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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

RIP, Pope Francis

Happy Easter 2025!

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

DOGE: The Shot Across The Bow

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

Pension Watch February 2025: NYC amortization shenanigans, 80 percent fake-out, California "temporary" taxes, ESG, and more!

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