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January 2014

January 26, 2014
Yet another classic* Jane the Actuary rambling "thinking through an idea" type of post. (*...
January 25, 2014
After having previously written about the Slate article on this notion, and, last night, on...
January 25, 2014
So, as many of you know, I consistently follow relatively few blogs, but one of...
January 23, 2014
King of the Nerds, eh? That's what's on TV as I write this, and I'm...
January 23, 2014
I remember when Montgomery Wards died. My parents never shopped there -- it was too...
January 22, 2014
So my oldest son is starting high school in the fall, and this will be...
January 22, 2014
The fact that ObamaCare allows 26 year olds to stay on their parents' health insurance...
January 21, 2014
I was going to write up a bit of an explanation of how the German...
January 21, 2014
Mickey Kaus reports on/speculates on potential Republican immigration legislation.  Ugh.  Why would Republicans in the...
January 21, 2014
Look, I know that there are significant differences of opinion among reasonable people of good...
January 20, 2014
First, the link: "Ventra's Costs Put Nonprofits in a Bind." (I don't think this is...
January 19, 2014
This weekend in the blog/commentary world, Avik Roy wrote a piece at National Review Online,...
January 18, 2014
Stop Saying "Do what you love. Love what you do." It devalues actual work.That's not...
January 17, 2014
Long week at work and still not done! (Hence, the small number of recent posts.)...
January 13, 2014
So I finally got around to looking at the GOP candidates for Governor in Illinois....
January 12, 2014
So I was writing yesterday about the War on Poverty, and at the same time...
January 12, 2014
So this one surprised me:  in reading an article, I came across a reference to...
January 11, 2014
This is going to be short, but I want to get this core idea "out...
January 10, 2014
Here's a quick link: "Why I bought a house in Detroit for $500" which, unlike...
January 10, 2014
Here's a link which is probably not going to get anyone (except WSJ subscribers) anywhere: ...
January 09, 2014
What the heck . . . coming off a discussion on Althouse on the non-cooking...
January 07, 2014
So everyone in the right-of-center blogosphere is talking about the oversupply of humanties Ph.D.'s, and...
January 07, 2014
Facebook links:  from mashable.com, taken today, andmore from the Daily Mail.  Here in the actuarial...
January 06, 2014
Ah, the lazy way to write a blog post:  see two posts/articles, connect them together,...
January 05, 2014
Here's a piece by Andrew Biggs, reacting to a piece by Elizabeth Warren, on Social...
January 05, 2014
So Heather McDonald (whose writing I'm nearly always impressed with) has a piece in the...
January 04, 2014
This is that time of year when we actuaries are calculating whether we have a...
January 03, 2014
So I wrote about this before, but the Jahi McMath saga continues, with the parents...
January 01, 2014
So I started out thinking it would be a nice bloggy exercise to write out...

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December 31, 2013
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