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January 12, 2022: Top Causes of Death by Age Group, 2020: Raw Numbers
January 09, 2022: While Teachers Agitate for Remote Teaching, They Should Remember Their Pensions
January 06, 2022: Happy Second Christmas: Epiphany, Data Visualization, and Sumo!
January 03, 2022: Excess Mortality For Working Age Adults Way Up in Third Quarter of 2021, Driven By Covid and Drug Overdoses
January 02, 2022: Have an Actuarial New Year! A few Actuarial Gifts and Recommendations
December 31, 2021: Merry Christmas! Excel Gifts -- Some Beautiful Themes from Great Art and Warnings on Errors
December 28, 2021: Merry Christmas! First Set of Presents: Types of Rosaries, Icon-Makers, and More Catholic Stuff
December 24, 2021: COVID Quickies: The New York Times, Old People Dying, WONDER, and Fixing Graphs
December 21, 2021: I come to bury Build Back Better, and dance on its grave
December 14, 2021: Old Politicians: Trump v. Biden v. Clinton
December 09, 2021: Quick Takes: Homicides and City Partisan Control, Querying WONDER by Gender, and SALT stuff
December 08, 2021: COVID Data Follies: Vaccination Rates, Relative Risk, and Simpson's Paradox
December 05, 2021: Movember 2021 Wrap-Up and Working With WONDER
December 02, 2021: Quick take: Gas prices and petroleum production
November 30, 2021: Movember Fundraising: Men and Suicide
November 28, 2021: Covid Mortality Update for November 2021: Before the Omicron Variant
November 26, 2021: Movember Inspiration: My Dad and the Sex Gap in Mortality
November 19, 2021: Movember: The Improvement in Prostate Cancer Mortality
November 11, 2021: Movember Fundraising: Do It For Stu!
November 08, 2021: A Deeper Dive into Increased Deaths by Race/Ethnicity and Geographic Patterns, U.S., 2020-2021
November 06, 2021: On Covid, Excess Mortality by Race/Ethnicity, and Geographic Patterns
October 27, 2021: Remembering Vladimir Bukovsky, 1942 - 2019, Soviet Dissident
October 25, 2021: Videos: Talking Actuaries and Data, The Poisoner's Handbook, and an Update to Public Pension Projections
October 21, 2021: Chicago Police: Vaccine Mandates and Pension Threats
October 18, 2021: Vaccines Reduce Risk: A Look at the Changing Age-Related Mortality Risk of COVID
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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