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It’s Valentine’s Day, so let me do something I love! Fixing graphs! And complaining about North Carolina!
A friend shared the following on Facebook:
I saw that and I had some immediate questions:
1. Why is the most recent actual shown from 2008?
2. What are the different orders of...
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In my prior post on COVID death impacts, Mortality with Meep: Comparing COVID-19 with Historical Mortality and Prior Pandemics , I looked solely at the total number of deaths and the percentage change in those deaths year-over-year.
The result: total deaths for 2020 is likely about 10%...
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The leaves have changed color (or completely fallen off the trees) so that means it’s time for the Social Security Administration to announce the COLAs (cost-of-living adjustments) for benefits in 2021:
PLANSPONSOR: Social Security Announces COLA for 2021
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will...
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I have loads of COVID-related mortality to lay on y’all, and no, I’m not doing a video (yet). It is much faster for me to write an extremely long post than to get a video together.
So a post it is.
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Recently, Equable put out a report on public pensions in the U.S. called State of Pensions 2020.
Most of the graphs and conclusions they draw are not unusual to me, especially one line that came out of their press release that many places covering the report glommed onto: by meep
Before I jump into this, I miss the days where I could figure out numbers about “suspicious” Dominican deaths. Or suspicious deaths of Russian men. Man, those were the days. So let’s get to it… …um, prepare to count the dead by meep
As I mentioned last week, for the next few Fridays I’m rerunning my “Public Pensions Primer” posts that I originally wrote, starting in 2015. This post is a reworking of Public Pensions Primer: The Choice of Discount Rate and Return Volatility from July 31, 2015. In some places, I... by meep
Looking at two versions of a graph of deaths — no need to exaggerate a trend. by meep
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... by meep
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...Mortality with Meep: On Florida COVID Deaths and Reporting Lag
Looking at Florida...
Classic STUMP: Public Pensions Primer--The Choice of Discount Rate and Return Volatility
Use Data Visualization Responsibly
How to Lose Money Quickly: Trading in a Volatile Market
Pandemic: Current Stats of COVID-19, Spanish Flu, and WASH YOUR HANDS
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