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For this Labor Day, let me check out the latest Social Security news.
I will get to the “news” item in a moment — that is, the bit everybody covers in their annual bits on the Social Security Trustees Report.
There’s a statistical supplement that accompanies this report, and I’d like to share some graphs with you. They have downloadable spreadsheets right there on the page, so I have tables and...
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That’s some paradox, that Simpson’s Paradox.
(and it comes up all the time in real life)
With the notice that the fully-vaccinated Texas governor has tested positive for COVID, I thought I’d do my own post on why we see so many fully-vaccinated people test positive for COVID....
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Hey, it’s summer, let’s look at some “fun” stuff.
For certain definitions of fun.
Frankly, I know nothing of Thomas Sowell’s inaccessible work. I assume it exists somewhere. But he’s best known for his extremely-easy-to-read books on economics and public policy.
Here I review Sowell’s Applied Economics, which...
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For those relatively new to STUMP, you may not know that I used to have a weekly feature called “Taxing Tuesday” (in my pre-substack days). I’m not just about mortality here, but also public finance, especially tax policy!
Party!
Seriously, though, tax policy can be fun to watch, as with...
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Ultimately, I will have a list of causes-of-death posts, so let me start a list now. Later, I will go back and update all the posts with links to the entire series:
I plan on covering accidental causes (falls, overdoses, car crashes), homicides, suicide, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. I...
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I have been complaining even before 2020 about how media generally talks about mortality trends, generally using life expectancy as their hook.
Here are a few posts where I do that:
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