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With any luck you’ll die soon: Part 3, Providing cover for elected officials
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith ‘You are a difficult case.’ By now our exploration of yet another piece of the doublethink canon – the role of actuaries...
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With any luck you’ll die soon: Part 4, Misleading the village board
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith ‘But don’t give up hope.’ The pension-fund doublethink takeover described in earlier parts would have...
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With any luck you’ll die soon: Part 5, A study in obfuscation
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.] By: David A. Smith ‘Everyone is cured sooner or later.’ As the preceding parts have shown, catastrophe being a...
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Month in Review, August 2015: Part 1, Enduring assets
By: David A. Smith For a month in which normal people (e.g. those not obsessed with blogging) go on vacation, August contained plenty of material related to affordable housing, starting with the...
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Month in Review, August 2015: Part 2, Lingering debts
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] The true mystery of capital lies in its mutability: property can be turned into money, money into chattel, chattel into property, and all through...
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