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Yesterday, I walked around the Ancient Burying Ground in Hartford, Connecticut, next door to my office building. I found some interesting graves, and I also remembered an article by a fellow actuary who also walked around his local cemetery. And I found a headstone database for the Ancient Burying Ground. Happy Memorial Day!
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Back in 2017, I asked a question: Public Pensions: Why Do 100% Required Contribution Payers Have Decreasing Fundedness?
Well, it’s 6 years later, and the situation is no better.
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Closing out my series on U.S. mortality trends through the pandemic (2020-2022) — this focuses on external causes of death: homicide, suicide, and accidental causes of death. For accidental causes of death, I break out falls, motor vehicle accidents, and drug overdoses. As I updated dated as of the beginning of May 2023, there is still missing data from 2022, as noted in the video.
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Looking over sumo results from nakabi, the middle day, of the May 2023 Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo — and Tochinoshin’s retirement. Trying out stats from the Sumo Database and some graphs.
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Last Tuesday, May 16, I was at an actuarial meeting: the spring 2023 meeting of the Actuaries Club of Hartford and Springfield. More on that in a bit.
But first, something old from the Wall Street Journal.
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In which I discuss some of the fiscal plans for Chicago of the new mayor Brandon Johnson and some of his political friends… and the constraints they will labor under: a population that has already shrunk and a significant revenue target that has already threatened to up stakes and move out of Illinois entirely.
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