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- October 06, 2021
- U.S. COVID Mortality: Winter is Coming
- September 29, 2021
- Revisualizing the Financial State of the States: 2021 edition
- September 22, 2021
- Spanish flu v. COVID-19: Comparing the Numbers and Forgetting the Lessons
- September 06, 2021
- Social Security: Benefit Terminations and the Trust Fund Running out
- August 19, 2021
- COVID and Simpson's Paradox: Why So Many Vaccinated People are Among the Current Wave of Hospitalizations
- August 15, 2021
- Meep's Recommendations: Thomas Sowell, Roaring 20s, and Shostakovich
- August 10, 2021
- Taxing Tuesday: The SALT Cap Battle Continues
- August 05, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Cause of Death Trend -- Cancer -- 1999-2020
- July 28, 2021
- Mortality Basics with Meep: Age-Adjusted Death Rates v. Crude Death Rates for U.S. 1968-2020
- July 26, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Cause of Death Trend -- Heart Disease -- 1999-2020
- July 14, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Huge Increase in Death by Drug Overdose in 2020
- July 07, 2021
- Mortality Basics with Meep: Median, Mode, and Mean Age at Death and Life Expectancy
- July 01, 2021
- Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! In Praise of Valuable Annuities
- June 29, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: U.S. Life Expectancy Fell 2.4% in 2020, and Death Rates Increased 16.1%
- June 23, 2021
- Technology, Accessibility, and my Aunt Pat
- June 13, 2021
- Mortality Nuggets: NYT Misleads, COVID Deaths Down, and Car Crash Fatalities Up
- June 09, 2021
- National Public Pension Coalition vs. Truth in Accounting: Who is Accurate With Public Pension Unfunded Debt?
- June 03, 2021
- PSERS Update: What if it's just sloppy processes?
- June 02, 2021
- An Elegy for the "Experts" and for Memory
- May 28, 2021
- Not With a Bang, But a Whimper: Demographic Decline Undermines Public Finance
- May 22, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: On Excess non-COVID Mortality in 2020
- May 18, 2021
- Mortality Nuggets: Global Excess Deaths, Memento Mori, and Mortality News Round-up
- May 11, 2021
- Which Public Pension Funds Have the Highest Holdings of Alternative Assets? 2021 Edition
- May 08, 2021
- Mortality Nuggets: Car Crashes, COVID Deaths, and the WONDER of the CDC
- April 26, 2021
- Geeking Out: Census Numbers for Apportionment Released -- Let's Visualize!
- April 25, 2021
- Weekend Videos: Is COVID Saving Lives, Pennsylvania Schools Employees, SALT Cap
- April 22, 2021
- Public Finance: Full Accrual Accounting and Governmental Accounting Standards Board Testimony
- April 20, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Looking at Location of Death Data for 1999-2020, Entire United States
- April 15, 2021
- SALT Cap Tussle: NY Democrats Have an Ultimatum
- April 12, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Top Causes of Death in the United States in 2020
- April 05, 2021
- Multiemployer Pensions: Will the Recent Bailout Destroy Pensions (in the Long Run)?
- April 01, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Ranking the States (and NYC and DC) by Excess Mortality
- March 26, 2021
- MoneyPalooza Monstrosity: State and Local Governments Should Pay Down Pension Debt
- March 25, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Likelihood of Senate Control Changing Due to Death
- March 24, 2021
- Geeking Out: House of Representatives Apportionment Visualization 1910-2010
- March 21, 2021
- Quick-Takes: Mortality Update, Meep's Math Matters, and a Few Bailout Reactions
- March 11, 2021
- Cuomo Killing the Disabled and the Elderly: This Time It's Personal
- March 10, 2021
- Geeking Out: Florence Nightingale, Data Visualization Pioneer - and Redoing Her Famous Graph
- March 08, 2021
- MoneyPalooza Monstrosity: It Passed! More on the Multiemployer Pension Bailout
- March 03, 2021
- MoneyPalooza Monstrosity -- The Return: Multiemployer Bailout
- March 01, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: the Society of Actuaries Studies 2020 Excess Mortality, Life Expectancy Rebuttal, and More
- February 25, 2021
- GameStop Follies: The Long and the Short of It
- February 22, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Digging into CDC report on mortality in the first half of 2020
- February 14, 2021
- Geeking Out: GDP By Country and Recent COVID Mortality Data
- February 13, 2021
- COVID Mortality: New York, Nursing Homes, and Cuomo
- February 08, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: On The Congressional Body of Old Folks and Deaths in Office
- February 06, 2021
- GameStop Frenzy Lessons: Don't Bet the Milk Money
- February 03, 2021
- GameStop Follies: Hedge Funds, wallstreetbets, and Public Pensions
- February 01, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan by Race/Ethnicity and Week
- January 31, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Excess Mortality in California, Texas, and Florida by Race/Ethnicity
- January 30, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Excess Mortality in New York and New York City
- January 28, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Total U.S. Excess Mortality in 2020, by Race and Ethnicity
- January 26, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: U.S. Excess Mortality by Age Group in 2020, Absolute and Percentage
- January 23, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Total U.S. Excess Mortality in 2020, Overall and by Age
- January 18, 2021
- Mortality Nuggets: Life Expectancy, Worldwide COVID Deaths, Homicides, and More
- Meep's Leftovers: Intellectual Humility, Government Accounting, Pleading Poverty, and More
- January 17, 2021
- Other Pension News: Low Interest Rates, MEP Cuts, and More
- Public Finance Roundup: What Happens When the Richest Move to Laputa?
- January 13, 2021
- Public Pension Roundup: Bailing out Pensions, The Return of Pension Envy, Kentucky Lawsuit, and more
- January 12, 2021
- Taxing Tuesday: Look Back to Olden Times and What Awaits Us in 2021
- January 05, 2021
- Geeking Out: Fitting Florida COVID Case Fatality Rate to Gompertz-Makeham Form
- January 04, 2021
- Mortality with Meep: Estimated U.S. Total Deaths for 2020, All Causes
- December 29, 2020
- Fifth day of Christmas 2020: FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!
- December 27, 2020
- Happy Stu Day! Some Fun Stuff for the Third Day of Christmas
- December 24, 2020
- On the Bailouts That Didn't Happen, Part 2: State and Local Governments
- December 23, 2020
- On the Bailouts That Didn't Happen, Part 1: Multiemployer Pensions
- December 22, 2020
- COVID Mortality Idiocies: Irrelevant Comparisons, Bad Context, and Under-estimating Deaths
- December 20, 2020
- New York State Climate Investing Goals: Who's On the Hook?
- December 07, 2020
- COVID Mortality with Meep: Making Comparisons, by Age, Week, and State
- December 03, 2020
- Chicago Homicides Quick-Take: 2020 is as Bad as 2016, Just More Concentrated
- COVID News Round-up: Suicides, Increasing Deaths, Duty to Die, and Dolly Parton
- December 01, 2020
- COVID Mortality with Meep: Update of Graph -- Plus Age and Sex Breakout by Week
- November 30, 2020
- Reading the News with Meep: Biden nominees ruffle feathers, retirement age to rise in China, and pension news roundup
- November 29, 2020
- COVID Mortality with Meep: The John Hopkins Post That Was Yanked
- November 23, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: The Sex Gap in COVID and Total Mortality
- November 18, 2020
- Reading the News with Meep: Pay-as-you-go Retiree Health Care, Taxing the Rich, New Jersey Debt, and More!
- November 11, 2020
- Joe Biden's Pick for COVID Team: Zeke Emanuel -- a Hint for Public Finance Policy?
- November 07, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Comparing COVID-19 and 2020 Total Death Rates Against U.S. Historical Rates
- November 02, 2020
- Reading the News with Meep: Waiting for a bailout, NYC pension reform, Illinois finance, and more
- October 28, 2020
- COVID round-up: Reduced deadliness, length of immunity, second (and third) waves, and more
- October 23, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Comparing COVID-19 with Historical Mortality and Prior Pandemics
- October 21, 2020
- Read the News with Meep: Vatican Credit Bets, Trump Taxes, Houston Pension Governance, and More!
- October 20, 2020
- A Contrast in COLAs: Social Security vs. Illinois
- October 18, 2020
- COVID Round-up: Excess Mortality, COVID Death Undercounting, Spreadsheet Errors, and More
- October 13, 2020
- A Fisking of Yet Another Public Pension "Explainer" and a Closer Look at Texas ERS
- October 12, 2020
- Reading the News with Meep: Stalled Stimulus, Illinois, MEPs, CT pension payments, and More!
- October 09, 2020
- COVID round-up: Current Mortality, Bad Spreadsheets, Problem with COVID testing, Longer-lasting effects from COVID, and more
- October 05, 2020
- Pension and Finance Round-Up: 80% Funding Myth Sighting, Junky Illinois, and more
- October 01, 2020
- Covid Round-Up: Nursing Homes, Mortality Rates, Herd Immunity, and More
- September 29, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Trump's Tax Returns (Supposedly)
- September 25, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: On increasing life expectancy and the Supreme Court
- September 24, 2020
- Covid Round-up: The Case of the Mysterious Missing Mortality and More
- September 21, 2020
- Reading the News with Meep: Illinois Pensions and Madigan, Calpers to Restrict New CIO, New Jersey Millionaire's Tax and More!
- September 17, 2020
- Keeping Up with Meep: Public Pensions, MEPs, Public Finance, and More
- September 16, 2020
- Quick note on Actuarial Outpost and New Mortality Video
- September 14, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Were COVID Deaths Grossly Overcounted?
- September 11, 2020
- States and Cities under Fiscal Pressure: The Tales of Woe Rev Up Again
- September 09, 2020
- Public Pensions Analysis: High-level Changes in Unfunded Liabilities as a Percentage of State GDP
- September 08, 2020
- Calpers Governance Watch: Fallout from ex-CFO Meng Resignation
- September 07, 2020
- Happy Labor Day! Pension Retrospective: Pension Primers, POBs, MEPs, and More!
- September 03, 2020
- Taxing Thursday: A Retrospective of Soda Taxes, the Amazon Tax, SALT CAP ZERO, and More!
- September 02, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Retrospective on Mortality Trends (and a wee bit about COVID)
- September 01, 2020
- The End of an Era: Where are the 80% funding myths of yesteryear?
- August 27, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: U.S. Excess Deaths Related to Covid Update to August 27, 2020
- August 25, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: The Money Goes Away
- August 24, 2020
- Public Pensions Quicktake: Pension Underfunding vs. State GDP
- August 18, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: California Nuts and New York... Whatever We've Got
- August 10, 2020
- Public Pension Watch: California and Illinois Executive Resignations, Spiking v. California Rule, and more!
- August 07, 2020
- Meep Quicktake: Congressional Bailout Bill Status and Positioning
- August 06, 2020
- Taxing Thursday: It's Up to You, New York, New York
- August 03, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: On Florida COVID Deaths and Reporting Lag
- July 31, 2020
- Classic STUMP: Public Pensions Primer--Why Do We Pre-fund Pensions?
- July 27, 2020
- States and Cities under Fiscal Pressure: Bailouts, State Bankruptcy, and the Next COVID Bill
- July 23, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: COVID-19 Deaths and the Importance of Dates
- July 21, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Back to the Same Old
- July 17, 2020
- Classic STUMP: Public Pensions Primer--The Choice of Discount Rate and Return Volatility
- July 14, 2020
- Data Quickie: 2020 Census Affected by COVID, and Pre-COVID Population Numbers
- July 12, 2020
- Truth is My Highest Value
- July 10, 2020
- Classic STUMP: Public Pensions Primer--How Discount Rates Work
- July 08, 2020
- Data Quickie: 2020 U.S. Census and Likely Population Changes
- July 07, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Seattle Returns to Its Dumbass Idea of an "Amazon Tax"
- July 03, 2020
- Classic STUMP: Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! And Independence Day!
- July 01, 2020
- Private Equity in 401(k)s? Retirement Saver Beware
- June 29, 2020
- Polities Under Fiscal Pressure: Chicago and Cook County
- June 26, 2020
- State Bankruptcy and Bailout Reactions: Chicago Pleads, Bailouts Rationalized, and Bailouts Rejected
- June 24, 2020
- Thoughts on the Passing Scene: Crazy Finance, Stupid Graphs, and Questionable Spreadsheets, oh my!
- June 21, 2020
- Happy Summer 2020! Where to find Meep -- and More
- June 19, 2020
- STUMP Classics: Public Pensions "Truths" and "Myths" -- Now Exposed
- June 17, 2020
- States Under Fiscal Pressure: Connecticut
- June 15, 2020
- Public Pensions, Leverage, and Private Equity: Calpers Goes Bold
- June 12, 2020
- STUMP Classics: The Fiscal State of Connecticut: Totally Screwed [in 2018...and now]
- June 10, 2020
- States Under Fiscal Pressure: New York and New York City
- June 08, 2020
- Defund Police Pensions: Would That Really Save a Lot of Money?
- June 05, 2020
- STUMP Classics: How Reliable Are Lottery Revenues?
- June 04, 2020
- States Under Fiscal Pressure: New Jersey
- June 01, 2020
- The California Rule Court Case: What Can Be Changed on Public Pensions?
- May 31, 2020
- Bankruptcy Followup: On Stockton, Public Pensions, and the Prisoner's Dilemma
- May 29, 2020
- STUMP Classics: The Many Deaths of Sean Bean
- May 28, 2020
- State Bankruptcy and Bailout Reactions: Would Pensions Really Have to be Cut in Bankruptcy?
- May 26, 2020
- State Bankruptcy and Bailout Reactions: More Reactions
- May 22, 2020
- Illinois Pensions: How Did We Get Here? Where Will They Go?
- May 21, 2020
- States Under Fiscal Pressure: Illinois
- May 20, 2020
- States Under Fiscal Pressure: California
- May 18, 2020
- MoneyPalooza Monstrosity! The Positioning for Asking for State Government Bailouts
- May 17, 2020
- MoneyPalooza Monstrosity! Looking at the Multiemployer Pension Provisions
- May 15, 2020
- MoneyPalooza Monstrosity! Looking at the SALT Cap Provisions
- May 14, 2020
- MoneyPalooza Monstrosity! Let's Check Out the State Aid in the $3 Trillion Bill
- May 11, 2020
- State Bankruptcy and Bailout Reactions: No Bailout, Yes Bankruptcy Group
- May 08, 2020
- Classic STUMP: Visualizing the Financial State of the States
- May 07, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Excess Deaths and COVID-19
- May 06, 2020
- Waiting for a Bailout: Stupid Governor Tricks, New York Edition
- May 05, 2020
- State Bankruptcy and Bailout Reactions: Bail Them Out With Strings Attached Contingent
- May 01, 2020
- STUMP Classics: What's So Bad About 80% Fundedness?
- April 30, 2020
- State Bankruptcy and Bailout Reactions: No Pension Bailout, No State Bankruptcy Contingent
- April 27, 2020
- State Bankruptcy and Bailout Reaction: The News Sources and State of the States and Cities
- April 26, 2020
- Blast from the Past: Talking State Bankruptcies in 2011
- April 24, 2020
- STUMP Classics: The Fragility of Public Pensions Due To Can't-Fail Thinking
- April 22, 2020
- Beating Up on Illinois Dems' Brazen Bailout Request: YOU GET BANKRUPTCY
- April 21, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Excess Deaths And Coronavirus
- April 19, 2020
- Illinois Asks for $10B(+) for Pensions -- Most Disgusting COVID-19 Bailout Yet?
- April 16, 2020
- Non-Taxing Non-Tuesday: A Hit to State Tax Revenues
- April 13, 2020
- Use Data Visualization Responsibly
- April 11, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Major U.S. Mortality trends 1955-2017
- April 10, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Baseline U.S. Mortality Stats for Comparison
- April 07, 2020
- Know Your Models: COVID-19
- March 27, 2020
- STUMP IS BACK! Also, Know Your COVID Data
- March 26, 2020
- STUMP UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- March 24, 2020
- Public Pensions Before the Storm
- March 17, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: A Break from Coronavirus
- March 16, 2020
- How to Lose Money Quickly: Trading in a Volatile Market
- March 15, 2020
- Coronavirus Activities: Museums and Meep Explains Opera
- March 13, 2020
- Pandemic: Coronavirus Links and Some Fun Stuff
- March 10, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Mmmmmm, Donuts... I Mean, Hmmmm, Biden and Sanders Tax Plans
- March 06, 2020
- How Not To Be A Dumbass: Media Innumeracy Edition
- March 05, 2020
- Multiemployer Pensions: Prior Bailout Plan's Shortcomings and State of Play
- March 03, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: New York is Still Number One! Also: MORE TAXES FOR EVERYBODY!
- March 02, 2020
- Pandemic: Current Stats of COVID-19, Spanish Flu, and WASH YOUR HANDS
- March 01, 2020
- Presidential Mortality: Evaluating a Biden-Sanders Ticket
- February 28, 2020
- RIP, James Spiotto, Municipal Bankruptcy Expert and Advocate for Long-Term Solutions
- February 25, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Bernie Tax!
- February 24, 2020
- The Moral Case for Pension Reform
- February 23, 2020
- A Look at CT Teachers Pensions: Cash Flow Projections
- February 20, 2020
- French Pension Protests: They Will Continue Til... When?
- February 18, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Don't Worry, Gamers...plus: Soda Tax Retrospective!
- February 12, 2020
- Mortality with Meep: Cancer Statistics -- an Introduction
- February 11, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: the Governor of Illinois Talks Taxes (and Meep Does Her Taxes)
- February 04, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Do It Yourself Tax Migration Stats
- February 03, 2020
- 2020 Project: Digging Through Connecticut Pensions
- February 01, 2020
- French Pension Protests: Final Form of Pension Reform and Continuing Protests
- January 30, 2020
- Presidential Mortality: 2020 Update -- These Candidates are Old
- January 29, 2020
- Pandemic: How Worried Should You Be About Coronavirus?
- January 28, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday Special: State of the Cities from Truth in Accounting
- January 27, 2020
- Revisiting Actuarial Standards: ASOP 4 Has Second Exposure Draft
- January 26, 2020
- Retirement Crisis Solution: Kill the Elderly
- January 22, 2020
- French Pension Protests: State of Play, 22 Jan 2020
- January 21, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Tax Season Begins and Taxpayers Keep Migrating
- January 20, 2020
- Meep Picks Apart: Teresa Ghilarducci on Working Longer
- January 19, 2020
- French Pension Protests: Macron Backs Down on Retirement Age and Protests Continue
- January 14, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Are People Moving Due to Taxes?
- January 13, 2020
- Meep in 2020: A Few Notes on Where to Find Me
- January 07, 2020
- Taxing Tuesday: Happy New Tax Year!
- January 06, 2020
- 80% Public Pension Funding Myth Round-Up for 2019
- January 03, 2020
- Fixing my Graphs: Redo of Life Expectancy Graphs from This Morning's Post
- Mortality with Meep: No, Safety Officers Don't Die Younger than All Other Workers
- January 02, 2020
- Happy New Year! Prediction Reactions and Upcoming Features
- December 31, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Last One of the Year!
- December 29, 2019
- French Pension Protests: Macron Flubs by Trying to Force Change
- December 25, 2019
- Merry Christmas! Have New Public Pensions Projections
- December 24, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Taxmas Eve Edition
- December 17, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Bad Visualizations and Bad Taxes
- December 16, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Top Causes of Death - Raw Numbers
- December 13, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Student Deaths at a Large University
- December 10, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Taxes for Old, Taxes for New?
- December 05, 2019
- Visualizing U.S. Union Membership, 1983-2018
- December 04, 2019
- Can the Government Tell If You're Dead or Alive?
- December 03, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: THE RETURN!
- November 28, 2019
- Happy Thanksgiving! Wrapping up Movember and a Little Sumo, Books, and More
- November 20, 2019
- A New Plan to Deal with Multiemployer Pensions
- November 18, 2019
- Why Does Elizabeth Warren Hate Public Pension Funds?
- November 13, 2019
- Movember: Fight Against Prostate and Testicular Cancer, and For Men's Mental Health
- November 09, 2019
- Remember Remember the Ninth of November
- October 29, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: California Wants All the Money, Chicago Needs All the Money
- October 28, 2019
- RIP, Vladimir Bukovsky (1942-2019), Fighter for Truth
- October 22, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: What's the Real Tax Rate?
- October 15, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Poor Little Rich People and the SALT Cap
- October 14, 2019
- When the Money Runs Out: Some Thoughts on Public Finance and Pensions
- October 13, 2019
- Pensions Primer: Public, Private Single Employer, Multiemployer, and Church Plans - U.S. Landscape
- October 10, 2019
- Illinois Bright Idea: Put a Bunch of Underfunded Pension Plans In One Pile
- Meep on Books: Some Catch-Up with Videos
- October 08, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Huzzah! Long Live the SALT cap!
- October 03, 2019
- Visualizations of Public Pension Fundedness and Why Fundedness is Decreasing
- October 01, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Novel Concept to Politicians - Nunya
- September 29, 2019
- Divestment and ESG Follies: The Case for Divestment in Public Pension Plans
- September 26, 2019
- Visualizing the Financial State of the States
- September 24, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: CT Legislators Don't Like to be Blamed for Taxes
- September 21, 2019
- Chicago and Illinois Update: Summer 2019 Catch-Up Edition
- September 17, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: A Conundrum -- How to Tax Retired Folks When That's What You've Got a Lot of
- September 10, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Chicago Wants All The Money
- September 09, 2019
- Selling Universal Basic Income: Life is a Game!
- September 08, 2019
- Some Videos for a Sunday
- September 03, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Back to Work!
- September 01, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Some Mortality Trends in the Storyline Game
- August 28, 2019
- Are Public Pensions in a Crisis? Part 5: On Bonds and Bailouts
- August 27, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Thank Goodness This Isn't About Public Pensions in Crisis
- August 24, 2019
- Are Public Pensions in a Crisis? Part 4: On Closing DB Plans and Replacing with DC Plans
- August 21, 2019
- Are Public Pensions in a Crisis? Part 3: Is It Just an Accounting Problem?
- August 20, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Lazy Days of Summer
- August 19, 2019
- Are Public Pensions in a Crisis? Part 2: Is Pay-as-You-Go Sustainable?
- August 18, 2019
- Are Public Pensions in a Crisis? Part 1: My Opinion
- August 15, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: How to Get Lots of Supercentenarians? Pension fraud!
- August 13, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: How Can You Tax Your Pudding, if You Don't Tax Your Meat?
- August 08, 2019
- Governing Magazine: In Memoriam
- August 06, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Yadda yadda yadda
- August 05, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Chicago Homicides
- July 31, 2019
- Trump Tweets and Public Pensions: Is CalSTRS really a long-term investor?
- July 30, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Is Illinois a Low Tax State?
- July 23, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: France (Tries) to Tax American Companies and more SALT Cap Follies
- July 16, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Will Tax Increases Kill Small Businesses?
- July 15, 2019
- Deaths in the Dominican Republic: How Many are We Up To Now?
- July 10, 2019
- Deaths in the Dominican Republic: Westchester Woman Dies
- July 09, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: New Jersey DEATHMATCH!!!!
- July 06, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: No, Retiring Later Doesn't Make You Die Sooner... or Later
- July 05, 2019
- Deaths in the Dominican Republic: Bad Booze?
- July 02, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: SALT cap zero! Great new taste!
- July 01, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Guessing at Trends
- June 29, 2019
- Geeking Out: Improving Public Pension Dataviz
- June 25, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Connecticut Advertising to Me
- June 24, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: People Continue to Die in the Dominican Republic and the PR Problem Continues
- June 22, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Even More Dominican Republic Deaths
- June 20, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Dominican Republic and Raw Death Rates
- June 19, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: How Many Deaths Before it's No Longer a Coincidence?
- June 18, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: I'm Sure Suing the Feds will Really Work for New Jersey
- June 12, 2019
- Kerfuffle over Retirement in Japan: What's Up?
- June 11, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Phoning It In
- June 09, 2019
- Video Meep Killed the Radio Meep
- June 04, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Illinois Taxpayers Beware
- June 01, 2019
- State of the Pensions: Oregon
- May 28, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: BIGGER GOVERNMENT!!!
- May 21, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: No, Really, Surprise Money!
- May 18, 2019
- Public Finance Round-Up: Trade-offs, Chicago, Pensions, and More
- May 14, 2019
- Judgment in Moscow by Vladimir Bukovsky: Now Released!
- May 13, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday (on Monday): Trump Taxes! Surprise Money! Or Not!
- May 12, 2019
- Teachers Appreciation Week: Public Teacher Mortality
- May 09, 2019
- Teacher Pensions: A Big Problem for Many States
- May 07, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Yeaaaaah, It's About Illinois
- May 06, 2019
- Happy Teachers Appreciation Week: Teachers in Spokane Learn about Trade-offs
- May 05, 2019
- Universal Basic Income: This Time, Something Something!
- April 30, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Feds Take an Interest in Chicago Shenanigans?
- April 28, 2019
- Divestment and ESG Follies: Where's My Dark Money?
- April 23, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: NY Tax Revenues Down, Population Down
- April 20, 2019
- Dickens Update: Videos You May Have Missed
- April 16, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: ALL YOUR ASSETS ARE BELONG TO US
- April 11, 2019
- Others Notice That A Long Bull Market Hasn't Improved Public Pension Fundedness
- April 09, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: BLAH BLAH BLAH
- April 05, 2019
- Congrats to the New Mayor of Chicago, I Guess
- April 02, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Spitting in the Wind in Illinois, I Hate the NY Legislature, Stupid Tax Ideas, and More
- April 01, 2019
- Foolery for 2019: I Hate the NY State Legislature (and more)
- March 30, 2019
- Everything Old is New Again: Universal Basic Income
- March 29, 2019
- New York City Shenanigans: Slush Funds Just Ain't What They Used to Be
- March 27, 2019
- Divestment and ESG Follies...and Heroes: YAY for President of Brown University, Oil, and Private Prisons
- March 26, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Flee South, Old Folks!
- March 25, 2019
- Chicago Update: Fun In Store for the Next Mayor
- March 22, 2019
- An Ugly Interest Rate Environment and Public Pensions Chasing Returns
- March 20, 2019
- The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago (and Illinois): Some Followup on Brian Hynes
- March 19, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Illinois Tax Persiflage
- March 14, 2019
- Judgment in Moscow: Story about the Trial for Truth that Didn't Take Place
- March 12, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Meep is Done with 2018 Taxes
- March 10, 2019
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Jane the Actuary, ESG, California Rule, and More
- March 08, 2019
- Illinois Finance: Gov. Pritzker's Tax Proposal
- March 05, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Those Evil Billionaires...Who Blue States Depend On
- March 03, 2019
- Chicago Mayoral Race: Screwed No Matter Who You Choose, Thanks to Unfunded Pensions
- March 02, 2019
- NY to Amazon: Come baaaaaaaack! Pleeeeeeease!
- February 27, 2019
- Chicago Run-off: Preckwinkle and Lightfoot
- February 26, 2019
- Deal-Making: New York, Amazon, Chicago, and Corruption
- Taxing Tuesday: Let's Get Rid of Tax Withholding
- February 25, 2019
- Presidential Mortality: Bernie Running and Link to Retirement Planning
- February 21, 2019
- Pity the Poor Congresspeople... Someone is Trying to Take Away Their Pensions!
- February 19, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Meep Files Her Taxes
- February 18, 2019
- The Amazon Escape: On Negotiation and Leverage
- February 17, 2019
- A Tribute to a Whistleblower and Watchdog: Ernie Fitzgerald
- February 16, 2019
- Pritzker's Plan for Illinois Pensions: "Clever" Tricks - POBs, Pay More Later, and Asset Transfer
- February 15, 2019
- On New York Corruption: The Failed Amazon Bribe
- February 14, 2019
- The Stupid Idea That Will Not Die: Universal Basic Income Might Come to Chicago
- February 13, 2019
- Chicago and Illinois Corruption Followup: Lawsuit Involving the Unpaid Vendors Program
- The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago and Illinois: News Round-up
- February 12, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Let's Soak the Rich...Hey, Where Are They Going?
- February 11, 2019
- Geeking Out: Fixing Fullerton, California's Popular Annual Financial Report
- February 08, 2019
- How to Lie With Budget Statistics: Pritzker and Hynes Edition
- February 07, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Cohort vs. Period Mortality Tables
- February 06, 2019
- The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago and Illinois: part 4 - Unpaid Vendors Program
- February 05, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: We're Number One!
- February 04, 2019
- Chicago Mayoral Race: What Do The Candidates Say About Pensions?
- February 02, 2019
- The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago and Illinois: part 3 - Who Sent You?
- February 01, 2019
- The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago and Illinois: part 2 - Workers Compensation Fund
- January 30, 2019
- New Jersey: Battle Over Public Finance Between Democrats
- January 29, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Save Us Rich People From Senator Candidates
- January 28, 2019
- Dear Laid-Off Journalists: Learn Some Skills People Will Pay You For
- The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago and Illinois: Effects on Public Finance, part 1
- January 27, 2019
- Saying Goodbye to Pickwick: The Real Villains and Sam Weller
- January 24, 2019
- Governmental Accounting Standards Board: Meep Writes a Letter
- LA Teacher Strike Ends: Promises Made With Money Not in Hand
- January 22, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: For Illinois, I Foresee PAAAAAAIN
- January 21, 2019
- A Year of Dickens: Literature for the Masses
- January 19, 2019
- San Diego City ERS Has No Business Giving Out 13th Checks
- January 16, 2019
- Los Angeles Teacher Strike: Pensions are a Driver
- January 15, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Taxing Anything That Moves
- January 13, 2019
- A Year of Dickens: Starting with Pickwick Papers
- January 11, 2019
- Math Stupidity: Comparing Pizzas and What's Important
- January 09, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Death Distributions and Survival Probability
- January 08, 2019
- Taxing Tuesday: Time to Make the Donuts
- January 02, 2019
- Mortality with Meep: Omega -- And Was the Oldest Person (Recorded) a Fraud?
- January 01, 2019
- New Book Project: A Dickens Novel Each Month
- Happy New Tax Year!
- December 31, 2018
- War and Peace: I AM DONE
- Bye Bye 2018 - And the 80 Percent Funding Myth Persists
- December 30, 2018
- Mortality with Meep: French Annuities and the Revolution - Antiselection
- December 28, 2018
- Geeking Out: Best Way to Graph Stock Market Indices
- December 24, 2018
- Twas the Night before Taxmas...
- December 21, 2018
- Hindsight is Hilarious: Pension DROP Program Presentation
- December 20, 2018
- Divestment and ESG Follies: Mandating Women on Corporate Boards
- December 19, 2018
- Things Fall Apart: Pension-o-sphere update - Kentucky, MEPs, and more
- December 18, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: California to Tax Texts?
- December 11, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Not Too Many Interested in Iffy Way to Avoid SALT Cap
- December 10, 2018
- Mortality with Meep: q_x - UPDATED WITH CONTENT FROM STU
- December 09, 2018
- BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!
- December 05, 2018
- The Return of Mortality Monday and RIP, President GHW Bush
- December 04, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: The French People are Revolting (UPDATED)
- December 01, 2018
- STUMP ephemera: Bloomberg, MERRY CHRISTMAS, and an Excel webcast
- November 29, 2018
- MEP Bailout Quickie: Collapses Like a Flan in a Cupboard
- November 27, 2018
- Multiemployer Pensions: Waiting for the Bailout Report
- Taxing Tuesday: Putting the Black in Black Friday
- November 26, 2018
- Memory Monday: Wildfires of 1918 with some Graphs on California Wildfires
- November 25, 2018
- Geeking Out: Making Fractals in a Spreadsheet
- November 24, 2018
- Geeking Out: On Life Expectancy and Conditional Expectation
- November 20, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Election Results
- Mornings with Meep: Dostoevsky's The Gambler
- November 17, 2018
- Arguing against the Public Pensions "Truths" and "Myths"
- November 15, 2018
- Causes of Public Plan Insolvency: On Public Pension Valuation
- November 12, 2018
- A Proposal: Restructuring Current Public Pensions Through Municipal Bankruptcy
- November 11, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: 100 Years Since End of World War I
- November 09, 2018
- Actuarial History... Which is Not Really History
- November 06, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Election Day! Let's Just Tweet It All!
- November 05, 2018
- Divestment and ESG Follies: A Lack of Humility - Tobacco, Climate Risk, and More
- October 30, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Pity the Poor High-Income Highly-Taxed Chicagoans
- October 29, 2018
- Memory Monday: The Spanish Flu Peak in October 1918 and More
- October 24, 2018
- Public Pension Fund Governance: Who Are the Funds Being Managed For?
- October 23, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Tax-Related Ballot Questions
- October 18, 2018
- Divestment Follies: Going After Facebook.... Again
- October 16, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Don't Blame the SALT Cap for the Pain of High Taxes, Also: The Quest for Trump's Tax Returns in Tweets
- October 13, 2018
- What Percentage of Public Pension Income is From Investment Returns? Or Contributions?
- October 09, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Shenanigans! Illegality! Something!
- October 08, 2018
- Calpers Quickie: President Pushed off the Board Due to ESG Over Pension Security
- October 03, 2018
- Get A Flu Shot: Last Year's Seasonal Flu Was the Worst in 40 Years
- October 02, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Where Are the Highest Taxes?
- October 01, 2018
- Memory Monday: September/October 1918 - the Spanish Flu Arrives in the U.S.
- September 28, 2018
- Actuarial Stuff: Mergers, Bootings, and Secrecy (oh my!)
- September 27, 2018
- Calpers Craziness: A Performance Review... and an Investigation?
- September 26, 2018
- Russian Revolts over Retirement Reduction
- September 25, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Maneuvering to Benefit the Rich, Hope the Suckers Stop Looking, and More
- September 20, 2018
- Chicago is a Big Ball of Bad Ideas
- September 18, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Republican Tax Ideas for an Election Year
- September 14, 2018
- Divestment Follies: An Actual Cogent Case...Kind Of
- September 12, 2018
- Trying to Deflect the Blame: Calpers and the Catholic Church (and Trump!)
- September 11, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Democratic Tax Ideas for an Election Year
- September 06, 2018
- Shoe Is On the Other Foot: Police Unions Call for Nike Divestment (and other divestment follies)
- September 05, 2018
- Pre-Mortem: Rahm Emanuel Bows Out of Mayoral Race
- September 04, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Election Year Impact of Tax Bill?
- September 03, 2018
- Memory Monday: August 1918 -- Gearing Up For an Election and the End of the War
- August 28, 2018
- Pension Quickie: Paying For Hamburgers on Tuesday... or Not at All
- Taxing Tuesday: Closing the Imaginary Loophole and High Tax State Reality
- August 27, 2018
- Chicago Pension Obligation Bond Idea: It's the Discount Rate, Stupid
- August 19, 2018
- Chicago Stupidity: Universal Basic Income, Pension Obligation Bonds, and Divestment
- August 14, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Let's Tax Wealth!
- August 13, 2018
- Memory Monday: Last Week of July 1918 - The Brewster Standard Takes a Vacation
- August 10, 2018
- Having Fun with Mortality: The Day Nobody Died, the Oldest People Keep Dying, and Don't Drink and Walk
- August 08, 2018
- Geeking Out: Are Women Really Receiving Lower Social Security Benefits?
- August 07, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: A Local Discussion on the SALT Cap, and Other State Options
- August 06, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: an Old Tale of Pension Fraud, Illinois Spiking, Russian Revolts, and More
- August 02, 2018
- Checking the Numbers: How Much are Social Security Benefits?
- July 31, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Taxing Our Own Rich Folk Ain't Enough! Bail Us Out!
- July 30, 2018
- Memory Monday: Second and Third Weeks of July 1918
- July 29, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: The March of Folly
- July 27, 2018
- Actuarial Standards of Practice on Pensions: ASOP 4 - a Call for Comments
- July 24, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Let's Sue the Feds!
- July 23, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: the "Strong Men" of Venezuela and Russia Can Do Only So Much
- July 19, 2018
- Janus Clawback: Follow the Money
- July 17, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Taxes on my Horizon
- July 15, 2018
- RIP, Jeremy Gold: An Actuarial Memorial
- July 11, 2018
- Supreme Court Mortality Projection Update!
- July 10, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Sticking it to New Jersey, Banning Soda Taxes, and More
- July 09, 2018
- Memory Monday: First Week of July 1918... and the Heat Wave of 1911
- July 08, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Dystopias
- July 06, 2018
- At the Half: Updating the 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame
- July 03, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Don't Tax Me, Bro!
- July 02, 2018
- Memory Monday: Fourth Week of June 1918 - and the perspective of history
- July 01, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Happy Bobby Bonilla (and Bruce Sutter) Day!
- June 30, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Divestment, Janus, and More
- June 28, 2018
- SCOTUS Doings: Public Employee Union Dues and Justice Kennedy Retiring
- June 27, 2018
- Geeking Out: Public Pension Mortality Assumptions
- June 26, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Tax ALLLL the Internet! and New Jersey Puts Out Dumbass Idea
- June 25, 2018
- Memory Monday: Third Week of June 1918 -- BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
- June 24, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Gathering Info and Around the Pension-o-Sphere
- June 21, 2018
- Russian Retirement Age Raised Past Death? Let Me Actuary-splain...
- June 19, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Mapping Tax Cuts and Laughing at Seattle
- June 18, 2018
- Memory Monday: Second Week of June 1918 -- Do You Have a Flag?
- June 17, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Happy Father's Day!
- June 16, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: MEPs, Illinois, and Divestment
- June 13, 2018
- Wisconsin Wednesday: Is Contribution Growth Moderate?
- June 12, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Suck it Up, Buttercup - the IRS Is Gonna Block "Cleverness"
- June 11, 2018
- Memory Monday: First Week of June 1918 -- Down With the Kaiser!
- June 10, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: What Exactly is a Fiscal Crisis? When Does It Happen?
- June 08, 2018
- Friday Special: Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds - What's Real?
- June 07, 2018
- Illinois Quickie: Pension Benefit Growth Rates
- Illinois Budget and Pension Buyout: Much Ado About Awful
- June 06, 2018
- Wisconsin Wednesday: Is Benefit Growth Moderate?
- June 05, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Pity the Poor Blue State Millionaires
- June 04, 2018
- Memory Monday: Puerto Rican Deaths and Fifth week of May 1918
- June 03, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: The Wisdom of Dickens
- June 01, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: State-Run Private Pensions, Vermonters as Insurers, and More
- May 31, 2018
- Pew Pensions Report: Public Pensions Should Stress Test, also -- How the States Were Chosen
- May 30, 2018
- Wisconsin Wednesday: Pew Research on Its Ability to Weather Bad Experience
- May 29, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: IRS Sends a Shot Across the Bow
- May 28, 2018
- Memory Monday: Fourth Week of May 1918
- May 27, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Data Visualization
- May 24, 2018
- California Crazy: Governance and Management Problems at Calpers
- May 22, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Boo Hoo, High-States Under More Pressure, Head Taxes, and More
- May 21, 2018
- Memory Monday: Third Week of May 1918
- May 18, 2018
- Senseless in Seattle: A Panoply of Stupidity
- May 16, 2018
- Happy Pension News: Wisconsin State Pensions...a Beginning
- May 15, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: A Campaign Video, Ready-Made, for Republicans, Illinois Tax Doom, and More
- May 14, 2018
- Memory Monday: Second Week of May 1918 - Whooping Cough and GIVE US MONEY
- May 13, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Happy Mothers Day!
- May 11, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Kentucky Lawsuit, Crazy Calpers, MEPs, and More
- May 10, 2018
- Banning All Things Gun: It's a Poor Weapon That Points Only One Way
- May 09, 2018
- Happy Idea: Moving from Defined Benefit to "Defined Ambition"
- May 08, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Highly Taxed People Running Away
- May 07, 2018
- Memory Monday: First Week of May 1918
- May 06, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: A Modest Proposal for Social Security
- May 04, 2018
- Divestment and Activist Investing Follies: What's Next? My Lunch?
- May 03, 2018
- Alternative Assets and Pension Performance: A Dive into Data
- May 02, 2018
- Happy Public Finance Story: The Bankruptcy of Detroit Brings Good Results
- May 01, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Our Clever Ideas are Totally Going to Work! Please Billionaires, Don't Leave!
- April 30, 2018
- Memory Monday: Bill Gates Wants to Take on Pandemics, and Fourth Week of April 1918
- April 29, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Thanks to my Readers!
- April 27, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Kentucky, New York, Colorado, and a Really Bad Graphic
- April 25, 2018
- Illinois Round-Up: Bonds Issued at High Rates, the Harvey Harbinger, and More Doom
- April 24, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: A Promise to Raise Taxes, Who is Paying Most Taxes, And Who Gets the Cuts?
- April 23, 2018
- Memory Monday: Origin of Spanish Flu and Third Week of April 1918
- April 22, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: The Wisdom of Finance and Failure is Always a Possible Outcome
- April 20, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Actuaries Testifying, New Standards, Actuary Bloggers, Pew Report, and Connecticut
- April 19, 2018
- Divestment Dumbassery: Know What You're Protesting
- April 18, 2018
- A Proposal for Public Pension Reform: The Idea and Coming Attractions
- April 17, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Trying to Escape Property Taxes, Follow-the-Leader, More Married Couple TCJA Scenarios
- April 16, 2018
- Memory Monday: Spanish Flu Still Relevant and Second Week of April 1918
- April 15, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Two Pension Stories and Skin in the Game
- April 13, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Mostly Kentucky, Some California, and Pew Rains on the Parade
- April 12, 2018
- Illinois Pension Round-Up: Trouble in Harvey, Small Proposal That Won't Fix Anything, and No Details from a Politician
- April 11, 2018
- Divestment and Activist Investing Follies: Hey, No Fair! Climate Change, Guns, Knives, and Consequences
- April 10, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: New York Tries Its "Fix", Married Couple Base Scenario for Tax Calculator
- April 09, 2018
- Memory Monday: Flu Season Ain't Over Yet and First Week of April 1918
- April 08, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: On Seeking Truth and Not Lying
- April 07, 2018
- Vindication: Yuri Dmitriev Acquitted
- April 06, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Actuarysplaining, Yay for Nebraska, State-Run Private Pensions, and Puerto Rico
- April 04, 2018
- Divestment and Activist Investing Follies: Shooting Yourself in the Foot?
- April 03, 2018
- Kentucky Meltdown: Teachers in Revolt, Bill in the Sewers, and Nothing Actually Solved
- Taxing Tuesday: Idea for Progressive Income Tax in Illinois; Adding Dependents to Tax Change Analysis
- April 02, 2018
- Memory Monday: Fifth Week of March 1918 - BUY BONDS BUY BONDS BUY BONDS
- March 29, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Fiscal Reporting Bootcamp, Transparency, Divestment Hero, and More
- March 28, 2018
- New Jersey's Pension Non-Solution: Giving the Fund Management to the Unions
- March 27, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: What if Trump Doesn't Spend All the Money? And State Income Taxes
- March 26, 2018
- Memory Monday: The Men Who Fought for Women's Votes, and Fourth Week in March 1918
- March 25, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: Governments DO Go Out of Business
- March 24, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Illinois, California, Shareholder Activism, and Puerto Rico
- March 22, 2018
- States: Let's Sue the Evil Evil Gas Companies! Gas Companies: How About We Sue You for Securities Fraud?
- March 21, 2018
- McCabe's Pension: Round Up of Stories, Some Pension Details, and a Little Bit of Stats
- March 20, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: New Jersey Wants to Be Number One; More Federal Tax Comparisons
- March 19, 2018
- Memory Monday: Avian Flu Vaccine, Some Chit-Chat, and Third Week of March 1918
- March 18, 2018
- Mornings with Meep: I'm Happy I Didn't Wait
- March 16, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: FBI, California, Kentucky, and New Jersey
- March 15, 2018
- Two Awful Tastes That Go Great Together: Pension Obligation Bonds and 80% Funding Myth
- March 14, 2018
- The Kentucky Pension Mess: Ain't Getting Cleaned Up Now
- March 13, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: California Chicanery, Geeking Out, And What About Payroll Taxes?
- March 12, 2018
- Memory Monday: Pandemic Model, Quarantine Politics, and Second Week of March 1918
- March 11, 2018
- New Experiment: Mornings with Meep
- March 09, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Public Unions, Illinois, Connecticut, Kentucky, and More!
- March 08, 2018
- Divestment and Activist Investing Follies: Don't Let the Evil Ones Bank! Also more Pension Divestment Idiocy
- March 07, 2018
- The Fiscal State of Connecticut: Totally Screwed
- March 06, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Update Your Withholdings, Shot Across the Bow, and "Clever" Ideas Progressing
- March 05, 2018
- Memory Monday: Current Reflections on the Spanish Flu Pandemic and First Week of March 1918
- March 02, 2018
- More on Divestment: Your Money? Go For It. Other People's Money? Be Careful.
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Kentucky, New Jersey, Montana, and Higher Wages Make for Cheaper Pensions?
- March 01, 2018
- Public Employee Unions and Pensions: Are There Connections?
- February 28, 2018
- Public Employee Unions: SCOTUS and Reality - Political Power Will Remain, No Matter What
- February 27, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: We're Number 50!
- February 26, 2018
- Memory Monday: Turning the Corner on Flu and Fourth Week of February 1918
- February 23, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Let's Divest from Guns, New Interpretation of Pension Spiking, and More
- February 21, 2018
- Dirty Divestment and Clean Investment Follies: There Had Better be Returns
- February 20, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: DOOOOOOOM and more DOOOOOOOOM
- February 19, 2018
- Memory Monday: Current Flu Cases and Third Week of February 1918
- February 16, 2018
- Around the Pension-o-Sphere: Multiemployer Plans, Illinois, Kentucky, and New York
- February 14, 2018
- Illinois Idiocy: Scenario-Testing the Pension Obligation Bond Idea
- February 13, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: OHNOES! The Proles Get More Money!
- February 12, 2018
- Memory Monday: Current Flu Hospitalizations and Second Week of February 1918
- February 09, 2018
- Friday Foolery: Stockton Tries Universal Basic Income... Maybe
- February 08, 2018
- Illinois Idiocy: Projecting Potential Cash Flows for Proposed Pension Obligation Bonds
- February 07, 2018
- MEP Watch: About Those Plans to Bail Out Union Pensions
- February 06, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: New York to Get MORE in Taxes?
- February 05, 2018
- Memory Monday: Current Flu and First Week of February 1918
- February 02, 2018
- Friday Foolery: Dumb Taxes in General
- February 01, 2018
- Illinois Idiocy: Digesting the Presentation of the Mega Pension Obligation Bond Idea
- January 30, 2018
- Illinois Idiocy: Let's Issue Pension Obligation Bonds When Our Ratings Are Low!
- Taxing Tuesday: Let a Hundred Excellence Funds Bloom
- January 29, 2018
- Memory Monday: Last Week of January 1918
- January 26, 2018
- Friday Foolery: How Long Will Centless in Seattle Last?
- January 25, 2018
- Around the World in Pensions: Brazil, the EU, and more
- January 23, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Checking In With Worried States
- January 22, 2018
- Memory Monday: Third Week of January 1918
- January 20, 2018
- Update on Yuri Dmitriev: The Return of Punitive Psychiatry in Russia
- January 19, 2018
- Friday Foolery: More Centless in Seattle! And Cook County Regrets?
- January 18, 2018
- New Jersey: Running Out of Money and Options
- January 17, 2018
- Divestment and Activist Investing Follies: The Democratic Pols Rev It Up
- January 16, 2018
- Taxing Tuesday: Following the Efforts to Dodge Federal Taxes
- January 15, 2018
- Memory Monday: Second Week of January 1918
- January 12, 2018
- New Project(s): Re-visualizing the Public Pension Database
- January 11, 2018
- Setting the Stage 2018: Don't Fight High Taxes, Democrats! Embrace Them!
- January 10, 2018
- Setting the Stage 2018: Connecticut Says Bye Bye Billionaires
- January 09, 2018
- Centless in Seattle: The New Soda Tax Saga
- January 08, 2018
- Mortality Theme: Watching the Spanish Flu in Old Newspapers
- January 07, 2018
- Federal Tax Avoidance Follies: A Splash of Reality
- January 06, 2018
- More Soda Tax Idiocy: This Time, It's Seattle
- January 04, 2018
- More on High-Tax States Trying to be Clever in Helping Rich People Avoid Federal Taxes
- January 03, 2018
- Theme for the Year: High Tax States Attempting to Avoid Effect of Federal Taxes
- January 02, 2018
- Starting the Year Off Right: Lawsuits Over Kentucky Pensions
- December 31, 2017
- Let's Ring Out the Year with the 80 Percent Funders!
- December 29, 2017
- To Prepay or Not to Prepay Taxes: That's the Question
- December 20, 2017
- Federal Entitlements: Ghosts of Promises Past and Benefits Yet-to-be-Paid
- December 19, 2017
- Puerto Rico Quick-take: You Found How Much Just Lying Around?
- December 18, 2017
- Breaking the 12 Days of Christmas Cost Scandal Wide Open!
- December 17, 2017
- Sunday Ephemera: Some Taxes, Some Math, and CHRISTMAS!!!!
- December 15, 2017
- Kentucky Pension Update: GIVE US A BUNCH OF MONEY
- December 07, 2017
- Rumors of Pension Bailouts: MEPs and Public Pensions
- December 06, 2017
- More Divestment Follies: the Iffy Priority, the Sensible Strategy, and the Lack of Fiduciary Duty
- December 04, 2017
- Pour One Out for the Cook County Soda Tax
- December 01, 2017
- Around the Web-O-Sphere: Meep Enjoying Herself Too Much
- November 30, 2017
- Moving the Pension Funding Goalposts: 60 Percent is the New 80 Percent
- November 29, 2017
- Which Public Pension Funds Have the Highest Holdings of Alternative Assets? Has It Paid Off?
- November 28, 2017
- Are Hedge Funds or Private Equity Investments Appropriate for Public Pension Funds?
- November 27, 2017
- Kentucky Pension Brou-Ha-Ha: Updating Current State of Play
- November 22, 2017
- The Real Reason for States Dropping DB Plans: Ever-Increasing Expense
- November 21, 2017
- Public DB Pension Fund Managers, Why Don't You Split Out Cash Flows?
- November 20, 2017
- Public DB Pension Fund Managers: Hey, Don't Close the Plans Just Because They're Ever-More-Expensive!
- November 14, 2017
- Kentucky Pension Battle: Just Throw Out Everything
- November 13, 2017
- Public Pension and Public Assets: Governments Shouldn't Be Activist Investors
- November 08, 2017
- Results: 2017 Pension-Related Ballot Measures
- November 07, 2017
- Never Forget: 100 Years Since the Russian Communist Revolution
- November 06, 2017
- Public Pension-Related Ballot Measures: 2017
- Nope, Not #MeToo...But Also Not Surprised at Sexual Harassment in Legislatures
- November 04, 2017
- Movember Campaign -- Prostate Cancer and Suicide Prevention
- November 01, 2017
- More New York Ballot Stuff: No Good Reason for Constitutional Convention
- October 31, 2017
- Happy Halloween! Some Scary Public Pension Projections
- October 29, 2017
- Geeking Out (and Illinois Pensions): Fixing a Graph and Assigning Blame for Underfundedness
- October 27, 2017
- Public Pensions, Fictional Scenarios, and Suspension of Disbelief
- October 25, 2017
- Kentucky Pension Battle: Reform Proposal Announced and Nobody's Happy
- October 24, 2017
- Waiting for Hartford to Default While State Legislators Throw a Little Cash Around
- October 22, 2017
- Meep Media: Wacky Mysteries
- October 19, 2017
- Connecticut Continuing: Is There a Budget Yet?
- State and Local Tax Deduction: Who Wins? Who Loses?
- October 16, 2017
- Public Finance: Guys, It's Not Really a Competition as to Who is the Worst
- Cook County Soda Tax: Juuuuust One More... Come On....
- October 11, 2017
- New York State Proposal 2: Forfeiture of Pension of Criminal Officials
- October 10, 2017
- Soda Tax Sunset: Toasting the End of an Era
- October 08, 2017
- Puerto Rico and the Political Risk of Muni Bonds and Unfunded Pensions
- October 07, 2017
- Soda Tax: I BETTER POST THIS WHILE IT STILL EXISTS
- October 06, 2017
- Soda Tax: THE BUDGET RECKONING
- October 05, 2017
- Soda Tax: Here He Comes to Save the Day!
- October 04, 2017
- Illinois: Be Seein Ya!
- 80% Pension Funding Hall of Shame, 2017Q3 Update
- October 03, 2017
- Tempest in an Academic Teacup: The Problem with Illinois is Not Complicated Math
- October 01, 2017
- Meep Media: Give Me Brain Candy
- September 28, 2017
- The Never-Ending Soda Tax: The Saga
- September 27, 2017
- Connecticut: A Review While Waiting for a Budget
- September 26, 2017
- Show Me (the Money) State: Missouri Tries a Pension Buyout
- September 25, 2017
- Kentucky Pension Blues: Let's Get This Fire Started
- September 23, 2017
- Soda Tax Follies: The Backstory of Preckwinkle and More
- September 22, 2017
- On Full Public Pension Funding: A Follow-Up
- September 20, 2017
- Soda Tax Soda Tax, oh Soda Soda Tax: Bah Dumb Dumb Dumb
- September 19, 2017
- A New Category for the Public Pension Hall of Shame: Never Fully-Funders
- September 11, 2017
- Soda Tax Follies: Choices Have Consequences
- September 10, 2017
- RIP, Jerry Pournelle
- September 09, 2017
- Hey Amazon: Come to Hartford, CT!
- September 05, 2017
- Insurance Notes: Flood Insurance
- September 03, 2017
- Sunday Silliness: Cook County Soda Tax Keeps Limping Along
- August 30, 2017
- Soda Tax Gone Global: Is It Sweeps Week Yet?
- August 29, 2017
- Meep's Bookshelf: Get Free E-Books by Russian Dissidents NOW!
- August 28, 2017
- Monday Sweetness: OF COURSE MORE SODA TAX
- August 27, 2017
- Sunday Silliness: Soda Tax, Sierpinski Spreadsheet, and Swinish Puns
- August 24, 2017
- Public Pensions: On Accounting For Assets and Liabilities and REALLY BAD IDEAS
- August 23, 2017
- Cook County Soda Tax: My Relief (and announcement)
- August 20, 2017
- Sunday Dumpery: Yes, It's The Soda Tax - What's It To You?
- August 19, 2017
- Public Pensions: Why Do 100% Required Contribution Payers Have Decreasing Fundedness?
- August 18, 2017
- Public Pensions Interest Group Says: Your Money Creates More Value With Us!
- Cook County Soda Tax: Persuasion and Comparisons - Why Not Tax Juice?
- August 17, 2017
- Cook County Soda Tax: Look Who's Come to Save the Day!
- August 16, 2017
- Cook County Soda Tax: Dear Lord, It's Not Dead Yet
- August 13, 2017
- Illinois Senate Bill 1 and the State Budget: What's This About Pension Funding?
- Cook County Soda Tax: Somebody Please Make It Stop
- August 10, 2017
- Editing the James Damore Google Diversity Memo: Improve the Summary and Focus (WITH GIFS!)
- August 09, 2017
- Cook County Soda Tax: The Current Mess
- August 07, 2017
- Mortality Monday: When Do People Die?
- August 06, 2017
- Asset Grab Bag: Whistleblower Award for Blogger, Private Equity Fees and Returns, and more
- Sunday Dumpery: Cook County Soda Tax, Chicago Pension Funding, and More
- August 03, 2017
- Public Pension Assets: Divestments for Everybody!
- August 02, 2017
- Public Pension Assets: It's Not Your Money to Play With, Pension Trustees
- August 01, 2017
- Public Pension Assets: Our Funds were in Alternatives, and All We Got Were These Lousy High Fees
- July 31, 2017
- Pension Assets: Investment Returns are in for FY 2017 and They're GREAT!
- Mortality Monday: Suicide -- Rates
- July 28, 2017
- Updates on Vladimir Bukovsky and Yuri Dmitriev
- July 27, 2017
- Congrats to Keith Phaneuf, 8-Time 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame Member!
- July 25, 2017
- Illinois and Chicago Round-Up: Soda Taxes, Holding Legislation Hostage, Tiffs over TIFs and More!
- July 24, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Suicide -- the Absolute Numbers
- July 22, 2017
- MEPs on the Rocks: Furniture Workers Pension Allowed to Cut Retiree Benefits
- July 19, 2017
- Social Security: The Annual Trustee Report - Cash Flows, Tardiness, and Other Views
- July 17, 2017
- Mortality Monday: More Chicago Shootings and Longer-Term Trends
- July 13, 2017
- A Real Russian Scandal: Yuri A. Dmitriev and Stalin's Great Purge
- July 12, 2017
- Here Comes the Junk: Hartford Downgraded, State Says Get It Together
- Illinois Quick Take: Gas Taxes
- July 11, 2017
- Illinois Financial Disaster: Even More Reactions to the Budget
- July 07, 2017
- Illinois Financial Disaster: Reactions to Budget Passed over Veto
- July 03, 2017
- Mortality Monday: DEATH TO GEESE
- July 02, 2017
- Illinois Financial Disaster: Clean Up Your Own Damn Mess
- June 29, 2017
- Illinois Financial Disaster: State Taken Hostage
- June 27, 2017
- Illinois Financial Disaster: Madigan Wants it All to Burn
- June 26, 2017
- Mortality Monday: The Sex Gap in Death
- June 25, 2017
- Public Pensions: Why It's Important to Keep Watching
- June 21, 2017
- Pennsylvania Pensions: Liability Trends
- June 19, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Cause of Death, 2014
- Pennsylvania Pension Trends: Assets
- June 18, 2017
- Illinois Financial Disaster: This is Fine
- June 15, 2017
- Illinois Budget Impasse: Now It's Serious -- Powerball and Mega Millions to Withdraw
- June 13, 2017
- Pennsylvania Pensions: Nibbling at the Edges
- June 11, 2017
- Puerto Rico Link Dump: World of Pain
- June 07, 2017
- More Hartford Woes: Too Many Property-Tax-Exempt Government Properties
- June 05, 2017
- Kentucky Pensions Even Closer to the Brink: New Assumptions, New Report
- June 04, 2017
- Geeking Out: Testing Kentucky ERS to Death
- June 03, 2017
- Here Goes Hartford and Connecticut: Aetna HQ To Leave, State Trying to Avoid Bankruptcy
- 80% Fundedness: An Excellent Example and The Usual Disappointments
- June 02, 2017
- Illinois Steps to the Edge: No Budget, Credit Downgrade, Stupid Tax Idea
- June 01, 2017
- Houston and Dallas Pension Bills Signed: Now What?
- May 29, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Memorial Day and the U.S. Civil War
- May 28, 2017
- Priorities for Pension Funds: Climate Change or Solvency?
- May 26, 2017
- You'll Never Guess What Rahm's Plan to Save Chicago Schools Is!
- May 25, 2017
- Not Even a Petite Bargain in Illinois Budget Wrangling
- May 23, 2017
- Connecticut Finances: Running Out of Other People's Money, Looking for Cuts
- May 22, 2017
- Mortality Monday: All About Traffic Deaths!
- May 21, 2017
- Geeking Out: How Dependable are Lottery Revenues? And Government Data Sources?
- May 20, 2017
- Around the Pension-o-sphere: California, Chicago, and Valuation!
- May 18, 2017
- Stupid Pension Trick: Let's Use Lottery Money!
- Stupid Pension Trick: Extra Contributions from a Special Fund
- May 16, 2017
- Puerto Rico Round-up: Trying to Determine How Bad It Is
- Multiemployer Pension Plans: The Politicking
- May 14, 2017
- Testing to Death: Which Public Pensions are Cash Flow Vulnerable?
- May 11, 2017
- How About Turning Around Hartford?
- Multiemployer Pension Plans: Critical Plans Treading Water, Waiting to Drown
- May 10, 2017
- "Rights" vs. Reality: When Will "They" Ever Learn?
- May 08, 2017
- Literal Suicide and Media
- May 05, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: The Murder-Suicide of Expertise
- May 04, 2017
- Catch-Up Week: Dallas and Houston Pensions - Still A-Roar
- More Puerto Rico: Round Up of Current Commentary and Followups
- May 03, 2017
- Here We Go: Puerto Rico Tries for Legal Federal Bankruptcy
- May 02, 2017
- Catch-Up Week: Let's Turn Around Connecticut!
- May 01, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Pension Plan Mortality
- April 30, 2017
- Catch-Up Week: Puerto Rico on the Brink (again)
- April 28, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: Did You Know Trump is Involved in Real Estate?
- April 23, 2017
- Geeking Out: Testing Chicago MEABF to Destruction
- April 20, 2017
- Distance Makes It Clearer: Pension Protests in Brazil
- April 18, 2017
- Illinois Finances: Budget?! We Don't Need No Stinkin Budget!
- April 17, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Huge Heroin Death Increases
- April 12, 2017
- Watching the Money Run Out: A Simulation with a Chicago Pension
- April 11, 2017
- Rhode Island Pensions: Liability Trends
- April 10, 2017
- Mortality Monday (with a little Trumpery): Supreme Court Probabilities Take 2
- April 07, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: Rich Woman Complains Other Women Aren't Rich
- April 06, 2017
- Rhode Island Pensions: Asset Trends
- April 05, 2017
- Rhode Island Pensions: Let's Be A Happy Family!
- April 04, 2017
- Exactly How Screwed Are Chicago Pensions?
- April 03, 2017
- Mortality Monday: How High Can Omega Go?
- April 02, 2017
- Let's Make 80% Fundedness Great Again!
- March 31, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: No Exemptions for State-Run "Private" Pensions [UPDATED]
- March 30, 2017
- Pensions at the Supreme Court: Church Plans
- March 29, 2017
- Calpers Myths vs. Facts: Page is Gone But The Internet is Forever
- March 27, 2017
- Mortality Monday: the Many Deaths of Sean Bean
- March 24, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: DEY TOOK OUR ACTUARIAL JERRRRRBS
- March 22, 2017
- Why It's a Good Idea to Fully Fund Public Pensions
- March 21, 2017
- Stupid Public Pension Trends: Divestment Expands
- March 20, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Chicago Shootings
- March 17, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: Digging through STUMP's Basement...
- March 15, 2017
- Pensions Catch-Up Week: Connecticut Trying to Fix a Hole
- March 14, 2017
- Public Finance: Illinois wants to tax ALL THE THINGS!
- March 13, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Suspicious Russian Deaths
- March 12, 2017
- Pensions Catch-Up Week: Dallas Police and Fire (and Houston)
- March 11, 2017
- Nevada Pensions: Liability Trends
- Nevada Pensions: Asset Trends
- March 10, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: Did You Miss the Women?
- March 07, 2017
- To Build a Castle: Still Relevant Story of a Fighter for Freedom
- March 06, 2017
- Mortality Monday: How Young is "So Young to Die"?
- March 03, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: DOL pick, take two
- February 28, 2017
- When Multiemployer Pensions Fail: Teamsters Local 707
- Introducing this Week's State Pensions Example: Nevada
- February 27, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Broken Heart Syndrome
- February 24, 2017
- Around the Pension Web: Actuarial Outpost, MEPs, Assets, and George Will
- February 21, 2017
- Kentucky County Pensions: 60 Percent Fundedness and Decreasing is Awful
- February 20, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Defamation Lawsuit about Mortality Rate Reporting
- February 19, 2017
- South Carolina Pensions: Liability Trends
- South Carolina Pensions: Investment Returns Recalc
- February 18, 2017
- South Carolina Pensions: Recent Rumblings .... or Rumbles
- February 17, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: Let's Go Shopping!
- February 14, 2017
- South Carolina Pensions: Asset Trends
- February 13, 2017
- Mortality Monday: How Many People Will Die in the U.S. in 2017?
- February 12, 2017
- Public Pensions: Actuarial Assumptions and Professional Ethics
- February 10, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: Trump and Unions
- February 09, 2017
- Connecticut: Budget Day, Pistol Permit Fees, and Pushing Off Pensions Payments
- February 06, 2017
- Mortality Monday: Supreme Court Probabilities
- February 03, 2017
- Friday Trumpery: Social Security (and a little Medicare)
- February 02, 2017
- Credit Rating Agencies Rumble Over Chicago!!!!
- February 01, 2017
- Diversions: Are You Ready for Some Football....Pensions?
- January 30, 2017
- It's Happening: First Union Voted to Reduce Retiree Benefits
- January 29, 2017
- Lazy Sunday: Around the Webosphere on Death, Pensions, and Achilles
- January 27, 2017
- Dallas Police and Fire Pensions: Pulling into the Abyss
- January 26, 2017
- Connecticut Pensions: Pushing Off Payments Til Later Ain't Reform
- January 25, 2017
- Kentucky Pension Liabilities: Trends in ERS, County, and Teachers Plans
- January 23, 2017
- Actuaries on Social Security: Bruce Schobel on Reforms, Robert Myers on History, and Richard Foster on Medicare/ACA
- January 18, 2017
- Kentucky Pension Assets: Trends in ERS, County, and Teachers Plans
- January 17, 2017
- Chicago Bond Quickie: Not Wise to Scrap with Rating Agencies
- January 16, 2017
- Tales of the Obvious: No Such Thing as Risk-Free; Don't Do Stupid Stuff
- January 15, 2017
- Never Forget: Thoughts on To Build A Castle - a Dissident Memoir by Vladimir Bukovsky
- January 14, 2017
- Kentucky: Flurry of Anti-Union Legislation as Republicans Take Control
- January 11, 2017
- Connecticut: Day of Action for Higher Education!
- Self-Driving Cars: Won't Anybody Think of the Poor Revenue-Hungry Governments?
- January 10, 2017
- Connecticut Pensions: Shuffling the Cards and Drawing to Ten High
- The State of the States: A Compilation
- January 07, 2017
- How Not to Be a Dumbass, Take N: It's Okay To Not Know Something (or Somebody)
- January 06, 2017
- Setting the Stage for 2017: Mortality Trends
- January 05, 2017
- Setting the Stage for 2017: The Liability Side of Pensions
- January 04, 2017
- Setting the Stage for 2017: Questionable Pension Asset Management Practices
- January 03, 2017
- Setting the Stage for 2017: Failing Multiemployer Pension Plans
- January 02, 2017
- Setting the Stage for 2017: Looking at Social Security
- December 30, 2016
- Goodbye 2016: Busted Predictions, Never-to-be-Fulfilled Promises, and some Fundraisers
- December 29, 2016
- Around the Pension Blogosphere
- December 28, 2016
- The 80 Percent Funding End-of-Year Extravaganza!!!!!!
- December 27, 2016
- NCPERS and its Public Pensions Blacklist
- December 24, 2016
- Meepie Christmas to You!
- December 23, 2016
- Calpers: Moving Targets, in More Way than One
- December 22, 2016
- Public Pensions and Corrupt Officials: A Marriage Made in Hell!
- December 21, 2016
- Dallas Police and Fire Pensions: Beyond the Event Horizon
- December 18, 2016
- Pension Return Assumptions and Discount Rates: An Overview
- December 16, 2016
- Chicago Teachers Pensions: Questioning Assumptions
- December 14, 2016
- Chicago Public Pensions: Diversity Day!
- December 12, 2016
- Chicago Retiree Healthcare: Some Are Out of Luck (for now)
- December 11, 2016
- Chicago Public Schools: Bonds, Budgets, and Tax Bites
- December 10, 2016
- Vladimir Bukovsky Makes the New York Times
- December 08, 2016
- Public Pension Primer: Payroll Growth Assumption
- December 07, 2016
- Pension Nastiness in Jacksonville: Huge Jump in Required Payment
- December 04, 2016
- Dead Men Collect Pensions: Update on Pension Fraud
- November 30, 2016
- Calpers: What Exactly is an "Average" Pension?
- November 28, 2016
- Around the World in Pensions: South Korean Scandal, German Pandering, and More
- November 27, 2016
- Lazy Sunday: Elections, Math Thoughts, and Pension Ads Invade my Apps
- November 23, 2016
- Trump the Press: The Saga How the Pundits Got it Wrong and The Beginning of a Possible Series
- November 22, 2016
- Dallas Police and Fire: The Pension that Ate Dallas
- November 21, 2016
- California Consequences: Turns Out, Pension Benefits Can Be Cut
- November 18, 2016
- Kentucky Update: Republicans Take Legislature, Pensions Still Suck, Hedge Funds to Exit
- November 15, 2016
- Public Pension and Finance Ballot Initiative Results
- November 14, 2016
- On Intellectual Humility: Post-Mortem of the Polls and Models
- November 11, 2016
- What a Week: Meep, Music, and Mulling
- November 09, 2016
- Election Prediction Aftermath: The Goat LOSES
- November 08, 2016
- Election Day Pensions (and Finance): Ballot Initiatives
- November 04, 2016
- More Predictions for Maximum Hilarity
- Public Finance: Raining on Chicago's Parade
- October 30, 2016
- Happy All Saints Day and Happy 80% Funding!
- Good News: Alaska Pension Obligation Bonds On Hold
- October 29, 2016
- Bloggy Things: RIP Steven den Beste, Errors, and SEEEEEEEXXXXXXX
- October 26, 2016
- Lesson: Adjuncts Don't Gotta Adjunct
- Prep for Pointing and Laughing: Some Pre-Election Polling
- October 25, 2016
- Texas Update: Houston and Dallas Try to Clean Their Pension Messes
- October 23, 2016
- Chicago Update: Is It Rauner's Fault?
- October 17, 2016
- Please Help Claire Berlinski Cover Bukovsky
- October 14, 2016
- On Failed Predictions: Throwing it All in the Bin
- Chicago and Illinois Update: Strike Averted, but At What Cost?
- October 10, 2016
- Public Pension Quick Takes: California, Oregon POBs, and the Meaning of Liability Value
- October 09, 2016
- California Watch: Calpers Valuation, Exits, and Governance
- October 07, 2016
- Chicago Public Schools: Who is Profiting?
- October 04, 2016
- Pension Obligation Bonds: Oregon and Alaska -- DON'T DO IT
- September 30, 2016
- Public Pensions Primer: Intergenerational Equity
- September 27, 2016
- Get Ready for the Next Chicago Teachers Strike!
- Texas Trouble: Pensions in Dallas and Houston
- September 23, 2016
- Calpers Reactions: Let's Hear From Everybody!
- September 21, 2016
- California Dreamin' of Ever Closing Their Pension Gap
- September 20, 2016
- Much Ado About Discount Rates: Welcome to the Pension California
- September 16, 2016
- Friday Ephemera: While Things Go By
- September 15, 2016
- Pension Quick-Takes: Chicago, Houston, Chile, and More
- September 12, 2016
- Actuarial Nuggets: Public Pensions and Financial Economics, Presidential Mortality, and More
- September 09, 2016
- Public Pensions Primer: Time-Weighted vs. Dollar-Weighted Returns
- September 08, 2016
- Kentucky Pensions Update: Governance Woes
- September 07, 2016
- Public Pensions Issues: Volatility Kills
- September 05, 2016
- Let's Get Ready for an Actuarial Rumble!
- September 02, 2016
- Public Pension Musical Interlude
- August 31, 2016
- End-of-Summer 80% Pension Funding Extravaganza!
- August 30, 2016
- Much Ado About Discount Rates: Illinois and the Actuaries
- August 26, 2016
- Ballot Access vs. Debate Access: A Look at the Numbers
- August 24, 2016
- Do the Hokey-Pokey: Chicago Public Schools Strike Threat and Debt
- August 22, 2016
- Public Pension Returns: Can Public Pensions Beat the Market?
- August 19, 2016
- It's FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY: Twitter Edition!
- August 17, 2016
- Primer: Average Investment Returns - Which Average?
- August 16, 2016
- Rock Em Sock Em Actuaries: How Much are Public Pensions Worth?
- August 12, 2016
- Happy Friday: 80 Percent Funding Triple Play!
- August 11, 2016
- Kentucky Pensions Update: Their Investment Returns Also Sucked
- August 10, 2016
- New York Public Pensions: Poor Returns and Increasing Costs
- August 09, 2016
- Followup on Actuarial Squabble
- Chicago Update: Pensions, Taxes, and Bonds
- August 05, 2016
- Pensions Weekend Wrap-Up: Chicago, the Actuaries, and New Jersey
- August 03, 2016
- Public Pensions Actuarial Valuations: Point-Counterpoint-DENIED!
- August 02, 2016
- Investment Results Season for Public Pensions: Below Targets
- July 31, 2016
- Ohio Public Pensions: Point, Counterpoint, and Meeppoint
- July 30, 2016
- A Pause for Puerto Rico While the Hits Keep Coming
- July 29, 2016
- Tales of Pension Fraud: Hidden Deaths and Elder Abuse
- July 26, 2016
- What's the Income Percentile for the Obamas? Number-Checking
- July 25, 2016
- How Not to Be a Dumbass: #DNCLeaks Shows How Not To Use Email
- July 22, 2016
- Happy Friday: A 80 Percent Funding Mythbusting Hero! Take a Bow, David Crane!
- July 19, 2016
- The Horrors of Income Inequality: Numbers Check
- July 18, 2016
- Comparing Murder Rates: Fact Check
- July 13, 2016
- Happy News for Vacation Time!
- July 08, 2016
- Chicago and Cook County Update: Tax Bills are Coming
- July 06, 2016
- Please Help Vladimir Bukovsky: Russian Freedom Fighter
- Midyear 80% Funding Myth Update
- July 04, 2016
- Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! and more Americana
- June 30, 2016
- Good News for Thursday: Yay for Technology
- June 29, 2016
- Good News for Wednesday: The World is Getting Better
- June 28, 2016
- A Thought on Brexit and Nationalism: Contrast to the USA
- Good News for Tuesday: The Vine in the Grocery Store
- June 27, 2016
- Good News for Monday: Locks Unlocked
- June 21, 2016
- Where's Meep?
- June 20, 2016
- Puerto Rico Round-Up: Still Waiting on Congress
- June 12, 2016
- March of the Deadbeats: Illinois, New Jersey, Kentucky, Puerto Rico and Central States
- June 09, 2016
- Puerto Rico Round-Up: Waiting for Decisions
- June 06, 2016
- On Public Finance "Solutions": Illinois Edition - Tax Everything!
- June 03, 2016
- Connecticut Update: No Billionaire Left Behind
- June 02, 2016
- Public Pension Quick-Takes: Everybody-but-Illinois Update
- May 31, 2016
- Rahm's "Win" Means Pensions Lose or You Can't Tell Us We Can't Kick the Can, Rauner!
- Why There Will Be No Bailouts
- May 29, 2016
- Rauner Refuses to Kick the Can (and I announce a new project)
- May 27, 2016
- CORRECTED - 80 Percent Funding Roundup: New Category Announced
- May 24, 2016
- A Deal, But No Grand Bargain, in Chicago
- May 23, 2016
- Sweet Pensions Alabama
- May 22, 2016
- Central States: I Guess the Plan is To Run Out of Money
- May 20, 2016
- Around the blogs: Mish and 538, Bury and Central States, Glennon and Chicago
- May 19, 2016
- Kentucky update (and trying something new)
- May 18, 2016
- Detroit Resurrected by Nathan Bomey: a Review
- May 16, 2016
- Public Finance and Pension Quick-Takes: Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Detroit
- May 12, 2016
- The Connections Between Detroit and Chicago Public Schools
- May 10, 2016
- On Dreams of Bankruptcy
- May 06, 2016
- Treasury to Central States: You Didn't Cut Enough
- May 04, 2016
- Failed Predictions and Predictions of Failure
- May 03, 2016
- Lunchtime Pension Post: Around the Web in 20 Minutes
- May 02, 2016
- Puerto Rico Watch: PR Defaults! Again! Also, a New Jersey Connection
- April 28, 2016
- On information, the lifeblood of bloggers
- April 25, 2016
- The Woefully-Underfunded Kentucky Retirement Systems
- April 22, 2016
- Memento Mori, or, Happy Birthday to Me
- April 21, 2016
- Stupidity Round-Up: Funded Ratios and Racial Proportions
- April 20, 2016
- Public Pensions Round-up: What's in meep's Mailbag?
- April 19, 2016
- Public Pensions and Finance Watch: New York Primary Election Day Round-Up
- April 15, 2016
- Tax Day Tribute: Think The IRS Would Be Happy with 80% of What's Owed?
- April 14, 2016
- Pensions Watch: Non-Complete Disaster Edition
- April 13, 2016
- Puerto Rico Round-Up: Is Bankruptcy a Bailout?
- April 12, 2016
- Public Pensions and Finance Round-up: Tuesday April 12 - Money is Mobile and Not Coming in Fast Enough
- April 11, 2016
- Pension and Finance Roundup: Monday, April 11 - Surprise Election Issues?
- April 10, 2016
- Public Pensions and Finance Round-up: Sunday, April 10
- April 08, 2016
- Puerto Rico Round-Up: Noticing the Disaster -- a Very Long Time in the Making
- April 03, 2016
- Chicago Day of Action: Some Fliers
- April 02, 2016
- Chicago Day of Action Round Up, and Where's the Money?
- March 31, 2016
- Show Us the Money! From Somewhere!
- March 28, 2016
- Chicago Watch: What'll It Be, Teachers?
- March 26, 2016
- Chicago Watch: Reactions to Loss of Pension Court Case (and other stuff)
- March 25, 2016
- Public Pensions Watch: On COLAs (and Chicago)
- March 24, 2016
- Chicago Watch: Money Money Money...also, there went their plans
- March 22, 2016
- Public Pensions Watch: On Spiking
- March 17, 2016
- Chicago Watch: Throwing Rahm Under a Bus, Plus Swaps
- March 16, 2016
- Dataviz: Public Pensions Assumed Rate of Return
- March 15, 2016
- Dataviz: Wall Street Bonuses (Watch Out for Falling Tax Revenues, NY)
- March 14, 2016
- Dataviz Number-Crunching: Can You Racially Profile by Last Name?
- March 12, 2016
- Pensions Puzzle: What Happens When the Money Runs Out? When Does it Run Out?
- March 11, 2016
- Illinois Weekend Watch: Round and Round While We Wait for a Strike
- March 10, 2016
- Kentucky Update: They've Got Budget Blues, Too
- March 09, 2016
- Chicago Watch: What's the Leverage When There's No Money?
- March 08, 2016
- No, Valerie Jarrett is not Why Illinois Pensions Are in Trouble
- March 07, 2016
- Kicking off the 2016 Eighty Percent Funding Watch
- February 29, 2016
- Leap Day Pensions (and Finance) Watch: Detroit, Chicago, and California
- February 26, 2016
- Puerto Rico Round-Up: Pensions Before Bonds?
- February 24, 2016
- Illinois Pension Watch: This is Why Your Pensions are in Trouble
- February 20, 2016
- Public Pensions and Finance Round-up: Saturday, Feb 20
- February 19, 2016
- Public Pensions and Finance Round-up: Friday, Feb 19
- February 16, 2016
- More Chicago Public Schools: Budget Cut and Trying to Negotiate from Position of Weakness
- Living Beyond Your Means Kills: Debt is Just the Killing Weapon
- February 15, 2016
- Math Ain't Magic: Playing With Numbers Doesn't Make Pensions Cheaper
- Puerto Rico Round-up: What's Going On?
- February 14, 2016
- In Memoriam: Some Opera for Scalia
- February 12, 2016
- Free College! If You Can Get In.
- Death Comes for Us All, Part 2: Expect the Wave (that will take decades)
- February 05, 2016
- The Meaning of the Word "Fault": Chicago Pensions Edition
- February 04, 2016
- On the Illinois Bailout Idea and Other Shenanigans
- February 03, 2016
- More on the Chicago Schools Situation
- February 02, 2016
- Chicago Doings: The Storm Before the Storm
- January 31, 2016
- Words Have Meaning: Neither Kale Nor 80 Percent Funded Public Pensions are "Healthy"
- January 28, 2016
- On Alternative Assets and Pensions: Multiple Stories in New Jersey
- January 27, 2016
- Followup on One of the Fraud and Pensions Cases
- January 26, 2016
- Easy Lifting: Pulling the Pensions of Criminal Officials in New York
- January 20, 2016
- Puerto Rico: Dawning Reality Update... and a touch of Chicago
- January 19, 2016
- RIP, Boomers: Death Comes For Us All
- January 18, 2016
- On New York (and Chicago and Connecticut and Boston) Values
- January 14, 2016
- The State of Chicago: Deep in the Suck
- January 08, 2016
- Puerto Rico: After the Default
- January 06, 2016
- Governor Bruce Rauner on Recent Illinois Issues
- January 05, 2016
- Borrowing for Operational Costs is a Bad Idea: Detroit and Chicago Schools
- January 04, 2016
- What Governmental Bankruptcy Looks Like: Today Puerto Rico, Tomorrow Chicago!
- January 01, 2016
- Predictions for 2016 (Mostly Not Me)
- December 27, 2015
- Happy Christmas Season!
- December 23, 2015
- All I Want for Christmas is for the 80% Myth to DIE
- December 22, 2015
- Puerto Rico update: Temporary Respite, Again
- December 21, 2015
- Pensions Watch: Show Us The Money
- December 15, 2015
- Whatsa Matter Rahm? Anything Getting You Down?
- December 14, 2015
- Amassing Predictions for 2016
- December 12, 2015
- Weekend Books: THAT'S NOT FUNNY
- December 11, 2015
- Followup to an Obamacare Boycott
- December 10, 2015
- English Grad Students and Adjuncts: If You Don't Have Options, You Have No Leverage
- December 07, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Myth Recent Round-Up
- December 03, 2015
- Save the Humanities: Don't Let People Get Cheap Credit!
- November 22, 2015
- Opera Fun: All About the Bass
- November 20, 2015
- Connecticut Pension Plans: Funding the Unfunded... or Not
- November 14, 2015
- A Week of Bad Pension Ideas: Finally, Divestment
- November 13, 2015
- A Week of Bad Pension Ideas: Pile on the Hedge Funds, We'll Make it Up in Expectations!
- November 12, 2015
- A Week of Bad Pension Ideas: Creating a Guaranty Fund for Public Plans
- November 11, 2015
- A Week of Bad Pension Ideas: Just Make the Full Payments!
- November 10, 2015
- A Week of Bad Pension Ideas: Splitting the Pension Plan to Save It?
- November 08, 2015
- A Week of Bad Pension Ideas: First Up, Guaranteeing Returns
- November 06, 2015
- Public Pension Watch: Won't Anybody Think of the Poor Corrupt Officials?
- November 02, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Myth September/October Roundup
- October 27, 2015
- Remember my Obamacare Prediction? I Didn't Predict Hard Enough
- October 26, 2015
- Public Pension Follies: Divestment! Divest from All the Dirty Things!
- October 25, 2015
- Illinois Lottery: You Can't Fool People Forever
- Public Pensions and Finance: I Like to Watch
- October 15, 2015
- Illinois Lottery Update, the Pensions, and General Blogging Announcement
- October 11, 2015
- Central States, the Teamsters, and MEPs: Cuts to Begin
- October 08, 2015
- Trying Out a New Toy (to Make the Unseen Seen...)
- October 06, 2015
- Calpers and the Benefits of Public Pensions: Things Seen and Unseen
- October 05, 2015
- What Should be Taught - Part 2: Reactions to Japan Humanities Ban
- October 01, 2015
- Illinois Finance: The Ongoing Non-Crisis and the Oncoming Real Crisis
- September 29, 2015
- Public Pensions Practice: Where are the Screaming Actuaries?
- September 23, 2015
- What Should be Taught - Part 1: Japan Bans the Humanities?
- September 20, 2015
- Public Pensions Primer: Choice of Discount Rate Influences Results
- September 17, 2015
- Public Pensions Point-Counterpoint: How Expensive Are They, Really?
- September 15, 2015
- Public Pension and Finance Quick Takes: Will You Pay My Lottery Bills? Will You Pay my Healthcare Bills?
- September 10, 2015
- Quick Takes: Who's Up For Some Taxes? Lotteries, Teachers, and Property Owners, Watch Out!
- September 07, 2015
- Labor Day Fun: Chicago Tax Wrangling -- Throwing Money into the Pension Money Pit
- September 01, 2015
- Happy September! Quick Whirl Around the Internet, Plus the 80% Pension Funding Club!
- August 28, 2015
- Pension Quicktakes: California Dreamin -- Let's Boost Pensions! (and more)
- August 24, 2015
- Pension Quicktakes: How About that Stock Market? And Red Light Cameras?
- August 23, 2015
- Weekend Books: A Few for the Road - Comic Mice, Serious English, and Power-Hungry French
- August 18, 2015
- Presidential Interlude: What are the Chances?
- August 17, 2015
- Public Pensions Watch: California, There Ya Go
- On the Amazon-torturing-its-white-collar-workers-boo-hoo piece
- August 16, 2015
- My Vocation: figure stuff out and tell other people
- August 10, 2015
- The Danger of Government Debt: Puerto Rico, Pension Obligation Bonds, and the Political Math of Bankruptcy
- Chicago and Illinois Pensions Watch: History and Who is Serious
- August 09, 2015
- Labor force participation: first in a series of numbers without context
- August 07, 2015
- Public Finance Quick Takes: Thanks to Sources! Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Cigarette Taxes
- August 05, 2015
- Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Womens Studies Majors
- August 04, 2015
- Puerto Rico Finally Defaults -- Now What?
- August 01, 2015
- June and July 2015 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame (and Heroes!)
- July 31, 2015
- Public Pensions Primer: The Choice of Discount Rate and Return Volatility
- July 29, 2015
- Public Pensions Earnings Season: How are the Assets Doing?
- July 28, 2015
- Public Pensions Primer: How Discount Rates Work
- July 27, 2015
- Reddit-Public Pension Connection: Alternative Assets and Risk
- July 26, 2015
- Public Pensions Quicktakes: All about Illinois and Chicago
- July 24, 2015
- Chicago's DAY OF DOOM!
- July 23, 2015
- Feeding the Profligate: The Entitled Brat and Greece
- July 22, 2015
- Illinois Finances Watch: Places to Cut
- Americans on the Move: Driven Out By Costs
- July 21, 2015
- Chicago (and Illinois) Watch: Don't Think You Can Escape to the Suburbs
- July 18, 2015
- Weekend Roundup: Chicago, Greece, Portugal, and much more
- July 17, 2015
- Go Somewhere Cheaper, Young (and Old) Man!
- July 16, 2015
- Milwaukee County Pensions: Scott Walker, Pension Obligation Bonds, and an Actuarial Booboo
- July 15, 2015
- Deal or No Deal: Wrangling in Chicago
- July 14, 2015
- Bastille Day Roundup: Greece and Hints of History
- July 11, 2015
- Unpack your adjectives... Weekly wrap-up
- July 09, 2015
- Chicago (and Illinois) Watch: Shenanigans! Shenanigans for Everybody!
- July 08, 2015
- Government and your money: GIMME GIMME GIMME
- July 05, 2015
- Choices Have Consequences: While Waiting for the Greeks to Decide...
- July 02, 2015
- Digging into the Near Past: Puerto Rico's Finances
- June 30, 2015
- Public Finance Disaster Watch: Greece and Puerto Rico Lunchtime Roundup
- Digging into the Near Past: Greece's Pension Situation
- June 29, 2015
- Things Fall Apart: Greece and Puerto Rico
- June 24, 2015
- Public Finance Disaster Watch: Chicago Public Schools
- June 23, 2015
- Graph Week: The Mortality Gender Gap Among Workers
- Graph week: 5 Years of Treasury Rates
- June 20, 2015
- Remembering My Referrers
- Let's Bring Back Damnatio Memoriae
- June 14, 2015
- Women and STEM academia fix: Be Professional
- June 12, 2015
- Opera Fun Friday: a Quartet of Quartets
- June 10, 2015
- Public Pensions: Go Tell the Actuaries
- June 09, 2015
- Public Pensions Primer: Funded Ratios and Comparisons
- June 08, 2015
- Chicago Pensions Watch: What does Chicago Say About Its Own Pensions?
- June 07, 2015
- Chicago Pension Watch: Teachers Pensions -- What are the Benefits like?
- Kentucky Pension Blues: What's Up With ERS?
- June 06, 2015
- Down with the Struggle: Survey of Current Dumbassery
- June 05, 2015
- Coming Attractions: Wagner Ate My Blog Post
- June 03, 2015
- Illinois Pensions: Teachers Retirement System (TRS) number-crunching
- Illinois Pensions: State Universities Retirement System (SURS) number-crunching
- June 01, 2015
- Illinois Pensions: Judges Retirement System (JRS) number-crunching
- May 31, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame: May 2015 Roundup
- May 29, 2015
- Public Finance Follies: When You're Too Dependent on Very Few People
- May 28, 2015
- Illinois Pensions: General Assembly Retirement System (GARS) number-crunching
- May 27, 2015
- Chicago Bonds: Check Out These Investors Desperate for Yield
- Illinois Pensions and Spiking: Not All Penalties are Deterrents
- May 26, 2015
- Illinois Pensions: State Employees Retirement System (SERS) number-crunching
- May 25, 2015
- Chicago Bonds Watch: There's One Born Every Minute
- May 22, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Anything But Chicago Edition
- May 20, 2015
- Chicago Bonds: Junk or Not Junk? That is the Question
- May 19, 2015
- Illinois Pensions: How Did We Get Here? Development of Unfunded Liability
- May 18, 2015
- Buyers of Distressed Munis: BEWARE! GET OUT!
- May 17, 2015
- Chicago Bonds Watch: Credit Ratings vs. Market
- May 15, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Illinois Reactions, Quick Fixes to Illinois Pensions Disaster, and Coming Attractions
- May 13, 2015
- Chicago Bonds -- Welcome to Junkville, Population: You
- May 11, 2015
- Illinois Pensions: How Did We Get Here? The 1970 Constitution
- May 10, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Reactions to Illinois Ruling
- May 09, 2015
- Illinois Pensions: A Court Ruling and on How Promises Fail
- May 03, 2015
- Programming Note
- May 02, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: The Pain Won't Stop
- May 01, 2015
- May Day Around the Web - Dataviz Follies
- April 30, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame: April 2015 roundup
- April 29, 2015
- Public Pensions Primer: Places to Start -- Illinois Pension Primer
- April 28, 2015
- Public Pensions Primer: Places to Start -- Pensions Gimmicks List
- April 27, 2015
- Public Pensions Primer: Places to Start -- the Public Plans Database
- April 26, 2015
- Obamacare Watch: The Disaster of Covered California
- April 22, 2015
- Chicago Followup: How did those bonds do?
- April 21, 2015
- Watch It Unwind: Chicago, Greece, and Asset-Grabbing
- April 20, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Drop After Tax Day Move
- April 19, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: NO KANSAS DON'T DO IT!!!!
- April 13, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: News You Can Use - Avoiding the Tax
- April 11, 2015
- Weekend books: Lost in Language - quick review, and my search for new voices
- April 10, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Bullshit Assumptions and Bad Advice
- April 09, 2015
- Chicago Watch: Congrats on your "win", Rahm... I guess
- April 07, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of Heroes: Welcome, Evan Inglis!
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Will Be Playing Out Til October (and Beyond)
- April 04, 2015
- Around the Blogosphere, 4 April 2015
- April 01, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of AWESOME: Experts Say....
- March 30, 2015
- Obamacare Watch: Things are Going Great! Except for a Few People We Shouldn't Care About
- March 29, 2015
- Weekend Books: RIP, Sir Terry Pratchett
- March 28, 2015
- Public Pension Watch: On Paying Pensions to State Employee Sex Criminals
- March 27, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Nerd Edition (and Rhode Island)
- March 24, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: You Gotta Wait For Your Wrong Info From the Govt
- March 22, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: NYT Notices and I Spike the Ball
- March 21, 2015
- Obamacare Watch: Tax Pain Is Not Enough?
- March 20, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Nice Work if You Can Get It
- March 19, 2015
- On Publishing and Blogs
- March 18, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Even the IRS is Bitching
- March 17, 2015
- Welcome to the 80 Percent Funding Heroes List, Daniel Borenstein!
- March 16, 2015
- Random Thoughts: On Unpopular Politicians
- March 12, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Axis of DOOOOOOM
- Public Pension Watch: No Pensions for Politicians (plus Scott Walker)
- March 11, 2015
- Chicago Watch: Doomed Finances Compounded by Swaps
- March 09, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: H&R Block Notes Shoe Yet To Drop
- March 07, 2015
- Weekend Book: Who Doesn't Love a Good Murder?
- March 06, 2015
- Public Pension Quicktakes: 6 March 2015
- March 04, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Trouble in California
- March 03, 2015
- Chicago Watch: I Warned Rahm, You Know
- March 02, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame: February 2015 Round-up
- How Not to Look Like a Complete Ass When Doing Your Job... AS A REPORTER
- March 01, 2015
- Weekend Book: A Sweet Traipse Through an English Village
- The Path to STUMP
- February 27, 2015
- Pension Quick Takes: Lawsuit (and Scott Walker teaser) Edition
- February 26, 2015
- Scott Walker: The Public Pensions Connection
- February 25, 2015
- National Adjunct Walkout Day: Time to Rethink Careers
- February 24, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Run Away! Run Away!
- Public Pensions Watch: Lawsuits lawsuits everywhere...
- February 23, 2015
- Public Pension Watch: Convicted Politicians and Their Pensions
- February 22, 2015
- Financial Advice Book: The Behavior Gap and Emotions around Money
- February 21, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Federal Oopsies Hit 800K (at least)
- February 20, 2015
- Public Pension Quick Takes: A New Feature
- February 18, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Other Commenters
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Tax Form, Tax Form, Who's Got Their Tax Form?
- February 17, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: First Angry Taxpayers Story
- February 16, 2015
- Why are Pension Obligation Bonds OF THE DEVIL? A Lesson from the Dollar Auction
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame: We Get Repeats
- February 15, 2015
- Weekend Book: A Dickensian Curiousity
- February 09, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Mess to Come Was Noted Years Ago
- February 07, 2015
- Pension Obligations Bonds ARE OF THE DEVIL (Don't do it, Brownback!)
- February 06, 2015
- Here is God's Plenty: The Canterbury Tales
- February 04, 2015
- Germany and Greece: Great Expectations
- February 03, 2015
- Causes of Childhood Death (and Dickens)
- February 02, 2015
- 80 Percent Pension Funding Hall of Shame: It Would Be Ideal to Pay the Pensions
- February 01, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Obama Notices
- January 31, 2015
- What I've Read: The Bounty of Zelazny
- January 28, 2015
- Are Public Pensions Actually in a Crisis? Or Is It Just a "Mathematical Issue"?
- January 27, 2015
- Public Pensions Watch: Illinois Pension Reform Lawsuits
- January 24, 2015
- Crass Consumerism: Amazon Prime Plug
- January 21, 2015
- How Not to Look Like a Complete Ass: Saying "I Don't Know" When You Don't Know
- January 20, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: Mess to Come Noted By Tax Pros, Conservative Media
- January 19, 2015
- Public Pensions Watch: Why are NJ Pensions So Screwed?
- January 18, 2015
- A Tax Interlude (with a little Obamacare thrown in)
- January 13, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame: I Write Letters
- January 08, 2015
- My Fellow Adjuncts! You Have Only Your Chains to Lose!
- January 07, 2015
- 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame: Oh THOSE Experts Say
- January 06, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: H&R Block Survey Bolsters My Prediction
- January 04, 2015
- Obamacare Tax Watch: What to Watch For
- January 02, 2015
- Clearing the Desk for 2015: Predictions and Resolutions
- December 30, 2014
- 2014: A (partial) year in STUMP
- December 21, 2014
- On the Danger of Misreading Motives and the Public Pensions Crusade
- December 12, 2014
- Public Pensions Visualization: How Bad Is It?
- December 11, 2014
- 80 Percent Pension Funding Hall of Shame: Experts Say....
- December 09, 2014
- Public Pension Choices: Visualizing the Sources of Bad Experience
- December 06, 2014
- Multiemployer pensions, Social Security, and Public Pensions: Choices Have Consequences
- December 01, 2014
- Requesting a Public Hearing on Public Pension Actuarial Practice
- November 30, 2014
- 80 Percent Pension Funding Hall of Shame: An Illinois Ex-Governor Who Should Know Better
- November 26, 2014
- Public Pensions Teaser: A Shape of Things to Come
- November 25, 2014
- 80 Percent Pension Funding Hall of Shame: Some Reporters and a Spreadsheet [UPDATED]
- November 24, 2014
- Public Pensions: What's so Bad about 80%? (and coming attractions)
- November 23, 2014
- Public Pension Watch: Illinois Reform Goes Down (as Expected)
- November 21, 2014
- New Public Pension Series: The 80 Percent Pension Funding Hall of Shame
- November 18, 2014
- Public Pension Watch: How Screwed is Chicago?
- November 17, 2014
- On Public Pension Transparency
- November 16, 2014
- Number-Crunching: How Many People are in Sex-Biased Occupations?
- November 15, 2014
- Teaching Your Kids Math (for free)
- November 14, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: Get ready for tax season 2015
- November 12, 2014
- Detroit Bankruptcy: It's Over, But It's Not
- November 10, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Tell The Actuaries What You Need to Know
- November 09, 2014
- Elections Have Consequences: Phoenix Pensions
- November 06, 2014
- Illinois Election Wrap-up: Congrats, Rauner, I guess
- November 04, 2014
- Election Day 2014: Hope for a Conservative Yankee
- November 03, 2014
- Public Pensions and Election Day: Quick Roundup
- October 31, 2014
- Fight the Patriarchy! Work More! Study Engineering!
- October 29, 2014
- Illinois Connections Watch: Usual Biz in Chicago
- October 27, 2014
- Illinois Election Watch: What's up with Rauner?
- New York Election Roundup, 27 Oct 2014
- October 24, 2014
- Illinois Election Roundup, 24 Oct 2014
- Friday Fun: Orson Welles and Winston Churchill
- October 22, 2014
- Illinois Governor's Race: The Looming Pensions Problem
- October 21, 2014
- How Not To Look Like a Total, Desperate Ass, Part 2
- October 20, 2014
- More on the Illinois Governor's Race
- October 19, 2014
- Illinois Election Shenanigans: WTF is going on?
- October 14, 2014
- How Not To Look Like a Total Ass
- October 05, 2014
- Public Pensions Followup: Public Employees and Medicare
- October 04, 2014
- Public Pensions Followup: San Diego Asset Managers Still In... For Now
- Public Pensions Watch: Don't Get Your Hopes Up, Chicago
- October 02, 2014
- Boom Goes the Dynamite: Pensions Can Be Cut in Muni Bankruptcy
- September 30, 2014
- Public Pensions Followup: The Effect of Assumptions and Materiality
- September 28, 2014
- Public Pension Watch: New Jersey Report -- They're Screwed
- September 26, 2014
- UPDATES and REPOST: Public Pension Watch: How Important is the Mortality Assumption? And Other Assumptions?
- September 24, 2014
- Diversion: Who Was Doctor Death Really Targeting With Death at Age 75 Goal?
- September 23, 2014
- The Seven Deadly Sins of NJ Pensions is Really Only One Sin
- September 22, 2014
- Wonkblog asks: Can Insurance Companies Save Public Pensions?
- September 21, 2014
- Public Pensions and Alternative Assets: Dallas Shows How It Can End
- September 18, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: More Reactions to Calpers Pulling Out of Hedge Funds
- September 17, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Reactions to Calpers Pulling Out of Hedge Funds
- September 16, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: California pension fund pulling out of hedge funds
- September 14, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Alternative Assets, pt 8 of many -- New Jersey followup
- September 08, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Alternative Asset Classes, pt 7 of many, North Carolina
- September 07, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Alternative Asset Classes, pt 6 of many, Rhode Island
- September 06, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Alternative Asset Classes, pt 5 of many, Some Boosterism
- September 05, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Alternative Asset Classes, pt 4 of many, San Diego
- September 04, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Alternative Asset Classes, pt 3 of many, South Carolina
- September 03, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Alternative Asset Classes, pt 2 of many, New Jersey
- September 02, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls....or Alternative Asset Classes, pt 1 of many
- September 01, 2014
- Labor Day Edition: War Against Women!
- August 24, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Miscellany (but mostly Illinois)
- August 23, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Rhetorical Failure in Illinois
- August 20, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: California Goodies Reactions
- Public Pensions Watch: Dallas Pension Learns About Concentration Risk
- August 19, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: California Keeps In All the Goodies
- August 17, 2014
- Escheatment: Looking for change in the couch cushions
- Chicago's Rahm Blames Poor Numbers on Shitty Economy (and not Dem Legend Daley)
- August 16, 2014
- Obamacare (and Government Corruption (BIRM)) Watch: Amateur Hour with Email
- August 10, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: NEW JERSEY HAS A COMMISSION!!!!
- Public Pensions Watch: Tales of Incompetent Politicians in Charge of Pensions
- August 09, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: More on the Cadillac Tax and Public Employees
- August 08, 2014
- Opera not-a-nugget: the whole Don (and a little bit of Luca)
- August 06, 2014
- Collision of Public Employees and Obamacare: Collateral Damage
- August 04, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Chicago Still Faces Doom
- August 03, 2014
- Detroit Bankruptcy Watch: What, exactly, is up? Down? Whatever?
- August 02, 2014
- Public Pension Watch: Living high on the hog in New York
- August 01, 2014
- Are Met Opera workers underpaid?
- July 31, 2014
- Following Through: When There is No "There" There
- July 30, 2014
- On Going to the Ivy League
- July 29, 2014
- Checking the Numbers: Decrease in Median Household Net Worth
- July 28, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Tell the Actuaries What You Want To Know
- July 27, 2014
- Public Finance Watch: Chicago Faces Doom
- July 26, 2014
- Pension Watch: Followup on Univ. of California Pension Borrowing
- July 21, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: UC System Borrows Money Long-Term to Cover Operational Expenses
- July 17, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: New Jersey Pensions' Appeal Getting More Selective....
- July 14, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: Is Obamacare Racist?
- July 13, 2014
- #WaronWomen: the Absurdity of Statistical Equality
- July 06, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Illinois Law v. Reality
- July 04, 2014
- Happy Independence Day!
- July 03, 2014
- Chicago Watch: Daley, Rahm, and a Restaurant
- Labor force participation rates, part 5: the Gender Gap
- July 02, 2014
- Labor force participation rates, part 4: Old v. Young
- July 01, 2014
- Labor force participation rates, part 3: Older folks (55 and up)
- June 30, 2014
- Labor force participation rates, part 2: Younger Years (under 25) - Bad news?
- June 29, 2014
- Stat Crunching: Labor Force Participation Rate Trends, Prime Working Years
- June 23, 2014
- Public Pensions: Why Keeping a Watch is Important
- June 17, 2014
- Illinois Politics: Spread the Wealth of Corrupt Connections!
- June 16, 2014
- Public Pension Watch: Chicago, Not Waving But Drowning
- June 03, 2014
- Public Pensions Primer: Why Do We Pre-fund Pensions?
- May 28, 2014
- Piketty, Public Pensions, and Predetermined Policies
- May 19, 2014
- Numerical Interlude: Linguistic Diversity in the U.S.
- May 13, 2014
- Campbell's Law and Talking Back to Numbers: the Public Pensions Connection
- May 03, 2014
- Public Pension Watch: The Fragility of "Can't Fail" Thinking
- April 23, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: "It's Not Our Fault!!!!!!".... Oh Really?
- April 22, 2014
- Public Pensions (and more) Watch: Feathering Nests
- April 21, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Illinois Reform Pushing Out Senior Professors
- April 20, 2014
- He is Risen!
- April 19, 2014
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Government Numbers
- April 18, 2014
- Good Friday: The Last Seven Words
- April 15, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: More on Public Employee Union Enemy John Arnold
- April 14, 2014
- Public Finances: Governments Desperate for Cold Hard Cash
- April 13, 2014
- Palm Sunday Music: St. Matthew Passion
- April 11, 2014
- Public Pensions (and Public Policy) Enemies List: John Arnold and IPI
- April 09, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Detroit Deal - the Basics
- Public Pension Watch: Rahm's Do-Over?
- April 08, 2014
- Public Pensions and Blacklists: Harmful to the Pensions
- April 06, 2014
- Sunday Opera Nugget: Maurice Sendak and Opera
- April 05, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Chicago Deal Reaction Roundup
- April 04, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Chicago Reform Blitzkrieg? Ha Ha, FAIL
- April 03, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Chicago Deal - the Basics
- April 02, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Chicago - Is Rahm Regretting It?
- April 01, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 1 April 2014 -- Obamacare's Fools
- March 31, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 31 Mar 2014 -- Answering Jonathan Bernstein
- March 30, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 30 March 2014 -- Voter Registration, Incompetency, and Not Thinking Things Through
- Opera for Beginners: Largo al Factotum and Figaro
- March 27, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 27 March 2014 -- Do Mandates (and Prohibitions) Work?
- March 24, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 24 March 2014 -- Playing with Timing
- March 23, 2014
- Opera for Kids: The Magic Flute
- Obamacare Watch: 23 March 2014 -- Schrodinger's Deadline
- March 21, 2014
- Lenten Opera Nugget: Mozart, Idomeneo, and the operatic ensemble
- March 20, 2014
- Vindication: IT'S NOT HARD
- March 19, 2014
- Public Pensions Watch: Rauner for Republicans in Illinois
- Pink Helicopters Coming for Me....
- March 18, 2014
- Republicans Running in Blue States: Illinois Edition
- March 16, 2014
- Opera Nugget: Voi che sapete from Le Nozze di Figaro
- March 14, 2014
- "This Time's It's Different!"
- March 13, 2014
- Can Disney Films Teach Social Skills?
- Public Pensions Watch: Choices Have Consequences
- March 12, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 12 March 2014 -- Individual Mandate Gone, Sub Rosa
- March 11, 2014
- Bitchery about Sloppy Use of Numbers in Political Reporting
- Public Pensions Watch: Sometimes Politicians Do the Right Thing
- March 10, 2014
- Welcome to the Public Pension Watch: Hurray for New Jersey!
- Obamacare Watch: 10 March 2014 -- Holding Them To It
- March 09, 2014
- Lenten Opera Nugget: Dido's Lament
- March 07, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 7 March 2014 -- How's Enrollment Going? Who knows?
- March 06, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 6 March 2014 -- Meet the Worst Obamacare Exchange: Cover Oregon
- March 05, 2014
- Kicked the Slow Cooker
- Ash Wednesday Mozart: Requiem Mass - Lacrimosa
- March 04, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 4 March 2014 -- Deadlines Are Whatever Obama Says They Are
- March 03, 2014
- Kickin' the Slow Cooker
- March 02, 2014
- Opera Nugget: Don Giovanni by Mozart
- We're STUMP, we're STUMP, we're in your head
- March 01, 2014
- STUMP goes live
- February 06, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 6 Feb 2014 — Good Luck With Getting Care. That Will Be $5K
- February 05, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 5 Feb 2014 — Are You Ready for Even More Expensive, Required Plans?
- February 03, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 4 Feb 2014 — Consultants Say Obamacare is Affordable…If You Ignore All Those Other Costs
- Obamacare Watch: 3 Feb 2014 — Exchange Screwup? Sucks to be You.
- January 31, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 31 Jan 2014 — Criminals and Exchanges
- January 30, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 30 Jan 2014 — The Divorce Bonus for Premium Subsidies
- January 29, 2014
- Obamacare Watch: 29 Jan 2014 — People Aren’t Taking Obamacare Deadline Seriously
- January 04, 2000
- Puerto Rico: A Compilation
- Dallas: A Compilation
- Chicago: A Compilation
- January 02, 2000
- South Carolina: A Compilation
- Rhode Island: A Compilation
- Nevada: A Compilation
- January 01, 2000
- Kentucky: A Compilation
- Illinois: A Compilation
- Connecticut: A Compilation
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