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STUMP - Death and Taxes — 129 episodes
Political Incapacitation: Mitch McConnell and Historical Examples
April Awareness: Autism, Cancer, Finance, and Poetry
Problem Gambling: Addicts, Lotteries, Sports, and Pensions
Paul Ehrlich and the Murder-Suicide of Expertise
Using Your Talents: Don't Be Mrs. Jellyby, Be Esther Summerson or Tom Pinch
Demographics vs. Public Finance
The Return of Wealth Taxes: California and The Netherlands
Movember 2025: Continuing On
Chicago Pensions: The $11 Billion Sweetener, POBs, and the Road to Insolvency
Chicago Pension Artificial Sweeteners
Math, Education, and Technology
Social Security Insolvency Gets Closer... Again
Men's Health Week: Men and Suicide in the U.S.
On Advanced Prostate Cancer: Some Personal Thoughts on Biden's and Scott Adams's Announcements
The Next Pope and Vatican Finances
Vatican Pensions: Will the Participants Get Their Promised Benefits?
DOGE: The Shot Across The Bow
ESG and anti-ESG v. Fiduciary Duty
A Matter of Trust: What Do the CDC and Victorian Poison Experts Have in Common?
Holiday Advice: On Nutrition, Stu, and Fried Foods
Research Fraud Follow-Up: What Happened to Fraudsters and How to Make It Less Common
Movember 2024: My Motivations and the Movember Movement
Research fraud, Alzheimer's, and Mortality trends
Kamala Harris, Plagiarism, and Truth in the Age of Gen AI
Ig Nobel 2024 Winner: The Secret to Long Life is Lying About Your Age...Or Not Reporting Your Death
Labor Day 2024: Beauty in Work
Social Security and Election 2024
Tim Walz and Public Pensions: What's the Risk?
Ohio STRS: Trade-Offs, Alternative Assets, and More
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day 2024!
Bad Metrics Lead to Bad Results
Fraud and Embezzlement! How to Prevent and Detect
The Problem of Pain and Drugs
Public Pension Governance Drama in Ohio
Who Survives to 2098?
Five Decades of Meep
What is Truth?
Public Pension Problems -- Proposed Solutions, But Will They Fix Anything?
Retirement Age, Life Expectancy, and Social Security
On Self-Regulation: Sumo, Failing Annuities, and Public Pension Practice
Classics on Leadership
Presidents Day 2024: Financial State of the Cities
Tales of Fiscal Accountability (or not)
The Sentinel Effect, Centenarians, and Pension Fraud
Academia - Credentialism vs. Education
Academia - Dealing with Writing in the Age of ChatGPT
Plagiarism and Faked Data in Academia
The Year in Meep: 2023 -- Growth, Top Posts, and Some Recommendations
Public Pension Actuaries to Explain a New Measure
Movember 2023 Wrap-up: Thanks, Caritas, and Encouragement
Movember 2023 - Current Status and Trends
The Shape of U.S. Mortality, 1900-2018
Spreadsheet Shenanigans 2: Electric Bugaloo -- Modeling
Spreadsheet Shenanigans - Part 1
India's Pension Crisis is Everybody's Crisis
Fight Against Excess Mortality: the Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives
Talking Tech: On Early (and Late) Adoption of Tech
Seek and Ye Shall Find....What?
Building Bridges to STEM Careers
Gatekeeping in Education and Professions: Actuarial, Legal, and Sumo!
Detroit Bankruptcy a Decade Later
Lying about Science
What is the Value of a Promise?
Lying about lying
Lightning Strike Deaths
Failure, Sunk Costs, and Candace Wheeler
The Museum of Failure
Walking Around Cemeteries
Spending Dreams of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Waking to Reality
Mortality Trends and Cognitive Biases
Choices Have Consequences: Pension Obligation Bonds
Danger! Fire, Hurricanes, Drowning, and More
Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Policy
Financial Reporting v. Budgeting: SC Comptroller Resigns Over $3.5 Billion Error
Memento Mori for Holy Week 2023
Public Finance and Data
Kidney Disease Deaths, the IBM PCjr, and My Aunt Pat
How Life Insurers Fail
Don't Use ChatGPT for Numbers (Right Now)
Doing the Math on Social Security and Medicare
Ash Wednesday 2023: More on Years of Life Lost
Chicago Mayoral Race: Good Luck Dealing With the Pensions
More on COVID as a top cause of death for children
Retirement Age - Protests in France, But Choices Must be Made
The Micawber Principle Even Applies to Public Finance
Podcast Look at 2022 Excess Mortality
Happy New Year from STUMP! Two Ideas...
A Very Special STUMP Holiday Episode
More on Correlating COVID Vax Status with Traffic Risk
Central States Teamsters -- some backstory on their bailout
Chaucer on Advice
Movember 2022: Men and Suicide
FTX, Dickens, and Business Fraud
Movember and Prostate Cancer Mortality Trends
Social Security Politics
2021 Provisional U.S. Population Mortality
Geeking Out: Life Insurance and Mortality Experience Studies
Liability-Driven Investment: Definitions and Jargon
Political Risk and Public Pension Investments
There is no such thing as risk-free
A Jump in Interest Rates But No Restraint from Government....Yet
Geeking Out Over Terminology
Back to Taxachusetts?
Advice on the CDC 2021 Life Expectancy Report
Student loan reduction: short-term and long-term effects
Public Pensions, ESG, DeSantis, and The Catholic Church
Looking at Recent Mortality Increases -- and Expectations for the Future
Expertise, Definitions, and Credibility
Millennial Massacre Overview
MBTA and Pension Obligation Bonds
Waiting Patiently on Public Pensions
Ken Griffin and Citadel Leave Illinois
Pension Obligation Bonds
Social Security Trust Fund Running Out
Elon Musk, Fertility, and Decreasing Populations
Don't perpetrate financial fraud in spreadsheets
Fraudulent Life Insurers
Don't sell insurance to the Mafia
The sumo giant-killers
Death, taxes, and entitlements
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Tax Week and the NY State Budget
Death and Data
Income taxes and wealth taxes
Interest Rates and Sumo
Death the Dickensian Way
Meep starts her taxes
Memorial and Yuri Dmitriev
President's Day - Calvin Coolidge