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One Bad Year? Comparing the Long-Term Public Pension Fund Returns Against Assumptions
by meep
As I noted a few weeks ago, we’re getting the reports on pension fund fiscal year results on the asset side.
WSJ: Market Rout Sends State and City Pension Funds to Worst Year Since 2009
Public pension plans lost a median 7.9% in the year ended June 30, according to Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service data released Tuesday, their worst annual performance since 2009 and a fresh sign of the chronic financial stress facing...
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Meep's Data Visualization Evolution: Tile Grid Maps
by meep
Obviously, I’m a numbers nerd.
Most people aren’t, but humans have a powerful processor in the visual cortex in which we naturally can intuit all sorts of quantitative relationships, if only the data visualization designer does a good and honest job.
I’ve worked on becoming more effective in data visualization for many...
Taxing Tuesday: A Retrospective of Stupid Tax Policy - Soda taxes, Amazon tax, SALT cap
by meep
In honor of the latest bill to pass through Congress, and especially to “celebrate” the upcoming expansion of the IRS labor force, I am going to walk through some of my favorite stupid taxes and revenue “enhancing” ideas from STUMP’s past.
The Cook County soda tax will always live...
Meep and Media: Podcasts and Videos - Sumo, Fraud, and Math, oh my!
by meep
As noted in my post on Saturday, I’m on the road, so I’m compiling a few bits while I’m away.
Podcasts: Sumo and Fraud
I started doing an audio podcast called STUMP – Death and Taxes (and yes, I’m using the old plainchant Dies Irae as my intro/outro on...
Meep Hits the Road and Plays the Oldies: Today - Silly(ish) Mortality Posts!
by meep
I’m about to take a vacation (or, rather, I’m about to pack up and take the kids elsewhere, leaving Stu to have a vacation with the ducks.)
I hope it ends better than the vacation in 2017.
While I’m away, I’m pulling out my old records, I mean posts,...
Against "Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries"
by meep
Yes, I am having a slight bit of fun at Scott Alexander’s expense.
This is in response to his post: Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries, in which he pushes back against various people’s concerns re: global population trajectories in which we are likely to peak within the next century globally, and...
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