Don't sell insurance to the Mafia

Related LinksCBS News: Human skeletal remains found at drought-stricken Lake Mead days after body discovered in barrelAstral Codex Ten: Every Bay Area House Party“War insurance?”“Yeah. We pay out if there’s a war.”“Isn’t that massively correlated risk?”“Yeah. The idea is, we sell war insurance to companies who do badly if there’s a war - tourist attractions and the like. Then we sell the same amount of peace insurance to military contractors. As long as we get the probabilities and costs right, we make the same profit either way.”“Neat idea, how’s it going?”“Great! Ayatollah Khameini just bought a ten billion dollar policy.”“Of the war version or the peace version?”“Can’t say, confidentiality agreement.”The Poisoner’s Handbook review:Wikipedia: “Iron” Mike Molloy — the alcoholic it took a lot to murderForensic Files Now: Molly and Clay Daniels: Some Body They Didn’t Use to Know - faked the death of the husbandMedium: Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt: The Black Widow Murderers - the women who got two homeless men insured and killed them by running them over with their carsLong Island Man Who Faked Drowning Gets 7-Year Sentence - it’s tough to fake your death:Roth attracted national headlines in the summer of 2012 when his son told authorities that his father had drowned while swimming at Jones Beach. For several days, rescuers searched for the man with no success until he was reportedly seen at a condo he owned in Florida. He was spotted again after getting a speeding ticket in South Carolina.UPDATE:The Weekly World News Reports: Get full access to STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more at marypatcampbell.substack.com/subscribe