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Looking at two versions of a graph of deaths — no need to exaggerate a trend.
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I have been seeing various people talking about buying (and selling) in the current market.
My general advice is: DON’T.
Now, there are lots of outs to that advice, and the main out is if you’ve done this before. And you are able to suck it up if you lose a...
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I may (or may not) do something more involved later, but I thought I’d share some of the materials I’ve found the last few weeks re: COVID-19 and its deadliness and infectiousness.
COVID-19: MIDDLE OF THE PACK
This is not an attempt to make people feel better...
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World Cancer Day was last week, and I’m here with some good news: people are living longer with cancer.THE ACTUARIAL PERSPECTIVE
When I taught actuarial science students at UConn, and talked to them about actuarial topics (I taught two separate classes: one on computing (Excel, Access, by meep
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You may not realize, but I’m really into data visualization. And, in particular, critiquing data visualizations. Though I would prefer to support good visualizations: Here’s one that... by meep
This relates to digging into details on bailing out and reforming multiemployer pension plans. One of the biggest issues is that unionization has dropped, and that means pension plans that were designed assuming growing membership over time has made those particular systems fragile. Basic unionization data can be gotten here, and... by meep
I saw that the Public Plans Database folks had a new paper out: The update’s key findings are: The funded ratio of state and local pensions edged up to 73 percent in FY 2018, but has been largely flat for several years and is well below its peak in 2001. Liability growth...Fixing my Graphs: Redo of Life Expectancy Graphs from This Morning's Post
Taxing Tuesday: Bad Visualizations and Bad Taxes
Visualizing U.S. Union Membership, 1983-2018
Visualizations of Public Pension Fundedness and Why Fundedness is Decreasing
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Someone on facebook linked to the Storyline site, and I’ve really enjoyed it.
The concept is very simple — there’s a time series of some sort, based on historical data — generally, there are points for every decade, or maybe every five years. You are given one point on...
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This piece was brought to my attention:
Not All Cities Have A Pension Problem
The Top 21% of Cities With High Pension Funding Levels Deserve Attention and Usually Praise
With so much well-deserved negative attention focused on cities with huge unfunded pension overhangs, it’s probably a good time to draw attention...
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