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Howdy all — this is a news round-up among my favorite topics. Once upon a time, I kept these links/roundups on the Actuarial Outpost, but the new version of the AO is not to my taste, and my favorite actuarial online community, GoActuary, is not really set up...
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The Actuarial Outpost, as it was, is finally dead. For actuarial chatter, join us at Go Actuary. I’m meep there.
For those who used to keep up with my “watch” threads on the AO, I will be sharing the links on my blogs for now. I’m looking for a content...
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Howdy, welcome to what I’m reading on finance, pensions, and more. Until I get a new site working for collecting my news items, I will be making this a regular-ish feature.
But first — I am fundraising for the Movember Foundation, my fourth year doing so, as Stu was...
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As the Actuarial Outpost is seemingly down for the count, I thought you might be interested in the kind of news dump I skim when looking for stories on my favored blogging subjects.
I may or may not have comments on these. When I’m using the AO as my external...
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Well, Congress has had a nice time off for looting and riots, a few got to do an “emergency session” over the U.S. postal service, but now they’re back in session.
So now it’s time for WON’T ANYBODY THINK OF THE POOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES?
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Thanks to the kind folks at the Equable Institute for giving me more background data from their report.
As I mentioned in my prior post on the Equable study, I noticed a very strong relationship between the unfunded pension liability (often marked UAL = “unfunded actuarial liability”)...
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First, a bulletin from the Weekly World News:
I guess that’s why the House was called back into session to deal with the Post Office, instead of the supposedly urgent state & local government bailout.
And why do they need that bailout? Oh, it...
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In general, I have very slow-moving issues to deal with — after all, public pensions supposedly were going to be pulling multiple cities and states into bankruptcy in 2010, and that is still limping along in most places. I’m still waiting for Kentucky to go under.
The issue for...
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(Most of this is from Tuesday but… we had 52 hours of no electricity, etc. So Thursday it is.)
Rather than spend my time pointing & laughing at Illinois, let’s take a look at something that will be giving me pain in the short term: NY taxes.
David Sirota: NEWS:...
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Well, it sounds like Senate Republicans finally woke up last week and decided to meet the HEROES battle coming from the House.
Senate GOP to unveil coronavirus relief plan next [this] week, McConnell says
Senate Republicans will delay the release of their coronavirus relief plan until next [this]...
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