and not us), Sumo (again), The Little Mermaid
Mortality Classics: Broken Heart Syndrome
The Week in Meep: Upcoming Mortality Presentation and Preparing for Lent
RIP, Michele Trachtenberg: Some Stats on Liver Disease Mortality
Chicago and Illinois Update: Budget Time in 2025
The Week in Meep: Finding the Missing Piece, Insurance Fraud, Museum Books and Art Selfies
NYC Congestion Pricing, We Hardly Knew Ye
A Potential Large Source of Junk SSA Data: The Pre-1972 Social Security Number Process
Visualization of Social Security Fraud(?): A STUMP Geeking-Out Special
The Week in Meep: Opera!, More Opera!, and Some Gorey Details
On Social Security Old Age Benefits Fraud(?)
The Week in Meep: Winter Wonderland, Art!, Anti-Totalitarian Books, and Weirdness
ESG and anti-ESG v. Fiduciary Duty
Trump, Tariffs, and Drug Overdose Deaths
Chicago and Illinois Update: Job Posting, Tier 2 "Reform", Casino Shenanigans, and More
The Week in Meep: Dick Button, a Swan, and Mrs. Jellyby
Pension Watch January 2025: Private Equity Fees, Kentucky, Alternative Assets, and More
SALT Watch: Trump onboard for removing the cap?
The Week in Meep: British Literature to Lighten the Spirit, plus.... SUMO!
2025 Update on Senate Demographics
NYC Congestion Pricing Check-In: What Are the Effects So Far?
Falls are Dangerous for Seniors: Nancy Pelosi and Pope Francis
The Week in Meep: An Interview, Memento Mori (Scrub), and Some Winter Art
A Matter of Trust: What Do the CDC and Victorian Poison Experts Have in Common?
Chicago Downgraded, Still Investment Grade... For Now
2023 U.S. Top Causes of Death by Sex and Age Group, Finalized
Taxing Tuesday: the Return of SALT
2023 U.S. Top Causes of Death by Age Group, Finalized
The Week in Meep: Built to Last, Sumo!, and the Baptism of the Lord
In Memory of President Jimmy Carter, Current Holder of Longest-Lived U.S. President
Geeking Out: Picking Apart a Chicago Pension Actuarial Report from 2024
Taxing Tuesday: Congestion Pricing Comes to NYC, Finally
Social Security Tinkering: No, It's Not Been Made Fairer (or More Solvent)
Watch Out 2025! Pensions, Finance, Mortality Trends, Fraud, and the Train Chugs On