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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 as great as ever that a large swath of them will drown.
As the name implies, defined-benefit pensions promise to pay a set amount to retirees....
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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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Okay, I was going to do a Taxing Tuesday, but screw it, I’m going to indulge myself.
It’s the eleventh day of Christmas! Party! Time for those pipers!
It started, as it does, with a tweet:
a follower (coreylf) asked me...
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Key takeaway: I estimate about 3.3 million deaths for 2020 in the United States, with my range being 14% to 16% higher than total 2019 deaths.
The CDC, as of December 30, 2020, had recorded over 3 million deaths for 2020.
If you...
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