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This is the last of my “throwaway” posts that I’m clearing out so that I can do a deep dive into U.S. COVID mortality statistics.
There will be COVID-related material below, including U.S., but I wanted to keep this separate from my own analysis.
US life expectancy drops dramatically due to COVID-19
U.S. life expectancy just dropped by more than a year — the largest decline in decades — as...
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This is a grab-bag of things that didn’t really fit elsewhere.
I’ve written about this at my livejournal:
[We’ve] often heard that the U.S. is anti-intellectual. What it definitely is is anti-ignorant-people-posing-as-experts. You know, “intellectuals”. It’s a pose. I’m not saying these people are stupid….,...
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Clearing the decks for more mortality posts, let’s look at general non-public pension news.
Bloomberg at Yahoo Finance: Pensions Swamped in a Sea of Negative Real Rates
Defined-benefit pension plans were already barely treading water heading into 2020. In the years ahead, the risk is...
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Howdy guys – before I do this, just warning you that I will be making a couple of posts today and a couple tomorrow. This doesn’t often happen, but I have some items that will go really stale if I don’t post soon… and I want to spend the rest...
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This will be an all-public pensions post (and yeah, there is Illinois content. You have been warned.)
With the White House, House of Reps, and Senate on the Dem side, we will likely get a return of the Money-Palooza Monstrosity, but I imagine there may be changes...
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For the first Taxing Tuesday post of 2021, I’m mopping up old stories and looking forward to what may come this year.
One thing to note: with the Dems having (bare) majorities in the Senate and House, and with Biden as President, I am assuming some form of the Money-Palooza...
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